Galen Clark, Yosemite Guardian.
by SARGENT, Shirley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Sierra Club, (1964). First edition. Small octavo. 176 pp. Numerous photographic illustrations. Publisher's quarter grey cloth over pictorial boards, gilt spine and black cover lettering, pictorial dust jacket (with Sierra Club ads on the verso). Some minor darkening along jacket spine. A very good copy of this fine biography of one of the three great characters in Yosemite lore.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70881
- Title
- Galen Clark, Yosemite Guardian.
- Author
- SARGENT, Shirley
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sierra Club
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- (1964)
Terms of Sale
Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2012
Portland, Oregon
About Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
Nat DesMarais Rare Books specializes in books on the Sierra Nevada (particularly Yosemite), the Mojave, and California books in general. We also deal in the art of the American West, voyages and travels and nineteenth century literature.
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....