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Oh, Ranger!" A Book about the National Parks
by Horace M. Albright and Frank J. Taylor / Illustrated by Ruth Taylor White
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Stanford University, California: Stanford University Press, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition, second printing (August 1928). Green cloth boards with campfire pictorial stamped on front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Corners tips and foot of spine rubbed. Short gift inscription on half-title page; comic note about a German tourist and bears inscribed in top margin of one page, else clean. 32 photographs on plates, plus frontispiece. Ruth Taylor White's whimsical in-text illustrations are featured throughout. Index. Dust jacket shows light soiling on front panel; head of spine lightly chipped; a couple small chips at bottom of rear panel; not price clipped ($2.50); in an archival mylar sleeve. xii, 178 pages. Horace M. Albright (1890-1987) was an American conservationist who served as the nation's second Director of the National Park Service, 1929 -1933. Prior to that, between 1919 and 1929, he served as the Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boyd Used & Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015520
- Title
- Oh, Ranger!" A Book about the National Parks
- Author
- Horace M. Albright and Frank J. Taylor / Illustrated by Ruth Taylor White
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Stanford University, California
- Date Published
- 1928
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Yellowstone, park ranger, history, United States, park system,
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Boyd Used & Rare Books
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Portland, Oregon
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
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