BIBLIOGRAPHY OF YOSEMITE, THE CENTRAL AND THE SOUTHERN HIGH SIERRA, AND THE BIG TREES, 1839-1900
by Currey, Lloyd W. and Dennis G. Kruska
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0870932772
- ISBN 13
- 9780870932779
- Seller
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Covina, California, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles and Palo Alto: Dawson's Book Shop and William P. Wreden, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Limited to 300 copies. Inscribed by Dennis Kruska and signed by Lloyd Currey on a prefatory blank leaf. A comprehensive sequel to Francis P. Farquhar's Yosemite, the Big Trees and the High Sierra (1948), with more than 400 entries describing all known printed material relating to the human and natural history of the High Sierra and the big trees. Prospectus laid in. Quarto: 234 p. with more than 60 illustrations. Original gray cloth-covered boards over a blue cloth spine, with gilt titles. A bit of mild edgewear to the boards; otherwise very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75509
- Title
- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF YOSEMITE, THE CENTRAL AND THE SOUTHERN HIGH SIERRA, AND THE BIG TREES, 1839-1900
- Author
- Currey, Lloyd W. and Dennis G. Kruska
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0870932772
- ISBN 13
- 9780870932779
- Publisher
- Dawson's Book Shop and William P. Wreden
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles and Palo Alto
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- California, Western Americana, Yosemite, Sierra Nevada, Bibliography, Reference, Books on Books
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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Covina, California
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