Oh, Ranger! A Book about the National Parks

Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. White, Ruth Taylor (illustrator). Second edition, August 1929  (18 months after first publication). Inscribed on the half-title page in blue ink: "For Sir Byron Bailey, a great eastern Westerner, with admiration, appreciation, and warm regards, Horace Albright." Uncommon signed. With a word of introduction by Stephen Mather, the then-Director of the National Park Service. Albright would go on to assume that position, and he wrote this book as the first superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. A playful account via essays of the history and personas of the National Park Service from its early days. Frank J. Taylor was a freelance magazine writer with a Stanford connection who probably helped Albright touch up his manuscript. See photos for table of contents. Green cloth, maroon topstain, map endpapers, cartoon illustrations and photographs throughout. A very good plus copy with light sunning to spine and some soiling to rear board at bottom; a touch of spotting to faces to outer and lower text block faces, but all and all in great shape. With the uncommon dust jacket, quite elegant and fun, by illustrator Ruth White Taylor; the jacket is in very good plus condition with just a little wear to corners and spine ends.