QUEST OF THE SNOWY CROSS
by Jackson, Clarence S.; & Marshall, Lawrence W.; (Fritiof Fryxell, Forword)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
Denver, CO: Univ of Denver, 1952. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Herndon Davis (Illustrator); William H. Jackson (Photographer). Text/Bright, clean, As New. Yellow linen boards/fine. DJ/None. PO name to fEP. Maps to endpapers. Story of the Mount of the Holy Cross, the northernmost fourteen thousand foot mountain in the Sawatch Range, part of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the northeast face of which bears a distinct cross-shaped snowfield. The first recorded ascent was in 1873 led by Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, to whom this volume is dedicated; the expedition included photographer William H. Jackson who also kept a diart of the climb. The powerfully symbolic mount is vividly immortalized in Jackson's wet plate photographs, artist Thomas Moran's painting, and Longfellow's poem "The Snowy Cross". Co-author Clarence S. Jackson is the son of photographer Jackson; a composite photographic rendition of his father's original work is included in the book's illustrations.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010018
- Title
- QUEST OF THE SNOWY CROSS
- Author
- Jackson, Clarence S.; & Marshall, Lawrence W.; (Fritiof Fryxell, Forword)
- Illustrator
- Herndon Davis (Illustrator); William H. Jackson (Photographer)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- Univ of Denver
- Place of Publication
- Denver, CO
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Adventure/Expedition/Mount of the Holy Cross/Rocky Mountains/Colorado
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mountaineering/Rock Climbing; Adventure/Expeditions;
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