ON THE ROOF OF THE ROCKIES the Great Columbia Icefield of the Canadian Rockies by FREEMAN, LEWIS R - 1925

New York, NY: Dodd, Mead & Company. G/No Dustjacket. 1925. ........ Pictorial Cloth. Sm 4to., xiii, 270 pp., rubbed, bumped, spine faded, page toning .

Dodd, Mead And Company, 1925. 1925 First Edition US. hardcover. 270pp, original pictorial boards, some pages unopened, VG+ in Good+ dw. Very scarce in dustwrapper.. Photographic surveying expedition.. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1925. xiii,(2),270 pp. Octavo. Original pictorial blue cloth. Decoration of a mountain in gilt on the cover. gilt lettering on the spine and cover. Top and tail edges trimmed, fore edge untrimmed. Edges lightly dustsoiled. 62 black and white plates (including frontispiece) from photographs. Original printed dust wrapper which matches the illustration on the front board. Overall a fantastic copy with the book in fine condition and the dust wrapper in very good plus condtion. Difficult to image a better copy. Neate F60. American explorer and author Lewis R. Freeman chronicled his many travels with his pen and camera. This book, written in 1925, was an account of a photographic survey expedition to the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Freeman visited the great Columbia Icefields, the largest icefield in North America and the birthplace of major glaciers that feed the Athabasca and North Saskatchewan Rivers. 1925