Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District

Peregrine Smith, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Association copy, inscribed as a gift on the front free endpaper by David Brower, the first and longtime executive director of the Sierra Club: "For Karen Gosling, with every best wish, presumptively, David R. Brower (who likes the grand canyon, too), January 31, 1986." Gosling was the original office manager for the Earth Island Institute, the environmental project incubator which Brower founded in 1982 and which is still going strong. Gosling joined in 1986 (which perhaps explains that "presumptively," if Brower was recruiting her), and went on to be its longtime membership director. An unlikely signature in this volume, on the one hand, and yet Brower was instrumental in protecting the Grand Canyon from dams (after losing Glen Canyon), and famously was profiled by John McPhee in *Encounters with the Archdruid* rafting through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado with Bureau of Reclamation Director Floyd Dominy (the arch dam-builder). Thus a magnificent association on several levels. Dutton's history is considered perhaps the greatest of all Grand Canyon books. This edition with a foreword by Wallace Stegner (whose first book was *Clarence Dutton: An Appraisal,* a distillation of his thesis at Iowa). Note: Lacking the folio atlas that was originally issued with this volume as a companion; this is the text-only volume (apart from a few illustrations), quarto in size, leather bound with linen boards. A book that would be fine but for a small tear to rear upper spine, thus near fine. Pages are immaculate. In a very good slipcase with wear to the opening's corners, otherwise in nice shape, clean white paper surfaces. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.