Description
Octavo, xiv, 548pp. Maroon cloth, title in silver gilt on spine, title and illustration on front cover in silver. In publishers scarce first state dust jacket, $5.00 on front flap, publishers catalogue on verso, light wear along top edge, closed tear at bottom of rear panel, a near fine example. Includes 42 full page illustrations and double-spread frontispiece photograph. As is typical with this work, the silver gilt on the spine is flaking off. An exceptionally nice copy of this scarce work.
Comments: This work includes writings by John C. Philips, Madison Grant, John B. Burnham and George Bird Grinnell, covering topics such as the establishment of Mt. McKinley National Park, Glacier National Park and the Redwoods National Forest.
