Published by United States Geographic Board, Washington, D. C., 1932
Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Softcover in tan matte wraps. First printing of first edition. SIGNED, dated, and inscribed on the fourth page by Frank Bond, chairman of the Geographic Committee. Book is warmly inscribed to Francis P. Farquhar, a noted mountaineer, former Sierra Club president, and author of Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) . Bond is the author of many Grand Canyon place names. Book is crisp and clean, with light age-wear and a short spilt of paper at spine. Small pencil checks in the margins. The book is the first publication relating wholly to foreign geographic names to be issued by the U. S. Geographic Board, which was soon to be absorbed into the Department of the Interior. 8vo. 113 pp.