David Bower Editor (5 results)
More imagesEVEREST - THE WEST RIDGE - (Abridged Edition, Sierra Club 74656)
Hornbein, Thomas F.; (David Bower, Editor); (William E.Siri, Introduction)
Language: English
Published by Sierra Club/Ballantine Books, San Francisco, CA, 1968
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Soft cover. Condition: Collectible - Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. Abridged Version, First Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. VINTAGE 1968, Edition. Illustrated soft cover/VG; strong & sound w/light rubs & trace soiling to edges, faint creasing to lower front corner & small soil spot to front. Map to rear. Record of… 1st American ascent of Mt. Everest, 1963. 160 pgs, color photos, in 16 chapters. Led by Swiss-born explorer, film-maker & mountaineer Norman G. Dyhrenfurth. Scientific research expedition sponsored by Nat'l Geographic. The team was academically brilliant . 5 members w/doctorates & 8 holding masters degrees. May 22nd, 1963. Luther G. Jerstad & Barry Bishop reached the summit of the South East Ridge summit, and Will Usoeld & Tom Hornbein the summit of the West Ridge. This is the account of scaling of the latter. Text by physician Hornbein; photos by Dyhrenfurth. The team was honored at the White House by President Kennedy, and awarded the Nat'l Georgraphic Society's Hubbard Metal. Norman G. Dyhrenfurth (Photographer) (illustrator).
More imagesVOICES FOR THE WILDERNESS : From the Sierra Club Wilderness Conferences
William Schwarz (Editor); (David Bower, Foreword & Afterword)
Language: English
Published by Sierra Club/Ballantine Books, New York, NY, 1969
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First Edition, 2nd Printing, 1970. Text/NEW, showing margin discoloration and w/one check mark to Contents page. Softcover/VG; sound but tired w/edge & surface wear.Vintage 1970, First Edition, 2nd Printing. Anthology of essays presented at Sierra Club Wild…erness Conferences. Published half-century past in 1969. Review of both successes in environmental preservation & that which remains of concern. 366 pgs, 34 essays in 3 parts: Part I, The Problem of Wilderness Preservation; II, The Values that Wilderness Preservation Seeks to Preserve; and III, The Program & Outlook for Wilderness Preservation. The article check marked to Contents page is William E. Siri's essay "Wilderness & Man in 2065".
More imagesTHIS IS THE AMERICAN EARTH
Ansel Adams (Photography); Nancy Newhall (Editor & Text); David Bower (Foreword)
Language: English
Published by Sierra Club/Ballantine Books, San Francisco, CA, 1968
- Softcover
- First Edition
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. 1st Edition. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/light surface wear, and faint creasingsto lower front & back lower corner tips. Vintage 1968 Edition, w/ an Introduction from David Bower dated Aug 23rd, 1959. Photographic essays documenting America's scenic l…andscape --- ISBN: 1199540730, included for easy identification, was subsequently assigned. Collection of some 85 b/w photos --- 44 from Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984) along w/works of Eliot Porter, Philip Hyde, Edward Weston and Margaret Bourke-White, among others. Photos are accompanied by text, equally poetic, from photographic critic & conservationist editor Nancy Newhall (1908 - 1974), is meaningfully bound together by her poetic text. 111 pgs, in 6 sectors: 1, Brief Tenant; 2, New World; 3, The Machine & a New Ethic; 4, The Mathematics of Survival; 5, Dynamics; and, 6, The Crucial Resource. Fine copy. Ansel Adams, et al (Photography) (illustrator).
More images- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEW. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, First Thus. Text/NEW & Bright. EXHIBIT FORMAT SERIES. Collectible, Vintage 1964, Sierra Club First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed green linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG, strong & sound w/nips, chips to upper/lower edges; under mylar. History of… a land that was once was. Text from Scottish-American naturalist & co-founder of the Sierra Club, John Muir (1838 - 1914), w/76 color plates, taken near a century later, by Ricard Kauffman (1916 - 1998), and, edited with an elucidating Forward by David Bower (1912 - 2000). NOTE: ISBN Number 0884861252, listed for convenience, is assigned to 1995 reprints of Bristol Park Books, NY . This copy in 167 pgs , 0 chapters: Chapter 1, Through the Foothills; 2, In Camp on the North Fork of the Merced; 3, The Yosemite; 4, Mount Hoffman & Lake Tenaya; 5, The Middle Ranges; 6. A Strange Experienfe; 6, The Mono Trail; 7, Up to the Highest Sierra Trail; 8, Bloody Canyon & Mono Lake; 9, Bloody Canyon & Mono Lake; 10, Along the East Side of the Crest Trail; 11, The Tuolumne Camp; and 14, Back to the Lowlands. Richard Kauffman (Photographer) (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1949
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Periodical
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Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1949. First Edition. June, 1949 [Vol 34, No.6]. Original printed wrappers, 9" x 6". Photographs, sketches, charts, map. Minimal wear, near fine to fine, all around. Ektachrome frontis by William Hail of an Albicaulis tree, as well as nume…rous other b& w photos (32 pages of plates), as always, sketches, charts, map, as well. One of the new, thicker bulletins, in this case, 162 pp. Articles include: On A Wilderness Trail; Sierra Shorelines; Colonel Benson, Rover; Have You a Mountain Widow in Your Home ?; Oh, For the Life of a Packer !; Lightning and the Mountain; Roads in the National Parks; Sierra Snows - Past and Future; Still A Bugaboo; The Echo Lake Avalanches; Ancient Landscapes; A Children's Burro Trip; The Exploration and First Ascents of Mount McKinley; Matthes Crest; Winter Sports Possibilities in Mineral King; Will the Sierra Bighorn Survive ?; Expansion Anchors for Use in Rock Climbing; Seen From a Saddle; and regular departments. Sc1. From Photographs (illustrator).
