DOWN THE COLORADO : Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon
Language: English
Published by E.P. Dutton, New York, NY, 1969
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- New
Seller: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.100POCKETS
AbeBooks seller since March 7, 2000
Condition: New
£ 104.30
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Text/BRAND NEW & Bright w/trace spotting (acidic paper reaction) to front & rear covers verso. Gilt embossed beige linen boards (subsequent printings in orange cloth)/Fine. DJ under mylar/Fine. Collectible 1969, First Edition, First Thus. PLEASE NOTE: Published w/o ISBN ---ISBN: 0525095233, included for identification convenience only; 1970 marks the historic moment when ISBNs came to be! Record of Major John Wesley Powell's (1834 - 1902) 1869 journal, in 4 boats, 13-week Geographic Expedition down the Green & Colorado Rivers, marking the first passage through the Grand Canyon. Powell's diaries were first published in Scribner's Magazine. For this volume, the journal is edited & introduced by Don Fowler. Book, includes drawings & illustrations by Powell's contemporaries, and augmented w/ a 48-page gallery of 4-color photos from photographer Eliot Porter (1901 - 1990) who, since the 1940s, used Eastman Kodak's new dye transfer processes for color photography. Porter's Epilogue is a memorial to Glen Canyon, giving a new identify of Lake Powell, of Glen Canyon Dam. 168 pgs. in 7 chapters: 1, From Green River City to Flaming Gorge; 2, From Flaming Gorge to the Gate of Lodore; 3, The Canyon of Lordore; 4, From Echo Park to the Mouth of the Uinta River; 5, From the Mouth of the Uinta River to the Junction of the Grand and Green; 6, From the Junction of the Grand and Green to the Mouth of the Mouth of the Little Colorado; and 7, The Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Fine Copy.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- DOWN THE COLORADO : Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon
- Author
- Powell, John Wesley (Text); Porter, Eliot (Photographer & Epilogue); (Don Fowler, Foreword & Notes)
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton, New York, NY
- Publication year
- 1969
- Condition
- NEW- COLLECTIBLE
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Eliot Porter (Photographer: The Canyons of the Colorado - Past & Present 1969)
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Printing
- First Thus
- Seller catalogs
- History, Narratives, Essays, Prose, Nature, Ecology, Conservation
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