A VAGABOND FOR BEAUTY & WILDERNESS JOURNALS (COMBINATION EDITION); Introduction by John Nichols, Afterward by Edward Abbey

Ruess, Everett (Edited by W.L. Rusho)

Published by Gibbs Smith, Layton, UT, 2002

About this Item

Octavo, 9 in x 5.75 in., pp. 442. Richly illustrated with black and white photographs and ink drawings. Brown cloth boards with copper title to spine. Protected in mylar. Two books in one binding. The first, A Vagabond for Beauty, is a collection oi letters to friends and family written during his wanderings, and the second, Wilderness Journals of Everett Ruess excerpts passages from Everett's only existing journals -- for 1932 and 1933. "A bold teenage adventurer, artist and writer -- [Ruess] studied and lived with Edward Weston, Maynard Dixon, and Dorothea Lange. He traded prints with Ansel Adams. He tramped around the Sierra Nevada, the California coast, and the desert wilderness of the Southwest between the ages of 16 and 20, pursuing his dream of ultimate beauty and oneness with nature. Then in November 1934, at age twenty, he mysteriously vanished into the barren Utah desert." (Dustjacket notes).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A VAGABOND FOR BEAUTY & WILDERNESS JOURNALS (COMBINATION EDITION); Introduction by John Nichols, Afterward by Edward Abbey
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Layton, UT
• Publication Date: 2002
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Combination Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine / Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included