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San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1909. First Edition. January, 1909 Issue [Vol VII, No. 1]. Octavo, staple and circuit-bound printed wrappers, 84 numbered pp. + ads + numerous unnumbered photographic plates. Standard fold-over of the cover edges due to the circuit binding process used by the SC at that time; signature of later member and contributor Elliot sawyer on contents page (see scan); otherwise, really quite fine, with immaculate contents. See all scans. The feature article is "The High Mountain Route Between Yosemite and the King's River Canon (sic, with a tilde over the "n"), by J.N. Le Conte, who has provided as well a multi-foldout sketch map of that route. Other articles include "With the Sierra Club in the Kern Canon (sic)" (Marion R. Parsons), Down the Kern-Kaweah (George P. Putnam), and "An August Outing in the Upper Merced Canon (sic)" (S.L. Foster. Illustrated with plenty of spectacular black-and-white glossy photographic plates as always with the Bulletin, the lion's share here by the great J.N. Le Conte, but with substantial contributions as well from John Andrew & Son, G.K. Gilbert, J.S. Hutchinson, Glenn Allen, C.W. Pohlmann, James Rennie, Eva Channing, Ralph Dyer, Mary Randall, and Dr. Edward Gray. Standard departments as well. SC-2.
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