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[004922] . DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL MONUMENT CALIFORNIA. ill. Maps, Photographs. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1937. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Stiff Covers. Death Valley. Very Good Contents include: Geological Story; Fossils Indicate Marine Life; How was the Valley Formed?; Animal Life; Plants of Death Valley; Death Valley Scotty's Castle and others. 30 pp. Maps and Photographs. Illustrated front cover. Slightly soiled or sunned? Overall covers are Very Good to VG+. ex-lib.? stamped on title page: "The Desert (rest illegible), Palm Desert, California with numbers. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. $15.00

[004296] . DESERT MAGAZINE, December 1949. . ill. Photographs, Maps, Drawings,. William Knyvett, Magazine: Desert. Very Good- December 1949 issue with cover showing White Christmas on the Desert. Some articles include: Valley of the Cathedrals, by Charles Kelly; We found Ant Hills covered with Jewels, by Edith Rutenic McLeod; Panamint Pack Trip, by Randall Henderson; Pom Poms at Christmas, by Dorothy L. Pillsbury; and Adobe Maker of Scottsdale, by Christine B. MacKenzie. Cover has a small tear at front spine "joint" and date: Nov. 25 stamped in the "D" for DESERT on the front cover, otherwise the covers are VG. Interior is tight, clean and VG+ $7.00

[002866] Banham, Peter Reyner. Scenes in America Deserta. Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., 1982. Desert. Fine / Very Good. ISBN: 0-87905-094-2. Dust jacket back inside flap torn, missing "corner" piece (approx. 1"x1 1/2") otherwise Very Good . $15.00

[004914] Caruthers William. Loafing Along Death Valley Trails . ill. Photographs. Palm Desert, California: Desert Magazine Press, 1951. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 ". Red Cloth. Death Valley. Signed by Author. Good+ to Very Good- / Good. A Personal Narrative of People and Places. SIGNED by author on front free endpaper with gift inscription: "autographed with the best wishes by the author to Carlotta M. Cameron. William Caruthers. Aug. 1951." "This book is a personal narrative of people and places in Panamint Valley, the Amargosa Desert and the big sink at the bottom of America...It was the writer's good fortune that many of these men were his friends. Some were or would become tycoons of mining or industry. Some would lucklessly follow jackasses all their lives, to find no gold... Necessarily the history of the region, is given first because it gives a clearer picture of the background and second, because that history is little known, being buried in the generally unread diaries of John C. Fremont, Kit Carson, Lt. Brewerton, Jedediah Smith and the stories of early Mormon explorers. 186 pp. including Index. Photographs. Red cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Spine ends rubbed, otherwise covers are Very Good. 3 "dot" spots? on front endpaper. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. Mildly soiled Dust Jacket. Tear on back cover's bottom edge. DJ protected with plastic covering. Overall DJ is Good. $20.00

[003972] Cronkhite, Daniel . RECOLLECTIONS OF A YOUNG DESERT RAT Impressions of Nevada and Death Valley . ill. Photographs. Nevada: Sagebrush Press, 1972. Size: Approx. 6 1/4" x 9 3/4". Tan Cloth. Desert. Near Fine to Fine limited to 777 copies; this is No. 230. 102 pp. Photographs. Book is Near Fine to Fine. $20.00

[004910] Doctor, Joseph E.. Dr. E. Darwin French's Exploration of Death Valley . ill. Photographs. Death Valley Forty-Niners, 1982. Size: Approx. 6 " x 9 ". Soft Cover. Death Valley. Very Good+ Keepsake No.22. A Keepsake Published for the 33rd Death Valley '49ers Encampment , Death Valley, California, November 11-14, 1982. 16 pp. Photographs. Frontis. of Dr. E. Darwin French. Pamphlet is Very Good+. $22.50

[004915] Driskill, Earl C.. DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY RIDES AGAIN. ill. Photographs, Map, Facsimile. Death Valley, Ca: 1958. Fourth Printing. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Stiff Covers. Death Valley. Signed By Author. Very Good Death Valley Scotty Tells His Own Stories In His Own Inimitable Style. Tales told by Death Valley Scotty, Winter of 1952-1953 at Scotty's Castle. SIGNED by author on front free endpaper:"Best Wishes from Earl C. Driskill, Death Valley, 1961." 59 pp. Photographs. Glossy covers. Mildly rubbed at spine tips. Overall covers are Very Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. Author was manager of the Castle during that period and Scotty's companion in tales of the past and present. $16.50

[004909] Eaton, Walter Prichard. BOY SCOUTS IN DEATH VALLEY. ill. Photographs. Boston: W. A. Wilde Company, 1939. Size: Approx. 5 " x 7 1/4". Orange Cloth. Death Valley. Good Written in three parts: Book I:The Forty-Niners "is not fiction. It is the true story of the Forty-niners in the terrible trap of Death Valley. It is also the record of the endurance, courage, scouting skill and love of adventure..." Book II: Mining Days and Book III: The Boy Scouts Come. 307 pp. 3 photographs: Entrance to Titus Canyon. Death Valley National Monument; Twenty mule team crossing Devil's Golf Course (salt beds) of Death Valley and photograph of road signs of Bad Water, 279.6 Feet below Sea level. Orange cloth covers with black lettering on front and spine. Spine faded. Tiny spot,2/16"x2/16" on front cover. Spine ends rubbed, back cover's bottom edge, 2/16" nicked/frayed. Overall covers are Good. Gift inscription on front endpapers: Kay, Gift from Dad and Mother when we visited Death Valley. Tear, 2 1/2" on frontis page along hinge. Otherwise interior is tight, clean and Very Good+. Scarce. Walter Prichard Eaton, (1878-1957) is best known for his writings about the outdoors. In addition, he wrote several books about the theater. $160.00

[004789] Hall, Thorne. Odyssey of Death Valley . ill. Photographs, Map. Santa Barbara, California: Pacific Coast Odyssey, 1962. Size: Approx. 8 1/4 " x 11 3/4". Stiff Covers. Death Valley. Very Good+ to Near Fine Contents include: Panamint City-Hell Camp and First Boom Town; Death Valley Scotty; The Borax Story; Jayhawkers' Saga; What is Death Valley including Geology, Wildlife, Plants and Indians; Where to Stay; and Traveler's Glossary to the Death Valley Area. Double page Map of Death Valley Area. 36 pp. Numerous photographs. Booklet is Very Good+ to Near Fine. $12.00

[004956] Hufford, D A. DEATH VALLEY; SWAMPER IKE'S TRADITIONAL LORE: WHY, WHEN, HOW?. ill. Photographs. Los Angeles: D.A. Hufford & Co, 1902. Second Edition. Size: Approx. 5 " x 7". Stiff Covers. Death Valley. Good to Good+ "An interesting research into the realities and possibilities of the Desert region, in which there is a mystery and fascination about everything appertaining to the long stretch of Desert in which lies Death Valley, 417 feet below the level of the sea..." Early travel account through Death Valley. "Our party consisted of George Spooner, Swamper Ike (the desert sailor), the hermit, whom we had sobriqueted 'Ennui' and myself." 43 pp. Numerous photographs. Olive green paper covers. Front cover with black lettering with bones and skulls illustrations around the border. The text has been 3 hole punched-only visible sign is the front/back endpapers. The front endpaper with reinforced tape. The interior is glued to the spine and solid. No holes to covers. Some mild fading/sunning to spine and around edges. Overall covers are Good to Good+. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good. $135.00

[002888] Lee, W. Storrs. THE GREAT CALIFORNIA DESERTS. ill. Edward Sanborn. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963. Desert. Very Good+ / Very Good-. blue ink line across top page edge. remainder? Interior is Fine. Dust Jacket tear and crease on back cover. Protected by mylar (plastic cover). index. $20.00

[002226] Manly, William Lewis. DEATH VALLEY IN ‘49. . Readex Microprint , 1966. Red Cloth. Near Fine GREAT AMERICANA in gilt lettering on front cover along with title. $23.50

[003474] Putnam, George Palmer. DEATH VALLEY HANDBOOK . Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947. Death Valley. Very Good+ / Good+ to VG-. Being Detailed Records of the Valley's Climate, with a List of Its Plants and Flowers, best-known Birds and Animals, an Outline of its History, and data helpful to Rock-collectors. $15.00

[003473] Putnam, George Palmer. DEATH VALLEY AND ITS COUNTRY . New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. Fifth Printing. Death Valley. Very Good / Good. Map endpapers. previous owner's name on front endpaper. Otherwise book is VG+. Dust jacket with mylar (protective plastic covers). Back soiled with small pieces missing at spine top edge and tear near spine joint on front cover. Overall DJ is Good. $10.00

[003924] Riley, C.V., S.W. Williston and P.R. Uhler. REPORT ON A SMALL COLLECTION OF INSECTS MADE DURING THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION; LIST OF DIPTERA FROM DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, AND ADJOINING REGIONS; HEMIPTERA AND HETEROPTERA OF THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION. 1893. Size: Approx. 5 3/4" x 9". Paper Wraps. Entomology. Good to Good- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy. Offprint from NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA, NO.7, pp.235-268. 3 articles referring to the Death Valley Expedition. One article by C. V. Riley titled:REPORT ON A SMALL COLLECTION OF INSECTS MADE DURING THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION, pp.235-252. The other authors are S.W. Williston: LIST OF DIPTERA FROM DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, AND ADJOINING REGIONS, pp.253-259 and P.R. Uhler: HEMIPTERA AND HETEROPTERA OF THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION, pp.260-268. Paper covers detached, slightly faded otherwise Good. Interior is tight, clean and in Very Good + condition. $35.00

[004923] Spears, John Randolph. ILLUSTRATED SKETCHES OF DEATH VALLEY AND OTHER BORAX DESERTS OF THE PACIFIC COAST. ill. Photographs. Morongo Valley, CA: Sagebrush Press, 1977. Reprint. Size: Approx. 5 " x 7 1/4". Soft Cover. Death Valley. Very Good to Very Good+ ISBN: 0930704029. "John Randolph Spears was the first professional writer to visit, photograph, and write about Death Valley; his 1891 journey into this remote desert paralleled the international acclaim which followed the discovery and exploitation of borax. This publication provide the reading public with the first interesting and accurate account of pre-20th Century Death Valley, as well as portions of Nevada and the surrounding desert country..." 226 pp. plus 9 pages of advertisements. Photographs. Stiff illustrated covers. Tiny nick at base of spine, otherwise covers are Very Good+. Interior is tight, clean and Near Fine. Howes S-829. $15.00

[004773] Walker, Ardis M.. The Manly Map and the Manly Story. ill. Map. Death Valley '49ers, Inc, 1954. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4". Stiff Covers. Death Valley. Very Good 24 pp. pamphlet telling the Manly Story of "The Jayhawker-Manly party, impatient to reach the gold fields, left the beaten path to take an uncharted cut-off...William Lewis Manly was the hero of their adventure and their Homer..." Includes a facsimile of the autographed map by Manly "reproduced for this publication which the writer recently found in a rainsoaked copy of the first edition of Manly's classic story"Death Valley in '49". Stiff tan covers. Back cover's side edge small piece of the "top" layer of paper scrapping off, 2/16"x1/4"-not a tear. Very lightly soiled. Otherwise covers are VG+. Small bookstore sticker on front endpaper's base, otherwise interior is tight, clean and VG+. $20.00

[004777] Weight, Harold O.. LOST MINES OF DEATH VALLEY. ill. Map, Photographs. Twentynine Palms, California: Calico Press, 1961. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Stiff Covers. Death Valley. Very Good First authentic history of Breyfogle's gold. Other contents include: Lost Silver of the Fortyniners; The Lost Gunsight and Silver Mountain; Wire Gold of the Panamints; Goller's Wonderful Nuggets; Golden Rocks of Avawatz; Oro Fino in Colorado Canyon; Blue Ledge of the Ballarat Trail and Lost Men of Death Valley. Two-page map of the Death Valley Country by Norton Allen. Originally published in 1953, this edition has been revised and enlarged from 72 to 80 pages. Illustrated covers. Covers are Very Good. Decorative Indian motif bookplate of previous owners: Blanche Claudia and Dr. Karl Rottluff. Interior is tight, clean and Very Good. Includes 6 pages of photographs. $25.00

[004770] Weight, Harold O.. Twenty Mule Team Days in Death Valley. ill. Photographs, Map. Twentynine Palms, California: The Calico Press, 1955. First Edition. Size: Approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Stiff Covers. Death Valley. Very Good With some observations on The Natural History of Mules and Muleskinners, and the Mining of Desert Borax, and a Reprint of Henry G. Hanks Report on Death Valley, 1883. Southwest Panorama Number Three. 44 pp. Illustrated covers. Covers are Very Good. Back cover's verso: Map of "Old Borax Roads of the Mojave". Interior is tight, clean and VG+. $14.00