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+. View More...
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. Pictorial cover with some rubbing. Several small nicks at spine joint. Back cover 4 1/2" tear at spine.Mildly soiled back cover. Overall covers are Good. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. View More...
Publication No. 1. Death Valley 49ers, Inc. 52 pp. Green stiff paper covers. Covers are rubbed along edges and corners, edges are browning and discolored, scuffing marks on cover faces. Spine paper is torn and pulling away. Interior is tight, clean, no marks. Pamphlet in VG- condition. View More...
Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. "(Edwin) Corle's prose and (Ansel) Adam's photography are combined to create a book of great beauty, preserving the spirit and face of the barren wilderness." 60 pp. First paperback printing. Light wear to cover edges and corners, joints rubbed and soiled, creasing to spine, spine ends rubbed. Interior tight, clean. Book in VG condition. View More...
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. View More...
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. View More...
Death Valley '49ers, Inc. Publication No. 3, revised and enlarged. 63 pp. with pictorial wraps. Gift inscription on front freepaper "To Omar Lillepage whom I met in Death Valley on Nov. 11, 1965. Ardis M. Walker" and second signature below from Cap. R.A. Gibson, who were two additional authors in the publication. Wear on spine and partial pricing sticker attached on top right corner of front cover. Small dirt smudge on back cover. Pamphlet is clean, tight and Good+ to Very Good. View More...
Story about the death of a young infant while traveling through Death Valley. 20 pp. Card stock paper wraps are in Good condition with corners and edges rubbed, dirt smudges on back cover, and remainder of price sticker on back cover corner. Errata stamp on back inside cover. Interior is tight and clean. Pamphlet is in VG condition. View More...
"The book tells the fascinating story of the history - and the natural history - of this unique desert." 113 pp. with index. DJ in Good+ condition with rubbed edges, small tear to top of front, and rubbing to spine edges/corners. Yellow cloth covers with cactus image on front. Covers in VG to NF condition. Interior is tight, clean and VG+. View More...
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. View More...
"This is the story of Death Valley, which really is not a valley at all." 59 pp. with appendix. Very light wear to covers. Intertior is tight, clean and Very Good. View More...
Edited by George Koenig. With a foreward by J. S. Holiday, photographs of Death Valley by Ansel Adams, and route map by Robert Becker. Number 15 in the series of keepsakes issued by the Friends of the Bancroft Library for its members. Mintz 349. 67 pp. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. Some small marks on front and back cover. Uncut interior pages. Interior is tight, clean and in Near Fine condition. View More...
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. View More...
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. View More...
Charming guide book of Death Valley with maps, history, and romance of California's unique desert. 32 pp. Very light wear along edges. Book in Very Good condition. View More...
"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 provided 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. Cover corners are rubbed, edges are dirty and smudged, wear to spine ends. ... View More...
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 li... View More...
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. ... View More...
