The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado by Porter, Eliot - 1966

Sierra Club - Ballantine Books. Trade Paperback. Used - Acceptable. Slight shelf wear on the cover. Creases in spine. Previous owner sticker inside cover

Sierra Club, January 1963. Oversized Hardback . Good - Cash/No Jacket. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed showing some wear. Corners rubbed and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Small water stain at the top of the spine of the pages. Pages seem to be unmarked. Some discoloration/wear to the page corners and edges. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

UsedVeryGood. Text block, wraps and binding are in like new condition, without markings of any kind. Very clean, nearly like new. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Sierra Club, 1963. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Revised edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Revised copyright stated 1966. Dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963. Sumptuous photography book, with the photographs printed on laquered Kromekote "to achieve maximum brilliance and fidelity", recording the spectacular gorge in remote Utah carved by the Colorado River, and flooded by the building of a dam in 1963; the book is a remembrance and a warning. Its prehistoric sites hurriedly studied before the dam was built, and visited by numerous conservationists before its flooding (including Edward Abbey, who wrote about his trip 'down the river' in Desert Solitaire), the canyon remains a focal point of environmentalists, with renewed interest now that submerged areas are re-emerging under historic drought conditions. Oversized hardcover in jacket, as pictured; first edition (first printing), listing no later printings. Light wear to book; bookplate on flyleaf, cockling the page; hinges tender; jacket shows some rubbing & chipping, short tears; $20 price Until 6-1-63 remains. Text clean; 170 pages, references,… Read More