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Traveler in the Wilderness
by Sumner, Cid Ricketts [Women] [Colorado River] [Green River]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good minus
- Seller
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good minus. 248pp. Octavo [22 cm] 1/4 black cloth with brown paper over boards. Map endpapers. Extremities moderately rubbed; spine lightly rolled. In a dust jacket, with rubbing and creasing to the edges, and sunning to the spine. When Cid Ricketts Sumner read a personal in the Saturday Review inviting recruits for an expedition down the Green and Colorado rivers, she answered it, reasoning: "Why not? Sixty-four is the right age for adventure- youth the time for caution, considering how much it has to lose."
So it was that she found herself one woman in a party of seven boatmen and photographers on a voyage by rubber raft along the course Major Powell had taken in 1869- the purpose of the Eggert-Hatch River Expedition being to record the ancient beauty of the canyon country before engineers moved in to dam and control its waters.
So it was that she found herself one woman in a party of seven boatmen and photographers on a voyage by rubber raft along the course Major Powell had taken in 1869- the purpose of the Eggert-Hatch River Expedition being to record the ancient beauty of the canyon country before engineers moved in to dam and control its waters.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64764
- Title
- Traveler in the Wilderness
- Author
- Sumner, Cid Ricketts [Women] [Colorado River] [Green River]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good minus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Harper and Brothers, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Colorado Plateau; Cid Ricketts Sumner; Colorado River; Green River
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
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- Octavo
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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