Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West ~ Signed!
de Stegner, Wallace
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Librería
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Woodland Hills, California, United States
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED and inscribed by Stegner on half-title page to renowned LA Times film and book critic Charles Champlin; very good in brown cloth boards, NO dust jacket; gentle rubbing to spine ends and board tips else a tight square unmarked copy in sound binding with Grand Canyon fold-out drawing present and intact; first printing with no later statements; inscription reads: 'For Charles Champlin, at a long-delayed reunion in the Hollywood Roosevelt. Cordially, Wallace Stegner'; photos on request; 438 pages; Signed by Author .
Sinopsis
In this book Wallace Stegner recounts the sucesses and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, the distinguished ethnologist and geologist who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West, Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West and spent a good deal of his life overcoming Washington politics in getting his message across. Only now, we may recognize just how accurate a prophet he was. "This book goes far beyond biography, into the nature and soul of the American West. It is Stegner at his best, assaying an entire era of our history, packing his pages with insights as shrewd as his prose." —Ivan Doig
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Detalles
- Librería
- David Kaye Books & Memorabilia
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 50861
- Título
- Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West ~ Signed!
- Autor
- Stegner, Wallace
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition; First Printing
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1954
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Americana;
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- Rubbing
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