Search Results: the sierra by lee w storrs

Putnam, 1962. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Dust jacket protected in mylar. Pages are clean. Binding is secure. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1962. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing. Small bookstore sticker on front pastedown, otherwise very good in a very good dustjacket. Not priceclipped and no markings. (box 83)

G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1962 An excellent hardcover copy of the first edition/first printing (no additional printings indicated), with dustcover: book and dustcover near fine. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt spine lettering, 8 1/2 x 6 inches, 350 pp., index. Dustcover not price-clipped and in mylar jacket. Pages clean and binding tight and square. Suitable as a gift. (K079). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: G. P. PUTNAMS SON'S, 1962. Nice copy in first printing. Unmarked, tight and square. "This book is rich with lore of the mountain range that cannot be found in other books". Price intact jacket is clean and bright. Protected in transparent mylar. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine to Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Edward Sanborn. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's, 1962. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Edward Sanborn (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW. Black linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF; price-clipped; under mylar. Light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to leading text edges. Green endpapers. A history of human drama unfolding in the dramatic Sierra Nevada mountains ... from eathquakes, avalanches, floods and fires to human endeavors of searching for gold, logging of lumber, and laying of the transcontinental railroad from the author of The Green Mountains of Vermont and Father Went to College.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/very good +. Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards, spine stamped in green and gilt. Extremities of dust jacket rubbed, chipped at the head and heel. Map decorated title page, additional illustrations throughout.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1962]., 1962. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth, light green front and rear endpapers, 350 pp., illustrated, map, acknowledgments, quotation sources, index. Beautiful illustrations by Edward Sanborn. The author tells us of the Sierra Mountains of northern California. Through the years the mountains have been the scene of earthquakes, avalanches, floods and fires, presented challenges to countless explorers and emigrants, was the end of the trail for the 1849 California Gold Rush, plus much on stage coach robbers with a chapter titled "Throw Down That Treasure Box, Sir." Very good, sound copy in dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and a tiny closed tear to the bottom edge of the front cover.