Where Rolls the Oregon Sharp, Dallas Lore [Very Good] [Hardcover]

Description

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1914. Very Good. This book details the journey popular nature writer and English Professor at BU, Dallas Lore Sharp (1870-1929) to Oregon in the summer of 1912. As the preface, dated May 1914 notes, the Chapters first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Country Life in America, and St. Nicholas. Original green cloth, gilt lettered, decorated in gilt and a colored illustration. This gilt includes a representation of fir trees along with the tilting. The illustration in color is from a photograph appearing in the book, climbing the cliff at Three-Arch Rocks. There are nineteen b/w photos within, sixteen are by Henry T. Bohlman or William L. Finley, Sharp’s tour guides; Finley was also a Game Warden. A commercial photographer from Portland, George M. Weister, contributed the remaining three images. This June 1914 printing is the first edition in book form. Ex-library, “Granby Free Public Library” and “discarded” on ffl, end free leaf shows removal library stamp, spine also bears call letters. There is a nick in for-edge of rear board, minor wear to corners and tail of spine. The binding is tight and square, clean, bright text block flows smooothly. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾"" tall.