First Edition (SD). Limited Edition of 'One Thousand Copies Of Which This Is Copy Number 690.' You can see the covers in the photos. They are very clean, one speck on the front. The gilt lettering on both the front and spine is very bright. The cover edges and corners are in excellent condition, no wear. The spine ends look very good. The middle page edge has a very small scrape that has zero bearing on any of the actual pages. The book is square and the spine is straight. The binding is very solid from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The interior of the book is in excellent condition. The front inside cover and front end paper form a map of the Sequoia National Park with references to the forests and groves. The rear inside cover and rear end paper present a Sketch Map of the Kings River Yosemite. Both maps are in very nice condition. The pages are exceptionally clean. Scrolling through, I did not seeing any soiling. I didn't see any creasing. There are no markings. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. It's in very nice condition. As one seller referenced, the dust jacket was trimmed 1/4 inch too short, as issued. In any picture of the jacket you'll see this will be the case. The flaps are very clean, no creases. There is one very small closed tear on the rear flap. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. I have always had it in a fitted protective cover. From the dust jacket: 'In the golden summer of 1890 four young men undertook a vacation lark-- a 652-mile 'hike' throughout the Sierra Nevada. As a result of that historic expedition, two previously unconquered mountain peaks were ascended and named, and important new routes were discovered for future generations. A second result was the writing, by one of their number, of the account of their experience in this book. Here are lyric descriptions of virgin wilderness scenes combined with dramatic adventure: sleeping in the open in earth-shaking thunder-and-lightning storms, close-calls with grizzly bears and rattlesnakes, near-drowning in a swollen stream, panic of sudden illness-- and experiences varying from night entrapment in highest Sierra snow-wastes to enjoyment of a gargantuan feast of oysters, salmon, black-berries, and a searing August crossing of Owens Valley, ending at Lone Pine Village. A well-nigh incredible narrative, this is a record of scaling cliffs, fording rivers, living from the land in a world of breathtaking mountain grandeur, and more than once being dangerously lost. A substantial Introduction and extensive Notes by Sierra historian Shirley Sargent amplify the text. Ansel Adams, who knew the author well, has contributed an interesting Preface.'
