Frontispiece after E. Boyd Smith, line illustrations in margins and chapter titles. 8½x6¼, original cloth, pictorially stamped and gilt-lettered, top edge gilt. First Edition.

"These charming sketches of the desert and semi-desert country comprising the Owens Valley and the approaches to the great sink of Death Valley have become practically a classic" - Zamorano 80 2; Cowan p.24; Graff 114; Howes A400. Related newspaper clipping from 1903, laid in (which had caused offsetting to front endpapers).