E-list # 203

NY, Knopf, 1993. Inscribed by Abish to David Markson, and with Markson's ownership signature. A nice association between two masters of experimental fiction with a long shared history: Abish had praised Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress in 1988; the two held a reading together to celebrate the late Gilbert Sorrentino in 2010. Faint scuffing to boards; still fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036477] SOLD

(Charlottesville), (The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation), 1995. Remarks by Alda presented on the occasion of the Fifth Monticello Cabinet Retreat at Monticello. 11 pages of text, and a 4 page biography of the actor. Later collected in Alda's 2007 book Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself. Staples rusted; else fine in stapled wrappers. [#036494] SOLD

1965. Attorney Edward De Grazia writes to Burroughs in January, 1965, the month of the Boston court case in which Grove Press appealed the Massachusetts ban on Burroughs' Naked Lunch. De Grazia writes across the cover of a 1962 amici brief, which he had filed on behalf of approximately 125 authors and publishers in the Supreme Court case involving a California bookseller who had been convicted for selling Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. De Grazia refers Burroughs to several pages in the brief "on equal needs of art and science," and then adds: "I agree with so much of what you say -- only you should say it in court! Don't forget if it is unprecedented for [an] author to testify - this is first time an author may have been given notice by Govt. it intends to ban his book!" Signed, Best/ Ed (who then circled his full name on the brief). Burroughs did not end up taking the stand, but De Grazia did call Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg and many others to testify as to the book's artistic merits: still, the book remained banned as hardcore pornography without redeeming social importance. The case was eventually won on appeal. [Meanwhile, the 1962 Tropic of Cancer case, involving bookseller Bradley Reed Smith, later better known as a fervent supporter of free speech surrounding the denial of the Holocaust, was remanded to the Appellate Department of the Superior Court for Los Angeles County; in 1964, De Grazia won a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that overturned lower court rulings that Miller's book was obscene.] 13 page pamphlet; modestly sunned; near fine in stapled wrappers. Together with the mailing envelope from De Grazia, addressed to William Burroughs in St. Louis, Missouri. The Massachusetts Naked Lunch case remains, as of this date, the last major obscenity trial in American literature. [#036503] SOLD

NY, McGraw-Hill, (1974). The companion book to the Free To Be...You and Me record album and television special, all of which were designed to expand gender roles and spread the message that it's okay to not conform to the stereotypes of what a boy or a girl should be. Conceived by Marlo Thomas; introductions by Thomas and Gloria Steinem; afterword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; contributions by Judy Blume, Lucille Clifton, Shel Silverstein, Carl Reiner, Anne Roiphe, Joyce Johnson, Judith Viorst, Charlotte Zolotow, and many others. A wildly successful venture, in terms of reach and popularity, from a bygone (pre-backlash) era that also saw the debut of Ms. Magazine, the introduction of Title IX, the passage in Congress of the (never ratified) Equal Rights Amendment, and Roe v. Wade. Scarce: this was a children's book, one that Thomas, in her introduction, hopes will become "a wreck of a book [that has been read] borrowed, reread, sung, felt and understood," which is exactly what happened to most copies. Slight shelf wear to spine base, else a fine copy in a very good, price-clipped and spine-sunned dust jacket nicked at the crown and with an abrasion on the rear panel. [#036507] SOLD

NY, Morrow Junior Books, (1995). The beloved storyteller tells her own story in her second memoir, following A Girl from Yamhill, published in 1988. Inscribed by the author, "especially for Ilene Cooper/ with best wishes. Beverly Cleary." Cooper, like Cleary, was a children's book librarian turned author. Trace foredge foxing; very near fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed, and a nice association. [#036501] SOLD

Bloomington, Indiana University Press, (1993). Billed as a "field guide to the greenhouse effect," this is an advance reading copy of an advance call to action (1993), from the time when warnings could still be written in the future tense: the book's subtitle is "Signs to Watch For"; one of the chapters is titled "How Do We Know What's Going to Happen?" Slight spine tap; else fine in wrappers. [#036505] SOLD

(Hoboken), John Wiley, (2010). Kintisch reports the benefits and risks of geoengineering our way out of the climate crisis. Inscribed by the author: "To Jerry and Margaret/ friends of the earth!". Owner name front flyleaf; fine in a fine dust jacket. Blurbs by Elizabeth Kolbert, Bill McKibben, Chris Mooney, and Eric Roston. [#036458] SOLD

NY, Bloomsbury, (2010). Four decades after Frances Moore Lappe's Diet for a Small Planet brought attention to the hidden social and environmental costs of our food choices, Lappe's daughter outlines principles for climate-sustainable diets. Signed by the author. Foreword by Bill McKibben. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036498] SOLD

NY, Atheneum, 1989. Young adult climate fiction from the before-times (1989) when it was still at least plausible that the world would end in ice rather than fire. The plot twist here is that a mass migration southward, toward warmth, triggers resentment, rage and terrorism by Mexicans against the migrants from the north. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket. [#036512] $100

(Hollywood), (Oxford Press), (1938). Malcolm, a professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California, takes on such topics as "The American Presidency and Dictatorship" and "Fitness for Public Office." This copy is inscribed by the author: "To Robert Moody, a democratic Democrat/ From a fellow Democrat." Offsetting to endpages; handling apparent to boards with some shallow watermarks to the rear board. A very good copy, without dust jacket, possibly as issued. Uncommon in the original edition, especially signed. [#036483] $200

London, Cassell, ca. 1904-1905. Parts 1-11, of a projected 18 parts. Three Dore illustrations per part. Advertisements (mostly for soaps, detergents) laid in. Foxing to pages; covers separating at spine: good copies, with the Dore plates well-preserved. [#600049] $200

London, Cassell, Petter, Galpin, (n.d). First thus, with illustrations by Gustave Dore. Supplied to Subscribers Only, in 20 parts. All 737 pages present, but possibly only 19 covers. One section has been re-numbered by hand. The unnumbered section: "Contents; Biographical Notes; Author's Preface" may count as the 20th part. Possibly bound at one time; now decidedly unbound. Covers detached; prior dampstaining evident. A fair copy only, but apparently scarce in this subscriber's edition. [#600047] $200

(London), Penguin, (1966). First thus: the British paperback edition. Inscribed by Harrison in 1972 to Richard Fleisher, director of the 1973 film adaptation, Soylent Green, "with thanks." A fine association, even more notable as it was in Fleisher's film rather than in Harrison's book where "Soylent Green" (initially soy & lentils) became people. Age-toning to pages, some creasing on and near the spine; very good. A fine association. [#036490] SOLD

(n.p.), Self-Published, 1979. A handmade production by Hawkins, assembling 13 pages of two long, photocopied letters to Fielding Dawson, housed in a binder, which has been titled and signed by Hawkins on the front cover. The opening paragraph divulges that Dawson (fellow Beat-era author and artist) had suggested to her that she write "an early personal history as a series of letters to [him]." As Hawkins is composing this history, she would have been 48 (six years after her first published book; four years after her separation from Robert Creeley; and the year after Anne Waldman and Allen Ginsberg had hired her to teach at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute -- where Dawson also taught). Her narrative begins at age 20, features many digressions and flashbacks, one flash-forward, one re-start, some musings about the nature of memoir, and a fair amount of actual personal history, and yet by the end of the second letter, she has not aged past 20. According to a vintage description of the item from Serendipity Books that is laid in, Hawkins made "a few" of these for distribution to her friends. The pages are fine; the binder is sunned with red smudges to the cover; very good. No copies located in OCLC. From her obituary in the New York Times, "Ms. Hawkins left her literary imprint on a cultural landscape dominated by men and as a mentor to a generation of female writers." [#036506] SOLD

NY, Putnam's, (1982). A review copy of Hoffman's collection of pieces written while he was a fugitive in the 1970s. Inscribed by the author "To Elliot [sic] Fremont-Smith/ Elliot - So where's the ten bucks? Abbie Hoffman/ CA." Eliot Fremont-Smith, former book critic for the New York Times, Editor-in-Chief of Little Brown publishing company, founding member of the National Book Critics Circle, was working at The Village Voice at the time of this title's publication. As a book critic in the 1960s, he was famous for reviewing edgy and transgressive books that had previously been viewed as outside the realm of polite literature; like Hoffman, he rewrote the rules about what was acceptable for publication and for discussion. A good association between the prominent counterculture figure -- co-founder of the Yippies -- and perhaps the most influential book reviewer of the era that threw off the final trappings of censorship (or so we thought). Foxing to the edges of the text block; near fine in a very near fine dust jacket with publisher's promotional material and author photo laid in. [#036484] SOLD

NY, Dial Pres, (1969). Poetry by the musical artist, her first book, published when she was only 18 years old but already a major star as a result of her controversial hit single, "Society's Child," about an interracial love affair, written and first recorded when she was 14 years old. Near fine in a very good, mildly rubbed dust jacket with one closed edge tear and a shallow water stain at the lower edge of the rear panel. [#036488] $300

NY, Pantheon Books, (1994). Lamott's classic on writing and the writing life. Inscribed by the author in 1999: "For Catherine/ with best wishes/ [heart] Anne Lamott." Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. Scarce signed. [#036482] $200

NY, Macmillan, 1943. The first American edition of the first book in Lewis' classic Space Trilogy, written, according to legend, as the result of a deal with J.R.R. Tolkien in which the authors agreed that Lewis would write a space travel story, while Tolkien would write a time travel story. (Tolkien did not.) Like Lewis' Narnia books, this science fiction journey also expounds a Christian worldview, exploring the nature of God, sin, and redemption. This is a very near fine copy, with just a touch of shelf wear, in a very good dust jacket with shallow edge wear, mostly confined to the corners. A wartime book, and seldom found in this condition. [#036502] $1,250

(Sydney), (Thinking Fisherman Publications), (1993). The first separate publication of this poem by the Australian writer, originally included in his first book in 1970. Issued here as Number 1 in the Paperback Poets series: one of a limited edition of only 100 copies. Illustrated by and signed by noted Australian artist Noel McKenna. Creasing to pages; near fine in wrappers, in a fine dustwrapper. [#022988] $375

NY, Dutton, (1986). A collection of stories. Inscribed by McGuane to Susan Minot: "Dear Susan, This seems sort of inflated after Monkeys, the pen in my hand on the jacket photo is, I don't know.../ Tom." McGuane had blurbed Minot's debut novel, Monkeys, which also came out in 1986, calling it "a book of unusual purity and truthfulness. It hardens the lines of a world once barely familiar and makes it ours. Susan Minot touches us by her accurate humanity." Very slight spine lean (as though from reading), else fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice inscription and association. [#036478] $250

NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979). Mumford's personal chronicle, "an intensely intimate biographic sketch and an objective commentary on public events in which Mumford has taken an active part." A walk through the better part of the 20th century guided by the philosopher of technology and literary critic, winner of the National Book Award (for The City in History) and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Signed by the author in 1985. Near fine in a very good, spine-faded dust jacket creased on the front panel. [#036500] SOLD

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2009. A March-to-November "wetlands immersion" by the John Burroughs Medal-winning author of Swampwalker's Journal. Signed by Carroll. With illustrations by the author. Base of spine tapped, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with trace corner wear and a small abrasion to the front panel. Uncommon signed, especially in the first printing. [#036509] SOLD

Yardley, Westholme, (2009). A 2009 examination of the interplay between humans and trees, published 15 years before the 2024 report for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List revealed that of the 47,000+ tree species assessed, more than 1/3 are at risk of going extinct—a number more than double that of all birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians threatened with extinction combined. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036476] SOLD

Philadelphia, Lippincott, (1958). A fascinating time capsule, written at the dawn of nuclear power and of air travel for the masses. Hogner covers water and land management issues, and loss of species, among other topics. Inscribed by the author and by her husband Nils Hogner, the illustrator, to Sherman Knapp, with appreciation for his assistance. Knapp, president of Connecticut Light and Power, is listed in the acknowledgments, and his title likely explains Nils Hogner's added illustration of a power line with his inscription. Bit of foxing to the hinges and joints; near fine in a very good, spine-tanned dust jacket with shallow chipping at the crown. [#036495] SOLD

NY, Scribner's, 1978. The uncorrected proof copy of his third book, winner of the John Burroughs Medal as the best work of natural history published that year, and a nominee for the National Book Award. A remarkable and unlikely bestseller: the book was reprinted numerous times, brought into a new edition by the publisher (in a smaller format), picked up by the Book of the Month Club, and became a significant commercial success in a trade paperback edition as well. It attempts to explore the wolf both in the objective world and in the subjective ways that humans have seen and imagined it throughout history. This proof copy was printed with the original title, The Book of the Wolf, on the cover and the title page; the ultimate title has been written in by hand on the cover. A fragile, padbound proof with covers beginning to separate at the spine base; several scuff and spots to cover and a handful of page corners turned. Name of author and reviewer Ethel Jacobson across the front cover. A very good copy. A landmark in natural history writing. [#036475] $350

NY, Farrar Straus, (1986). The third of McPhee's geology books, later incorporated into the Pulitzer Prize-winning compendium of his geological writings, Annals of the Former World. This copy is inscribed by McPhee to Joe McCrindle, founder of the Transatlantic Review, who published McPhee's "The Fair of San Gennaro" in 1961, four years before his first book publication, which may explain the geological inscription: "For Joe McCrindle/ a friend since the middle Miocene/ best always/ John McPhee." Slight foxing to the top edge, else fine in a fine dust jacket with just a hint of spine fading. A nice association. [#036492] $450

NY, Frederick Warne, (1931). The 1933 John Burroughs Medal Winner. Inscribed by the author: "For Helen E. Nickerson, with kind regards of her friend, the author, Oliver Perry Medsger/ State College, Pa, July 12, 1934." Medsger won the Burroughs Medal for the 4-volume sequence of Spring, Summer, Autumn, Fall, of which this one, Spring, was the first. This is a near fine copy, with minor wear to the corners and spine ends, in a very good dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and folds. Scarce in jacket, and remarkably so signed. [#036491] $750

Boston, Little Brown, (1948). A prescient book (1948) by the President of the New York Zoological Society, warning of the effects of the increasing global depletion of natural resources: water, soil, forests, and biodiversity. This copy is inscribed by Osborne: "To Bernice/ with great affection and great appreciation/ Fair./ May, 1948." Less common than it seems, as many "firsts" fail to state "first edition" on the copyright page, and rare signed or inscribed. "With disturbing clarity, this book points out that we are more likely to destroy ourselves in our persistent and world-wide conflict with nature than in any war of weapons yet devised." Light foxing to the edges of the text block; near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light sunning and edge wear. Blurbs by Aldous Huxley and Eleanor Roosevelt, among others. [#036479] SOLD

NY, Norton, (2016). An association copy: inscribed by Rich to Michael Pollan: "With thanks to the brilliant Michael Pollan, whose insights in Second Nature greatly influenced this book." Rich attempts to summon the early days of conservation, when there was conservative support, and takes the Greens to task for drifting too far from a viable environmental center. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036474] SOLD

San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, (2007). A retrospective collection of pieces from Schaller's life in the field, with a new introduction by the author for each chapter. Warmly inscribed by Schaller in 2009: "To Catherine and Bill/ with deep gratitude for many years of friendship." Fine in a fine dust jacket, with blurbs by a virtual Who's Who of environmental writing: Peter Matthiessen; Jane Goodall; Bill McKibben; and Edward O. Wilson. Schaller, among many other accomplishments and activities, accompanied Matthiessen on the trip documented in the National Book Award-winning, The Snow Leopard. [#036480] $300
On Sale: $195

NY, Harper & Row, (1982). Zwinger, winner of the John Burroughs Medal, and Teale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, collaborated on this book about the two rivers that join to form the Concord River, beloved by Thoreau. This copy is signed by Zwinger. A landmark collaboration by two of the most respected naturalists writing at the time. Zwinger, whose writings had generally been about the West, was president of the Thoreau Society at the time this book was published. Foredge foxing and shallow loss of color to boards; a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with wear at the crown and a small sticker removal abrasion on the front panel. [#036489] $300

Highlands, Jonathan Williams, 1958. The "Author's Edition" of this early collection of poetry, her fourth book, printed as Jargon 19. One of 50 copies, of a total edition of 500. While the remains of this edition were later, in 1964, signed by Levertov on the front flap of the dust jacket and sold as a signed limited edition, this copy is without jacket, probably as issued in 1958, and is instead inscribed by Levertov: "Love to Don from Denise" on the first blank -- an actual "author's copy," as the colophon states. Fine in plain white wrappers. A Levertov, and Jargon, rarity. [#023539] $300

[Berkeley], Maidu Press, [c. 1973]. "A Maidu Free Poem" broadside of the title poem of Piercy's 1973 collection. This version has one small change from the book version published in 1973 (there were several more changes in later versions). The edition of this broadside is unstated, but the broadside is marked as "1/ ." The only other Maidu Free Poems we are aware of are a 1971 Gary Snyder broadside, "Swimming Naked in the Yuba River," and "I Saw the Green Yuba Flow" by Franco Beltrametti. The Snyder was done in an edition of 200 copies. Maidu Press was the creation of two of Snyder's neighbors and friends, Steve Sanfield and Dale Pendell, both of them poets living on the San Juan Ridge, as Snyder was. This broadside reproduces calligraphy by Snyder, according to the Snyder bibliography. The presence of a blacked out mistake in the last line of the first stanza and the backward limitation (the copy number specified but not the number of copies, rather than vice versa) combine to suggest this is a trial copy or an unused or proof copy. We have no evidence that the edition was ever done: the Piercy bibliography lists no Maidu Press publication and OCLC shows no copies held in institutional libraries. A scarce, virtually unknown collaboration between Piercy and Snyder, both of them major American poets of the postwar era, and both associated with the counterculture of the 1960s and beyond. 8-1/2" x 11", on heavy orange paper. One tiny lower corner bend; still fine. [#036504] $350

NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, (1978). First thus: a collection of nature poetry first published in 1970 but re-issued here with illustrations by Kazue Mizumura. Inscribed by Zolotow: "For Rebecca/ Lucky wishes/ Charlotte Zolotow." Zolotow, a prolific author of children's books, also holds the distinction of being the person who first recognized the genius of Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy, while working at Harper & Brothers. Near fine in a very good, lightly foxed dust jacket. [#036496] $125
On Sale: $81

NY, Norton, (1989). Inscribed by Sarton to Doris Grumbach in the year of publication: "For Doris/ with love always/ from M." Below this, Sarton has signed her name in full. Grumbach is not specifically named, but the book comes from a collection where similarly inscribed books confirmed the attribution. A wonderful association: in addition to their being friends; both authors explored lesbian themes in their novels before such a thing was fashionable, then ordinary, then cause for rage and banning. Slight lean (as though from gentle reading), else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036481] $250

Chicago, Henry Regnery, (1973). An unlikely bestseller and the basis for films in both 1976 and 2007, Sybil first brought attention to child abuse and dissociative identity disorder (then known as multiple personality disorder) and, later and inadvertently, to a much broader array of issues (a client potentially manipulating a therapist for attention; a therapist potentially using a case for notoriety or profit; clinical misdiagnoses in general, particularly of women; and, in this case at least, the harmful effects of media exposure on mental illness). This copy is inscribed by both the author and by Sybil's therapist, Dr. Cornelia Wilbur in the year of publication. Both inscriptions express gratitude for the arrangement of what appears to have been a joint appearance. Together with a copy of the uncorrected proof, which lacks both the preface of the published text (called "My Extraordinary Friend" in the proof and titled "Sybil" in the text) as well as one paragraph of acknowledgments. The proof has notes and phone numbers on the front cover; very good in wrappers. The book has foxing to the edges of the text block and a bit of wear to the spine ends; very good in a very good dust jacket with wear at the ends and corners. Uncommon copies of a ground-breaking book. [#036493] $850
On Sale: $595

Garden City, Doubleday, (1969). An illustrated book of advice and random thoughts, written at the peak of his popularity, around the time of his appearances on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In; his Billboard Chart release of "Tip Toe Through the Tulips"; his Grammy-nominated children's album; and his ukulele contribution of "Nowhere Man" on the Beatles' Christmas album. This copy is inscribed by Tiny Tim in the year of publication. Shallow insect damage to the front board; near fine in a good dust jacket with some faded water stains on the front panel. [#036485] $250

(NY), Pantheon, (1957). A standard text of the 1960s counterculture, which provided many with their first introduction to Oriental and mystical religions. Light foxing to the edges of the text block; offsetting to endpages; shallow corner creasing to the pages of the preface; a very good copy in a very good, spine-tanned dust jacket with minor edge wear and a small stain to the front panel. [#036486] $450

London, Thames and Hudson, (1958). The first British edition. Watts explores Man's alienation from nature and its parallel in sexual anxiety with women, positing that approaching sexuality and the sexual act as sacred provides an avenue for spiritually reintegrating with the natural world and our own nature. Foxing to endpages and page edges; very good in a very good, sunned and foxed dust jacket with modest edge wear. [#036487] $250

NY, A.S. Barnes, 1930. The theory and practice of physical education for women at the college level, written by the woman who served as a physical education instructor -- and later physical education director -- at Smith College for more than 30 years. Warmly inscribed by the author, to "Eisie", in memory of a fifteenth reunion. Ainsworth graduated from Smith College in 1916; there is a Florence Marion Eis listed in her class, who is possibly the recipient. A bit of waviness to the later pages; some mild, well-blended staining to the boards and tanning to the spine. A very good copy, without dust jacket. [#036499] $375

Boston, Little Brown, (1965). The biography covering the formative years and education of Dr. Connie Guion, who attended Wellesley and Cornell Medical College, with an internship and residency at Bellevue. The biography ends in 1919, when Guion was 37, though she would practice medicine until her death at 88, becoming known as "the dean of women doctors." She was the first woman in the U.S. to be made a professor of clinical medicine; the first woman to become a member of the medical board of the New York Hospital; and the first living female doctor in the U.S. to have a hospital building named in her honor. Guion never married, but had a lifelong partnership with Ruth Smith, a physical education teacher. This copy is signed by Guion and by the two authors, Campion and Stanton on a publisher's tipped-in leaf. Gift inscription front flyleaf and owner's stamp front pastedown. Possible water damage to rear board and spine, and some discoloration there; a good copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. [#036511] $250

Boston, James H. Earle, (1902). The author's account of two trips to Alaska, "practically alone," and covering 18 months beginning in 1899. "I had first-class health and made up in endurance what I lacked in avoirdupois, along with firm determination to take up the first honest work that presented itself, regardless of choice, and in the meantime to secure a few gold claims..." Illustrated with maps and photos. Tipped to the front pastedown is a newspaper article from 1934, stating that the author had staked out claims to approximately 5000 acres of Alaskan oil lands and was headed back there in the coming weeks. Perhaps the definition of a woman ahead of her times: while the book went through at least 6 printings in the first year after publication, over one hundred years later it was issued in at least 6 new editions from 2007-2024. Owner name front flyleaf; minor shelf wear; stains to the rear cover; a very good copy, without dust jacket. [#036510] $250

(n.p.), Spottiswoode, 1914. The first separate appearance, reprinted, with additions, from the February 1914 Geographical Journal, and inscribed by Workman to J.P. (John Percy) Farrar on the front cover. Fanny Bullock Workman, suffragist, cyclist, mountaineer, cartographer, travel writer and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, spent eight seasons exploring glaciers and mountains of the Karakoram and Punjab Himalaya between 1898 and 1912 (accompanied by her husband and countless porters). She first became aware of the Siachen Glacier (the second longest outside of the Polar regions, at 45 miles, and dividing India and Pakistan) during one of her and her husband's multi-thousand mile bicycle tours, which were the subject of her early books. An accomplished climber, Workman attained the women's altitude record (20,278 ft) in 1906, in the Karakoram. In 1912, she led the expedition to map the Siachen, becoming perhaps best known for unfurling a newspaper there, at nearly 21000 feet, with the headline "Votes for Women." This offprint includes approximately 18 photographs and a full fold out map inside the rear cover. Several instances of marginal notes, perhaps by Farrar, a climber who was an original member of the Mount Everest Committee and responsible for recruiting George Mallory to the 1921 reconnaissance expedition. The covers and several rear signatures are detached; the front cover is chipped; the text, photos and map are all preserved, although the tissue guards over the photos have darkened. A fair copy only, but scarce, and with a rare signature. [#036508] SOLD