San Francisco, Sierra Club, (1963). A landmark volume, and a photographic elegy. Seventy-two color plates by Porter, captioned by words from such writers as Loren Eiseley, Wallace Stegner, Frank Waters and Aldo Leopold, among many others. Edited, and with a foreword by David Brower that begins: "Glen Canyon died in 1963 and I was partly responsible for its needless death. So were you." Glen Canyon, the astonishing beauty of which is conveyed in some measure in Porter's photographs, was flooded when the Colorado River was dammed, creating Lake Powell. This copy belonged to activist, actress, author, songwriter, and river runner Katie Lee. Inscribed to her: "To Miss Katie Lee with cheers and sympathy! Sara and Army/ 8/63* (*year of the arm)." On the front endpapers, which feature a map and legend, Lee has written: "Well, WE knew it, & far better than the man who took these pictures, or David who wrote the foreword with much feeling and reason. Katie Lee." She has then, above the legend, written, "Below are the names 'We Three' [Lee, Tad Nichols and Frank Wright] gave the canyons underlined," and 13 places are underlined. In addition, Lee has corrected, on the map and in the legend, the location of Dove Canyon and the name of Little Dungeon Canyon (which she calls "Happy"). At the end of David Brower's foreword, Lee has written: "David and Ann were here this fall." In Eliot Porter's introductory essay, "The Living Canyon," Lee has underlined a number of passages and written comments in the margins, in effect creating a dialogue between Porter and herself. Lee's address label on the front pastedown; her embossed blindstamp on the first blank; and her bookplate on the verso of the first blank. Offsetting to several pages from the inscription; trace rubbing to cloth at corners; a near fine copy, lacking the dust jacket. The Place No One Knew, a heavily illustrated quarto in what was called the "Exhibit Format," was one of the first books published by the Sierra Club's publishing arm, which was founded by David Brower during his tenure as President of the club. Katie Lee has been an environmental activist since the 1950s: in 1953 she became the 175th person to run the Grand Canyon since John Wesley Powell's first run in 1869 and just the third woman. During the decade prior to the damming of Glen Canyon, she ran that part of the Colorado River repeatedly, and she actively protested the damming at the time, to no avail. She was a longtime friend of David Brower. A notable association copy of a book that played an important role in bringing an environmental awareness to a wide audience in the early 1960s. Unique. [#029704] SOLD