Post by High Sierra Fan on May 7, 2016 14:27:51 GMT -8
Just a heads up on something I recently stumbled across: AMAZON's alternative sellers include people selling older out of doors related books. I was looking for "A Yosemite Flora" that I'd seen was a book written by Harvey Monroe Hall and his wife, Hall is who the Harvey Monroe Hall Nature Preserve just over the east border of Yosemite in some wonderful country above the Saddlebag Lake road is named for. An area I've day hiked with delight for decades.
So anyway the Amazon search comes up with some reprints that look sketchy, and then there's this one for a copy from 1912... the seller was the "Friends of the Walnut Creek Library", $15, less than the sketchy reprints, so I clicked. They sent me a clarifying email that despite the listing stating it had been signed by the author that wasn't the case, plus a bit more about the condition and did I still want the book? I responded yes and they sent it off: shipping was $3.75...
Got it and it's your usual hundred year old book, some slight yellowing but tightly bound. The bookplate has the signature of what I assume was the original owner (unless someone was being clever: a flora book whose owner was Mary C. Plant) but the best bonus part is there are margin notes of where the owner found the adjacent species: Shepherds Pass trail Junction, Alta Meadow, Junction Meadow, with dates around 1921 and 1922 so far. My guess now is the library has stuff donated that they don't care to shelve so they offer the donated material for sale.
That deep in back then I wonder if these were on Sierra Club High Camps?
I still prefer endless dusty shelf corridors but this is a decent second.
So anyway the Amazon search comes up with some reprints that look sketchy, and then there's this one for a copy from 1912... the seller was the "Friends of the Walnut Creek Library", $15, less than the sketchy reprints, so I clicked. They sent me a clarifying email that despite the listing stating it had been signed by the author that wasn't the case, plus a bit more about the condition and did I still want the book? I responded yes and they sent it off: shipping was $3.75...
Got it and it's your usual hundred year old book, some slight yellowing but tightly bound. The bookplate has the signature of what I assume was the original owner (unless someone was being clever: a flora book whose owner was Mary C. Plant) but the best bonus part is there are margin notes of where the owner found the adjacent species: Shepherds Pass trail Junction, Alta Meadow, Junction Meadow, with dates around 1921 and 1922 so far. My guess now is the library has stuff donated that they don't care to shelve so they offer the donated material for sale.
That deep in back then I wonder if these were on Sierra Club High Camps?
I still prefer endless dusty shelf corridors but this is a decent second.
