The Log From The Sea Of Cortez

by John Steinbeck Publisher : Viking Press Year : 1951 Edition : 1st Pages : 282 Condition : Very Good Binding : Hardcover Price : $1249.95

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The Viking Press, 1951, NY, Published By The Viking Press In September 1951,First Edition, HC. Very Good, Maroon cloth boards, gilt stamping/design/vignette, map endpapers, illustrated with two photographs. Corners bumped, former owner's name on small label fep, minute fading to cloth at spine, tiny (1/8") chip to cloth at crown of spine, small amt fading to cloth at edge bk board. Only 7,500 cc printed. Scarce. A rare book in fine condition and full of wisdom. Both a scientific work on the marine life in the Sea of Cortez and relaxed evening discussion of the meaning of life with his friend Ed Ricketts... Only three copies of this edition listed at large on-line Bookshop/Bookseller database. John Steinbeck, , As we moved up the Gulf, the mirage we had heard about began to distort the land. While it is worse on the Sonora coast, it is sufficiently interesting on the Peninsula to produce a heady, crazy feeling in the observer......One remembers the old stories of invisible kingdoms where princes lived with ladies and dragons for company, and the more modern fairy tales in which heroes drift in and out of dimensions more complex than the original three. We are open enough to miracles of course, but what must have been the feeling of the discovering Spaniards? While we were eating, a boat came alongside and two Indians climbed aborad....Their canoe was typical of the region and was intersting.........."The name, California," Clavigero goes on, "was applied to a single port in the beginning, but later it was extended to mean all the Peninsula. Some geographers have even taken the liberty of comprising under this denomination New Mexico, the country of the Apaches, and other regions very remote from the true California and which have nothing to do with it."......Early in the morning we sailed from our shelter under Pescadero Point and crossed the channel again. It was a very short run........There were many manta rays cruising slowly near the surface, with only the tips of their "wings" protruding above the water. They seemed to hover, and when we approached too near, they disappeared into the blue depths....." Add this to your special Rare First Edition Library! First Edition. 282pp,



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