A CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO YOSEMITE VALLEY; Drawings by Al MacDonald
San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo, 7.4 in. x 5 in., pp. 190. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Red cloth boards with black climbing design and title to front. Black title and footprint design to spine. Light rubbing to top/bottom of spine. Previous owner's bookplate to front free endpaper. Light rubbing to dustjacket; black marks along bottom edge of back of dustjacket; a few small tears, chips, and minor creases to edges. Original price of $4.75 to front flap. Protected in mylar. Sharp copy of a now-very-uncommon title. Very Good Plus / Very Good Minus. Item #86578
Less than 500 copies were issued of this first edition, corroborated in Vogel's bibliography of climbing guidebooks.
Steve Roper is a noted climber and historian of the Sierra Nevada in the United States. He along with Allen Steck are the founding editors of the Sierra Club journal Ascent. Roper is the winner of the Sierra Club's Francis P. Farquhar Mountaineering Award for 1983. He is also, with Allen Steck, the recipient of the American Alpine Club's Literary Award.
Price: $375.00