Wilderness Journey: A Search for Origins (Signed) and From Wild Rootage (Signed) - 2 Volume Set
Kernville, California: Castle Press, 1979.
Limited Edition. Hardcover.
#474 of a Limited Edition set of 500 copies designed by Roy Purcell and printed on Carnival paper at the Castle Press by Grant Dahlstrom. From Wild Rootage is printed using Zapf Aldus type. Each book is signed by Ardis Manley Walker and Roy E. Purcell on the colophon.
Two books of poetic paeans to the wilderness of the Sierra Nevada illustrated in color and black and white by Roy Purcell. From Wild Rootage consists of poems by Ardis Manley Walker and an introduction by Sigurd F. Olson. Wilderness Journey has poems by Roy Purcell and an introduction by Ardis Manley Walker.
Item #90238711-1/4 x 8-3/4", off white cloth with illustrations front board each volume, titles and illustrations printed in brown, orange endpapers, unpaginated.
Fine in bit rubbed very good blue paper-covered slipcase with #474 inked in upper corner.
Price: $100.00