Author: (Porter, Eliot). Powell, John Wesley.
Title: Down the Colorado. John Wesley Powell: Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon.
Description: New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1969. 1969. - Quarto [approximately 14-1/4 inches high by 10-1/4 inches wide], light gray buckram in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The extremities of the binding are slightly darkened with some minor staining to the bottom edges of the covers. The dust jacket is rubbed with a vertical crease to the film surface of its rear panel. 168 pages. Color frontispiece & color photographic illustrations by Eliot Porter, and black-and-white photographic illustrations & drawings by members of Powell's expedition. The page edges are slightly darkened. Very good.

First edition.

The photographs and epilogue are by Eliot Porter. The foreword and notes are by Don D. Fowler. However, the main body of the text is Powell's diary. Very good .

Keywords: AMERICANA; TRAVEL & EXPLORATION; EXPEDITION; GRAND CANYON; COLORADO RIVER; JOHN WESLEY POWELL; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; DOWN THE COLORADO: DIARY OF THE FIRST TRIP THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON; PHOTOGRAPHER; ELIOT PORTER; ILLUSTRATIONS; DON D. FOW

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