Description: Dark gray cloth boards with white text to cover and spine stamped with colorful blue sky, white mountains, and a brown bear and eagle, have faint cosmetic blemishes to the front board. Light wear to the top and bottom of the back strip as well as some wear along the bottom of the boards. Corners have some wear but no bumping. Spine is straight with no cracking to the illustrated endpapers and hinges are firmly attached. Text block solid with all pages firmly attached. Age tanning throughout. Tissue guard intact over the frontispiece illustration with approximate 1” gap at bottom attachment. All interior pages are clean with no tears, cracks, or other previous owner marks. Twenty-four black and white photographic illustrations. 263 including the index. Dimensions: H – 8” W – 5-3/4” Enos Abijah Mills (1870 – 1922) was first and foremost a naturalist but also an author, homesteader, and the main advocate behind the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park (Colorado). After moving to Colorado in 1884 at the age of 14 he spent the remainder of his life traveling throughout the Rocky Mountains, and establishing Longs Peak House, a summer place considered the Roycroft of the Rocky Mountains. At age 15, Mills made his first ascent of Longs Peak (14,259 feet) and over the course of his life time he made the trip 40 times by himself and nearly 300 additional times as a guide. “Wild Life on the Rockies” was Mills first book which he dedicated to John Muir. Henry Oscar Houghton founded Riverside Press in 1852 and in 1872 admitted George Mifflin to the partnership and renamed the firm Houghton, Mifflin & Company. Riverside became known on account of the typographic, stylistic, artistic components of its work and in 1895 Mifflin capitalize on Riversides reputation for quality production by releasing elaborate editions. By 1971, the original Riverside Press was closed after 120 years of continuous operation in Cambridge.
Price: 89 USD
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Cambridge
Signed: No
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Riverside Press
Modified Item: No
Subject: Outdoor & Nature
California Prop 65 Warning: N/A
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1909
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Region: North America
Personalized: No
Author: Enos A. Mills
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Rocky Mountain Wild Life
