Collection of Vintage Colorado History Books
Item Details
A collection of vintage Colorado history books. A first edition copy of Down the Colorado: John Wesley Powell Diary of the First Trip Through the Grand Canyon 1869, features photographs by Eliot Porter, and was published in 1969 by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York. A 1982 softcover copy of Thomas J. Noel’s The City and the Saloon: Denver 1858-1916, published by University of Nebraska Press. A hardcover copy of The Hispanic Contribution to the State of Colorado, edited by José de Onis, was published in 1976 by Westview Press, Inc. Duane A. Smith’s Colorado Mining: A Photographic History, was published in 1977 by the University of New Mexico Press. A cloth-cover copy of LIFE’S Picture History of Western Man was published in 1951.
| Binding | Cloth on board |
| Number of Books | 4 |
Condition
Faint marks, wear throughout
Thomas J. Noel book has handwritten inscription and autograph inside
“Down The Colorado” and LIFE books are missing dust jackets
Dimensions
Measured as a group.
Item #
17DEN113-112
