The Art Of John C. Van Dyke's The Desert

PETER WILD

Publication: The Shady Myrick Research Project, 2002, Johannesburg, California

First edition. 8vo. Inscribed and dated on the title page in the year of publication to Nancy Solomon, who designed this book. Limited edition of 50 copies. Burnt orange colored cloth, titles stamped in silver on the front cover and spine, orange colored front and rear endpapers, 55 [1] pp., frontispiece, works cited. Tells us of the book The Desert written by John C. Van Dyke and published in 1901. It became the nation's first work devoted to praising the desert as a beautiful, even mystical region... its Indians, its plants and its animals. This book provides us the opportunity to revisit The Desert to investigate the artistic elements lying hidden behind the success of this important book of desert literature. As new, unread copy lacking a dust jacket, as issued.

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