On Desert Trails with Everett Ruess

Description

1st Edition. Publisher’s brown cloth, dark brown cover title, prospector and burros device on cover. 31×22.5 cm. Desert Magazine Press. El Centro. 1940. 72 pp. Color frontis, numerous black and white illustrations. Very good, lower corner lightly bumped, some offsetting from the dust jacket flaps to the endpapers, a little rust bleed from the staples seen in the inner hinges, in a fair dust jacket with some loss at the top edge and spine. A collection of anecdotes, verses, letters and illustrations by the solitary artist, poet, and adventurer who disappeared in the Utah desert in 1934 at the age of 20. Scarce, particularly so in the fragile dust jacket. weight: 1.3 lb.