GLASSCOCK, C.B. [Carl Burgess]. HERE’S DEATH VALLEY. New York: Gorsset & Dunlap, (1940). 8vo, xiv, 329pp, 22 plates, endpaper maps. beige cloth, gilt, illustated dust jacket chipped at head, otherwise very good. ¶ Glasscock was a Death Valley pioneer, having published the Death Valley Chuck-Walla newspaper at Greenwater during 1907. Includes descriptions of the old mining towns of Panamint, Darwin, Bullfrog, Rhyolite, Beatty, Greenwater, Skidoo, the Furnace Creek Ranch and the borax industry. “He utilized every opportunity to collect interviews from old-time desert characters... No other book written of this desert excels Here’s Death Valley in readability; few, if any, are more historically sound” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.94). “Without doubt it it surpasses any other volume yet published on Death Valley for sheer entertainment and readability. It grips the reader with a spell-bound interest... a literary classic....a finished and artistic contribution to historical literature and, as such, will endure (Edwards, Valley, p.81). Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 6113    inquire

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