The Peninsula: A Story of the Olympic Country in Words and Photographs - 1st Edition Hardcover (1962, VG Condition) - Perfect for Collectors & Pacific Northwest History Enthusiasts

Moser, Don, and Wallace Stegner. San Francisco: The Sierra Club, 1962.

English, First Edition, Very Good, HC, 4to, 11" x 8 1/4", [14] 171 pp.

Pictorial green cloth over board with off-white spine, Don Moser's black-and-white nature photography to front and back panels, black lettering to front panel and spine, light wear and soiling, otherwise, sharp tips, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Good dust jacket, black lettering to front and back panels, and interior flaps, no lettering to spine, exterior panels toned toasty brown almost uniformly, chips and closed tears to edges, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar-sleeve. [14] 171 pp. Includes Foreword by Wallace Stegner, 80 black-and-white photographs of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington and three sections by Don Moser: "The Sea," "The Forest," and "The Settlers." From the Foreword: "This is a book about a young man's love affair with a peninsula...A quiet book and a gentle one, it is also absolutely clear-eyed, and the fact that it is clear-eyed never reduces for an instant its respect, even awe, in the presence of natural things."