The Columbia America's Greatest Highway through the Cascade Mountains to the Sea - SIGNED Copy
Portland Oregon: Self published, 1916. Fred A. Routledge (cover design). Second Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pp. 144. Frontis. color photo reproduction. Illustrated with twenty-five additional color plates, one folding out, and numerous black & white halftone photo reproductions. Gray cloth, titles and illustration stamped in green, white and brown on the cover. Just a hint of wear: a bright, fresh copy. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Samuel C. Lancaster / Highway Engr. / June - 1917" Very Good+. Item #13544
Dedicated to Samuel Hill in the foreword. A history of the region and the road by the highway consulting engineer who helped find and survey the route, then supervised construction carrying a camera and the recently commercialized color photo plates "that I might be ready when God painted the pictures." SMITH, 5668.
Price: $75.00