Landscapes of Alaska: Their Geologic Evolution

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1958. Presumed first ed. (no prior printings indicated). Large quarto in pale blue illus jacket; xii, 148 pages: illustrations, 23 plates, numerous folded maps (some color), tables; 26 cm. Near fine in about good well worn jacket now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: National Library: 005373494; 010300663; LCCN: 58-8655

Lovely fold-out maps well-printed on thin parchment-like paper. Geology and Geography of the National Park Service's Recreation Survey of Alaska, pt. 4; v. 1 [series].

Contents: Introduction; John C. Reed and Howel Williams -- Southeastern Alaska; John C. Reed -- Gulf of Alaska area; Don J. Miller -- Wrangell Mountains; Robert F. Black -- Copper River plateau; Robert F. Black -- Talkeetna Mountains; Farrell F. Barnes -- Cook Inlet -- Susitna Lowland; Farrell F. Barnes -- The Alaska Range; Clyed Wahrhaftig -- Alaska Peninsula -- Aleutian Islands; Howard A. Powers -- Lowlands and plains of interior and western Alaska; Robert F. Black -- Interior highlands of western Alaska; Joseph M. Hoare -- Interior highlands of eastern Alaska; Robert M. Chapman -- Seward Peninsula; J.P. Hopkins and D.M. Hopkins -- Brooks Range; George Gryc -- Arctic Slope; George Gryc -- Islands of the Bering Sea; George M. Flint, Jr

Geology. Travel. Geographic: Alaska -- Description and travel. Alaska -- Descriptions et voyages. Alaska.