[pct-l] Starr's Guide to the JMT

[Joe Roth]

I have a copy of the 1959 addition, what's it worth? I want to sell it.

On Monday, March 26, 2012, Tortoise <Tortoise73 at charter.net> wrote:
> I still have two editions -- the 11th revised edition (1970) and the 12th
> revised edition (date unknown) which I found waterlogged on the JMT,
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:09, Don Amundson <amrowinc at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Well I'm not an old-timer on this list but I do remember the Starr book
which I lost somewhere in my many moves.  Mine was from around 1960.  Now
I'm tempted to get another copy.  I see Amazon has it.
>>
>>> Message: 8
>>> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:05:38 -0800 (PST)
>>> From: Edward Anderson <mendoridered at yahoo.com>
>>> Subject: [pct-l] Vintage JMT Guide Book by Starr
>>> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
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>>>
>>> I still have this tattered old?guide book that I bought in 1953. It is:
"Guide
>>> to the John Muir Trail and the High Sierra Region" by Walter A Starr,
Jr. It was
>>> first published in 1934, a year after Starr's death.?Starr was lost
while
>>> climbing in the Minarets An extensive search followed. His body was
finally
>>> found by Norman Clyde My copy was published by the Sierra Club in 1953.
It
>>> measures 5" x 7.5" x 3/8' thick?and weighs just over 5 ounces. It is
the only
>>> guidebook I used during my early wanderings in the Sierra.
>>>
>>> Do any old-timers on this list remember this guidebook?
>>>
>>> MendoRider
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