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FOURTEEN THOUSAND FEET. A HISTORY OF THE NAMES AND EARLY ASCENTS OF THE HIGH COLORADO PEAKS. SIGNED by John Hart 1925 1st & 2nd edition
By Hart, John L. Jerome
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Colorado Mountain Club, Denver, 1925, 1st edition bound with 2nd edition, 1931, 46 + 71 pp, tables. This is the first guidebook for the Colorado 14,000 foot peaks, of which there was only 47 in 1925. Due to inflation and a growing population, we now have 54 peaks over that height. [If the DJIA climbs over 15,000 in this century, we expect to have 60 peaks over 14,000 feet.]
 
These two pamphlets are neatly bound together into one hardcover book marked on the spine, FOURTEEN THOUSAND FEET JOHN L.J. HART. The book is SIGNED and INSCRIBED 'To Blanche Curry, from John L.J. Hart.' Her bookplate is inside the front cover. The pamphlets are bound complete with their covers.
 
Also enclosed are two newspaper clipping, one from the Rocky Mountain News of Dec 15, 1924 featuring John Hart's winning of a Rhodes scjolarship, and an Aug 18 1962 article describing the Colorado Mountain Club's proposed attempt that weekend to climb 'all 53 of the state's peaks higher than 14,000 feet.'

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