First edition.12mo. Full brown leather, raised bands, titles stamped in gilt on a leather spine label. light green front and rear endpapers, 226 pp. plus 6 pages of advertisements, frontispiece, illustrated, plates, map. Edwards' The Enduring Desert offers high praise for this title as "it is noted for its early photographs in almost the same degree as for its textual content. It is conceivable that these may be the first pictures ever published -- perhaps ever taken -- of the Death Valley region. Maximum importance attaches to them." We learn much about borax, its mining and the chemicals involved to perform the borax test. Also there is a wonderful description of the early freight wagons used in the 20-mule team borax outfits -- those ten sturdy old wagons that were in constant use without a single breakdown during the five years the Works were in operation. Significantly, even after standing exposed to the rigors of Death Valley weather for fifty years, two of these ancient wagons w