VG hardcover, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Pale-yellow cloth hard cover with orange lettering and band;  map endpapers; 135 pages; b/w photos; 1950 on title and copyright pages, slight warp and old stain mark on back board, jacket is intact but worn, torn and stained. Intro by Carl Van Doren. "Readers.will find in this selection.the records of a woman who.went into the venerable desert, put her heart to the ground, heard men walking and gods breathing. She gave them pictures of the Southwest. She interpreted and celebrated the Amerindians." "Mary Hunter Austin was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain describes the fauna, flora, and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California." (Wikipedia)