The Lamp In The Desert, The Story Of The University Of Arizona

DOUGLAS D. MARTIN

Publication: The University of Arizona Press, 1960, Tucson

First edition. 8vo. Two-tone quarter gray cloth and red cloth, titles and decorations stamped in gilt on the front cover and spine, pictorial decorated front and rear endpapers, xiii [blank], 304 pp., foreword, preface, illustrated mostly from photographs, portraits, appendices, bibliography, index. "With six teachers, no books, and thirty-two students, Old Main opened its doors to the first pupils of the University of Arizona in 1891. A rugged beacon among the cacti, the campus emerged from a forty-acre donation from two gamblers and a saloonkeeper. The Lamp in the Desert is Douglas D. Martin’s history of the first seventy-five years of the University of Arizona. From early football wins by Coach McKale to the work of celebrated scholars, this is a story of the places and the people whose names are still visible reminders of the early innovators that helped to build a world-class institution." A vivid University of Arizona history. Very good clean copy in dust jacket. A nice copy.

Inventory Number: 51734