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London: Elliott & Thompson, Limited, 2023. First edition. Hardcover. The British edition (published the same year in the US by Tin House Books). Signed dramatically on the title page, with accents of green (leafy) ink to the lower flourish. Uncommon signed. An acclaimed anthology of tree writing featuring a litany of well-known poets and writers and rich with dendritic illustration. Via her curation, Holten "guides readers on a journey from creation myths and cave paintings to the death of a 3,500-year-old cypress tree, from Tree Clocks in Mongolia and forest fragments in the Amazon to the language of fossil poetry, unearthing a new way to see the natural beauty all around us and an urgent reminder of what could happen if we allow it to slip away." A foreword by poet Ross Gay, and afterword by Holten, who is Irish. Very good in green paper boards with rubbing and a little bumping to corners.