American Heartwood
by Peattie, Donald Culross (signed)
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the half-title page (incorporating the printed title into the inscription): "This is Barrett Yeager's copy of [American Heartwood] cordially inscribed by Donald Culross Peattie." Uncommon signed. A telling of American history via its forests, beginning with the Norsemen and ending with the Forest Service and mid-century conservation efforts. This book showcases Peattie's distinct interest in the arboreal world; before long he would publish his renown natural histories of eastern and western trees (those books promoted on the back flap). A very good copy in cream cloth with some soiling/browning to board edges. One small tear to cloth at top of spine. In a very good clipped (but not price-clipped) jacket with a number of one-inch tears to edges and a chip to top of spine. Handsome jacket illustration by David Hendrickson. A "Tecolote Bookshop . . . Santa Barbara, CA" label at bottom of rear pastedown-- Peattie eventually moved to Santa Barbara.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rural Hours (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1257
- Title
- American Heartwood
- Author
- Peattie, Donald Culross (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1949
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About the Seller
Rural Hours
Biblio member since 2023
La Grande, Oregon
About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...