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FAREWELL, PROMISED LAND: Waking from the California Dream
by Dawson, Robert and Gray Brechin
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0520211235
- ISBN 13
- 9780520211230
- Seller
-
Covina, California, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. When writer Gray Brechin and photographer Robert Dawson received the 1992 Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, they began a five-year project of driving and flying around California to record the present state of its environment. This book is the result of that collaboration. In six thematic chapters dealing with Loss, Mining, Farming, Cities, Energy, and Health, the authors provide a sobering look at California's environment. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Brechin on the title page. Oblong quarto. Original burgundy cloth binding, with bronze titles. The contents are sagging just a touch, as usual; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65426
- Title
- FAREWELL, PROMISED LAND: Waking from the California Dream
- Author
- Dawson, Robert and Gray Brechin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0520211235
- ISBN 13
- 9780520211230
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- California, Photography, Natural History, Environmental Management, Western Americana
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
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