A Gathering of Birds: An Anthology of the Best Ornithological Prose (scarce)
by Donald Culross Peattie (signed)
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very good
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very good. Signed across the front free endpaper. Apparently a scarce book, with (it would appear) no other copies available online, though it was re-released by Trinity University Press in paperback in 2013, suggesting its continued relevance. Owner signature in faint pencil on the pastedown across it. A good book with sunning to upper edges of green cloth boards. Wear to all corners with boards peeking through. Half-inch tear to cloth of spine tail. Toning to endpapers, pastedowns, and text block faces. A few spots to cloth, one larger half-inch blot to rear board. Pages are clean and white. Jacket is very good and presents well with wear to corners and spine ends. A flawed copy, but solid, and rare.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1676184954306
- Title
- A Gathering of Birds: An Anthology of the Best Ornithological Prose (scarce)
- Author
- Donald Culross Peattie (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company, New York
- Date Published
- 1939
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Rural Hours
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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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