Listening Point
by Olson, Sigurd (signed)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394433580
- ISBN 13
- 9780394433585
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: Knopf, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Eleventh printing, 1977. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Dear George Hanson, Now that you have a Listening Point of your own, I know your understanding of mine will be far deeper than with most others. Warmest regards, Sigurd F Olson." An inscription of uncommon warmth and extent. George Hanson was a college librarian and book collector in Chicago, with a special passion for Iceland, and a copy of his obituary is laid in. Illustrated by Frances Lee Jacques. From the jacket: "Listening Point tells of what I have seen and heard on a bare glaciated spit of rock in the Quetico-Superior country. . . . [It] is dedicated to rekindling that flame by capturing this almost forgotten sense of wonder, and learning from rocks and trees and all the life that surrounds them truths that can encompass all."
Brown cloth with gold stamping. Near fine with light bumping to upper corners. In near fine jacket with some toning to spine and pre-emptive, subtle tape reinforcement to spine ends (there are no tears)
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Brown cloth with gold stamping. Near fine with light bumping to upper corners. In near fine jacket with some toning to spine and pre-emptive, subtle tape reinforcement to spine ends (there are no tears)
.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rural Hours (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1215
- Title
- Listening Point
- Author
- Olson, Sigurd (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394433580
- ISBN 13
- 9780394433585
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1958
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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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