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Mangrove Island
by Sanger, Marjory Bartlett (signed); Russell Peterson (illustrator)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To the Bowles on their anniversary, with my very best wishes, Marjory Bartlett Sanger, Driftwood, 15 January 1966." An uncommon book in general and scarce signed.
Marjory Bartlett Sanger was a mid-century naturalist writer from Florida. She was an ornithologist (a member of the AOU and many other bird organizations) with a specialty on herons and the author of 11 books, most of them about birds and their habitats along with one interpretive biography of William Bartram. Her other nonfiction books on ecology include Cypress Country, World of the Great White Heron, Checkerback's Journey: The Migration of the Ruddy Turnstone, and Forest in the Sand. She graduate from Wellesley College and was the editor of Mass Audubon's Bulletin before she moved back to Florida, where she was an administrator and teacher at an Audubon Society camp in addition to her writing.
Mangrove Island is her first nonfiction book, slim at 80 pages, that explores mangrove ecology with a focus on one unnamed (composite or imagined) island, a work for both adults and young adults. With a short index. Beautifully illustrated by Russell Francis Peterson, a mammalogist and explorer.
A wide octavo in mustard cloth. Fine apart from slight toning to pages; in a very good jacket with edge wear, including some small wear through the front flap fold, but it presents great, is very vibrant, under mylar.
Marjory Bartlett Sanger was a mid-century naturalist writer from Florida. She was an ornithologist (a member of the AOU and many other bird organizations) with a specialty on herons and the author of 11 books, most of them about birds and their habitats along with one interpretive biography of William Bartram. Her other nonfiction books on ecology include Cypress Country, World of the Great White Heron, Checkerback's Journey: The Migration of the Ruddy Turnstone, and Forest in the Sand. She graduate from Wellesley College and was the editor of Mass Audubon's Bulletin before she moved back to Florida, where she was an administrator and teacher at an Audubon Society camp in addition to her writing.
Mangrove Island is her first nonfiction book, slim at 80 pages, that explores mangrove ecology with a focus on one unnamed (composite or imagined) island, a work for both adults and young adults. With a short index. Beautifully illustrated by Russell Francis Peterson, a mammalogist and explorer.
A wide octavo in mustard cloth. Fine apart from slight toning to pages; in a very good jacket with edge wear, including some small wear through the front flap fold, but it presents great, is very vibrant, under mylar.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1074
- Title
- Mangrove Island
- Author
- Sanger, Marjory Bartlett (signed); Russell Peterson (illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The World Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland
- Date Published
- 1963
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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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