Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0061219800
- ISBN 13
- 9780061219801
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Harper's Magazine Press, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First printing, inscribed in the year of publication on the half title page: "For Len, whom I so fondly adore, Annie Dillard, April 24, 1974." The book was released on March 13, 1974, thus this signature comes just over a month after its pub date. An uncommonly affectionate inscription for Dillard, and her genuine signature, which is rare aside her perfunctory, post-fame bookstore squiggle. This book won the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction fiction in 1975. A book that should probably be graded very good because the boards are ever so slightly bowed (from some Long Island air), but otherwise near fine and presents very well; in a near fine price-clipped jacket with light edge wear, a few unobtrusive pencil lines to front panel, and small nicks to corners of spine tail. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.
Synopsis
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence."
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1676018242871
- Title
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Author
- Annie Dillard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0061219800
- ISBN 13
- 9780061219801
- Publisher
- Harper's Magazine Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
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About the Seller
Rural Hours
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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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