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The Secret Life of Plants
by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near fine, with light toning to boards and textblock edges. In a near fine, unclipped ("$8.95") jacket with a small closed tear
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1973. Third Printing. Hardcover, octavo, oatmeal cloth stamped in bronze on front board and spine, pictorial dust jacket; xiv, 402 pp. Near fine, with light toning to boards and textblock edges. In a near fine, unclipped ("$8.95") jacket with a small closed tear at head of spine, diagonal creases to flaps. From the library of New York School poet, publisher and librettist Kenward Elmslie. Inscribed on the half-title by Michael [Lally, presumably] and Anne Waldman: "Happy Birthday Ken Michael & love Anne April 27.74.".
Synopsis
Published in 1973, The Secret Life of Plants was written by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. It is described as "A fascinating account of the physical, emotional, and spiritual relations between plants and man. " Essentially, the subject of the book is the idea that plants may be sentient, despite their lack of a nervous system and a brain. This sentience is observed primarily through changes in the plant's conductivity, as through a polygraph, as pioneered by Cleve Backster.
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- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2264
- Title
- The Secret Life of Plants
- Author
- Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, octavo, oatmeal cloth stamped in bronze on front board and spine, pictorial dust jacket; xiv, 402 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine, with light toning to boards and textblock edges. In a near fine, unclipped ("$8.95") jacket with a small closed tear
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- A.N.
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- Octavo
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