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The Web of Life: A First Book of Ecology
by Storer, John H. (signed); Fairfield Osborn (foreword)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/Very good
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: The Devin-Adair Company, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Fifth printing, 1959. A book club edition. Signed by Storer on the front free endpaper. Uncommon signed, with no other signed copies currently available online. A well-known early, and literary, primer in ecology. As the jacket says: "[Storer] does for all of nature what Rachel Carson did for The Sea Around Us--and does it in masterly fashion." Storer was also a pioneer in slow-motion nature films, especially of birds in flight, and he served as president of the Florida Audubon Society. Quarto, gray cloth boards. With an introduction by Fairfield Osborn and a center insert of black and white photos. Near fine with trace edge wear and one lightly bumped corner; a "Sold by Florida Audubon Society" small label on lower pastedown. In a very good offset jacket with sunning to spine and wear, creasing, short tears, to spine ends and upper edge of front panel.
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- Seller
- Rural Hours
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1151
- Title
- The Web of Life: A First Book of Ecology
- Author
- Storer, John H. (signed); Fairfield Osborn (foreword)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Devin-Adair Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1953
Terms of Sale
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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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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Book Club Edition
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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