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The Year of the Whale
by Scheffer, Victor B. (signed)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684718863
- ISBN 13
- 9780684718866
- Seller
-
La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Scribners, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Fisher, Leonard Everett. Handsomely signed on the title page by Scheffer, who has a marine mammal biologist in the Pacific Northwest and the author of a dozen books. Uncommon signed. Describing the first twelve months in the life of a sperm whale calf, this book was a bestseller and won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1970. With elegant ceatational-astrological illustrations to start each chapter (each month of the year) by Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Leonard Everett Fisher. An epigraph by Henry Beston. Loren Eisley wrote in The New York Times that "Scheffer knows, as Melville knew, that it is an 'unwritten life' he seeks to chronicle. Even the modern zoologist can gain, at best, only glimpses of the lives of these mysterious and transformed creatures .... It is just this interweaving of the known with the unknown that makes 'The Year of the Whale' a volume to be treasured." On the jacket's rear, William O Douglas declares simply, "This is classic." A small quarto/large octavo, deep blue cloth with silver lettering, green endpapers, blue font on glossy heavy stock--a really nice production. Just a hint of foxing to outer text block face, otherwise fine in a fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 961
- Title
- The Year of the Whale
- Author
- Scheffer, Victor B. (signed)
- Illustrator
- Fisher, Leonard Everett
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0684718863
- ISBN 13
- 9780684718866
- Publisher
- Scribners
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- John Burroughs Medal, Oceans, Wildlife, Science
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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