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The Crystal Desert
by Campbell, David (signed)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 039558969X
- ISBN 13
- 9780395589694
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Signed on the title page by Campbell. Uncommon signed. A book about the Antarctic Peninsula in particular and about the scientists working at the Brazilian Research Station where Campbell spent three summers. It won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1994. Laid in are photocopies of a praise-filled New York Times review by Christopher Lehman-Haupt and an article about Campbell winning the Houghton Mifflin Prize, given annually by the publisher to one of its books for literary merit (usually given to a book of fiction). Blurbs by Terry Tempest Williams, Edward Hoagland, Bill McKibben, Chet Raymo, Richard Nelson and others. With a non-authorial gift inscription at the top of the half-title page: "Christmas 1992, To Mother & Dad, from Shirley & Philip." White paper boards with white cloth spine, map endpapers. Very near fine with a touch of rubbing to lower board edges; in a fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1196
- Title
- The Crystal Desert
- Author
- Campbell, David (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 039558969X
- ISBN 13
- 9780395589694
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1992
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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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