COLORADO; By Louis Bromfield
by Bromfield, Louis
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
-
Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York and London: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1947. First Edition with letters "I-W" on Copyright page = Sept. 1947. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 8vo, black cloth with gilt label on spine, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (front flap has price $2.75 but slight paring at lower edge), 263 pages + [1] Colophon. Better than Average Copy: solid cloth with small chip on label & gift Inscription on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is bright with several chips around its edges. Set in Silver CIty, bestselling Colorado deals with larger-than-life Silver Boom characters. <br/><br/>Louis Bromfield (1896 - 1956) was an American author and early conservationist. A bestselling novelist and associate of Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927 for his third novel, Early Autumn, about his wife's Puritan New England background. <br/><br/>Thereafter, he received the French Legion of Honor for his work helping Americans who had been wounded in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.<br/><br/>During the Depression and Roosevelt years, Bromfield learned about the ruinous causes of the Dust Bowl, and adopted techniques used by the Soil Conservation Corps, CCC, and organic farming advances made in India. As a result, he dedicated himself to the " New Agriculture" in the late 1930s. He became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States.<br/><br/>A pilot project involved his founded of the experimental Malabar Farm near Mansfield, Ohio [now a State Park], which played an influential role in the early environmental movement.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7117
- Title
- COLORADO; By Louis Bromfield
- Author
- Bromfield, Louis
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition with letters "I-W" on Copyright page = S
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- Gambling, love, mining, violence, death, pictorial dust jacket, Silver City, opera, cattle,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Borg Antiquarian
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Lake Forest, Illinois
About Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...