Measure of the Year
by Haig-Brown, Roderick L
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York, William Morrow and Company, 1950, hardcover, x-260 pp, First U.S. Edition, First Printing, Signed by the Author on the title page, Good in Fair dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, dampstain to fore-edge of boards affecting no other area, small bookstore sticker to front pastedown, text block top edge darkened. Dustjacket price-clipped, edge nicks, spine faded, faint dampstains to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The well-known author of Return to the River, A River Never Sleeps, and The Western Angler traces the development of the seasons and their effect upon his world, the habits of fish and game, the details of family and community life, and, more broadly, the position of mankind amidst the wonder and beauty of the world of nature.
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- Bookseller
- West of Eden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10673
- Title
- Measure of the Year
- Author
- Haig-Brown, Roderick L
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition, First Printing,
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 20th century; American; Authors, Canadian; Biography & Autobiography; British Columbia; Canada; General; Homes and haunts; Literary Criticism; Nature
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