A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There by Leopold, Aldo - 1950

New York: Oxford University Press, 1950. Second printing of Leopold's natural history classic. Hardcover, full green cloth, silver titling and geese (same as the first state binding), stated second printing with no date on title page and 1950 on copyright page. Book shows light wear, but several dents & gouges to the rear cover - one extending to the book's interior for some way (did some one use it for a hammer?); jacket (with comments from the critics, $3.50 price) showing some edgewear, faded spine, damage to rear panel. No names or internal marks. Text clean; xiii, 226 pages, b/w illustrations. [This book is bibliographically slightly eccentric. The true first edition was issued in green cloth, with silver titling & decoration, and the correct 1949 date on both title & copyright page; with a jacket listing other Oxford titles on the rear panel. Later printings are normally stated as such on the copyright page, but either Oxford found a batch of old sheets or someone forgot to label a later printing, as copies appear with the 1949 date on title and copyright page, but bound in bluegreen hardcovers (not cloth) with black titling and decoration, and a jacket touting Leopold's Round River, which was not published until 1953, and priced at $4.00]. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Charles W. Schwartz. 5¾" by 8½".