The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert
by Childs, Craig (signed)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 1570611599
- ISBN 13
- 9781570611599
- Seller
-
La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Signed on the title page by Childs. His third book, first in hardcover, and his most iconic, uncommon signed. Childs is one of our premiere and most adventurous environmental writers, known above all for his explorations of American desert. He's twice the winner of the Sigurd Olson Award Nature Writing Award. A book with just one crease to top corner of title page, still fine; in a near fine jacket with trace rubbing to rear panel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rural Hours (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1165
- Title
- The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert
- Author
- Childs, Craig (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 1570611599
- ISBN 13
- 9781570611599
- Publisher
- Sasquatch Books
- Place of Publication
- Seattle
- Date Published
- 2000
Terms of Sale
Rural Hours
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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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- 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...
- Rubbing
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Title Page
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