Search Results: Environment & Nature from Uncommon Works

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1954. First Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/missing. A very good plus, signed, first revised edition with a personal note from author laid in. From the library of wildlife biologist and conservationist John B. Cowan. Affectionately inscribed to same by author on title page. Additional personal note card to Mr. Cowan from author laid in. Dust jacket has been cut, only flaps remain laid in. Rust cloth boards with black title stamping. Rubbing to corners and to head and tail of spine. Map end papers with front jacket flap taped in with one piece of tape. Previous owner's name on first free end paper. Underlining and marginalia for items of interest to Mr. Cowan's work. Binding is straight though book shows having been re-read. 396 pp. including index. Octavo.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. Book of the Month Club Edition. Cloth. Near fine/good +. Lois and Louis Darling. A near fine 1962 book of the month club edition in a good plus dust jacket, laid in with original BOMC report by Justice William O. Douglas. Green buckram boards with gilt title stamping on cover and spine. Wave striped endpapers. Yellow topstain. Notation inked on top corner of first free endpaper, otherwise fine. Dust jacket shows loss at bottom front corner, tears and edgewear top and bottom edges. Dust jacket shows dampstaining not affecting the book on rear and front cover. Jacket now protected in clear archival mylar. 378 pp. Octavo It should come as no surprise that the gifted author of The Sea Around Usand its successors can take another branch of science—that phase of biology indicated by the term ecology—and bring it so sharply into focus that any intelligent layman can understand what she is talking about.Understand, yes, and shudder, for she has drawn a… Read More