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Islands, the Universe, Home
by Ehrlich, Gretel
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670821616
- ISBN 13
- 9780670821617
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Viking Adult, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. An association copy, inscribed in the year of publication to Ehrlich's longtime family housekeeper in Santa Barbara: "For Paulina With much love, Gretel, September 18, 1991." Paulina is mentioned in Ehrlich's latest book Unsolaced. An interesting association in that it speaks to Ehrlich's relative affluence and the lifestyle that she was perhaps escaping when she struck out for Wyoming where she wrote her classic The Solace of Open Spaces. Near fine in near fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1593566794195
- Title
- Islands, the Universe, Home
- Author
- Ehrlich, Gretel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670821616
- ISBN 13
- 9780670821617
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1991
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Rural Hours
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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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