Checkerback's Journey: The Migration of the Ruddy Turnstone
by Sanger, Marjory Bartlett (signed); Betty Fraser (illustrator)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- Seller
-
La Grande, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Inscribed on the blue front free endpaper in the year of publication: "For one Yellow Bird from the other, with a great deal of love, Margie, July 1969." Also signed on the title page with a separate pen (although a nickname is used in the inscription, we are sure it's also Sanger based on a comparison of handwriting samples). Uncommon signed.
Marjory Bartlett Sanger was a mid-century naturalist writer from Florida. She was an ornithologist (a member of the AOU and many other bird organizations) with a specialty on herons and the author of 11 books, most of them about birds and their habitats along with one interpretive biography of William Bartram. Her other nonfiction books on ecology include Cypress Country, World of the Great White Heron, Mangrove Island, and Forest in the Sand. She graduate from Wellesley College and was the editor of Mass Audubon's Bulletin before she moved back to Florida, where she was an administrator and teacher at an Audubon Society camp in addition to her writing.
Checkerback's Journey is her fourth book and her second work of nonfiction. It follows a ruddy turnstone on its migration from Martinique to the Arctic tundras and "tells the fascinating story of the ecology of our entire Atlantic seacoast." See this short original review of the book in The New York Times. With an illustration on almost every page by Betty Fraser. A nice collaboration between women.
A small quarto in mustard cloth. A very good book on account of a hard bump to lower corner that split the cloth about a quarter inch at the front hinge, otherwise near fine. In a very good jacket with a short tear in that same spot, toning, darkening to spine, a few scattered stains.
Marjory Bartlett Sanger was a mid-century naturalist writer from Florida. She was an ornithologist (a member of the AOU and many other bird organizations) with a specialty on herons and the author of 11 books, most of them about birds and their habitats along with one interpretive biography of William Bartram. Her other nonfiction books on ecology include Cypress Country, World of the Great White Heron, Mangrove Island, and Forest in the Sand. She graduate from Wellesley College and was the editor of Mass Audubon's Bulletin before she moved back to Florida, where she was an administrator and teacher at an Audubon Society camp in addition to her writing.
Checkerback's Journey is her fourth book and her second work of nonfiction. It follows a ruddy turnstone on its migration from Martinique to the Arctic tundras and "tells the fascinating story of the ecology of our entire Atlantic seacoast." See this short original review of the book in The New York Times. With an illustration on almost every page by Betty Fraser. A nice collaboration between women.
A small quarto in mustard cloth. A very good book on account of a hard bump to lower corner that split the cloth about a quarter inch at the front hinge, otherwise near fine. In a very good jacket with a short tear in that same spot, toning, darkening to spine, a few scattered stains.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Rural Hours (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1075
- Title
- Checkerback's Journey: The Migration of the Ruddy Turnstone
- Author
- Sanger, Marjory Bartlett (signed); Betty Fraser (illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The World Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland
- Date Published
- 1969
Terms of Sale
Rural Hours
We offer a 30 day return guarantee, with a full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. If you change your mind about an item, you may return it within 30 days after delivery in its original condition for a full refund less shipping costs.
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...