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Dear Papa: Letters Between John Muir and His Daughter Wanda
by Sargent, Shirley (signed); Jean Hanna Clark (co-editor); John Muir
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0914330764
- ISBN 13
- 9780914330769
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Fresno: Panorama West Books, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. An association copy, signed by co-editor Shirley Sargent on an affixed label with the printed inscription: "May 1, 1985, For Ann, who listened, encouraged, proof read, and numbered!" This is number 33 (numbered by Ann!) of 750 copies. We have seen one other signed copy and it was also signed via a label. The recipient was likely Ann Matteson who is thanked in the acknowledgments; she was a devoted outdoorswoman and denizen of many National Parks, finally Yosemite (one notes her son was named Muir). Sargent was a prolific historian of Yosemite. Her bestselling book was John Muir in Yosemite National Park (1972). A very good plus book with some subtle waviness to the upper corner of the text block and light soiling/staining to upper text block face, otherwise fine in green cloth with gold lettering; in a good only jacket that is heavily dampstained and wrinkled (accounting for that slight waviness). A nice association in spite of these these imperfections.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1030
- Title
- Dear Papa: Letters Between John Muir and His Daughter Wanda
- Author
- Sargent, Shirley (signed); Jean Hanna Clark (co-editor); John Muir
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0914330764
- ISBN 13
- 9780914330769
- Publisher
- Panorama West Books
- Place of Publication
- Fresno
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Yosemite, Letters, Epistolary, Fathers, Daughters, Correspondence
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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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