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Fish-Shape Paumanok Nature and Man on Long Island
by Murphy, Robert Cushman
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1964. First edition of the Penrose Memorial Lecture for 1962, given before the American Philosophical Society. Blue cloth in dustjacket. Illustrated with numerous sketches, drawings and photographs. "Dr. Murphy, chosing some of Whitman's lines as an introduction to his lecture, gives, in prose worthy to follow the poet's verse, a scientist's precise account of the land and its inhabitants, tinged with nostalgia for bygone days and vanished creatures, yet filled with a joyful sense of the timeless beauty of earth and living things." Fine in very good dustjacket.. First Thus. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001358
- Title
- Fish-Shape Paumanok Nature and Man on Long Island
- Author
- Murphy, Robert Cushman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- The American Philosophical Society
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- LONG ISLAND, LOCAL HISTORY AMERICANA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Alibris4;
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Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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