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Green Laurels: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Naturalists
by Peattie, Donald Culross (signed)
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by the author across the front free endpaper, and uncommon thus. Some of the naturalists discussed include Linnaeus, Chevalier, Lamarck, Bartram, Alexander Wilson, John James Audubon, Goethe, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Green cloth boards, gilt laurel design on front, gilt lettering on red title plate on spine. A very good book with bumping to upper corners of boards and a bit of fading to spine, some toning/browning to endpapers and pastedown, particularly at the hinge. In a very good jacket with some short tears to top edge and general edge wear. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.
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- Rural Hours
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- ABE-1676184239428
- Title
- Green Laurels: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Naturalists
- Author
- Peattie, Donald Culross (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster, New York
- Date Published
- 1936
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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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