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Last of the Curlews (The Edwin Way Teale Library of Nature Classics)
by Bosworth, Fred
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0396091865
- ISBN 13
- 9780396091868
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First thus, inscribed on the verso of the half title page in green ink: "For Arch and Phyllis McCurdy, with best wishes, Fred Bodsworth." Uncommon signed in this edition. A fictionalized account of a year in the life of the last Eskimo curlew, which is now thought to be extinct (it was sighted after the book's original publication in 1955). An influential book with over three million copies sold. Illustrated by T.M. Shortt. Fine book in near fine jacket with just a little wear to edges. // 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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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1674238052517
- Title
- Last of the Curlews (The Edwin Way Teale Library of Nature Classics)
- Author
- Bosworth, Fred
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0396091865
- ISBN 13
- 9780396091868
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company, New York
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- Date Published
- 1987
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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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