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The Continent in Our Hands
by Ogburn, Charlton
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0688027857
- ISBN 13
- 9780688027858
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: William Morrow & Company, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Inscribed on the title page in blue ink: "For Louise D-- [sp?], To whom, with her husband, I am glad to say that my books owe much. With all good wishes, Charlton Ogburn, July 1985." An apparent association copy, possibly a good one as suggested by the inscription, but unfortunately we can't make out the last name of the recipient. Uncommon signed in any case. Ogburn won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1967 for The Winter Beach, his tour of the Atlantic Shore, and here he travels in the same "little camping bus" across the country to survey its landscape and natural history in the tradition of Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher's Wild America (1953). Green paper boards, blue cloth spine, topographical map endpapers, blue topstain. A very good book on account of a bump and resulting slight interior tear to upper front board near spine; in a very good jacket with a short tear in that same spot, light rubbing to edges, and wear to spine ends.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 918
- Title
- The Continent in Our Hands
- Author
- Ogburn, Charlton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0688027857
- ISBN 13
- 9780688027858
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- Travel, Roadtrip, American Landscape, John Burroughs Medal
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About the Seller
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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