The Natural Thing: The Land and Its Citizens by Pieter W. Fosburgh - 1959

The Macmillan Company. Good in Good dustjacket. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Area of damp staining on rear cover of book and dustjacket. Else nice book and dustjacket. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 255 pages .

New York: MacMillan, 1959. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: MacMillan, 1959. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. Very clean gray cloth boards with green lettering on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Very small return address label of previous owner near bottom edge of front fixed endpaper; no other marks. 255 pgs. Very clean dustjacket is not price clipped, unchipped, with two very short closed edge tears (1/4"). Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Nature..

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

The Macmillan Company, New York, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Dear Mother Whitney, with much love, Pieter." Uncommon signed. A collection of essays selected from those that Fosburgh wrote as the founding editor of *The Conservationist*, the official publication of the New York State Conservation Department. It explores the wildlife and rural life of New York and one particular "Forest Preserve" and along the way "reveals a fresh philosophical attitude toward conservation." He was also the president of the North Woods Club in the Adirondacks, a group dedicated to conservation. See Fosburgh's obituary in The New York Times on March 7, 1978. A near fine book with a hint of soiling to board edges in a very good jacket on account of some sunning to spine and a damp stain to lower corner of spine. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special… Read More