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Thinking of a Garden
by Merwin, W.S. (signed); Tina Freeman
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Kauai: National Tropical Botanical Garden, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Signed by Merwin and photographer Tina Freeman on the limitation page on the verso of the title page. Scarce. Published by the trustees and friends of the National Tropical Botanical Garden in a limited edition of 100 copies. This is copy 79. Merwin selected the poems for the book, 12 total, and each is accompanied by a black and white photographs taken by Freeman in 2004 at the NTBG and its affiliated gardens. Book and project design by Peter Ruthenberg. Full brown calf, silky to the touch, stamped with a silver title. Lovely photographic endpapers. About 30 pages total . No dust jacket as presumably issued. A stunning production--a nice find for the Merwin collector or the poetical-botanically inclined. A few light scratches to rear board; still fine.
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- Rural Hours
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1147
- Title
- Thinking of a Garden
- Author
- Merwin, W.S. (signed); Tina Freeman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- National Tropical Botanical Garden
- Place of Publication
- Kauai
- Date Published
- 2005
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Rural Hours
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La Grande, Oregon
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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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- Fine
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- Verso
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- Jacket
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- Calf
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- Title Page
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- First Edition
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