Water: The Wonder of Life
by Platt, Rutherford (signed); Edwin Way Teale (introduction)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0139458085
- ISBN 13
- 9780139458088
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed on the half-title page by Platt. Uncommon signed. At the top of that page is a non-authorial gift inscription: "To Helen and Ross with warm affection and many happy memories shared, Esther." Platt was the winner of the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1945 for This Green World. From the jacket: "In this fascinating volume, Rutherford Platt illustrates the immense force, beauty, and significance of this natural phenomenon [water] in the origin, development, and balance of life." With line drawings by Stanley Wyatt. Green and blue cloth with illustrated green endpapers. Very good plus with light bumping to corners; in a very good, price-clipped jacket with edge wear and similar bumping to corners.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rural Hours (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1166
- Title
- Water: The Wonder of Life
- Author
- Platt, Rutherford (signed); Edwin Way Teale (introduction)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0139458085
- ISBN 13
- 9780139458088
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall
- Place of Publication
- NJ
- Date Published
- 1971
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About the Seller
Rural Hours
Biblio member since 2023
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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