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PRAIRYERTH; (a deep map)
de Heat-Moon, William Least
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395486025
- ISBN 13
- 9780395486023
- Librería
-
Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / A Peter Davison Book, 1991. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth and boards. Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED by the Author with a brown [maroon?] marker on a special bookplate affixed to the publisher's tipped-in half title; tall and thick 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold spine lettering over beige boards, several detailed maps as chapter headings, archival polyester-protected dust jacket (unclipped) with watercolor of prairie beneath lowering skies, map endpapers of Chase County, Kansas, [x] + 624 pages. Weight: 2 lbs 10 oz. The author of Blue Highways leaves his 38-state automobile tour to travel on foot, covering the landscape and history in one section of the Great Plains in Kansas, which contains the last tall grass prairie surviving in America.<br/><br/>"PrairyErth is a vigorous and exalted evocation of the American land, its people, its past, its hopes. The very word "prairyerth," an old geologic term for the soils of our central grasslands, captures the essence of the American tallgrass country."--jacket.<br/><br/>SIGNED by the Author on a special bookplate & tipped-in publisher's half title. SUPERIOR condition internally and externally! No previous owner's or remainder marks.
Sinopsis
Three months on the New York Times bestseller list, PrairyErth is now in paperback. Robert Penn Warren pronounced Heat-Moon's Blue Highways "a masterpiece." Now Heat-Moon has pulled to the side of the road and set off on foot to take readers on an exploration of time and space, landscape and history in the Flint Hills of central Kansas.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 7257
- Título
- PRAIRYERTH; (a deep map)
- Autor
- Heat-Moon, William Least
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth and boards
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, Second Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0395486025
- ISBN 13
- 9780395486023
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Company / A Peter Davison Book
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1991
- Palabras clave
- West, Midwest, Pairie, tall grass, buffalo, geology, Great Plains, erosion, ecology, animals, ecosystems, nature, maps, illustrated, nonfiction
Términos de venta
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Sobre el vendedor
Borg Antiquarian
Miembro de Biblio desde 2015
Lake Forest, Illinois
Sobre Borg Antiquarian
BorgAntiquarian (ABAA & ILAB) is a dealer long engaged in selling exceptional collectibles: rare and fine books, autographs and manuscripts, fine art and artifacts. We are generalists in Americana, English & American literature, plus selected authors & important figures (Dickens & Darwin; presidents & 'signers'; scientists & historical figures; Revolutionary & Civil War militaria).
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
