A SAND COUNTY ALMANAC de Leopold, Aldo - 1952

Oxford University Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1952. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth cover is sunned on spine but clean, bright and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Gift inscription on front end sheet. Pages are lightly toned otherwise clean and pristine. Handwritten and signed letter by Jack Miner to Dr. Frank J. Sladen, who became his friend following a hospitalization in 1942 is laid-in. Jack Miner and his sons became longtime friends of Dr. Sladen and his family (including Wardwell to whom the book is inscribed). Provenance of the Frank Joseph Sladen family. According to Henry Ford Health: "After his death, the Henry Ford Hospital library was renamed the Dr. Frank J. Sladen Medical Library. Dr. Sladen was a prolific antiquarian book collector, a library committee member of the Wayne County Medical Society and was responsible for the 1915 founding of the Henry Ford Hospital library. A noted medical historian, Dr. Sladen's own manuscript collection is now preserved in the Henry Ford Health Archives." ; Signed by Associated .