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Wild Life on the Rockies (association copy)
de Mills, Enos (signed); Walter A. Dyer (inscribed to)
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. No date on title page, so a presumed second or later printing. An association copy, inscribed elegantly on the decorative front free endpaper: "To Walter A. Dyer, from Enos A. Mills." With Dyer's bookplate on the verso of the FFEP.
Dyer was a journalist and writer who lived in Massachusetts. He edited the magazine Country Life in America and was ultimately the author of more than a dozen books, writing especially about dogs and, yes, country life. His papers are held at Amherst College. His best known book may be Pierrot, Dog of Belgium, about a farm dog before and during World War I; it was published in 1915.
Enos Mills was a prominent early naturalist instrumental to the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park. Wild Life on the Rockies was his second book, and "wild life" is of course meant in two senses: the good, unconstrained life and encounters with animals. Its chapters preview some of his later subjects: the thousand year pine, Scotch (his collie), bears, and so on. A fascinating preliminary work from that perspective, early sketches of what was to come. The book is dedicated to John Muir.
Brown cloth with color illustration on cover. Longs Peaks depicted opposite the title page. Very good with softening to a few corners and light rubbing to corner tips. Darkening to upper text block face. Otherwise clean and sturdy, lacking the dust jacket. An interesting association between "country" writers both known for their dog stories--that seems quite likely part of their connection. The Story of Scotch was published in 1916
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Dyer was a journalist and writer who lived in Massachusetts. He edited the magazine Country Life in America and was ultimately the author of more than a dozen books, writing especially about dogs and, yes, country life. His papers are held at Amherst College. His best known book may be Pierrot, Dog of Belgium, about a farm dog before and during World War I; it was published in 1915.
Enos Mills was a prominent early naturalist instrumental to the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park. Wild Life on the Rockies was his second book, and "wild life" is of course meant in two senses: the good, unconstrained life and encounters with animals. Its chapters preview some of his later subjects: the thousand year pine, Scotch (his collie), bears, and so on. A fascinating preliminary work from that perspective, early sketches of what was to come. The book is dedicated to John Muir.
Brown cloth with color illustration on cover. Longs Peaks depicted opposite the title page. Very good with softening to a few corners and light rubbing to corner tips. Darkening to upper text block face. Otherwise clean and sturdy, lacking the dust jacket. An interesting association between "country" writers both known for their dog stories--that seems quite likely part of their connection. The Story of Scotch was published in 1916
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- Título
- Wild Life on the Rockies (association copy)
- Autor
- Mills, Enos (signed); Walter A. Dyer (inscribed to)
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- First edition
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- Houghton Mifflin
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- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1909
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
