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The Southern Appalachians: A Wilderness Quest
by Ogburn, Charlton (signed)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0688003419
- ISBN 13
- 9780688003418
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: William Morrow, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Near fine. An association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the title page: "For Guzz--Last of the big spenders--with every good wish from a grateful beneficiary--Charlton, May 1975." Uncommon signed.
Walter Guzzardi, Jr. was a journalist and editor, including for Fortune magazine (perhaps part of the allusion in the inscription), and the author fo several books. Probably he worked with Ogburn as an editor and "spent" in that way, too.
Charlton Ogburn won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1967 for The Winter Beach, his tour of the Atlantic Shore. Later he moved to Virginia and this book was the result.
Front flap blurb by Annie Dillard (the year she won the Pulitzer for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek): "These are the mountains I thought I knew: Charlton Ogburn knows them better. I loved The Winter Beach; The Southern Appalachians impresses me still more, because it treats my own turf so well." Rear flap blurb by Roger Tory Peterson. Color and black-and-white photos, maps. Very good plus in green paper boards with light soiling/browning to edges, otherwise about fine; in a near fine jacket with light edge wear, a few nicks, one short close tear to bottom of front panel. .
Walter Guzzardi, Jr. was a journalist and editor, including for Fortune magazine (perhaps part of the allusion in the inscription), and the author fo several books. Probably he worked with Ogburn as an editor and "spent" in that way, too.
Charlton Ogburn won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1967 for The Winter Beach, his tour of the Atlantic Shore. Later he moved to Virginia and this book was the result.
Front flap blurb by Annie Dillard (the year she won the Pulitzer for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek): "These are the mountains I thought I knew: Charlton Ogburn knows them better. I loved The Winter Beach; The Southern Appalachians impresses me still more, because it treats my own turf so well." Rear flap blurb by Roger Tory Peterson. Color and black-and-white photos, maps. Very good plus in green paper boards with light soiling/browning to edges, otherwise about fine; in a near fine jacket with light edge wear, a few nicks, one short close tear to bottom of front panel. .
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1026
- Title
- The Southern Appalachians: A Wilderness Quest
- Author
- Ogburn, Charlton (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0688003419
- ISBN 13
- 9780688003418
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1975
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Rural Hours
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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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