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Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 209pp., xiii. First published 1963; this copy, Stated: "Fourth Printing, March, 1967". Four sets of 8 glossy color or black and white photo-illustrations between pp. 2-3, 66-67, 82-83, and 146-147. Introduction by John F. Kennedy, pp. xi-xiii: "The [conservation] crisis may be quiet, but it is urgent. We must do in our own day what Theodore Roosevelt did sixty years ago and Franklin Roosevelt thirty years ago: we must expand the concept of conservation to meet the imperious problem of the new age. We must develop new instruments of foresight and protection and nurture in order to recover the relationship between man and nature and to make sure that the national estate we pass on to our multiplying descendants is green and flourishing" (p. xiii). Acknowledgments, pp. 193-196; Index, pp. 199-209. Essays on Land Wisdom of Native Americans; Thomas Jefferson; Daniel Boone, Jed Smith, and the Mountain Men; Thoreau and the Naturalists; George Perkins Marsh; Carl Schurz and John Wesley Powell; Pinchot and the Foresters; John Muir and Park Lands; The Roosevelts and Politics; Organizers and Philanthropists; Cities in Trouble and Frederick Law Olmstead; Conservation and the Future; A Land Ethic for Tomorrow. Blue cloth with dark blue title box on spine for brilliant gilt lettering; extremes of upper and lower edges sunned or age-toned, else unqualifiedly Fine: Tight spine; sharp corners; NO rubbing wear; NO previous owner names. Dustwrapper not price-clipped ($5.00) with full cover wrap-around, color photo- illustration by Ansel Adams of sunset over Death Valley; minor chips and wear across spine ends; 1" tear down rear cover left edge from top; very minor rubbing wear at corners (foibles now backed with archival tape). But for the conniving sun, Dustwrapper did its job protecting book. Solid copy. The way you want to read a half-Century old book from the 1960's.
Seller: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tall quarto. B&W illustrations. Condition: DJ chipped & soiled with several tears and a portion of the rear panel torn away; light wear to cloth binding; minor soiling to top edge of book block; else very good in fair DJ. Pages: xxxiv, 280.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Wear and sunning to jacket edges; book just about fine in red cloth. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 048547.
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: xxxiii, (3), 280pp. Prof. illus. Sm. folio. Cloth. Library stamp.
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover in tan cloth boards. No dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean, with tight binding, sharp corners, and bright text pages. Boards have a whisper of use. Name of former owner, an academic author, inked onto front free endpage. 4to. 280 pp. including index. Heavy--will require additional postage if shipped outside the U.S.
Seller: Warwick Books, member IOBA, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing of the first edition (stated). Fully illustrated. 280 pages including index. A very good copy with light tape stains where a dust jacket protector was once applied to the book. Some tape stains to the rear endpaper (only rear) from the same application. The dust jacket which is price clipped is in near fine condition.
Seller: J. F. Whyland Books, Jeffersonville, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The book and contents are clean and tight. There are many b/w illustrations. The covers are clean and tight, also. One cover corner is lightly bumped. The dust jacket has some light soil and scuffing.
Seller: Yesterday's Books, Richmond, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: [Landmark Catalog of one of the most important exhibitions of the intellectual history of books] Near fine. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover and dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xxxv, 280 pages : facsimiles ; 32 cm
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: 31 x 21 cm., 280 pp., illustrated, famous book
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated first edition of this important work from Carter and Muir. Beautiful near fine copy with minimal wear to cloth boards in like jacket, price clipped with toning to spine and some wear at spine ends and corners.
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, small folio, pp. xxxiii, [3], 280; numerous facsimile illustrations throughout; fine in original cloth, very good jacket with a bit of soiling and edgewear. From the library of Kim Merker. The product of one of the most famous exhibitions in recent memory, originally suggested by Stanley Morison.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Dark rust cloth, lettered in gold foil. Very slight soiling at bottom text block corner, essentially as issued. Dust jacket slightly age-toned along edges and spine panel, with slight soiling and a dime-sized spot along upper rear joint, well preserved in new archival mylar. xxxiv,280 pp., illus. Firm binding, clean and unmarked interior. Stated "First Edition." Remains probably the most important exhibition ever assembled on the history of printing. Exceptional, a collector-grade copy with only the slightest of defects. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.