Inscribed first edition of this geological history, one of the five book eventually gathered together in McPhee's Pultizer-Prize winning collection ANNALS OF THE FORMER WORLD.
Fine in a fine jacket.
Price: $150.00
"Human time, regarded in the perspective of geologic time, is much too thin to be discerned—the mark invisible at the end of a ruler."
Legendary NEW YORKER staff writer and longtime Princeton University professor, John McPhee is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Wallace Stegner Prize, and was twice nominated for the National Book Award. About McPhee's work, journalist Robert Macfarlane has written: "McPhee's sentences are born of patience and attention: he seems to possess a pair of eyes with the swivel, zoom and reach of a peregrine falcon's, and a pair of ears with the recording ability of a dictaphone. He notices almost everything." A beautiful signed edition from one of our greatest nonfiction writers.
First printing. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1983). 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original publisher's full brown cloth. In original unclipped ($12.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 212 pages. Inscribed by McPhee on half-title page: "To Paul Sullivan /with warm regards / John McPhee." Very faint toning to jacket. Else bright, clean, and sharp.
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