An Almanac for Moderns contains a short essay for each day of the year that contemplates a unique but factual aspect of unbridled nature. According to a review in Nation, this collection of essays manages to "appeal to the ordinary lover of nature ...but the turn of Peattie's mind is poetic and speculative." The New York Times calls this book "a fine and subtle perception ...rising at times to an intense lyric beauty ...a book which the reader will deeply treasure, and to which he will repeatedly return."
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An Almanac for Moderns contains a short essay for each day of the year that contemplates a unique but factual aspect of unbridled nature. According to a review in Nation, this collection of essays manages to "appeal to the ordinary lover of nature ...but the turn of Peattie's mind is poetic and speculative." The New York Times calls this book "a fine and subtle perception ...rising at times to an intense lyric beauty ...a book which the reader will deeply treasure, and to which he will repeatedly return."
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($3.50 price intact). Published by Putnam, 1935. Octavo. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with small nicks and price tag on bottom spine. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.
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Very Good. 1935. G.P. Putnam's Sons. Cloth, dj, octavo, 396 pp, some illustrations. Light discoloration and chipping to jacket. Price clipped. Bookplate and previous owner's stamp on ffep. Light spots of foxing to text block. Pages are clean and binding tight. Very Good. (Subject: Natural History. )
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Very Good. Copy #464 of 1500 numbered copies signed by artist. A very good copy in original green cloth stamped in gilt and black (spine darkened, some wear). In a very good example of the publisher's slipcase (slipcase has some fading and wear). Illustrated By Asa Cheffetz.
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Good. Boston: David R. Godine, 1980. 8vo Hardcover. 403pp. B/W illustrations. Near Very Good book and Very Good dust jacket. Slight dampstaining to the top-edge. Pages toned. Otherwise inside clean. Dust jacket toned. Inquire if you need further information.
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Asa Cheffetz. Spine a little darkened. Very Good, lacking the slipcase. Large octavo (7-1/8" x 9-1/4") bound in full spring-green linen with a tree stamped in black at the center of the front cover and gilt decorations surrounding it, 340 pages. A beautiful edition of this famous work with a new introduction by the author and wonderful wood engravings by Asa Cheffetz. AN ALMANAC FOR MODERNS, the day-to-day observations and reflections of a sensitive naturalist, was awarded the Gold Medal of the Limited Editions Club. Copy #380 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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Asa Cheffetz. Adhesive remnant from a bookplate on the front pastedown. Spine darkened. Very Good in an intact, Very Good slipcase. Large octavo (7-1/8" x 9-1/4") bound in full spring-green linen with a tree stamped in black at the center of the front cover and gilt decorations surrounding it, 340 pages. A beautiful edition of this famous work with a new introduction by the author and wonderful wood engravings by Asa Cheffetz. AN ALMANAC FOR MODERNS, the day-to-day observations and reflections of a sensitive naturalist, was awarded the Gold Medal of the Limited Editions Club. Copy #845 of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.