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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Seller's Description:
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 in Very Good jacket. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. Ninth printing. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Lynd Ward in his distinctive Art Deco style. Tan cloth with dustjacket. The book is in very good condition with light edge rubbing, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped [3.00] and is also very good with a lightly sunned but legible spine, some very tiny chips to the top edge of the rear panel, almost no paper loss. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall.
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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. 7-3/16 x 9-3/16 Inches. Special introduction by the author. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Asa Cheffetz. Designed by Lester Douglas, printed by Judd and Detweiler. Very good, near Fine. Full spring-green linen cover, stamped in black and gold. Top page edges gilt. 340pp. No. 721of 1500. In a slip case which is splitting open at the top. (loc 186/1)
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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.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ DJ. First Edition. Hardcover. Awarded the Limited Editions Club first Gold Medal (in 1935) for the book written in the last three years most likely to become a classic. Lovely work by Ward. Overall, a rather handsome copy. Very minor spotting at top edges of boards, owner bookplate on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, several small, closed tears, chip at head and rear, light soiling at front, cup mark at front, else bright and clean. Linen boards, dark grey ink lettering, green ink decorative elements, pale peach endpages. 8vo. 396pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
