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Giving Good Weight Hardcover - 1979

by McPhee, John

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing, inscribed on the half-title page: "for a high bidder at the 2003 Dining by Design auction of the Arts Council of Princeton, with thanks and all best from John McPhee." A great Princeton connection. Fine book in near fine price-clipped jacket with some faint toning to upper inner edges and a crease down the black flap. Please inquire for photos.
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  • Title Giving Good Weight
  • Author McPhee, John
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 261
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
  • Date 1979
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ABE-1607745607963
  • ISBN 9780374163068 / 0374163065
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.48 x 5.78 x 1.03 in (21.54 x 14.68 x 2.62 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 79017572
  • Dewey Decimal Code 081

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About the author

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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