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Island Year
by Hazel Heckman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0295951710
- ISBN 13
- 9780295951713
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
NZ$9.95NZ$6.96
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About This Item
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1972 University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA. 1972. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($7.95); chipping and small missing pieces of cover at head and tail; chipping to top edge of rear panel. Decorative blue and black boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on spine. 255 pp 8vo. Her first book brought to life the people, the history, and the vanishing way of life on Washington Island. This book brings the same clarity of vision, warmth, and insight to the natural life of her island, recording the cycle of the seasons as an appreciative and articulate observer. This is a diary of the natural world where the same things happen again and again but are always new. Unfortunately, with growth and development the natural world of the Island was threatened as was the way of life of its people. This book describes one of the 'little wild places' and she shares her love for it. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015777
- Title
- Island Year
- Author
- Hazel Heckman
- Illustrator
- Laurie Olin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0295951710
- ISBN 13
- 9780295951713
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Place of Publication
- Seattle, WA
- Date Published
- 1972
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Anderson island, Puget Sound, natural world, cycle of the seasons, land development, developmental zoning, natural wilderness, nature preserves, Washington State, natural resources in Washington State, outdoors in Washington State,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Memoirs; Autobiography;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- New
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- Gilt
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Price Clipped
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
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