The Land of Little Rain
by Austin, Mary
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith. Green cloth with gilt titles, decoration in a darker green, black, and grey. Cloth has light general shelf-wear, small bump to front fore-edge, fraying to spine tips and fore-edge corners. Spine cocked forward. Binding sound. Lacking the rare jacket. Prior owner's name neatly penned to FFEP, dated 1947. Interior else clean, text unmarked.
Synopsis
A stunning tribute to the savage beauty of the area known as Death Valley. To most travelers it is a parched, empty territory, unwelcoming and forgiving. In a collection of essays that date back almost a century, naturalist and writer Mary Austin (1868-1934) breathes life into the desert landscape, describing its savage beauty, its plants and animals, and the occasional human visitor.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Bin
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BBS-2015902
- Title
- The Land of Little Rain
- Author
- Austin, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press, Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1903
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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