The Pine Barrens by John McPhee - 1982

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968-05-12. Hardcover. Good.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968-05-12. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

E-001: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Very Good. 1968. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1968. 157 pgs. Signed and inscribed by John McPhee on the half-title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On all sides, however, developments of… Read More

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Graves, James. Sixth printing (1975). Association copy, charmingly inscribed on the title page to neighbors in Princeton: "For the Westoffs, from their own personal pine planter, of Drake's Corner Road, best, John, 9/18/75." Thats McPhee's street. One can imagine him standing in this planter with pen in hand and glancing up at the trees. Charles Westoff was professor of demography and sociology at Princeton, and so McPhee's colleague. Leslie Westoff was a firebrand feminist author who published four books as well as pieces in The New York Times and New York Magazine among other places. She and Charles co-authored From Now to Zero, a book about population growth. Another book was about remarrying: The Second Time Around. Her first marriage was to John Aldridge, a notable literary critic who also taught at Princeton in the 50s before ending up at the University of Michigan. The book is in very good condition only because of… Read More