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A Sand County Almanac
by Leopold, Aldo
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Poor/Poor Jacket
- Seller
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Milwaukee , Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1949 226pp. $3.50 Price on front flap of jacket. No additional printings noted. Remains of old library brodart inside boards. Remains of date due slip glued inside rear board. Large library sticker on rear endpaper. Library stamp on rear board. Old bookstore stamp at lower edge of inside front board. Former owner name on front endpaper. Page 59/60 has a crease and rippling. A few pages have a diagonal crease at the top tip. Boards have a slight bend. Spine is slightly cocked. Spine is rolled. Spine ends are heavily bumped. Tips and spine ends are rubbed. Edges of boards are sunned. Front board has a small stain. Top edge of front board is bumped. Top edge of text block has light dust staining. Tips of jacket are clipped, not including the price. Edges of jacket have tears, creases, chipping and pieces missing. Library stamp on rear panel and catalogue number stamp on spine heel. Edges of jacket are sunned. Front panel of jacket has light damp staining at the flap fold. Rear panel has a small hole. . First Edition. Hardcover. Poor/Poor Jacket. Ex Library.
Synopsis
A Sand County Almanac is a 1949 non-fiction book written by American ecologist and environmentalist Aldo Leopold. Describing the land around Leopold's home in Sauk County, Wisconsin and his thoughts on developing a "land ethic," it was edited and published by his son, Luna, a year after Leopold's death from a heart attack. The collection of essays is considered to be a landmark book in the American conservation movement.
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- Recycled Records and Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 32870
- Title
- A Sand County Almanac
- Author
- Leopold, Aldo
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- Poor Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Bookseller catalogs
- Wisconsin Related;
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Glossary
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Rolled
- rolled spine or spine rolled. Damage to a book created by pressure to the spine making it fold or crease in the cover. Damage...
- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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...
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