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American Heartwood
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American Heartwood Hardcover - 1949

by Peattie, Donald Culross (signed)

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the half-title page (incorporating the printed title into the inscription): "This is Barrett Yeager's copy of [American Heartwood] cordially inscribed by Donald Culross Peattie." Uncommon signed. A telling of American history via its forests, beginning with the Norsemen and ending with the Forest Service and mid-century conservation efforts. This book showcases Peattie's distinct interest in the arboreal world; before long he would publish his renown natural histories of eastern and western trees (those books promoted on the back flap). A very good copy in cream cloth with some soiling/browning to board edges. One small tear to cloth at top of spine. In a very good clipped (but not price-clipped) jacket with a number of one-inch tears to edges and a chip to top of spine. Handsome jacket illustration by David Hendrickson. A "Tecolote Bookshop . . . Santa Barbara, CA" label at bottom of rear pastedown-- Peattie eventually moved to Santa Barbara.
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