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Strictly for the Chickens
by Hamerstrom, Frances (signed)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0813808006
- ISBN 13
- 9780813808000
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Iowa State Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed on the title page in blue ink. Uncommon signed (her first book, An Eagle to the Sky, is common signed, but her other books seem the opposite). Laid in are several clippings about Hamerstrom and a book event from The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin. Also a sweet retro Forest Service bookmark (see photo).
Strictly for the Chicken is Hamerstrom's second memoir and shares her adventures (and her sense of humor) in field biology with her husband as they studied prairie chickens in Wisconsin. She broke away from an elite--and as she saw it, effete--background in Boston (the cover photo appears to be her at a kind of debutant society occasion as a teenager) to become an important woman in ecology and conservation, the only woman to earn a graduate degree from Aldo Leopold (who encouraged her toward those chickens). Ultimately she was the author of a dozen books and more than 150 scientific papers. She twice won the Wildlife Society Award. With her late husband Frederick, she also won the 1971 National Wildlife Federation Award for Distinguished Service to Conservation, and she is a member of the Wisconsin Writers Hall of Fame. See her New York Times obit for more.
A near fine book with light bumping to corners in a very good or better jacket with some subtle fading to spine. Previous owner's signature and date at the top of the front free endpaper.
Strictly for the Chicken is Hamerstrom's second memoir and shares her adventures (and her sense of humor) in field biology with her husband as they studied prairie chickens in Wisconsin. She broke away from an elite--and as she saw it, effete--background in Boston (the cover photo appears to be her at a kind of debutant society occasion as a teenager) to become an important woman in ecology and conservation, the only woman to earn a graduate degree from Aldo Leopold (who encouraged her toward those chickens). Ultimately she was the author of a dozen books and more than 150 scientific papers. She twice won the Wildlife Society Award. With her late husband Frederick, she also won the 1971 National Wildlife Federation Award for Distinguished Service to Conservation, and she is a member of the Wisconsin Writers Hall of Fame. See her New York Times obit for more.
A near fine book with light bumping to corners in a very good or better jacket with some subtle fading to spine. Previous owner's signature and date at the top of the front free endpaper.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1103
- Title
- Strictly for the Chickens
- Author
- Hamerstrom, Frances (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0813808006
- ISBN 13
- 9780813808000
- Publisher
- Iowa State Press
- Place of Publication
- Ames, Iowa, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1980
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Rural Hours
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About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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