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1866réf. 92332London: Longmans Green and Co 1866. 2nd ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 3 volumes frontises illustrations index xli 492 549 567p. Attractive red quarterbinding. 22 cm. Minor cover wear and spotting including some visible rubbing mostly at cover corners. Modest damage to fore-edge of several pages in Vol. III. Edited by Lady Theresa Lewis. The first edition was published in 1865. According to the brief "Advrtisement to the Second edition" Lewis had died soon after the first edition was published in 1865 so the task of revision fell to other unnamed individuals. Mary Berry and her younger sister Agnes became great friends of Horace Walpole and lived for many years at Little Strawberry Hill which they inherited after Walpole's death Mary wrote or edited various books the most famous of which was a 2 volume work titled in part "A Comparative View of the Social Life of England and France .". Longmans, Green, and Co hardcover books
1988réf. 1700SF: Sierra Club Books 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Inscribed in a blue pen in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: "To Mary Lou with every best wish -- Tom Berry Nov 9-88." His classic work uncommon signed. The first volume in the Sierra Club Nature and Natural Philosophy Library. With a foreword by Brian Swimme. In these essays "Berry defines a restorative creative relationship with the natural world" and "establishes the philosophical ground for a bioregional mode of reinhabiting the earth." Environmental writer Richard Louv argues that "Thomas Berry was the earliest and most important voice to describe the profound importance of the disconnection between humans and the natural world and what that could mean for the future of our species." Very good with slight bumping to spine ends and a few corners and with light pencil underlining and marginal annotations in some of the essays. In a very good minus jacket with fraying and slight loss to spine ends and corners and some minor creasing and short tears to edges. A long crease down the full the length of the spine but the panels present very well. Sierra Club Books hardcover
1985réf. 58538Berkeley: North Point Press 1985. First Edition. 8vo pp. 268. Fine in dj. Freedman A52b. Collected by the author some of these poems have been renamed abridged or slightly edited from earlier forms. North Point Press unknown
1960réf. 71678Cambridge Mass.: Riverside Press 1960. First edition. . Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. 1 204p.; 21 cm. Riverside Press hardcover
1964réf. 11082New York: Harcourt Brace & World 1964. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. Octavo. 8 56 pp. First edition first printing. As issued in publisher's cloth-backed-boards with dust jacket. Binding has a slight lean but is otherwise quite fresh and clean throughout; dust jacket with some staining and abrasion to the spine; aside from that light rubbing and toning; price has been clipped. This is a remarkably early work by the poet novelist and environmental activist and is his first published collection of poetry preceded only by "November Twenty Six Nineteen Hundred Sixty Three" a single poem illustrated by Ben Shahn. Quite an uncommon book by a beloved figure in 20th century literature. Harcourt, Brace & World unknown
1974réf. 2233NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing the copyright line starting with "B." Jim Harrison's copy: Unmarked but laid in is a typed signed 1981 memo TLS to Harrison from Noah Adams of National Public Radio with the subject line "A Book as Promised" and reading: "Also -- much comment here and some mail and phone calls concerning our interview. Mostly from people who don't know your work. Thanks-- Noah." It suggests Adams sent the novel as a follow up to Harrison's NPR interview perhaps it came up in their conversation. The novel is Berry's third a follow-up to Nathan Coulter and A Place on Earth. Octavo in orange cloth blue-gray topstain. Very good with a little pull to top of spine and a couple small spots to outer text block face. In a very good dust jacket with edge wear and light wear to spine ends and corners subtle toning to edges of the white rear panel and flaps and general rubbing. The letter is folded in thirds very good with the left edge slightly curled and toned from sticking out of the book. A nice association between novelists with a deep focus on place. More about the book: "In a small town in Kentucky 92-year-old Jack Beechum a farmer moves slowly through his last day of life. Day dreaming in his rocking-chair he recalls his love for his wife and long days working the earth. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover
1985réf. 58538Berkeley: North Point Press 1985. First Edition. 8vo pp. 268. Fine in dj. Freedman A52b. Collected by the author some of these poems have been renamed abridged or slightly edited from earlier forms. North Point Press unknown books
1992réf. 1297NY: HarperCollins 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by both Swimme and Berry on the title page. Uncommon signed. Says the jacket: "From the big bang to the present and into the next millennium The Universe Story celebrates the total community of existence as it unites science and the humanities through a profound and poetic modern myth." The book argues for the importance of story and narrates the story of the universe; ultimately it "compellingly explores humanity's place in the evolving cosmos and our ecological imperative." Dedicated to environmentalist Laurance Rockefeller. Swimme is an influential cosmologist. Thomas Berry see his New York Times obit was a widely respected Catholic priest and cultural historian who was dedicated to environmental thinking and theology eventually coming to call himself a "geologian." Environmental writer Richard Louv argues that “Thomas Berry was the earliest and most important voice to describe the profound importance of the disconnection between humans and the natural world and what that could mean for the future of our species." Laid in at rear is an errata slip and a clipping about a lecture Berry gave in Greensboro. A fine book in fine jacket. HarperCollins hardcover
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2012réf. SKU0210092Cengage Learning 2020-12-28. Paperback. Good. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Cengage Learning paperback
réf. 61821793Ashgate Publishing Company . Hardback. New. pp. xiii 264 Ashgate Publishing Company hardcover
réf. 6762317Taylor & Francis Group . Hardback. New. pp. 608 Taylor & Francis Group hardcover
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réf. 698180659Taylor & Francis Group . Hardback. New. pp. 176 Taylor & Francis Group hardcover
réf. 63732948Transaction Publishers . Hardback. New. pp. 247 Transaction Publishers hardcover
2011réf. __3110240726Mouton De Gruyter 2011. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 282 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches. Mouton De Gruyter hardcover
2016réf. x-0691639760Princeton University Press 2016. Hardcover. New. 344 pages. 9.25x6.12x0.94 inches. Princeton University Press hardcover
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2018réf. 2-178446113XLaw Society Publishing 2018. Paperback. New. 336 pages. 9.17x6.14x0.79 inches. Law Society Publishing paperback
réf. 6461878Ashgate Publishing Company . Hardback. New. pp. x 287 Ashgate Publishing Company hardcover
