Seller: Bingo Used Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. hardback in fine condition with fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # 113472
Seller: Rural Hours, La Grande, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. Signed on the half-title page by Platt. Uncommon signed. At the top of that page is a non-authorial gift inscription: "To Helen and Ross with warm affection and many happy memories shared, Esther." Platt was the winner of the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1945 forThis Green World. From the jacket:"In this fascinating volume, Rutherford Platt illustrates the immense force, beauty, and significance of this natural phenomenon [water] in the origin, development, and balance of life." With line drawings by Stanley Wyatt. Green and blue cloth with illustrated green endpapers.Very good plus with light bumping to corners; in a very good, price-clipped jacket with edge wear and similar bumping to corners. Seller Inventory # 1166