Encounters Archdruid by John Mcphee (127 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

Condition: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.3.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.65.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.65.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 215 pp. Book/dust jacket condition: VG (Near Fine inside; covers/ spine show use)/na (paperback). 1st/First PB Edition, 1st/First Printing. All orders are processed and shipped from MI or WI, USA.

PAPERBACK. MACMILLAN PUBLISHER SERVICES. PAPERBACK. 1977. .

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, Third Printing (1977). Not price-clipped. Published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1971. Octavo. Paperback. Book is very good with shelf wear. Publication materials inside.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Printing As Such Ex. Library Copyright Date: 1971 12mo, 1972, PP.215, A Classic From A Great Writer.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book Club Edition. 245 pages. Light shelf wear, pages yellowed; writing on the rear endpaper; a good sound binding. The jacket has some wear and tear; faded spine. 2nd printing stated but no price printed on the jacket so presumed bce. "Narratives about a conservationist and three of his natural enemies." Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Nature; Inventory No: 196146.

Hardcover. Nonauthorial gift inscription apparently by McPhee's aunt/uncle. 1st ed with nick in front endpaper; several pgs dog-earred, with heavy, uneven browning on two pgs. Corner-clipped DJ very worn, with fading, edge tears, chipping.

2nd printing hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 245pp., The narratives in this book are of journeys made in three wildernesses; on a coastal island, in a Western mountain range, and on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. The four men portrayed here have different relationships to their environment, and they encounter each other on mountain trails, in forests and rapids, sometimes with reserve, sometimes with friendliness, sometimes fighting hard across a philosophical divide. Neat ownership inscription by David R. Brown o/w a nice copy.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Second printing in the year of publication. Inscribed by McPhee on the title page that same year: "To Mary, from Phyllis Dismore, Christmas 1971, and with best wishes from John McPhee." His classic work that shadows Sierra Club founder David Brower as he conversationally takes on three foes of conservation in the field, including Floyd Dominy, infamous dam builder as the commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation A very good book with toning/soiling/fine foxing to upper and outer edges of the text block, but the pages are bright. The upper corner of the front board is bumped. Slight musty smell. The dust jacket is very good: The cover doesn't show the usual fading and remains its chestnut brown, but the spine has faded to its under-olive. There's a conspicuous streak of wear at the fold between the front panel and the spine, some wear to top and bottom of the spine, and a dogleg tape repair across most of the upper half of the back panel that's surprisingly inconspicuous. Rarely found signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. An association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the title page in a blue pen: "For Shirley Cobb -- gratefully, for your appreciation of my work has come filtering back to me through our mutual friends. With warm regards -- John McPhee, 10/8/71." Uncommon signed, especially in the first printing. Shirley Cobb--the daughter of baseball great Ty Cobb--owned and ran the Shirley Cobb Bookstore in Palo Alto that was an important gathering place for the Stanford University community in the pre-Silicon Valley era. It was an influential bookstore that sent books all over the world. This classic work from McPhee is an extended profile of Sierra Club founder David Brower as he conversationally takes on three foes of conservation in the field. The most prominent is Floyd Dominy, infamous dam builder as the commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation--they all raft down the Colorado River together. McPhee also follows Brower into the field as he debates with a mining engineer in the Northern Cascades and developer on an island off the Georgia Coast. McPhee conceived of the idea of the three-part profile before he decided on Brower as the subject. A fine book in brown cloth with ochre endpapers. In a jacket that is very good on account of the usual sunning to spine--common for this title--otherwise only a few tiny nicks to edges and light, minor creasing to spine ends. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. Octavo, 245pp. A crisp, sound copy in the publisher's brown cloth. Tape ghost to the boards and a large area of scuffing to the front endpapers, else sharp and clean; very good. In a very good dust jacket with commensurate tape ghost to the verso, spine panel sunned, and a few closed tears. Compared with other of McPhee's titles from this era, this one is notably uncommon in the first printing.

Hard Cover. Condition: BOOK NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: JACKET VERY GOOD+. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on a decorative bookplate. Just signed by author with no inscription. Bookplate is attached to the book. AN EXTREMELYL CLEAN, NICE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, ATTRACTIVE DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. 1st printing. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 254 pages. BEAUTIFUL, COLLECTIBLE COPY! Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. McPhee's telling of the confrontations of militant environmentalist David Brower (founder of Friends of the Earth, etc) over mineral exploration on Western wilderness lands, development of Hilton Head oceanfront, and the damning of the Grand Canyon. Signed by the book's subject - the Archdruid himself, David Brewer - on the half tile with an unrelated inscription dated 1975 on the front pastedown from an identifiable individual to Springfield MA conservationist Helen C White, for whom a conservation area in that New England city is named. This title signed by Brewer is quite uncommon. Dustjacket spine a wee sunnned, else near fine all over.