Table of Contents

McPhee, John

ISBN 10: 0374272417 / ISBN 13: 9780374272418

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1985

About this Item

293 pp, stated First printing, 1985. No index, no notes. Previous owner's 4 line rubber stamp on ffep, Binding tight with foreword lean, pages clean and unmarked, text foredge with fingerprint sized smudge, black cloth and lettered spine an easy VG. 5.8" x 8.5" boards. Unclipped DJ, with only slight edgewear, in protector. Size: Small Octavo.

Seller Inventory # 007565

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Table of Contents
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374272417
• ISBN 13: 9780374272418
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • ESSAYS
  • LITERATURE

About this title

Synopsis

In eight pieces of highly varying length written between 1981 and 1984, McPhee describes the arrival of telephones in a village near the Arctic Circle, the migrations to New Jersey of wild bears seeking a better life, a day with Senator Bill Bradley, and more

About the Author

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.