Hill Country Harvest (signed)
NY: Lippincott, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Borland on the half-title page. Uncommon signed. A book that "invites the reader to spend a year in New England with an observer who makes the countryside stimulate the senses," it won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1968.
Hal Borland (see his NYT obit) was a prominent mid-century nature writer who grew up in Colorado and ended up writing especially about rural life and ecology in Connecticut by way time working in publishing in New York City. His papers are held at Yale's Beinecke Library along with those of his second wife, the writer Barbara Dodge Borland. He is known especially for his attention to phenology and the seasons, a passion of so many nature writers.
A very good book with some light soiling, fading to spine, and bumping to lower spine. Previous owner's signature at top of half-title page. A first printing book, but with what is apparently a replacement jacket as it reads "Second Printing." Jacket is price-clipped, very good with rubbing and edge wear
. Very good / Very good. Item #1347
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