A Walk Through the Year (with handwritten notecard about chickadees)
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1978. Hardcover.
Not signed, but taped to the front free endpaper is an envelope with a small notecard written and sent by Teale. It reads in full: "February 5, 1979, Dear Mrs. Ahlefeld--Thank you for your letter about my books--especially "A Walk Through The Year." I am much interested in your seeing vapor coming from the mouth of so small a bird as a chickadee. I am sure you were helped by seeing the bird against a dark background. I have watch our chickadees here and have never seen any sign of the vapor. But our temperatures are usually above zero. Sincerely, Edwin Way Teale." A charming discussion of ornithological minutia. On the card's front is is an illustration of a teasel and fleabane. The envelope is printed with Teale's Trail Wood address, and just above it the recipient has written a received date tidily in pen on the endpaper. In the tradition of Thoreau, this book chronicles Teale's daily walks from his cottage at Trail Wood in Connecticut on seven different paths and is written in dated entries; it's described as the "companion volume" to his A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm. Near fine in brown cloth except for a tear to the front pastedown, perhaps due the adjacent tape, thus very good. In a very good jacket with sunning to spine and a few nicks and short tears to upper edge and spine crown
. Very good / Very good. Item #2043ISBN: 9780396076216
Price: $375.00 save 5% $356.25