The Continent in Our Hands (signed)
NY: William Morrow & Company, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page in blue ink: "For Louise D-- [sp?], To whom, with her husband, I am glad to say that my books owe much. With all good wishes, Charlton Ogburn, July 1985." An apparent association copy, possibly a good one as suggested by the inscription, but unfortunately we can't make out the last name of the recipient. Uncommon signed in any case. Ogburn won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1967 for The Winter Beach, his tour of the Atlantic Shore, and here he travels in the same "little camping bus" across the country to survey its landscape and natural history in the tradition of Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher's Wild America (1953). Green paper boards, blue cloth spine, topographical map endpapers, blue topstain. A very good book on account of a bump and resulting slight interior tear to upper front board near spine; in a very good jacket with a short tear in that same spot, light rubbing to edges, and wear to spine ends.
. Very good / Very good. Item #918
ISBN: 9780688027858
Price: $275.00 save 5% $261.25