The Bay: A Naturalist discovers a universe of life above and below the Chesapeake (signed)
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Third printing, 1952, the year after first publication. Signed by Klingel on the front free endpaper. Uncommon signed, and this Dodd, Mead hardcover edition seemingly uncommon or scarce in general. Glowing blurbs by Rachel Carson, Edwin Way Teale, Helen Cruickshank, and N.J. Berrill. This book won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1953 (the year after Rachel Carson won it for The Sea Around Us). Green cloth with blue top stain. A very good book with clean cloth boards, gently rubbed at edges, and faint foxing to outer text block edge and FFEP. Bookplate belonging to J Benton Schaub also on FFEP below Klingel's signature. In a very good jacket with edge wear and very short tears at spine corners. Very good / Very good. Item #952
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