Cogill B (4 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. B. Cogill Haworth (illustrator). First Canadian Edition. 258 Pages Illus.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; ix, 182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ISBN 9780060119041, 0060119047 OCLC 5605032 ; LCCN 79002622 ; LC QK98.5.A1 H57 1980 Dewey 581.632 ; SIGNED presentation by author on the half-title ; grass green and brown cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; front and back endpapers excised ; justjacket soiled and chipped ; First published in 1980, Gather Ye Wild Things is not a field guide in the strictest sense but rather a meditation on some of the most common and useful plants in North America. The volume's fifty-two brief essays- each focusing on a particular species or subject during a season in which it is likely to come to the would-be gatherer's attention- touch on culinary, medicinal, and cosmetic uses for wildlings. ; Fifty-two brief essays, one for each week of the year, describe the numerous edible or otherwise useful things that are easily found outdoors - greens, roots, herbs, and wild nuts and berries ; Susan Tyler Hitchcock is a book editor for the National Geographic Society and the author of Geography of Religion: Where God Lives, Where Pilgrims Walk and Frankenstein: A Cultural History. Coy Barefoot teaches history at the University of Virginia in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies ; first appeared serially in The Albemarle Monthly ; FAIR/FAIR. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. B. Cogill Haworth (illustrator). 1st Edition. LeRossignol inscribed on the half-title page. Included with the book is a signed 2 page hand-written letter, on his Lincoln, Nebraska letterhead stationery, dated July 16, 1952. In it he mentions the nomination of Eisenhower & Nixon at the Republican convention. Gilt lettering on blue covers. 8vo, 258pp. Small chip to the lower spine end, corners bumped, and spine lightly sunned. Otherwise a tight, straight volume with no internal markings [other than the inscription]. Inscribed by Author(s).