John Macrae Editor (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing. The binding is clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Faint soiling to leading edge. Text is unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light creasing to front flap, in a mylar cover. 400pp.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cloth. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Great color photos. Small smiley face stamped on front endpaper. Otherwise, overall, in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Price clipped dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Henry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1995. Second (2nd) Printing (number line to 2) of the "First Edition - 1995" (stated). Fine in an As New Dust Jacket. Appears Unread. The Text Block is clean, white, quite tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is black quarter cloth to gray boards, colors uniform throughout, with bright silver title, etc., to the spine, unmarked white endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The Dust Jacket is flawless - bright and intact with the original prices (USA $25.00, Canada $35.00) intact on the front flap. See photos. xii + 400 pages. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". Published six years after his death, this is a collection of the author's writings of every style and every period of his life. Edited by John Macrae. ISBN 10: 0805031324 / ISBN 13: 9780805031324.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Eliot Porter (Photographer) (illustrator). First Edition, First Pinting. Text/BRAND NEW. Gilt embossed maroon linen boards w/pictorial pastedown/Fine. DJ/None. Front endpaper removed. Melding of the wordless-visual and the literary all prose-and-poetry to create a human and natural history of North America --- bringing together of the landscapes of Eliot Porter (1901 - 1990) who taught himself how to photograph, with musings of historian and 'dean of American Western writers' Wallace Stegner (1909 - 1993), and his son and heir, Page Stegner (1937 - ). What is heritage is in these United States but the bringing together of human endeavors with that which nature bestowed, and how one influenced the other.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Eliot Porter (Photographs) (illustrator). First Edition. 224 pp. Original tan cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Spine ends and corners of front cover bumped. Edges of leaves age toned. DJ lightly soiled w/ mild edge wear. Faint sunning to edges. Price clipped. Illust. w/ 89 dazzling color photos taken especially for the book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Porter, Eliot - Photographer (illustrator). Hardcover Reprint. Folio. 224 pp, illus. with 89 color plates. Edited by John Macrae. Price clipped. Only the slightest wear to dj with lightly age-toned text block, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 10.5" x 12.25". Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dj in acetate protector. "An informative text by the distinguished novelist complements a collection of photographs of the American landscape in a work that depicts all aspects of American life from the Rocky Mountains to the state of Maine." Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Eliot Porter (photographs) (illustrator). 3rd Printing. Inscribed by Wallace Stegner on the half-title page. 224 pp., illustrated with color Plates by the noted landscape photographer Eliot Porter. No int'l shipping due to weight. Fine in a Near Fine price-clipped DJ (some fading to spine). Inscribed by the Artist.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Eliot Porter (Photographer) (illustrator). First Edition, 3rd Printing. Text/BRAND NEW. Sienna-brown linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/NF; price-slipped, else fine. Gift inscription to front endpaper. A study of how the American people and the American land have interacted. The story is told through photographs (89 plates) of Eliot Poter (1901 - 1990) and the prose of Wallace Earle Stegner (1909 - 1993), author of The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943) and Angle of Repose (1971, Pulitzer Prize), and his writer, novelist, and historian son Page Stegner (1937 -). The chapters and photographs can be construed as "illustrating a stage in the process of adaptation and naturalization). Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 13 are written by Wallace Stegner; chapters 9-12 are by Page Stegner. Chapter 14 is jointly written by father and son.

Hardback. 1981, First edition, first printing. A very good copy only marked by light age tanning of the edges and a gift inscription on the front free endpaper. The d/w is also very good with light edge rubbing and light tanning on the spine.