Nancy Newell Editor (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust jacket is missing, red cloth boards have minor wear, binding sound, front endpage has a gift inscription. For nearly seven decades, Jane Blaffer Owen was the driving force behind the restoration and revitalization of the town of New Harmony, Indiana. In this delightful memoir, Blaffer Owen describes the transformational effect the town had on her life. An oil heiress from Houston, she met and married Kenneth Dale Owen, great-great-grandson of Robert Owen, founder of a communal society in New Harmony. When she visited the then dilapidated town with her husband in 1941, it was love at first sight, and the story of her life and the life of the town became intertwined. Her engaging account of her journey to renew the town provides glimpses into New Harmony's past and all of its citizens?scientists, educators, and naturalists?whose influence spread far beyond the town limits. And there are fascinating stories of the artists, architects, and theologians who became part of Blaffer Owen's life at New Harmony, where, she says, "My roots could sink deeply and spread.".

paperback. Condition: Good. tight, uncreased spine, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, cover curl, corners bumped, ex-library copy with usual library markings and laminated cover, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.

Hardcover w/ Jacket. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. "This 10.5 x 13.75 inch, 93 page hardcover book with dust jacket is the 1960 printing of this title by the Sierra Club. This copy has the book in fine condition with a near fine dust wrapper. The brown cloth covers with silver lettering on front panel and spine show virtually no wear and the interior text pages again are in fine condition with just a touch of handling wear showing. The black-and-white photographs, with accompanying word poetry and description, all portray the Sierra Club's development of its Exhibit Format Series, which really "set the table" for the coffee-table-style pictorial book that today is very common. Ansel Adams provides the three-page forward about the life of Cedric Wright, mountain rambler and photographer who was a mainstay of Sierra Club activism. The dust wrapper does show some wear and one one-inch blue mark on the front panel and some spots on the rear panel but overall the wrapper is again near fine with only a touch of edge and folding wear showing. The wrapper is now protected by a mylar cover. The large inside wrapper flaps show a written piece by David Brower, who would soon become one of the most prominent American environmentalists and the rear flap shows advertising for another exhibit format series book. 93 pages.".