Basin Range, Signed (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Vol 5, No 3, Pt 2, pp. A85-A98, Illus, Orig Author's Offprint, VG (Inscribed by Author). Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Kemper, John (illustrator). Small coffee stain, bottom near spine of first few pages, small crease to top front corner. Expedited or International shipping may cost more. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. SIGNED and inscribed by author on a bookplate affixed to half-title page. No stated edition, possible bookclub edition. Tan boards with black cloth spine. 216 pages.DJ price-clipped; sunning to spine Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Softcover. Condition: Near fine. First edition. Thirteenth printing, 1989. Inscribed on the title page: "For Dan, regards, John McPhee." Uncommon signed in paperback, especially this edition with the original cover and illustrated epoch endpapers. The third book in his quartet of geology books that surveyed America and ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize repackaged asAnnals of the Former World. This one tours Nevada. A very near fine, tight paperback with a few minor scratches to front wrap.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition/Stated 2nd Printing. SIGNED by author on a bookplate affixed to half-title page (signature only). Tan boards with black cloth spine. 216 pages. DJ price-clipped; two closed tears on rear top; mylar protected. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Association copy. First printing hardcover with an inscription on the half title: "For Murray Murphey, from LeAnna Whitman, and with all best, too, from a friend dating back to early geologic time. John McPhee." That's a fun bit of wit from McPhee, considering the book. LeAnna Whitman is John McPhee s sister-in-law (he is married to Yolanda Whitman), and Murray Murphey was a philosopher and historian at the University of Pennsylvania, where he pioneered and chaired the Department of American Civilization. Murphey and McPhee shared a fellowship year at Cambridge University in 1953-1954, which is likely when and where they became friends the "early geologic time" McPhee references. Murphey grew up in Colorado Springs and no doubt had an appreciation for Western geography and geology. He contributed, for example, an essay on John Wesley Powell's "The Exploration of the Colorado River" to the anthology Landmarks of American Writing--and a first edition hardcover of that anthology (ed. Hennig Cohen, Basic Book 1969) is included with this purchase. This copy of the Basin and Range is in very good condition, its only demerit some foxing to the page block, especially the top face, and some adjacent foxing to the top edges of the boards. The jacket is very good; the cover looks great with some faint sunning to spine and some foxing to top of back flap. No tears or chips. Basin and Range is of course the first installment of what would become McPhee's Pulitzer-prize-winning compilation Annals of the Former World.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 vols. 8.5 x 5.5", cloth, 216pp; 210pp, extremities lightly bumped and worn, spines sunned else nice copies in a nice pictorial slipcase. EACH BOOK IS LIMITED TO 450 COPIES (#45), EACH SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. BASIN AND RANGE IS A FIRST PRINTING.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. #111 of 450cc signed by McPhee in each volume. Slipcase just slightly rubbed, two tiny spots of wear to the cloth on the spine of volue one, else a very good set.