Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner, First Edition (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st printing. GOOD only copy, worn. Unmarked copy. rubbed through at lower edges, cloth fray at spine ends. Quarter cloth binding. Map endpapers. 582pp. Jacket has chips and wear; now in a new mylar cover. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. In black boards with black spine cloth and dulled copper foil to type on spine. Bottom corners bumped with rubbing through paper, lesser ding to top front corner. Fading to bottoms of boards. Moisture stain to heel of spine at rear board and very bottom of pages at rear hinge for last 25 pages or so. Jacket is unclipped ($22.95)with edgewear/nicks with some short tears to head of spine, small spot of lamination lift with tear at heel of spine and moisture stain to inside bottom of jacket spine. 1st Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "First published in 1986 by Viking Penguin Inc." stated with no other printing statement is the 1st edition/1st printing, light soiling/dusting to edges of text block - uneven fading to boards and spine - corners of boards bumped - a former owners name and year date inked to upper right of half title page, dj now enclosed in mylar wrap shows edge wear with - 1/8" & 1/4" tears along top edge and 3/16: tear to bottom left edge of front panel - 1/4" tear to top right edge with 1/8" and two 3/8" tears along bottom edge of rear panel - small chip to top of fold rear panel to flap - vertical crease to rear flap - vertical crease to spine - small chip with further 1/4" tear to top of fold front panel to flap - original price intact, illustrated with black & white photographs and maps to front/rear end papers.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Account of the rivalry between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers and its impact on the ecology & culture of the American west though planning & placement of dams & other projects. Hardcover, as pictured; the first edition (first printing), noting no later printings. Light wear to book, minor water stain at base of spine; jacket shows minor edgewear, light chipping & creasing, $22.95 price intact; light foxing to page edges. Text clean; viii, [2], 582 pages; index, notes & bibliography, b/w photos, map endsheets. Size: Large Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. A First Edition, First Printing. A fine book in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner blind stamp on bottom corner of first end paper. A couple of short creases to the top of the dust jacket spine that have been taped on the inside of the jacket. Price of $22.95 present on front flap. All in all a lovely copy of this bulky book. This was Reisner's seminal work on water, irrigation and development of the American West. An important look at the politics and economics of water development in the arid Western United States, even more important as climate change alters the landscape and water resources. First printings have become uncommon.

First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on half-title page. Large 8vo. 582 pp. Bibliography; Index. Photo-reproductions. A fine copy of an important work on the origins and disappearing water in the Western United States. A social history of the politics of water in the United States and the environmental destruction wreaked by dams. "Cadillac Desert details the powerful and sometimes baleful influence the Bureau of Reclamation has had on the West - pushing it inexorably toward an edge from which, sooner or later, it is bound to fall off. A long book, packed with facts, Cadillac Desert is not going to be bedside reading for the millions; but millions ought to read it, because in its pages is visible the shape of a future that we have stubbornly refused to foresee." - Wallace Stegner. The book is on the Modern Library list of the 100 most important non-fiction books of the twentieth century.