American Places (Eliot Porter) (First Edition)

Stegner, Wallace; Page Stegner; Eliot Porter

ISBN 10: 0517413612 / ISBN 13: 9780517413616

Published by Greenwich House / Crown, New York, 1993

About this Item

First edition, first printing (with A in letter line). Porter, Eliot - Photographer (illustrator). Hardcover Folio. 224 pp, illus. with 89 color plates. Edited by John Macrae. Price clipped. Fine in a fine jacket, with slightest wear to dj with lightly age-toned spine. . No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 10.5" x 12.25". Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial dj . 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.

Seller Inventory # F4700Q-Photography

Bibliographic Details

• Title: American Places (Eliot Porter) (First Edition)
• Publisher: Greenwich House / Crown, New York
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0517413612
• ISBN 13: 9780517413616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

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Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

"This book is an attempt, by sampling, to say something about how the American people and the American land have interacted, how they have shaped one another; what patterns of life, with what chances of continuity, have arisen out of the confrontations between an unformed society and a virgin continent. Perhaps it is less a book about the American land than some ruminations about the making of America. . . . We are the unfinished product of a long becoming."
—from American Places

"The text by the Stegners is precise, to the point, packed with useful information and infused with that love for our land and its honest workers which is the highest form (perhaps the only form) of patriotism."
—Edward Abbey