Man Kind? Our Incredible War on Wildlife (signed)

Amory, Cleveland (signed)

ISBN 10: 087062279X / ISBN 13: 9780870622793

Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1979

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New York: Harper & Row, 1979. INSCRIBED / SIGNED twice by the AUTHOR directly on the front free endpaper. The first signature is just his first name after the inscription. Below that he has signed in full and dated "New York 1979." NOT a library discard. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket. The jacket is only lightly rubbed with two inadverent creases to its rear turn-in flap. NO chips or tears. NOT price clipped ($9.95). Square and tight. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Illustrated with 16 pages of b/w photographs, inserted. 1979. First Printing of the First Edition with complete number row, including the "1" on the final printed page (i.e. Harper's convention for designating their first editions at the time. SEE McBride's Guide to the Identification of First Editions.) Index. Bound in the original red cloth, stamped in white and yellow. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "The founder of The Fund for Animals cites examples of human cruelty to and exploitation of wildlife and calls attention to the immediate need for strong conservation measures.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xi, 372pp. + 16 pages of photos. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Man Kind? Our Incredible War on Wildlife (signed)
• Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
• Publication Date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 087062279X
• ISBN 13: 9780870622793
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: NOT a library discard
• Edition: First Printing of the First Edition.
• Condition: Fine condition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A local history of people, places, events, mines, railroads, and ranches, mostly in Lincoln and Clark counties, Nevada, with some coverage in California, Arizona, Utah, and northeastern Nevada. Locating map, 57 photos, index.

About the Author

The author grew up on a cattle ranch at Carp, Nevada, where his father, C.L. "Clint" Averett, was a pumper for the Union Pacific from 1924 to 1932, then a rancher at Carp and farther up the Rainbow Canyon; they moved to Caliente, Nevada, in 1944. Walter attended grade school at Carp and high school at Panaca, Nevada (Class of '45), then he attended the University of Nevada, Reno. He graduated with a B.S. in chemistry. His first job out of college was in the U.S. Bureau of Mines Oil-Shale Demonstration Plant at Rifle, Colorado, interrupted by service in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. After leaving Rifle in 1953, he lived in Boulder City and Las Vegas, Nevada, working as a shift chemist in a titanium plant and as an engineer on the atom bomb test program. His career as a chemist took him to Vicksburg, Miss.; Parkersburg, W.Va.; Hazleton, Pa.; and finally, in 1977, to Grand Junction, Colo., where he and his wife, Marjorie, live in retirement.

He wrote Sunday feature articles for the "Las Vegas Review-Journal" in 1958-59; he wrote and published two previous books, "Directory of Southern Nevada Place Names" (1962) and "Through the Rainbow Canyon" (1995); and he has edited five guidebooks for geologic field trips in Colorado and Utah.