platt rutherford thomas costain (1 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First edition. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "To Ida & Tom Costain, with personal regards and best wishes, Rutherford Platt, September 1949." Uncommon signed. Opposite the author's inscription is another: "To Aunt Ida, with love, Phil, Christmas 1947." So the book was given to the recipients and Platt signed it a few years later. Thomas Bertram Costain was a Canadian-American journalist and the author of several dozen books of nonfiction and bestselling historical fiction. He was also an editor for Doubleday for a period in the 30s and 40s, and was the fiction editor forThe Saturday Evening Post for fourteen years. His papers are the Ransom Center at UT Austin. With a background in publishing and advertising, Rutherford Platt became keenly interested in the natural world and especially in nature photography after taking classes at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. His first book,This Green World,won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1945.This Flowering Worldis his second book and carries the reader through the epochs to see the evolution of plant communities across time: "The reader gazes, as through clearings in this mist, at prehistoric pageants of plants ." A large octavo or small quarto, green cloth, photographic endpapers (of a farm), black and white and color photos by Platt scattered throughout. With a "Books" for further reading section at end and an index. Very good with two shadows of tape residue on each board where the jacket was formerly held. The page with the non-authorial inscription also has a library discard stamp, and the title page with the blue ink stamp of the Mercantile Library of New York on 47th St, an embossed library stamp, and a catalog number written at center. Jacket is good with those same brown tape marks on the flaps and creasing/wear to edges, loss to upper and lower spine and to corners.