Description: Two (2) books by the nature writer Joseph Wood Krutch. 1. The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch. William Morrow & Company, New York. 1969. 384 pages. 5 1/4 by 8 1/2 inches. "Joseph Wood Krutch has rightly be acclaimed as the latter-day Thoreau; for in the past twenty-off years, starting with The Twelve Seasons, he has enriched American culture with a lavish gift of books on the natural wonders, great and small, of the continent." - excerpt from the front dust jacket flap. Sample contents: New England and the Desert / The Day of the Peepers / The Miracle of Grass / The Mouse That Never Drinks / Don't Expect Too Much From a Frog / The Vandal and the Sportsman / Man's Place in Nature / Dam Grand Canyon / Conservation is Not Enough. Condition: The binding is so tight it suggests the book was never opened for reading. The dust jacket looks good, but shows some wear and tear at the top edge. The publisher's price is intact on the front flap. There is a penciled price mark on the first free endpaper. The inside pages are clean and bright. 2. If You Don't Mind My Saying so. Essays on Man & Nature. William Sloan Associates, New York. 1964. 402 pages. 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches. "Drama critic, teacher, naturalist, philosopher, man of letters - all these facets of Joseph Wood Krutch's distinguished career are represented in this thoughtful and though-provoking collection of fact and opinion about the modern world." - excerpt off the front dust jacket flap. Sample contents: We Need More Than More Facts / The European Visitor and the Good American / Cant, Candor, and the Class War / Novelists Know What Philosophers Don't / Confessions of a Square / Genius is Better than Talent / Miracles to Show Your Child / An Open Letter to George Bernard Shaw. Condition: The dust jacket is faded, and torn at the front top edge. The back is pretty well scuffed up. The publisher's price has been cut off. The inside of the jacket is faded. The orange hardcovers are clean and solid. The bottom corners are tipped. Inside the front cover is a penciled price mark. The inside pages are clean and bright. Thank you.
Price: 34.95 USD
Location: Temperance, Michigan
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Year Printed: 1969
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: Nature Writing
Binding: Hardcover
Region: North America
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
Subject: Essays
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Publisher: William Morrow AND Company
Place of Publication: New York
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket
