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Donald Culross Peattie. Author's original typescript for An Almanac for Moderns. [1935].... (Total: 2 Items)
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Donald Culross Peattie. Author's original typescript for An Almanac for Moderns. [1935].435 pages, plus preliminaries (title and copyright pages, etc.), 4to. With the author's emendations throughout as sent to the printer. Housed in two quarter morocco folding cases.
THE AUTHOR'S ORIGINAL CORRECTED TYPESCRIPT OF HIS MOST FAMOUS BOOK. Containing approximately 250 authorial corrections and emendations in pencil throughout, plus numerous editorial and printers' corrections.
Donald Culross Peattie (1898-1964) was born in Chicago and grew up in the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, which sparked his interest in the immense wonders of nature. He studied at the University of Chicago and Harvard University. After working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he decided to pursue a career as a writer. He is considered one of the most influential American nature writers of the 20th century.
An Almanac for Moderns was published in 1935. The work contains a short essay for each day of the year that contemplates a unique but factual aspect of unbridled nature, providing bits of information of natural historical lore by an author who was both a writer and a scientist. Peattie has been called "America's most lyrical naturalist. He is in love with nature, and with the great naturalists as well--with Audubon above all... It does not invalidate the beauty of [Peattie's works] that they are grounded in a thorough scientific foundation" (Kunitz & Haycraft). An Almanac for Moderns received the gold medal of the Limited Editions Club.
Condition: Initial pages worn and soiled; some marginal wear and fraying; printer's stab holes in upper corner of each sheet; printers' inky fingerprints and handling evidence at the publishers throughout.
Provenance: H. Bradley Martin (his sale, Sotheby's New York, 14 June 1990, lot 3490 (part); purchased from James Cummins Bookseller, New York, 28 March 2000. From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2024 December 11 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part II, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6300 (go to Auction Home page)
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