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The night country / Loren Eiseley ; Illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher.

Van Pelt Library QH81 .E6
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Literary Award QH81 .E6 1971
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Charles Lee Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Fisher, Leonard Everett, illustrator.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Nature.
Natural history.
Genre:
Essays.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Miller, Joan (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Nin, Anais, 1903-1977 (inscription) (stamp) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Hugo, 1898-1985 (stamp) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Lee, Ruth Sara (donor) (Lee Collection copy)
Lee, Charles, 1913- (autograph) (Lee Collection copy)
Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977 (autograph) (Lee Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Scribner, 1971.
Contents:
The gold wheel.
The places below.
Big eyes and small eyes.
Instruments of darkness.
The chresmologue.
Paw marks and buried towns.
Barbed wire and brown skulls.
The relic men.
Strangeness in the proportion.
The creature from the marsh.
One night's dying.
Obituary of a bone hunter.
The mind as nature.
The brown wasps.
Bibliography: (p. 239-240).
Bibliography: (p. 239-240)
Notes:
Essays.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-240).
Local Notes:
Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket (torn at front) retained. Inscription ("For Anais Nin with love and admiration Joan Miller January, 1972.") on front flyleaf. With stamp ("From the Library of Anais Nin and Ian Hugo").
Penn Libraries Lee Collection copy has autograph of Charles Lee dated 1971 and inscription ("For David Levy with the very best wishes of Loren Eiseley. [In red below] Note! Absent-minded Professor Eiseley autographs this one to the wrong twin! Dec. '72!"). Dust jacket retained. Laid in are newspaper photo of the author; review of work from Life Magazine; and a science piece from Time Magazine about the stars as life's origin (December 1976).
Athenaeum copy: Literary Award copy: gift, Mrs. R.A. Ballinger.
ISBN:
0684125684
OCLC:
208432

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