Between Cattails
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985. Peter Parnall. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Slim square octavo [26 cm] Pale green cloth-effect paper over boards, with a black ink stamped title on the spine, and a vignette in black on the front board. Numerous notations and scribbles on front cover imprinted in blind. Light soiling to boards. 1/2" tear to head of backstrip. Internally clean and bright. No dust jacket. Good. Item #71495
ISBN: 0684183099
The Utah naturalist author's scarce second book. Signed by the author in her customary spot next to a Peter Parnall drawing of a marsh on the second page. First printing, with the complete number row down to one. Beautifully illustrated by Peter Parnall, who was also the illustrator for Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire. A juvenile title about life in the Bear River Migratory Bird refuge, a freshwater marsh on the shores of the Great Salt lake in Utah.
Price: $75.00