Alaska: Images of the Country
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1981. Hardcover. Quarto, 145 pp. Illustrated. Signed by Rowell. Text from "Coming Into The Country." Photographs by Galen Rowell.
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Basin and Range
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition.
Coming Into the Country
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo., 438 pp. McPhee's very popular look at Alaska. The book was originally published as a long, three-part essay in The New Yorker. Considered his most ambitious effort to that date, preceding the geological work Annals of the Former World. [1998]...
Coming Into the Country
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. Hardcover. 8vo., 438 pp. McPhee's very popular look at Alaska. The book was originally published as a long, three-part essay in The New Yorker. Considered his most ambitious effort to that date, preceding the geological work Annals of the Former World. [1998].
The Crofter and the Laird
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Price-clipped dust jacket has a few vertical irregularities on the front panel.
The Crofter and the Laird
London: Angus and Robertson, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition.
The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the half title page to a fellow Princeton alum: "To xx/A Princeton Story/all best/John McPhee" A nice association copy.
Giving Good Weight
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. The five pieces in this collection were written between 1975 and 1979 following his celebrated bestselling work "Coming to the Country." In a very lightly rubbed dust jacket.
Giving Good Weight
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. The five pieces in this collection were written between 1975 and 1979 following his celebrated bestselling work "Coming to the Country."
Giving Good Weight
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Inscribed by the author on the half title page: "For Bing Swain/All Best/John McPhee." A nice association copy. The five pieces in this collection were written between 1975 and 1979 following his celebrated bestselling work "Coming to the Country.".....
Giving Good Weight
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. Hardcover. 8vo., 261 pp. The five pieces in this collection were written between 1975 and 1979 following his celebrated bestselling work Coming to the Country.
Giving Good Weight
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. Hardcover. 8vo. The five pieces in this collection were written between 1975 and 1979 following his celebrated bestselling work 'Coming to the Country.'.
In Suspect Terrain
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo., 210 pp. Dust jacket with color painting of the "Delaware Water Gap" by George Innes [1859], colored geological era charts for endpapers. The author's [16] sixteenth book and the second in his geological series of books. McPhee draws on the expertise.....
Irons in the Fire
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover.
Irons in the Fire
Farrar, Straus & Giroux: New York, 1997. Hardcover. 216 pp. 8vo. Collection of essays.
La Place de la Concorde Suisse
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket has a few wrinkles on the front panel.
La Place de la Concorde Suisse
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition.
La Place de la Concorde Suisse
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Lt. Col. J.F. Swain, USMCR/with a crisp Alpine salute/and all best/John McPhee/10/27/84." A nice association copy.
Levels of the Game
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 150 pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "For H_____/With best wishes/John McPhee." In a price-clipped dust jacket which has a short closed tear and some creasing on the lower rear panel. Very uncommon title, especially signed.....
Pieces of the Frame
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., One of the scarcer collections of McPhee's essays presents 11 chapters on rural Georgia, the game of Monopoly, travel and culture of Scotland and England and high stakes horse racing in the high desert. Inscribed "For Jonathan Swain/regards/John McPhee.".....
The Pine Barrens
New York: Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 1988. Softcover. 8vo., 157 pp. Later print.
The Pine Barrens
New York: Ballantine, 1976. Softcover. Small 8vo. Later print. Early McPhee title.
The Ransom of Russian Art
New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition.
Rising from the Plains
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Inscribed by the author on the half title page: "For Bing Swain/All Best/John McPhee." In a fine, price-clipped dust jacket. A nice association copy.
A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of Bill Bradley at Princeton
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. Softcover. 8vo., 144 pp. plus approx. 50 pp. of photos plus 1978 Addenda. Trade paperback. Second edition, later 1988 print of the FSG softcover edition, McPhee's second book. Title page title is: 'A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of William Warren.....