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High Tide in Tucson (copy A of 26 lettered copies)
by Kingsolver, Barbara (signed)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060173971
- ISBN 13
- 9780060173975
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: HarperCollins, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. The signed edition in slipcase, copy A of 26 hors commerce lettered copies with 176 additional numbered copies. Her first collection of essays, exploring "themes of family, community, the common good and the natural world." The title essay, often anthologized, is about a hermit crab she accidentally carries from the Bahamas to Tucson. Kingsolver is a recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the novel Demon Copperhead and is well known for her writing about the natural world. A fine or very near fine book with maybe a touch of fade to the spine; in a near fine slipcase with some subtle scratching, but all and all excellent condition. Copy A.
Synopsis
"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans. In High Tide in Tucson, she returnsto her familiar themes of family, community, the common good and the natural world. The title essay considers Buster, a hermit crab that accidentally stows away on Kingsolver's return trip from the Bahamas to her desert home, and turns out to have manic-depressive tendencies. Buster is running around for all he's worth -- one can only presume it's high tide in Tucson. Kingsolver brings a moral vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects ranging from modern motherhood to the history of private property to the suspended citizenship of human beings in the Animal Kingdom. Beautifully packaged, with original illustrations by well-known illustrator Paul Mirocha, these wise lessons on the urgent business of being alive make it a perfect gift for Kingsolver's many fans.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1168
- Title
- High Tide in Tucson (copy A of 26 lettered copies)
- Author
- Kingsolver, Barbara (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060173971
- ISBN 13
- 9780060173975
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1995
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Rural Hours
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La Grande, Oregon
About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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