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THE DAY THE FALLS STOOD STILL.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Hyperion, (2009.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Canadian author's first novel set in 1915, against the backdrop of the Niagara Falls, during the Great War and at the dawn of the hydroelectric age.Illustrated with vintage photographs. 305 pp. ISBN: 1401340970.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 56831More details Price: $18.00 -
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985.) dj. Hardcover - A selection of 8 shorter pieces, originally published, as most of McPhee's work has been, in the New Yorker. They range from descriptions of the arrival of telephones in a small village in the Artic to the arrival of bears in New Jersey. Included is one of his best known pieces on the family practice medical speciality 'Heirs of General Practice' and the story of another John McPhee, a bush-pilot, writer and fish-and-game warden in northern Maine. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-374-272417.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 36790More details Price: $12.50 -
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A selection of 8 shorter pieces, originally published, as most of McPhee's work has been, in the New Yorker. They range from descriptions of the arrival of telephones in a small village in the Artic to the arrival of bears in New Jersey. Included is one of his best known pieces on the family practice medical speciality 'Heirs of General Practice' and the story of another John McPhee, a bush-pilot, writer and fish-and-game warden in northern Maine. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-374-272417.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (gift inscription, short tear at fold of dj flap)
Book ID: 38201More details Price: $17.50
