[Signed] Countryman: A Summary of Belief (inscribed to his mother-in-law) Borland, Hal [Very Good] [Hardcover]

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Second printing in the year of publication. An association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ""For Grace Dodge, with my love, Hal Borland, 1965."" Grace Dodge is his mother-in-law--the mother of his second wife, the writer Barbara Dodge Borland. A book that is ""the author's summary of his philosophy of life, which has grown out of his long and profound intimacy with the natural world."" The book is dedicated to Barbara Dodge Borland. Hal Borland (seehisNYTobit) was a prominent mid-century nature writer who grew up in Colorado and ended up writing especially about rural life and ecology in Connecticut by way time working in publishing in New York City. He won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1968 forHill CountryHarvest, and his papers areheld at Yale's Beinecke Libraryalong with those of Barbara Dodge Borland. He is known especially for his attention to phenology and the seasons, a passion of so many nature writers. A very good copy in patterned paper board and green cloth. Some wear and fraying to cloth at top edge. Bumping to spines. In a very good jacket with loss to corners and spine ends, but the panels present very well. An excellent association.