Product Description
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Matilda Bargan, a good friend and staunch booster.
Leonard Dubkin.
" Uncommon signed.
An early work of urban nature writing: an account of the three years Dubkin and his daughter spent observing their small yard and its wildlife in Chicago.
Notable for including a child as a key observer and character when the usual pattern of nature writing, then and now, is largely to exclude the domestic and familial.
Dubkin was a journalist who became dedicated in his books to everyday nature in the Windy City; a small park in Chicago is named after him.
Patterned paper boards, red cloth spine, red top stain.
Near fine in with a little sunning/toning to board edges.
In a very good jacket with rubbing to edges, slight wear to corners, and one quarter-inch tear at top edge of front panel near spine.
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