LEOPOLD, Aldo.

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There.

"A classic work of outdoor literature, rivaling Thoreau's Walden": First edition of Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac

New York: Oxford University Press, 1949.

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First edition, first issue of this landmark work in the conservation movement with silver gilt lettering to the cloth. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Charles W. Schwartz. Very good in the rare original first issue dust jacket with the $3.50 price and no mention of "Round River" on the back flap. The dust jacket is in good condition with chipping to the spine extremities. Small ownership stamps of Ed Schultz to the front free endpaper, top edge of the text block, and dedication page.

Published in 1949, shortly after the author's death, A Sand County Almanac is a classic of nature writing, widely cited as one of the most influential nature books ever published. Writing from the vantage of his summer shack along the banks of the Wisconsin River, Leopold mixes essay, polemic, and memoir in his book's pages. In one famous episode, he writes of killing a female wolf early in his career as a forest ranger, coming upon his victim just as she was dying, "in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes.... I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view." The book has had immense popular influence and has been described as: "one of the benchmark titles of the ecological movement", "a major influence on American attitudes toward our natural environment", "recognized as a classic piece of outdoor literature, rivaling Thoreau's Walden" (Don Meredith). Near fine in a good dust jacket with wear and tear.