Nature's Metropolis; Chicago and the Great West
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (1991). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, large octavo size, 530 pp. Fine / near fine. Item #CNJL2529
William Cronon (b. 1954) has earned multiple degrees and garnered multiple awards. This book, "Nature's Metropolis", won "the 1992 Bancroft Prize, the 1993 George Perkins Marsh Prize, and was a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for History" (n.b., per Wiki).
___DESCRIPTION: Bound in half red cloth over blue paper-covered boards, gilt lettering stamped on the spine, map endpapers, some maps and reprints of black-and-white photographs throughout, with extensive Notes, Bibliography and Index at the rear; large octavo size (9 1/2" by 6 1/4"), 530 pp. In publisher's wrap-around pictorial dust jacket with summary and review blurbs on the both flaps and short author bio on back flap.
___CONDITION: Volume fine; dust jacket near fine, clean with light wear at the head of the spine.
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Price: $125.00