Nature's Metropolis; Chicago and the Great West

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First printing, large octavo size, 530 pp. 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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