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Published by A John Macrae Book / Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1999
ISBN 10: 0805062203ISBN 13: 9780805062205
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. jacket photograph by Gary Isaacs (illustrator). 1st Edition. States "First edition 1999." Number line complete 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 -- the first printing. Boards resist opening past 60 degrees -- "as new," although with black remainder marks to both top and bottom page edges. Galvin, a poet, divides his time between Iowa City, where he teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and his ranch near The Siding, Wyoming. In this offering, a real estate hustler sells the dream of owning 40 acres with mountain views, without mentioning water or mineral rights, or the fact the properties are inaccessible in the winter when it snows. Irrigation ditches maintained for a hundred years to make land fertile are abandoned when it becomes uneconomical to produce hay on such small parcels -- whereupon the wetlands dry out and the soil blows away. 258 pp.