Description: Beatrice Potter by Linda Lear SIGNED - Scarce Signature by Lear.1st Edition - 5th Printing: see photo of copyright pageLaid in pamphlet on the Beatrix Potter SocietyLaid in article (Wall Street Journal - 2022 Dust Jacket Now Protected by a Brodart CoverHeavy Book - 584 Pages Please see pictures for more information and detail *****The book is in Very good condition. Bumping on the bottom 2 corners. The writing inside the front and back cover is the facsimile picture of Beatrix Potter writing on stationary from her Bolton Gardens address. There is an unused bookplate on 1/2 title page. The dust jacket is in very good condition. Light edge wear to jacket. The book is very tight and there are no remainder marks, not ex-library. Any issues have been reflected in the pricing. Bookends are not included. Please see pictures for more information and detail. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Linda Jane Lear (born February 16, 1940) is an American historian of science and biographer. She has also worked for the United States Senate, and held a position on the board of directors of Connecticut College,[1] of which she is a Trustee Emeritus. Lear has also been active as a Senior Smithsonian Research Associate, a Beinecke Fellow, and a Senior Research Scholar in History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Lear married John Nichol in 1974, and is the mother of one son. She is a resident of Bethesda, Maryland and Charleston, South Carolina. She is an amateur horticulturist and collector of botanical art.Lear developed an interest in Rachel Carson while teaching environmental history in the 1970s. She conducted over 300 interviews over 15 years, eventually meeting Carson's former assistant, Shirley Briggs, and editor, Paul Brooks. She published her biography Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature in 1997; two years later it received the Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize from the History of Science Society. She has continued to write extensively on Carson, contributing introductions to a variety of new editions of her works and editing her unpublished writings for publication. Lear is also the author of a biography of Beatrix Potter, titled Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature, published in 2007; it has received various awards. Lear's archival materials on Carson and Potter are held by the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Archives at Connecticut College, established in 2008. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please feel free to contact me with any questions you might have. I will be glad to take additional pictures. I tried to describe the book through words and pictures the best I can but if you are not 100% satisfied with the purchase, please know you can return the book for full refund. Ships carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box. Will ship within 1 business day of receiving payment. Thank you for looking!
Price: 99.5 USD
Location: Okatie, South Carolina
End Time: 2024-11-17T15:21:37.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6.35 USD
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated, Inscribed, SIGNED by LINDA LEAR
Author: Linda Lear
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Topic: Biography
Subject: Biography & Autobiography
