Coming into the Country. By John McPhee. First Edition, First Printing. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. New York, 1977.

John McPhee is an American author whose creative nonfiction ranks among the best of the twentieth century. He has published dozens of book-length works. Their subjects range from sports to geology. His work is collectively known for its outstanding prose and elegant interweavings of scientific and historical facts into narratives. For his contributions, McPhee has earned a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and a Wallace Stegner Award. In Coming into the Country, McPhee presents some of his finest prose. It is a selection of three long essays about his travels in Alaska. It was a bestseller and one of McPhee’s most celebrated texts. In it, he captures the landscapes, environments, and cultural geographies of Alaska in spectacular detail.

This first edition, first printing is in about-fine condition. In the original cloth, about-fine with only fading and bumping to spine ends. Text block near-fine, only fading to bottom edge. In the original dust jacket, about-fine with only minor rubbing and bumping to edges, and minor soiling.

An about-fine first edition by John McPhee.