John Mcphee

(J. McPhee) Padilla, Parsons & Arellano, Carmella, Jack & Juan Estevan: Low 'n Slow. Lowriding in New Mexico. 1999. Cloth with dustjacket. John McPhee's Copy. Inscribed to John McPhee by Carmella Padilla with Greeting Card to John McPhee from Carmella Padilla.

Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press. 1999. First edition. Large quarto. Silver decorated black cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket. This copy is from the library of author, John McPhee, and has been inscribed to him by author, Carmella Padilla, on the lower front fly in black ink "For John McPhee/With admiration and respect,/Happy Lowriding!/Best wishes,/Carmella Padilla".Additionally laid in is a greeting card from author ,Carmella Padilla to author John McPhee dated in the year of publication which reads "Dear Mr. McPhee/What a thrill it was to receive/your recent note, and especially, to/ hear this week's news of your Pulitzer./Congratulations! Needless to say, it's/well-deserved and long overdue./I am so happy that you enjoyed 'The Chile Chronicles', particularly because/ 'Oranges' was very inspirational to me in/writing the book, as all of your writing has/been to my work in general. Thank you/for showing the world that non-fiction/can be just as creative and absorbing as/fiction./Enclosed is a copy of my new book on/the lowriding phenomenon of New Mexico, which/was released earlier this month. I hope you/enjoy it, too. I am now beginning work/on a much more personal project, an/account of my 18-year experience/with lupus. This little-known but much-/too-common autoimune disease has/defined much of my life, but I have/never written about it before. It's time/now for me to do so./Speaking of health, I hope your/shoulder is on the mend and that you/are back on your bicycle again. I/also hope that your writing continues to go well./Best Wishes,/Carmella Padilla". A mavelous copy of this wonderful book profusely illustrated with photographs by Jack Parsons.

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John A. McPhee: The John McPhee Reader, Random House ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 0394727339

PAPERBACK Very Good 0394727339 Review\nThe most versatile journalist in America.-Edward Hoagland, The New York Times Book Review\n\nFor those who are familiar with his work in its original form, this collection reaffirms just how good McPhee is at what he does. For those who aren't, it provides a solid introduction to his versatility . . . We become privy to the widening dimensions of his reportial domain-a landscape fertile and diverse enough to accommodate hybrid flying machines as gracefully as it does oranges, one that can appreciate the skills of a gragline operator as much as those of a theoretical physicist. Plant something in this landscape and it will most assuredly thrive.-J. N. Silverman, The Washington Star\n\nWhat makes a piece of John McPhee's reportage so reliably superior? . . . Most obviously, he finds interesting things to write about . . . Then there us his facility for dreaming up odd and out-of-the-way approaches to his subjects . . . Add to this his knack for illustrating with amusing anecdotes . . . And there you have an approximate John McPhee recipe, lacking only the dramatic confrontations, the interesting characters, and the unusual vantage points, which I neglected to mention.-Christopher Lehmann, The New York Times \n--This text refers to the Paperback edition. \n\nBook Description\nThe John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author's first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit, who has been called a master craftsman so many times that it is pointless to number them.

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McPhee, John: The Headmaster Frank L. Boyden, of Deerfield, Farrar Straus, 1966

First printing ,Close to fine and bright in near fine dustjacket with crisp text throughout. Illustrated with photographs. An attractive copy. Slipped in handwritten letter from John McPhee, undated on The New Yorker stationary. Envelope postmarked March 1988 and fully signed by John McPhee "Regards, John McPhee".

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McPhee, John . THE SECOND JOHN MCPHEE READER . 1996 .
McPhee, John. THE SECOND JOHN MCPHEE READER. NY: HarperCollins, c1996. first edition. 394pp. 8vo. fine bright looks unread trade paperback11.00 .

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