Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1928. White, Ruth Taylor (illustrator). First edition. Hardcover. Second edition, August 1929 (18 months after first publication). Inscribed on the half-title page in blue ink: "For Sir Byron Bailey, a great eastern Westerner, with admiration, appreciation, and warm regards, Horace Albright." Uncommon signed. With a......
NY: Praeger Publishers, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to no recipient in a green pen (a nice touch) on the front free endpaper: "Best wishes, Judd Alexander." Alexander is described as a "businessman-environmentalist," and here he takes a look at the problem of waste from the perspective of someone who.....
Boston: Beacon Press, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Appleman on the front free endpaper: "For Don & Mary Alice, fondly -- Phil." Uncommon signed, and uncommon in hardcover in general. A book about the specter of overpopulation that predates Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb by three years and seems likely.....
NY: Franklin Watts, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Bancroft and located at "Sanibel-Captiva," the islands on the Gulf Coast of Florida where he lived and worked as a writer and nature guide after a career in journalism. With the owl-illustration bookplate on the pastedown of.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed to Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall, on the front free endpaper: "To Jimbo--after all these years. Russell." His third novel, which, as the title suggests, journeys to Jamaica and sinks into the island's culture. Banks was twice.....
NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. A biography of John Burroughs in two volumes. Neither is signed, but laid into volume one is a one-page autographed letter signed (ALS) from Clara Barrus, John Burrough's close companion and the steward of his legacy as first assistant and then literary executor.....
NY: W.W. Norton, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. A softcover advanced uncorrected proof inscribed in the year of publication on the half-title page: "For Marc -- Thanks! Sorry we missed you -- Best, Rick Bass, Oxford 1989." Uncommon for being a signed proof. We suspect Marc is another writer, but aren't.....
NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the half-title page in the year of publication: "For Marc -- Best of luck and wishes -- Best, Rick Bass, Oxford '89." Uncommon for also being inscribed by the book's dedicatee and illustrator, Bass's then-wife, with a separate pen: "For Marc.....
NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the blank following the title page in a blue pen: "To Dr. Raymond Hockey [sp?], from Will Beebe, with warm regards." Uncommon signed. Beebe was a preeminent and fascinating naturalist-writer, known especially for the far-flung ocean expeditions he conducted for the.....
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing. Signed and dated in a shaky hand on the half-title page: "Thomas Berry, 04-03-09." Uncommon or scarce signed, as are books by Berry generally. Edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker. Thomas Berry (see his New York Times obit) was a......
NY: Rinehart & Co., 1949. First thus. Hardcover. First printing of this 20th anniversary edition. Inscribed by Beston in blue ink on the front free endpaper: "For Dr. Thomas Makerwirth [sp?] with the warm good wishes of the author, Henry Beston." A classic of nature writing. Seeking solace and purpose.....
Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. From the Texas Folklore Series. An association copy, inscribed on the pastedown: " With warmest regards and gratitude to Wallace Stegner, from one fo the authors, Howard C. Key." With the Ex Libris bookplate of Page Stegner, Wallace Stegner's son who.....
NY: St. Martins Press, Various. First edition. Hardcover. Five Montana Mysteries featuring Gabriel Du Pré by Peter Bowen, all inscribed to Jim Harrison and his wife. Like Harrison, Bowen lived in Livingston, MT. All hardcover except Bitter Creek which is in wraps (and features a blurb on its front wrap by.....
NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Campbell. Uncommon signed. A book about the Antarctic Peninsula in particular and about the scientists working at the Brazilian Research Station where Campbell spent three summers. It won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing.....
NY: Knopf, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed to novelist Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall, and his wife: "May '97, For Jim & Linda, Thanks for the doves, the quail, the good times where you can feel the elbow of a friend (as the Russians say). Phil.....
NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed to novelist Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall: "To Jim, best and thanks, Philip Caputo." Caputo won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting and is best known for his nonfiction book A Rumor of War about Vietnam. This novel is.....
NY: Knopf, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Wallace Stegner's copy, with his ownership signature in red on the flyleaf. This is Cather's final novel, described as "her most intense fictional engagement with political and personal conflict. Set in Cather’s Virginia birthplace in 1856, the novel draws on family and local history.....
Boston: Faber & Faber, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed to Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall, and his wife on the title page: "For Jim- - Linda -- this Midwestern saga with love to good neighbors., Laura." Chester and the Harrisons were neighbors in Patagonia, Arizona.....
Random House, New York, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Second printing before publication, inscribed handsomely on the front free endpaper: "For Cate Hymn, Co-worker on tomorrow's winds. Cordially, Walter Van Tilburg Clark." A very good book, in great shape except for a little browning on the pastedowns along the hinges. In.....
NY: Random House, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Alice Bronsdon -- a valued colleague, with the best wishes of, Barry Commoner." Uncommon signed. Bronsdon and Commoner were co-authors on at least several papers on environmental mutagens (see this paper, for example).....
NY: Random House, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Alice Bronsdon -- with the very good wishes of -- Barry Commoner." Uncommon signed. Bronsdon and Commoner were colleagues and co-authors on at least several papers on environmental mutagens (see this paper, for.....
NY: Doubleday & Co, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing. Inscribed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau on the half-title page in his usual upper left location: "To the Guarinos, JY Cousteau." Scarce signed. A book that explores sharks via encounters while on the Calypso, Cousteau's famous research vessel. The book is co-authored with his.....
NY: William Morrow & Company, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Fourth printing. A Morrow Junior Book. Signed on the front free endpaper: "For Judy and Jeff -- with love, Lois, in happy memory of a wedding that was yesterday, August 21st 1983, and in anticipation of one to be." Uncommon signed.....
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1961. Inscribed on the title page and signed by both author-illustrators: "For all the Cooks, from Lois and Louis." The main inscription looks to be in Lois's hand. Uncommon signed, and an uncommon book in general, scarce in dust jacket. . Lois and Louis Darling are.....
Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the half title page to da la Valdene's good friend and hunting partner Jim Harrison and his wife: "For Jim and Linda, with love, Guy, 2003." Uncommon signed. His only novel.....