The Macmillan Company, New York, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page: "For Harriet and John Finucane, our friends, [from] Dorothy Noyes Arms, John Taylor Arms." An early memoir about fishing from a woman, uncommon signed. As the foreword says, "Since time immemorial fishing has been considered a......
NY: Knopf, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Inscribed for Marcia Clapp with love by Will Beebe." Marcia Clapp [DeRocco] was an artist who sculpted a stone bust of Beebe that's now held in his archives with the Wildlife Conservation Society. She later founded the Pocono.....
Simon & Schuster, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Richard Brautigan's personal copy, a specially-bound gift from the publisher, Simon & Schuster. The book is full morocco leather, a chocolate brown. Gilt-lettered spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers; top edge gilt. Very near fine: Upper corners lightly bumped, and one scratch to.....
Simon & Schuster, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Richard Brautigan's personal copy, a specially-bound gift from the publisher, Simon & Schuster. The book is full morocco leather, coffee brown. Gilt-lettered spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers; top edge gilt. Fine book even considering very mild bumps to top corners and a......
Simon & Schuster, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Richard Brautigan's personal copy, a specially-bound gift from the publisher, Simon & Schuster. The book is full morocco leather, a deep navy blue. Gilt-lettered spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers; top edge gilt. A fine book, without imperfections. Not signed, but perhaps the.....
Houghton Mifflin, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed on the half-title page by Brooks. A slender retrospective on his days in publishing as the editor-in-chief of Houghton-Mifflin, including several chapters on his work with Roger Tory Peterson, Rachael Carson, and other nature writers. As Rachel Carson's editor, he suggested the title.....
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Association copy: a softcover uncorrected proof from the library of Joan Didion, with a short signed letter dated 1980 from the director of advertising, publicity and promotion at the publisher conveying the proof to her in Los Angeles and asking for praise.....
Banyan Tree Books, Berkeley, 1981. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Inscribed on the half title page in green ink: "For Rowan and his daughter--hope you enjoy my portrayal of Bolinas! Ernest Callenbach, 21 April 1988." Third printing. Scarce signed. Very good book with a bit of brown speckling on cover near.....
Harcourt, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the title page: "Leo Connellan, for Annie Dillard, October 16, 1987." With Dillard's bookplate. Blurbs by Sydney Lea, Richard Eberhart, and Hayden Carruth. Connellan live in Greenwich Village during the Beat scene, and later was the the Poet Laureate of Connecticut.....
New Directions, Norfolk, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The Poets of the Year Series. Inscribed to Stuart Wright, the noted North Carolina collector, bibliographer, and the publisher of Palaemon Press, who championed Eberhart and acquired his papers. Wright's Eberhart collection is now housed at East Carolina University (see their finding aid.....
Viking Adult, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed in the year of publication to Ehrlich's longtime family housekeeper in Santa Barbara: "For Paulina With much love, Gretel, September 18, 1991." Paulina is mentioned in Ehrlich's latest book Unsolaced. An interesting association in that it speaks to Ehrlich's relative.....
E. P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, 1984. Russell Chatham. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the half title page for naturalist-author and MacArthur Genius Grant-recipient Gary Paul Nabhan (though he isn't named as the recipient): "O Corvus, dove looking crow, yrs, Jim Harrison." With a drawing of a crow/dove that seems.....
Madison: Wisconsin UP, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. A significant association copy, inscribed at length in the year of publication on the first blank by Hickey, the editor, in a tidy script: "For Durward L. Allen, The mighty atom from Indiana. He picked up a Wisconsin education (via Leopold) without even.....
NY: Scribner's, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. A local association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper in the year of publication: "For my eternal friend, Walter D. Daskam. Dear Walter: - When you get tired of Men, men, men, try these blooming animals, for a change, and charge the time.....
NY: Scribner's, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. An important association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: "To a gallant and Forceful Defender of wildlife, Mrs. Charles C. Marshall, a reproach to the Lazy, an Inspiration to the Pure in Heart, and an Example to All.....
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Copper Canyon Press, 1984. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Association copy, inscribed on the title page to Denise Levertov: After the printed subtitle, "Poems for Women," Kizer has written in dark brown pen, "Especially for Denise, with love from Carolyn, Nov. Berkeley '84." A wonderful association between influential Northwest poets. Kizer's.....
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Third printing, 1952, the year after first publication. Signed by Klingel on the front free endpaper. Uncommon signed, and this Dodd, Mead hardcover edition seemingly uncommon or scarce in general. Glowing blurbs by Rachel Carson, Edwin Way Teale, Helen Cruickshank, and N.J. Berrill. This.....
Westport, NY: West of the Wind Publications, 1997. Softcover. Association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "To my dear friend Thomas Lovejoy, Thanks for never forgetting a special day -- July 14 --& being such a loyal conservationist. Hugs & Licks, Anne, Chekika, Xandor [her dogs, depicted on both the.....
Doubleday, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by both Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin, and uncommon thus. An important book that presages Elizabeth Kolbert's Pulitzer-winning book of the same title two decades later. Laid in are a ticket and postcard reminder for the 1996 event at the Smithsonian Museum where the.....
NY: Norton, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the front free endpaper in blue ink: "To my friend Bob Malott, with my very best wishes, Louis B. Lundborg, July 27, 1974." Uncommon signed. Lundborg was the Chairman of the Board of Bank.....
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Norton, Yevtushenko, and Brower--every contributor listed on the title page has signed it but Matthiessen. Uncommon as such (Matthiessen's signature alone in this volume is more prevalent). Describes in word and photograph the 1990 journey of Matthiessen, Paul Winter, and.....
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page in the year of publication: "For Judy, with my thanks for a fine day (and signed to prove my hand still works!). Bill McKibben, June 2, 1998." Maybe he was doing some hard restoration work; or maybe.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the half-title page by John McPhee: "For Stephanie Schlant, on the occasion of a fine evening in Denville, Yolanda and John McPhee, 12/19/76." "Yolanda" is in John McPhee's hand. An association copy, inscribed to the stepdaughter of senator/basketball star Bill.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the half title page, a family association copy: "For Steve Svenvold, Merry Christmas 2001, from Mark's mate's first deckhand -- John McPhee." Poet and professor Mark Svenvold is McPhee's son-in-law (married to novelist Martha McPhee), thus McPhee is a deckhand.....
National Geographic, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Merwin and dated "Apr 11 2011" on the title page in black ink. Uncommon or scarce signed. Reissued by Copper Canyon in paperback in 2019. Fine book in fine jacket in minor misalignment with book.