Simon & Schuster, 1968. Soft cover. Inscribed on the front free end paper in black ink: "For Wendy Ajax -- all the best! Edward Abbey, Salt Lake City, January 1988." Uncommon signed in this edition (much easier to find a first edition hardcover). Eleventh printing. Near fine book with light.....
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......
Berkeley: Ramparts Press, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed to poet Diane Di Prima on the front free endpaper: "For Diane -- with love and admiration, Murray, Sept. 20, '71." Uncommon or scarce signed, as is any book signed by Bookchin. A nice association as Di Prima, though primarily recognized.....
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Marie + Robert Lawson, Cordially, Hal Borland." Uncommon signed. Robert Lawson is renown as the illustrator of the children's book The Story of Ferdinand (the bull). A nice association in this context as.....
NY: Lippincott, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing in the year of publication. An association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Grace Dodge, with my love, Hal Borland, 1965." Grace Dodge is his mother-in-law--the mother of his second wife, the writer Barbara Dodge Borland. A book that is.....
Sierra Club Books, 1983. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Inscribed in the year of publication on the title page: "For Dean, with warmest regards, Paul, December '83." Uncommon signed. Paul Brooks is a winner of the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, and this is exploration and homage to his enviro-literary.....
Knopf, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed to novelist Jim Harrison, author of *Legends of the Fall*, and his wife on the half-title page: "For Jim & Linda, con un grande abrazo [with a big embrace], Phil." Caputo won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting and is best known for.....
NY: Doubleday, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by the former Supreme Court Justice and wilderness champion. Uncommon signed. The companion volume to My Wilderness: The Pacific Northwest, this one describing other wilderness journeys from Arizona to Maine. Illustrated by Francis Lee Jacques. Near fine with light.....
NY: WW Norton, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed in purple ink on the front free endpaper in the year of publication: "For Betty--who is also a poet--Martin Espada, November 14, 1996." Espada is a recent winner of the National Book Award. Fine book in near fine jacket with a little.....
Harper/Collins, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, signed by Forche to Bay Area poet Jim LeCuyer on the title page: "For Jim, May your life and work be blessed -- Carolyn Forche, 16 May 1995." Fine book in a near fine jacket because of some very light rubbing.
Four Seasons Foundation, San Francisco, 1965. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed on the front free endpaper by Snyder and dated "8.I.67"--a very early signature. Mustard wraps, stapled. Near fine with light nudging to corners, otherwise clean with bright pages. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental.....
Capricorn Press, Santa Barbara, 1970. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed on the title page in blue ink. Ehrlich's first book, a volume of poems published in her hometown of Santa Barbara when she was just 24. At this point, she had had only a single poem published in the California.....
NY: Scribner's, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Later printing, 1930. Association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "As 'a voice crying in the wilderness'! To our Esteemed Pastor, Dr. George Stewart, with the compliments of the author, W.T Hornaday, June 26, 1931." Uncommon signed. George Stewart was the pastor of the First.....
First edition. An association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For the Stegner's--whose warmth and interest changed apprenticeship into adventure--Kay S. House, San Francisco, January 1966." From the library of Wallace Stegner, who wrote about James Fenimore Cooper in an essay in Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs.....
Vehicle Editions, 1978. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Association copy: Not signed, but Annie Dillard's copy with her bookplate on title page. One of 500 copies. Very good plus with rubbing to spine and light bump to reverse side of lower corner. Dillard had high praise for Phillips's *Black Tickets.*.
NY: William Sloane Associates, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Signed at the top of the yellow front free endpaper by Krutch and dated "Tuscon 1955." Second printing in the year of publication. As the jacket describes it, "A book that explores the rich, intriguing, unexpected variety of life in the Sonoran.....
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.....
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992. Third printing, 1999. Signed on the title page: "For Kanosh [sp?], (1st Edition), MIT Press, We'll get your second edition Sept 8th, 2000. Love, Lynn." The name of the inscribee is difficult to discern with certainty, but perhaps he was a book collector, and this one.....
Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Cy & Roddy, from Jim, the New Year, 1976." Uncommon signed. Also laid in is a one-page handwritten signed letter (ALS) dated 1976 from the author to the the recipients conveying the book (and bemoaning "that.....
NY: FSG, 1994. Inscribed on the title page: "For Lila Stiff -- John McPhee." Stiff worked at the Politics and Prose Bookstore in DC. Uncommon or scarce signed in paperback. With glossy heavy stock images throughout. A fine, durable softcover with a bookstore sticker over rear barcode.
Random House, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To John, Jon Meacham." Very fine book with just a little rubbing to lower board edges; in near fine jacket with some waviness.
Pantheon, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on title page: "For Brenda, May these words reach your luminous heart, Ellen Meloy." A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. Fine book in very near fine jacket. Meloy's books are uncommonly found signed; tragically she died at only 58. // Wood.....
Library of America, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Merwin. Uncommon or scarce signed. Fine book in fine jacket, unread. Green cloth, endpapers, and ribbon page marker.
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. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes.....
NY: Knopf, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing. Inscribed at length, filling the front free endpaper: "For George Hanson, Herewith is my Credo, a crystallization of my faith and belief after a lifetime of exploring the wilderness regions of the continent. I know my thoughts will echo many of your.....