Canongate (Scotland), 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front end free paper in blue ink: "For Karen, from Ed A., Tucson '79." Notable for being the British Edition, which is scarce signed. Near fine because of minor softening to corners, with the upper front corner bumped. Jacket is excellent.....
Tucson: University of Arizona, 1988. First thus. Hardcover. The 20th anniversary edition with an excellent association, inscribed in the year of publication in a purple pen on the front free endpaper to a co-founder of Earth First!: "To Ron [Kezar], an EF! leader, -- with admiration and affection, from his.....
North Point Press, 1989. First thus. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed by Berry on the first blank in the year of publication to the poet, critic, and biographer Vince Clemente with a holograph version of the titular poem, "Traveling at Home." Clemente was a professor at SUNY and his papers are held.....
NY: Riverhead, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the half-title page in Sharpie: "To Luis -- Enjoy this dive into the world of corals -- Juli Berwald." Uncommon signed, perhaps because it was released during the Covid-19 pandemic. Traveling the world to explore the peril and protection of corals, Berwald.....
NY: Delacorte Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "This copy is for Russ Chatham, 'a man who knows that every second counts.' Richard Brautigan, August 19, 1978." This book was signed at a gathering of some of the Montana gang in San Francisco.....
NY: Abradale / Abrams, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Later printing, 1985. Signed boldly in blue ink on the title page by Cousteau, and scarce as such. A heavy quarto of 450 pages that is a "virtual encyclopedia of the undersea world" with color photographs on every page. "Eighteen lively chapters.....
Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1978. First edition. Softcover. A pair of books. The first, a significant association copy, inscribed the year after first publication on a preliminary page to her biographer: "For Mark Winchell, with gratitude for among other things his patience, Joan Didion, April 1, 1979." Scarce.....
Atheneum, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For the Pacific Northwest Booksellers--with thanks, one more time. Ivan Doig, Spokane, 12, March, 1994." This book was signed to the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) on the occasion of Doig winning its award in 1994. Doig, who.....
NY: Bantam, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. An incredible association copy, inscribed by way of a thumbprint to Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who was a friend and crucial supporter of Hawking. Hawking's second wife provides a written inscription alongside the thumbprint, as of course Hawking was unable to write by hand.....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed to Legends of the Fall author Jim Harrison on the title page in a flowing cursive with an elegant brown pen: "To Jim Harrison (who helped launch Blue Highways). Heat-Moon." A great connection between place-based authors of renown, and a......
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: Random House, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. A great association copy, inscribed in heartfelt and extensive fashion on the title page: "For Carl Marzani, whom I've long admired--in succession--as an essayist; a star of the stage (M. Beaucaire); the most debonair tennis player I've ever seen, to this day; a......
Indianapolis, New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Mr. [?] Peterson, on his birthday, with best wishes for many more happy ones. Joseph Wood Krutch, Tucson 1956." Winner of the National Book Award, and uncommon signed. Pitched as a follow up.....
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Le Guin and the illustrator Henk Pander on the half-title page. A limited edition from the illustrious Lord John Press consisting of 150 numbered copies and 50 additional numbered copies specially bound. Uncommon, with no other copies available as.....
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.....
NY: Scribner, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Fourth printing. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and uncommon signed. A standout association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Dr. Francis Collins, in admiration, Siddhartha Mukherjee." Francis Collins (see his Britannica page) is an internationally-respected physician-scientist known for his landmark.....
Various, 1983-2002. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of six signed books taking inspiration from Robert K. Musil's Rachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014. A fine/fine copy of that book is provided here inscribed: "For Susan, Thanks for caring about.....
Atheneum, 1970. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the olive front end free paper: "To Senator Edward M. Kennedy, with respect and best wishes, Richard Rhodes, 1970." Ted Kennedy, of Massachusetts, went on to be the fourth-longest-continuously-serving senator in United States history. The Inland.....
NY: Harper and Brothers, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. A wonderful association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Bradford Torrey, with sincere regards, Annie Trumbull Slosson." Her fourth book, a collection of stories. Uncommon signed, and her signature uncommon in general.Slosson is an important American regionalist author (other well-known regionalists.....
A collection of 63 broadsides and poetry postcards featuring the poetry of Gary Snyder, as well as two posters. Snyder has shown a particular allegiance to broadsides over the course of his career. Quite possibly he is one of the poets with the most broadsides to his name over a......
Bolinas: Four Seasons Foundation, 1972. First edition. Softcover. A significant association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the title page to the publisher: "Kitkitdizze 18.X.40072, For Don Allen (who drank our local manzanita berry tea yesterday), Gary Snyder." Uncommon signed. Kitkitdizze is Snyder's homestead in the foothills of.....
NY: Anchor, 1989. A standout association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "For Oliver [Sacks], with deep love and admiration--Susan. 3/29/90." Uncommon signed, with no other signed copies available as of this writing. Sacks and Sontag were friends and both wrote with deep sophistication about illness, one as a public.....
Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A boxed set of Teale's acclaimed American Seasons series, four volumes, all signed. In Paul Brooks's review of American nature writing, *Speaking for Nature,* he describes this quartet as "a landmark in the literature of nature." In this set, Autumn.....
1993. A typed letter signed from Syracuse in June 1993. Birkerts has offered again the opportunity to join him on a panel, which was apparently a panel on on the state of contemporary fiction with Jonathan Franzen in Arlington, MA. “We are on,” Wallace writes,” but do me a favor.....
NY: Viking, 1959. First thus. Hardcover. Wallace Stegner's copy, with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper. One of 475 copies "specially bound as a Christmas remembrance for friends of The Viking Press." Uncommon as such, and a seemingly uncommon book in the trade edition as well. With a......