Univ of Virginia Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed to Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard on the title page: "To Annie Dillard, In admiration, Sandra Alcosser, San Diego, 1987." With Dillard's bookplate on the half-title page. This is Alcosser's first book, uncommon signed in hardcover, which was selected.....
North Point Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Buckles. Uncommon signed. As the jacket says: "Twenty-four million people live within one hundred miles of Long Island Sound [in 1997] . . . Yet the land, sky, and intertidal areas that Mary Parker Buckles explores...
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.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by the editor of the book, the wife of Archie Carr: "For Peggy Ruhine [sp?], with affection, Marjorie Harris Carr, April 1996." Uncommon signed. A notable signature because Marjorie Harris Carr is an important environmentalist in.....
Bantam Books, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. From the library of the late Russell Chatham, internationally respected painter and darn good fly-fisher-writer in books such as An Angler's Coast and Dark Waters. Signed by Carter on the FFEP in purple ink, with a later inscription from the former President in pencil.....
NY: Knopf, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Wallace Stegner's copy, with his ownership signature on the flyleaf. This is Cather's final three long stories, published the year after she died. Stegner and Cather traded letters and he wrote about Cather in his collection The Sound of Mountain Water. A very good book in.....
Doubleday & Company, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Third printing. Signed by Jean-Michel Cousteau, the son of Jacques Cousteau and for 20 years the executive vice president of the Cousteau Society, on the title page. Signature is vertical (rotated) on the page. Also inscribed in bold Sharpie on the title page.....
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.....
Hamish Hamilton, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First British edition, following Doubleday s 1970 limited and trade editions. Inscribed by Dickey to John Gardner, of Grendel fame, with his usual flourish and aplomb on the first flyleaf, uniting two of the bad boys of contemporary literature: "to John Gardner, from James.....
Simon & Schuster, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing, inscribed on the first blank in black ink: "For Kenneth Stein with best best wishes -- Joan Didion, 28 August 1992." Uncommon signed. Near fine book with only light bumping to corners, in a fine jacket. // Wood (+) River (=).....
NY: Doubleday & Co, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Wallace Stegner's copy with his ownership signature on the flyleaf. A posthumous novel by Dreiser, published the year after his death, about a Quaker family negotiating the affluence and perturbations of the Jazz age while striving to hold onto their values. Stegner wrote an.....
Various: Various. First editions. Hardcover. A collection of four books by renown populations biologist and public intellectual Paul Ehrlich, all significant association copies inscribed respectively to Stephen J. Gould, Thomas Lovejoy, Nobel-winner Donald Glaser, and US Senator Joseph Tydings. Ehrlich is best known for his deeply influential and controversial book.....
Copper Canyon Press, 1979. Michael Corr. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Snyder on the half title. One of 300 hardcover copies in brown cloth, with paper label on spine. Designed and printed at Copper Canyon Press and handbound by Sam Green. Published for Kah Tai Alliance. No jacket as issued.....
Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1972. First thus. Softcover. A first thus paperback, signed on the half-title page: "To dear Helga and Hans, another Hans, Feb. 15/72." Uncommon signed, and probably scarce in this edition. Art historian Hans Huth fled Nazi Germany in 1937 and remained in the U.S., where he eventually became.....
Milkweed Editions, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page. Blue cloth with silver lettering, embossed signature on front board, no jacket as published. Uncommon in hardcover, and scarce signed. An unread book in perfect condition. The late William Kittredge was one of the foremost writers of the West.....
William Morrow & Company, New York, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the red front free endpaper: "Joseph Wood Krutch, for Sir Ben Spenser, 1969." An uncommon book, it would seem, and especially signed. Very near fine with the only real blemish being four or five slightly dogeared pages near.....
Charles Scribner & Sons, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, Lopez's masterpiece inscribed on the half-title page in the year of publication to naturalist-author and MacArthur Genius Grant-recipient Gary Paul Nabhan and his wife: "Tucson, March 14, 1986, For Karen and Gary, with a sense of family. Barry Lopez." Nabhan.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy. First edition first printing hardcover, inscribed on the half title page: "For Rocco Siciliano, a man whose first name could not be more appropriate in this context, from Roemer s brother, John McPhee." You ve got to love McPhee s......
Kauai: National Tropical Botanical Garden, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Merwin and photographer Tina Freeman on the limitation page on the verso of the title page. Scarce. Published by the trustees and friends of the National Tropical Botanical Garden in a limited edition of 100 copies. This is copy.....
Viking, New York, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing, but in good condition only, lacking the dust jacket and with splitting on the spine and wear to the outer corners of boards. Some short tearsto a few pages. Nonetheless, a great and rare book, scarce in the first edition. Bound.....
NY: William Morrow & Company, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page in blue ink: "For Louise D-- [sp?], To whom, with her husband, I am glad to say that my books owe much. With all good wishes, Charlton Ogburn, July 1985." An apparent association copy, possibly a......
NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page: "For Sandra and Eldon Youngblood, Thanks so much for your love of wild places and those who live there. Best always, Mark Owens, Delia Owens, 13 September 1985." The inscription is in Mark's hand, but Delia has signed.....
The Macmillan Company, New York, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Dear Mother Whitney, with much love, Pieter." Uncommon signed. A collection of essays selected from those that Fosburgh wrote as the founding editor of *The Conservationist*, the official publication of the New York State.....
Zoland Books, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed to Annie Dillard on the half title: "12 July 1998, For Annie Whose encouragement and bright examples, years ago, meant the world And still does. With loves, Melissa P." With Annie Dillards bookplate on the FFEP. In praise of a later.....
NY: Delacorte Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed in the year of publication on the half-title page: "8/88, To John--Any fan of Matthiessen's is a reader with good taste. Thanks for putting me on your list. David Quammen." Uncommon signed, and especially notable in light of the inscription giving praise.....