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.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to no recipient on the front free endpaper: "With great respect for your work in conserving the world's environment. F. H. Bormann, S.R. Kellert." The inscription is in Bormann's hand, but it's signed by both authors. Uncommon signed. From the.....
Random House Inc, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper in red cursive: "To Eileen L. Johnston, with the good wishes of Barry Commoner." Johnston was the 1994 recipient of the Richard Beattly Mellon Environmental Stewardship Award. On the rear of the FFEP are three additional signatures.....
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.....
Washington DC: Island Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page: "For Jen, with thanks for a wonderful [illegible] on the international system. Paul." Uncommon signed, with no other copies available online as of this writing. Difficult to make out the middle of the inscription, but likely better.....
Washington DC: Island Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on title page: "For Dick Sikora, with best wishes --great to meet a philosopher. Paul Ehrlich." Uncommon signed, with no other copies available online as of this writing. Richard Sikora was a longtime professor at the University of British.....
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.....
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1969. Robert Osborn, Illustrator. First thus. Hardcover. An apparently uncommon illustrated hardcover edition (with no other copies available online as of this writing), published the year after The Population Bomb was first released as a mass market paperback in 1968. Inscribed by Ehrlich on the title.....
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Hardin and dated "1979." Uncommon signed. A book that examines scales of altruism alongside carrying capacity and human population growth, based on lectures he gave at the University of Indiana in 1976. Hardin was a populations ecologist.....
Los Altos: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1982. First edition. Softcover. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page in green ink: "For Ashley Montagu -- First-class Disturber of the Peace! from Garrett Hardin, March 1983." Uncommon signed. This is the simultaneous paperback release. Ashley Montagu was a British-American anthropologist and public intellectual.....
Oxford University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the title page in blue ink in the year of publication: "For James A. Harder, from Garrett Hardin, 11 June 1993." Uncommon signed. Harder was a Professor of Civil Engineering at UC Berkeley, his main research in fluid mechanics.....
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.....
London: Bloomsbury, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Ford and Susan, with enormous affection (and remember--there are never enough corgis). Bill McKibben." A fun inscription. This is the simultaneous British edition, uncommon signed and with a slightly different subtitle. A book that considers the promises.....
NY: WW Norton, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Norman Myers on the front free endpaper: "Kate Brown--good colleague and fine friend! Best wishes, Norman Myers." Uncommon signed. A transcript of an influential debate between Myers, a prominent environmentalist, and Simon, an economist and skeptic of environmentalism. The debate took.....
NY: Little Brown, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed in the year of publication on the blank following the title page: "For George K. Kimble, with great appreciation, Fairfield Osborn, September 1953." Uncommon signed. Laid in is a "compliments of the publishers" card which lists the publication date as October 8.....
NY: Harper, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Shellenberger on the title page and inscribed "For Jessica, with respect!" Uncommon signed. A controversial book from a Time magazine "Hero of the Environment" that argues against "alarmism" and advocates for pro-growth technological development and nuclear energy as a way forward amid world-wide environmental.....