NY: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Michael and Joanna [McClure], Francis." Michael McClure is the seminal Beat poet who shared the stage with Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg at the famous Six Gallery Reading that kicked off.....
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.....
NY: Pantheon, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. The book itself isn't signed, but laid in is a brief autographed note signed (ALS) on Dobbs's personal stationary: "Jeff, good talking with you. Enjoy the diving and the reefs, and take a peek for me. I've still not been to [?]. Till next.....
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.....
NY: Random House, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. A significant association copy, inscribed by Paul and Anne Ehrlich to Stephen Jay Gould: "For Steve, with warm regards and admiration. Paul and Anne." Anne Ehrlich has added her own name ("and Anne") to the inscription which is otherwise in Paul's hand. This.....
Munchen, Germany: Saur, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. E.O. Wilson's copy of this uncommon anthology providing bios of and excerpts from all the General Nonfiction Pulitzer winners across the thirty years since the inception of the category in 1962. Laid in is a typed letter signed (TLS) from the editor Heinz-Dietrich.....
NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. inscribed in the year of publication on the title page: “To Jennifer, best wishes, Tim Flannery, 30 April, 2011.” Uncommon signed, with no other copies available as of this writing. Flannery is renown Australian scientist (an Australian of the Year) best-known for.....
NY: Harmony Books, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Two books: The first, in wraps, an advanced uncorrected proof of Stephen Jay Gould’s Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin. Inscribed to Oliver Sacks on the title page: “For Oliver, with best wishes & admiration, Steve, Stephen Jay Gould.”.....
Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. E.O. Wilson's copy of this uncommon, and momentous, anthology born out of a symposium to mark the bicentennial of the nation and examine the history of American science and its explorations of evolution across that period. With Wilson's ownership signature at.....
NY: Ecco, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the front free endpaper by Heinrich, and thus uncommon. A unique book about how animals make it through winter, from kinglets to squirrels, via an exploration of Heinrich's Maine woods and with his own illustrations throughout, including on the cover of the.....
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.....
NY: Doubleday, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Leakey on the title page. From one of our most prominent paleoanthropologists and conservationists, this book "recounts the fossil hunting that led to the landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana and employs ideas from philosophy, anthropology, molecular biology, and linguistics to explore how humans.....
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.....
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press / Harvard, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page: "For Susan, with best wishes, Ernst Mayr." Uncommon signed. Mayr is among the giants of evolutionary biology, known especially for establishing that a species is a group of animals that can only breed among themselves.....
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: Doubleday, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Fourth printing. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Dava Sobel, Beauty happens! Richard O. Prum." Uncommon signed, with no other copies available as of this writing. One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2017 (as a sticker on.....
NY: Scribner, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Quammen on the second blank. Quammen's masterpiece of travel writing and evolutionary theory, winner of the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1997. Glowing blurbs by Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, E.O. Wilson, Thomas Lovejoy, Jim Harrison, Annie Proulx, and.....
NY: Norton, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed in the year of publication to the writer Jim Harrison, of Legends of the Fall fame, on the half-title page: "To Jim --Here's another fellow who counted birds. David Q, 9/2/06." The inscription alludes to Harrison's poem "Counting Birds" and Quammen's.....
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.....
New Haven: Yale UP, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing. Inscribed on the half-title page: "To Erik, best wishes, Peter Singer." Uncommon signed. Part of Yale University Press's "Darwinism Today" series from prominent evolutionary thinkers, in this slim book Singer "shows how the insights of modern evolutionary theory, particularly on.....
NY: Viking, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: "4/17/79, To Jack White, with great respect. Lewis Thomas." Jack E. White was a pioneering Black oncologist and Thomas's colleague in the field. White became the director of the Howard University Cancer.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Nicely inscribed on the title page in a blue pen: "For John Hooper, With my very best wishes. I hope that one day you will be able to meet some of these wonderful chimpanzee beings in the forests of Africa. Jane Goodall, August.....
NY: Columbia UP, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Ward. Uncommon thus. A revised and expanded version of his previous book The End of Evolution. Providing exploration of three previous mass extinctions via his own expeditions, "Ward assesses the present devastation in which countless species are.....
NY: Knopf, 2023. First edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the title page in the Nobel Prize winner's small script: "For Eric and Tania Idle, from Jim Watson." Eric Idle is the English actor, comedian, musician and writer best (and very hilariously) known as a member of the British surreal comedy.....
North Point Press, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page. Fine book in fine jacket. Uncommon signed.