Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "To Bob Galvin, who makes things work. Sincerely, Gordon Boudreau." Uncommon signed. Bob Galvin served for ten years on the board of the Thoreau Society and for four years as its vice president (his license plate.....
The Globe Pequot Press, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed in the year of publication on the half-title page: "For Bill, a small contribution to your Concord collection. With warmest regards, from Paul, October 1990." Brooks was editor-in-chief of Houghton-Mifflin, and in that capacity alone was a great champion of environmental.....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed in the year of publication in red ink on the front free endpaper: "For Dick + Mary, with affection + gratitude, from Paul, October 1980." Uncommon signed. Brooks was editor-in-chief of Houghton-Mifflin, and in that capacity alone was a great champion of.....
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 1995. First edition. Softcover. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "For Richard, With affection and admiration!" Also signed and dated in in 2006 on the title page. The recipient is Richard Forman of Concord, MA. Richard T.T. Forman.....
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the first blank: "For Barbara -- and Richard! In friendship and thanks! Larry." Also signed in full and dated in the year of publication on the title page. Uncommon signed. The recipients are Barbara.....
NY: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing with number line on the final page to 2 (copies without the number line are the simultaneous Book Club edition), but signed within a month of first publication. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "For Dorothy Montgomery Johnson, best wishes.....
NY: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the half-title page: "To Jeri & Jim, best wishes, Annie Dillard." Her genuine signature which is rare aside her perfunctory, post-fame bookstore squiggle. Third printing with number line on the final page to 3 (copies without the number line are.....
Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "To Dave Ganoe, with regards for our mutual interest in Thoreau and the New England countryside. David R. Foster." Ganoe was the director of wilderness programs for Salisbury State and the director of its.....
Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fifth printing, but a rock star association copy, inscribed on the dedication page: "To David Byrne, all the best, Don Henley, 10-27-91." Byrne is of course famous as the front man for Talking Heads, but has gone in many directions since then.....
Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to author and radio broadcaster Art Bell, known for his nationally syndicated radio program Coast to Coast AM, which he hosted for Parhump, NV, outside Las Vegas: "For Art Bell, Thanks for your voice.....
NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page, and thus uncommon. A biography and appreciation of Thoreau written in verse--a unique project--with each section introduced by a few pages of prose. With a foreword by Brooks Atkinson. A very good or better copy in.....
NY: Random House, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. A standout association copy, inscribed on the title page in the year of publication: "For Chuck [Close], love Annie, NY 2011." Chuck Close is the celebrated contemporary painter, one of the most famous of our times, known for his large-scale photorealist and pixilated.....
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the orange front free endpaper: "For Linda Hemming, with all good wishes from another Thoreauvian, Frederick T McGill, Jr." With a quick sketch of a running man below his name. Uncommon signed. The first full-length biography of Channing, a......
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.....
Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the "Also by" page: "For Charles Colburn, see page 87, with best wishes, John Hanson Mitchell." Pages 87-90 detail an encounter and conversation on Hanson's 15-mile bushwack pilgrimage to Thoreau's grave with an old man on his longstanding family land.....
New Haven: Yale UP, 1967. Third edition. 1982. Fourth printing. Signed on the half-title page: "For Rob, best regards, Rod Nash." Uncommon signed in any edition. A seminal text in American environmentalism. William O. Douglas called it "a mandatory prelude to any modern treatment of conservation problems.” includes chapters on.....
University of California Press, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page in black ink. Winner of the Bancroft Prize for history writing, the late Richardson was Annie Dillard's third husband (this book is dedicated to her). Very near fine book in a near fine jacket with some light.....
Portland: Tin House Books, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. An uncommon uncorrected proof of this well-regarded book that retraces six walks taken by Thoreau from Cape Cod to Maine. A fine softcover copy.
NY: Bloomsbury, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page: "To Judith, with very best wishes, Michael Sims." Uncommon signed. A book especially about Thoreau's formation as a youth, chronicling and exploring his time from Harvard to his years at Walden pond. Sims is an accomplished popular scholar whose.....
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. Later printing. Hardcover. Signed on the front free endpaper in green ink by Gene Stratton-Porter, and opposite with a small photo of her pasted to the lower left corner of the pastedown. No edition stated, but this is a later printing. Her.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. First printing with all points present. One of 2,000 copies. April ads at rear, which are the earliest, though the ads are of no priority. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Rebacked with the original spine expertly laid down. Original boards.....
Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. Well-illustrated. 1st Edition. No Binding. Signed by Howarth on the title page. Uncommon signed. A book of Thoreau's mountain-related writings with contextualization by Howarth, a preeminent Thoreau scholar and ecocritic at Princeton, who climbed all these routes featured here in Thoreau's excerpts to help with his.....
Concord, MA: Concord Antiquarian Society, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Two books: The first Wheeler's Concord: Climate for Freedom. An association copy, inscribed at the top of the first blank in a blue pen: "To Leonard Kleinfeld, my generous host in Nassau and an envied bibliophile, Ruth R Wheeler." Blue cloth with.....