Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed the year after first publication on the illustrated map front free endpaper: "for Reba, from Ed Abbey, Phoenix '76." Abbey's classic and comedic novel of eco-resistance featuring George Hayduke and famously inspiring the Earth First! organization. Black paper boards with a stamped.....
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the illustrated map front free endpaper: "To Cynthia Farah, from her friend Edward Abbey, Tucson 1984." Farah is a photographer and film critic and was a friend of many Southwest writers (among them also Cormac McCarthy). Notably she.....
NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the front free endpaper by Abbey. One of the classics of American environmental writing, Abbey writes of his time as a ranger at Arches National Monument and of its desert geology and wildlife, takes a last float trip through Glen Canyon.....
NY: Dutton, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the blue front free endpaper: "For Steve and Barbara Cohen, Gregory Bateson." Uncommon signed. A significant work from a significant thinker, "this book is a lively exploration of the pattern than connects all the living begins of our planet" and argues that.....
SF: Sierra Club Books, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed in a blue pen in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: "To Mary Lou with every best wish -- Tom Berry, Nov 9-88." His classic work, uncommon signed. The first volume in the Sierra Club Nature and Natural.....
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing. Signed and dated in a shaky hand on the half-title page: "Thomas Berry, 04-03-09." Uncommon or scarce signed, as are books by Berry generally. Edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker. Thomas Berry (see his New York Times obit) was a......
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.....
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993. First edition. Softcover. Signed by Daly on the half-title page. Uncommon signed. A significant revision of Daly's book Economics, Ecology, and Ethics, this anthology includes "more than twenty classic and recent essays that broaden economic thinking by setting the economy in its proper ecological and ethical context." Includes.....
NY: Columbia UP, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Russ, For deep--or relaxing--summer reading. Rene Dubos." Uncommon signed. Seven lectures exploring "the relationship between the scientific community and the lay public that impatiently awaits practical applications of scientific knowledge." Dubos (1901-1982) was a microbiologist and important.....
NY: Harper & Row, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Dyson. Uncommon signed. A book that "explores ways to live and survive in a nuclear age and examines the key areas of public morality, weapons technology, and international policy," it won the National Book Critics Circle.....
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.....
NY: Random House, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: "Jan 6, 1957, To Jane Porter, with best wishes for her success in paleontology. Loren Eisley." Uncommon signed. Eisley's first and best-known book, it tells the long history of humankind's evolution, with.....
St Albans: The Sumach Press, 1992. First thus. Softcover. A wonderful association copy, inscribed to his friend and soon-to-be mother-in-law on the title page: "Dear Leo, Affectionately, after this fallow season! John, July 18, 1993." After John Fowles's first wife passed away, he remarried in 1998 to Sarah Smith, who.....
Washington D.C. National Geographic, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the half-title page: "For Kathleen, Best wishes on your journey, John Francis III." Uncommon signed. Francis is renown for his book *Planetwalker* about his 22-year-long pilgrimage and 17 years of silence in response to an oil spill in San Francisco.....
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.....
Viking, 2012. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page in black ink. This book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award; his next book, The Songs of Trees, won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing. Here Haskell, a biologist.....
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......
NY: Scribner, 2024. First edition. Hardcover. Third printing. Signed on a publisher's bookplate by Kimmerer, and uncommon thus. A small, handsomely-produced book consisting of an extended essay about the serviceberry (also known as shadbush or saskatoon), reciprocity, and more from the bestselling writer of Braiding Sweetgrass. Kimmerer also won 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.....
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing. Inscribed on the title page: "To Nancy Skeeter, thanks for all you have done to support conservation professionals in connecting children and nature. Richard Louv." Uncommon signed. The recipient was a project manager for the Food and Drug Administration.....
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the second blank: "For Dan, namaste in abundance, dear amigo. Lovingly, Terri, 12/7/96." Uncommon signed. The recipient is important photographer Dan Budnik, with his name stamp at the lower corner of the front free endpaper. Budnik is.....
NY: Routledge, 2017. First edition. Softcover. Signed on the title page, and uncommon thus. The simultaneous paperback edition (the hardcover from this academic house is relatively unaffordable). A collection of previously published work that "explores her ideas about the interconnections among science, women, nature, and history as they have emerged.....
SF: Sierra Club Books, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the dedication page: "For Shag & Howard,, with affection and respect. Stephanie Mills, November 14, 1994." Uncommon signed. A memoir from Mills, who first rose to national attention when she gave a valedictorian address, "the engaging account of the evolution.....
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "April 1972, For Jim, who more than anyone else, shares so much of what went into this book. Sam." Uncommon signed. Neil Kluepfel wrote in Ecology Today, "In The Last Days of Mankind we have a......
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the half title page by Murchie in blue ink, and thus uncommon. A finalist for the National Book Award in Science. Murchie was a fascinating guy who wrote about science and philosophy, especially--really he was interested in everything, a synthetic mind.....