Boston: Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. A great association copy, inscribed at the top of the front free endpaper: "Rev. Z. Thompson, with the respect of L Agassiz." A scarce signature. "R.L. Agassiz" is written below in another hand (we note that his grandson was the prominent.....
New Haven: Yale UP, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. An uncommon book--the only first printing on the market as of this writing--and an association copy, with the ownership signature of Joseph Milliard on the pastedown. Milliard (1857-1945) was the curator of ornithology for the California Academy of Sciences and wrote extensively.....
Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith, 1977. First thus. Hardcover. Signed by Stegner, who wrote the seven-page foreword to this edition, on the half-title page in brown ink, and scarce thus. Stegner famously wrote his doctoral thesis at Iowa on Dutton, which became his first slender book, Clarence Dutton: An Appraisal. Later.....
NY: Abrams, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed by the book's photographer in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: "For Tom [Till], Hope you like my version of your backyard. All the best, Jack Dykinga, 96." With essay by Charles Bowden and a foreword.....
Capricorn Press, Santa Barbara, 1970. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Signed on the title page in blue ink. Ehrlich's first book, a volume of poems published in her hometown of Santa Barbara when she was just 24. At this point, she had had only a single poem published in the California.....
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, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Tim Walsh, with all best wishes, Bill Green (April 1996)." Uncommon signed. This book won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1996. Green is a geochemist, a professor emeritus at Miami University in.....
NY: William Sloane Associates, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed in the year of publication by Krutch on the front free endpaper: "For Bill Moore, with best wishes for a Merry Christmas and many thanks for past kindnesses, Marcelle and Joseph Krutch, Christmas 1958." Uncommon signed. An up-and-down, thorough exploration of.....
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Le Guin and the illustrator Henk Pander on the half-title page. A limited edition from the illustrious Lord John Press consisting of 150 numbered copies and 50 additional numbered copies specially bound. Uncommon, with no other copies available as.....
Trinity University Press, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by the the editor, the late Barry Lopez, in blue ink. A handsome coffee table book and a wonderful resource in that it not only is an education in geographic terms, but also a survey of contemporary environmental.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "For the city and the people of New Orleans, through the Levee of Books from Princeton University, Spring 2006, with heartfelt best wishes, John McPhee." Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. This copy was donated by.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy. First printing hardcover with an inscription on the half title: "For Murray Murphey, from LeAnna Whitman, and with all best, too, from a friend dating back to early geologic time. John McPhee." That's a fun bit of wit from McPhee.....
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981. First edition. Softcover. Thirteenth printing, 1989. Inscribed on the title page: "For Dan, regards, John McPhee." Uncommon signed in paperback, especially this edition with the original cover and illustrated epoch endpapers. The third book in his quartet of geology books that surveyed America and.....
NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by McPhee on the half title page. His second installment in the geological quartet that would become the Pulitzer Prize-winning Annals of the Former World, this journey extending from New Jersey to Indiana, where Rising from the Plains (the third book) picks.....
NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "for Judy and Bob Belous, who do not need a geologist to tel them where to find exotic terrain. best always, John McPhee." Uncommon signed. Robert Belous was a friend McPhee made in.....
NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Third printing, 1986. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "for Judy and Bob Belous, Rocks III, en route to California, all best -- John McPhee." This book is the third of McPhee's geology books in the quartet that eventually.....
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page. Uncommon signed. This book is in the vanguard of environmental writing and is one of the most respected environmental works of the last decade or beyond. It's an excavation of forgotten, often atrocious and racist, histories in the strata.....
Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the title page: "For Stephen Ronan, 26 X 04." Signed above his byline higher on the title page. Snyder's first book of new poems since Axe Handles twenty years earlier, it begins with a......
U Oklahoma P: Norman, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Francis Farquhar's copy of this first publication of engineer Robert Brewster Stanton's account of going down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon in 1889 and 1890. Signed and dated by Farquhar on the front free endpaper, and signed by the editor of.....
Doubleday and Co, New York, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed to Steinbeck scholar and fellow Bay Area writer Maurice Dunbar on the dedication page in blue ink: "For Maury Dunbar, from Wallace Stegner, Los Altos Hills, CA Jan. 17, 1983." Stegner lived in Los Altos Hills--likely the book.....
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An important Silicon Valley association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Artemas and Ed, in friendship. Wallace Stegner." On the rear of the foldout map, a gift inscription from these owners, passing the book on, reads: "To George + Sue Varian.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "For Phil McConnell, with warmest regards. It ain't Arabia, but it's at least a frontier. Wallace Stegner, Palo Alto, Feb. 7, 1956." Phil McConnell is a character and is profiled in Stegner's lesser-known book Discovery!.....
NY: Crown, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Sullivan on the half-title page in a blue pen: "For Evi, with best regards, Walter Sullivan." Uncommon signed. Sullivan was known as the "dean of science writers" and was the science editor for The New York Times. This book tells of the deep-time.....
Doubleday and Co, New York, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A terrific association copy, given the inscription on the half title: "For Alice and Proc Mellquist, Affectionately, Wallace Stegner." Proctor Mellquist was the longtime editor of Sunset Magazine, based in Menlo Park, a magazine that for decades helped define a Western.....
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.....