NY: Ten Speed Graphics, 2024. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed with a Sharpie on the half-title page: "To Mr. R! Eddie Ahn." As the publisher describes it: "A graphic memoir from an environmental justice lawyer that explores the relationship between immigration and activism, opportunity and obligation, and family and community." The.....
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: Goose Lane Editions, 2021. First edition. Softcover. Inscribed in a bold Sharpie on the half-title page: "To Kelly, Kazim Ali." The simultaneous Canadian edition, which appears quite uncommon; it was published in the United States by Milkweed. Uncommon signed because this memoir was published during the.....
NY: Harper & Row, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page: "Bath, Indiana, August 1987, For John, A fellow wilderness traveller [sic] -- with all the best, Liz Arthur." Uncommon signed. A memoir about several years spent living on an island in a lake in interior British Columbia.....
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Hal Borland's own copy, specially bound by the publisher. Via the library of his son Donal Borland. Described as a classic, the book recounts the cycle of a year on Borland's hill-country farm in Northwest Connecticut shortly after he moved there from.....
NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Campbell. Uncommon signed. A book about the Antarctic Peninsula in particular and about the scientists working at the Brazilian Research Station where Campbell spent three summers. It won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing.....
Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Green Press, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: "For Nan, with love from Liz, Christmas 1976." Uncommon signed, with no other copies available as of this writing. Selections from her journals across the years as well as.....
NY: Simon and Schuster, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page in blue ink: "To Yonah, with great affection and admiration. Ruth Colwell." Uncommon signed. A "memoir-manifesto" by the first woman to direct the National Science Foundation. It draws on six decades of her life in science and.....
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.....
Atheneum, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For the Pacific Northwest Booksellers--with thanks, one more time. Ivan Doig, Spokane, 12, March, 1994." This book was signed to the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) on the occasion of Doig winning its award in 1994. Doig, who.....
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: "For Natasha -- with fond wishes -- Mary D., Michael Hardwood, April 1974." Uncommon signed, and each signature in their own hand. A joint journal of their first year back in northwest.....
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.....
NY: Lyons & Burford, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Fromm. Additionally laid in are two postcards from Fromm to an Oregon journalist about buying first editions of this and another book direct from him. Apparently they weren't readily available then, and a first edition of Indian.....
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.....
Ames: Iowa State UP, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Hamerstrom and by the illustrator Jack Oar. Uncommon signed (her first book, An Eagle to the Sky, is common signed, but her other books seem the opposite). Birding with a Purpose is Hamerstrom's third memoir, following up on her exploration.....
Ames: Iowa State Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page: "For Kurt, Happy hunting! Fran Hamerstrom." Uncommon signed (her first book, An Eagle to the Sky, is common signed, but her other books seem the opposite).Hamerstrom broke away from an elite--and as she saw it, effete--background in Boston to.....
NY: Bantam, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. An incredible association copy, inscribed by way of a thumbprint to Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who was a friend and crucial supporter of Hawking. Hawking's second wife provides a written inscription alongside the thumbprint, as of course Hawking was unable to write by hand.....
NY: Bantam, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. A spectacular association copy, inscribed in the year of publication by way of a thumbprint to Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who was a friend and crucial supporter of Hawking. Hawking's second wife provides a written inscription alongside the thumbprint, as of course Hawking was.....
Milkweed Editions, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page. Blue cloth with silver lettering, embossed signature on front board, no jacket as published. Uncommon in hardcover, and scarce signed. An unread book in perfect condition. The late William Kittredge was one of the foremost writers of the West.....
Knopf, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The uncorrected proof (advanced review copy) signed by Kittredge on title page, and scarce as such. Near fine with minor scuffing and a few minor bumps to corners. One small smudge to lower left corner of rear wrap. Pages clean and crisp.
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Lanham on the title page. Uncommon signed. This book was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal in natural history writing in 2017, and in this copy there are two "gift of the John Burroughs Association" bookplates/labels stating that distinction, one.....
NY: Pantheon, 2024. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page in Sharpie: "For Annie, keep loving, keep fighting! Manjula." Uncommon signed. A much acclaimed first book described as "[Helen McDonald's] H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene" (see the New York Times review). Blurbs by Ed.....
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed extensively and colorfully, with a cartoon self-portrait, on the front free endpaper to Sir Crispin Tickell. It reads in main: "For you Sir Crispin, President of the Royal Geographical Society, with especial appreciation for your earliest warnings and deep.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. A presumed second printing, but with a scarce original jacket. "June 1911" is stated on the copyright page, but there is no date on title page, and the list of other Muir titles in the front matter includes The Story of My Boyhood and.....
NY: Knopf, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Beautifully signed by Murie on the first blank, and scarce thus, especially in the first printing. An uncommon book in general. Murie's classic and her first book, it tells the story of her childhood in Alaska and then her wilderness adventures in the state.....