Durham: Duke UP, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. The dedication copy, inscribed by the editor to his parents below their names on the dedication page: "With love, Jack." The bookplate of Jackson Benson's mother, Freda Sperling Benson, is on the front pastedown. Benson provides the introduction and the final overview chapter.....
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed to a colleague on the front free endpaper in the year of publication: "For Mason and Susan Lowance, in friendship and respect, with many long memories. Larry Buell, 5/4/95." Mason Lowance was a......
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.....
LA: The Primavera Press, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy: Loren Eiseley's copy, with his signature at the top of the front free endpaper. One of 750 copies of this limited edition. Also laid in is a departmental book order card that Eiseley has filled out to purchase another.....
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "To David and Elizabeth Lovejoy, with warmest regard--and deepest thanks for pointing me in this direction. Susan Flader." David S. Lovejoy was a professor of history at the University of Madison-Wisconsin, best.....
NY: Knopf, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Bob Galvin, our Thoreau book-hunter par excellence, who tracked down this first edition. With best wishes, Walt Harding. Concord, Mass, July 4, 1980 -- the 135th anniversary of Henry's going to Walden." Uncommon signed.....
Univ of Virginia Pr, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed in the year of publication: "For Bob Galvin, our Transcendental lawyer, Linck C. Johnson, Concord, MA 1986." Uncommon signed. This book, by a professor at Colgate, traces the development of Thoreau's *A Week* from "inception to publication." Includes the first draft.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, Richardson's first book inscribed on the half-title page to his mentor and colleague at the University of Denver, Gerald Chapman: "For Jerry, with affection, admiration, and many thanks, Bob." Uncommon signed. Richardson studied with Chapman as a PhD student, and.....
Berkeley: University of California Press. First edition. Softcover. Second printing. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Hugo Adam Bedau, with good wishes, Bob Richardson." With Bedau's ex libris bookplate on the half-title page. Bedau was a professor of philosophy at Tufts; he was a leading anti-death penalty.....
SF: City Lights, 1977. First edition. Softcover. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Joe Meeker, Gary Snyder." Also included is a near fine signed first paperback edition of Joseph Meeker's The Comedy of Survival: Studies in Literary Ecology (International College, Guild of Tutors Press, 1980). Meeker is.....
Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Also inscribed on the dedication page: "To Ted, thanks, Thor." As the jacket explains: "Thorson is interested in Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist.....
Merillville, IN: ICS Books, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Don Townsend -- May your visions be filled with wild beauty, and the spirit of Robert Service, Jim Dale Vickery, February 1987." Uncommon signed.Another National Parks ranger turned writer, Vickery was the author of three books.....
Athens: U Georgia P, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page: "For Bill, for the good of our place! James." Also signed in full at the byline. From the jacket: "This study situates John Burroughs, together with John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt, as one of a trinity of.....
Ohio University Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: "To Anita + Joe -- A small book but much affection. Ron, 2/20/85." A handsome work of literary criticism, growing out of his interest in the theme of "journey" in American literature.....