NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the from free endpaper: "To Cynthia Farah, Edward Abbey, Tucson '84." Farah is a photographer and film critic and was a friend of many Southwest writers (among them also Cormac McCarthy).....
Dutton, 1982. Soft cover. Softcover, sixth printing. Association copy, Inscribed to former Poet Laureate Donald Hall on the front free endpaper: "For Donald Hall, from Ed Abbey, with much admiration, Oracle, Arizona 1987." Abbey did have much admiration for Hall, writing for instance, in a blurb, that Hall's memoir Seasons.....
Tucson: University of Arizona, 1988. First thus. Hardcover. The 20th anniversary edition with an excellent association, inscribed in the year of publication in a purple pen on the front free endpaper to a co-founder of Earth First!: "To Ron [Kezar], an EF! leader, -- with admiration and affection, from his.....
NY: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1984. First edition. Softcover. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "To Scott Rushforth -- all the best! Edward Abbey." Rushforth was a cultural and linguistic anthropologist who studied American Indian language, culture, and society at the University of New Mexico. First printing of the.....
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......
North Point Pr, 1981. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Association copy, inscribed to poet Denise Levertov on the front end free paper: "With my love to Denise, 11/20/85. Wendell." Paperback in stiff wraps with gray and black dust jacket, as depicted in stock image. A great association between writers with decided.....
North Point Press, 1989. First thus. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed by Berry on the first blank in the year of publication to the poet, critic, and biographer Vince Clemente with a holograph version of the titular poem, "Traveling at Home." Clemente was a professor at SUNY and his papers are held.....
NY: Rinehart & Co., 1949. First thus. Hardcover. First printing of this 20th anniversary edition. Inscribed by Beston in blue ink on the front free endpaper: "For Dr. Thomas Makerwirth [sp?] with the warm good wishes of the author, Henry Beston." A classic of nature writing. Seeking solace and purpose.....
NY: Lippincott, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Borland on the half-title page. Uncommon signed. A book that "invites the reader to spend a year in New England with an observer who makes the countryside stimulate the senses," it won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1968. Hal.....
NY: Lippincott, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the half-title page: "For Don, from his Dad -- Hal Borland, 1969." Don is Donal Borland, his second of three sons. A book that collects "non-political" editorials about country life that originally appeared.....
SF: Sierra Club Books, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the half-title page: "For Don, from his Yankee-in-law father -- Hal Borland, 1976." Donal Borland was his second son. Borland is originally from Colorado, but moved with his second wife, the writer.....
NY: Lippincott, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Julia and Peno Segalla, Cordially, Hal Borland." A selection of outdoor editorials from The New York Times, uncommon signed. Also laid in is a brief note: "Peno -- Thanks for a fine job. Hal Borland, 8-11-65." The recipients.....
NY: Knopf, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy of this posthumous book belonging to Hal Borland's son, Donal. Laid in is an oversized publicity postcard addressed to Donal Borland in Michigan as well as a note from Hal Borland's second wife, Barbara Dodge Borland, on a Knopf card, reading.....
NY: Knopf, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the half-title page: "To Tom and Ev Hellen [or Heller?], with my regards -- Archie Carr." Uncommon signed. Winner of the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1957, the book details Carr's travels in the Carribean to study sea turtles.....
London: Canongate, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. An uncommon uncorrected proof of the British edition of The Abundance, in essence a volume of selected essays from Dillard including classics like "Total Eclipse" and "Living Like Weasels," and much more. Likely Dillard's last book. With a substantial foreword by Geoff Dyer. A fine paperback.....
NY: Little, Brown, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the front free endpaper by Dubkin. Uncommon signed. His second book, a collection of linked essays that ensues after Dubkin loses his job as a reporter because instead of reporting on a murder he stays at home to watch squirrels in.....
Chicago: Henry Regenery Company, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Matilda Bargan, a good friend and staunch booster. Leonard Dubkin." Uncommon signed. An early work of urban nature writing: an account of the three years Dubkin and his daughter spent observing their small yard and.....
Viking Adult, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed in the year of publication to Ehrlich's longtime family housekeeper in Santa Barbara: "For Paulina With much love, Gretel, September 18, 1991." Paulina is mentioned in Ehrlich's latest book Unsolaced. An interesting association in that it speaks to Ehrlich's relative.....
NY: Scribners, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Eiseley. His sixth book, an examination of the age of space exploration, which "constitutes a public sacrifice equivalent to the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza." With woodcuts by Walter Ferro. A near fine book in lavender.....
Ames: Iowa State UP, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page: "For Michael Kelly -- All good wishes for your efforts to advance the conservation of our natural resources -- Carolyn Errington." Uncommon signed. A posthumous collection of essays--mainly previously published in various magazines, but a few never.....
Ravens Eye Press, 2014. First edition. Softcover. An organizational association copy, inscribed on the half-title page, "For NMWA, Dave Foreman." NWMA is the New Mexico Water Authority, based in Albuquerque, making this an interesting association to a diverter (or more charitably, manager) of the rivers that Foreman fought to protect.....
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.....
NY: Knopf, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: "For Archer Fullingim: Maybe a few of us who care can set down some of these things on paper while they're still here to be set down. I know you've.....
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.....