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.....
Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Beckey, and uncommon thus. "The first comprehensive account of the nineteenth-century exploration and survey of the northern Cascade Range," finally arriving at the role of the Forest Service and National Park Service. Winner of 2004.....
Banyan Tree Books, Berkeley, 1981. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Inscribed on the half title page in green ink: "For Rowan and his daughter--hope you enjoy my portrayal of Bolinas! Ernest Callenbach, 21 April 1988." Third printing. Scarce signed. Very good book with a bit of brown speckling on cover near.....
NY: The Dial Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed boldly on the blue front free endpaper: "For Arnold, who may be about to turn my life around. My best, always, Roger Caras." Intriguing, but I guess we'll never know if his life was turned. Uncommon signed. A book that traces.....
Keene, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed opposite the title page to a noted book collector: "To Larry Owens, May we find a way to preserve the trees and sustain human dignity for generations to come. William Dietrich." Uncommon signed, and a nice inscription. Also laid in.....
NY: Harper, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Presumed later printing with "E-Z" on copyright page. But a nice association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "For Johsel Namkung, from his friend, William O Douglas." Namkung has been described as "the Northwest's preeminent landscape photographer of the latter 20th century." A Korean.....
NY: Emergency Conservation Committee, 1937. First edition. Softcover. Publication no. 63 of the Emergency Conservation Committee (ECC), with the subtitle: "No Economic Need, But Only Commercial Greed, the Obstacle to the Mount Olympus Park. Uncommonly found, these pamphlets were written by Rosalie Edge (Mrs. C. N. Edge), the ECC chairman.....
Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1996. First edition. Softcover. Inscribed on the title page: "For Hells Canyon, Michael Frome." A paperback original, probably inscribed as (or at) a benefit for the Greater Hells Canyon Council in northeast Oregon. Uncommon signed. A retrospective of Frome's important writing that "provides an incomparably rich history.....
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.....
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000. First edition. Softcover. Association copy: Former United States Forest Service Chief Jack Ward Thomas's copy, with his stamp and hand-written date on the half-title page. Thomas contributes a 12-page chapter entitled "The Instability of Stability" that reflects on land use by way of timber in the.....
NY: Harcourt Brace, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. A great association copy, inscribed on the title page: "To Governor Christine Gregoire -- with gratitude for your fine service to the people of my home state of Washington -- David Guterson, Bainbridge Island, 1/8/06." Gregoire was the 22nd Governor of Washington, serving.....
Bismarck: State Historical Society of North Dakota, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the dedication page by the editor: "For Scott Momaday, with gratitude and unlimited repsect, Clay Jenkinson, October 1, 2004." From the library of N. Scott Momaday, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for House of.....
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Copper Canyon Press, 1984. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Association copy, inscribed on the title page to Denise Levertov: After the printed subtitle, "Poems for Women," Kizer has written in dark brown pen, "Especially for Denise, with love from Carolyn, Nov. Berkeley '84." A wonderful association between influential Northwest poets. Kizer's.....
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.....
SF: North Point Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page. Uncommon signed. Nelson's classic, it explores his time on a remote Alaskan island "revealing how his adoption of [Inuit] Koyukon wisdom has positively affected his life," and was the winner of the John Burroughs Medal for natural.....
Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed in black ink on the title page. Near fine with just a hint of lean to the spine; in a very good jacket with a touch of soiling/rubbing and bookstore sticker on the rear panel.
Island Press, 1989. First edition. Softcover. Signed on the first blank and with a typed letter signed (TLS) laid in to Congressman Peter Hoagland from Norse on letterhead for the Center for Marine Conservation ( Norse was acting as its Chief Scientist). Dated 1990. He conveys the book and discusses.....
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page in blue ink: "Cordially inscribed by Donald Culross Peattie." With a flowing brown fountain pen is also written: "For my dear Cousin Barbara Cook Taggart, 1602 National Ave, Rockford, Illinois, Nov 21st 1958." It is.....
Moscow: U Idaho P, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Signed and dated in the year of publication by the author on the half-title page. Uncommon signed. A memoir about a winter as caretakers at the remote Taylor Wilderness Research Station in the Frank Church/River of No Return Wilderness operated by the.....
NY: Random House, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Joan Didion's copy, with a bookplate affirming this provenance on the front free endpaper. Also laid in a short handwritten letter (ALS) to Didion from a vice president of Random House conveying the book in the year of publication. Perillo lived in Washington.....
NY: HarperCollins, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the half-title page: "4-15-92 (Death, Taxes, Play = Life's certainties), To my dearest Joe [Meeker] -- a present this day of deep breathing, diving, playing, leo-shining to celebrate our long lives together and reunion.....
NY: Doubleday, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Petite on the title page. Uncommon signed. A book about a year spent "ranging from his Cascade Mountains ranch to the swamps, pond, and high places of Puget Sound country" with renewed motivation and clarity after a near death experience. Known as.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, nicely inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To my dear Commander, Henry E. Parmenter -- and the yellow-billed magpie, and our thrilling day afield with the birds of California. Dallas Lore Sharp, April 15, 1924, Casa Loma, Hope Ranch, Santa.....
SF: Planet Drum, 1974. Softcover. A slim, staple-bound chapbook in red wraps, signed by Snyder at the top of the title page, and scarce thus. The first four pages contain Snyder's essay "North Sea Road," and the second four present "Phytogeography of the Islands of the North Pacific" by Misao.....
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......