NY: Holt, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the half-title page: "to Chris -- all the best! Edward Abbey, SLC, 11/28/88." Also laid in is an autograph postcard signed to the recipient, Chris Jorgensen, sent from Oracle, Arizona, where Abbey lived. It reads in full: "28 June 84, Dear Mr.....
Canongate (Scotland), 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front end free paper in blue ink: "For Karen, from Ed A., Tucson '79." Notable for being the British Edition, which is scarce signed. Near fine because of minor softening to corners, with the upper front corner bumped. Jacket is excellent.....
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed the year after first publication on the illustrated map front free endpaper: "for Reba, from Ed Abbey, Phoenix '76." Abbey's classic and comedic novel of eco-resistance featuring George Hayduke and famously inspiring the Earth First! organization. Black paper boards with a stamped.....
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).....
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the illustrated map front free endpaper: "To Cynthia Farah, from her friend Edward Abbey, Tucson 1984." Farah is a photographer and film critic and was a friend of many Southwest writers (among them also Cormac McCarthy). Notably she.....
NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the front free endpaper by Abbey. One of the classics of American environmental writing, Abbey writes of his time as a ranger at Arches National Monument and of its desert geology and wildlife, takes a last float trip through Glen Canyon.....
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.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 1997. Forsyth, Turid. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page: "For ___, with appreciation for your enthusiasm and interest in the natural world. John Alcock, 17 June 1999." This book won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing. Near fine book in near.....
Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. From the Texas Folklore Series. An association copy, inscribed on the pastedown: " With warmest regards and gratitude to Wallace Stegner, from one fo the authors, Howard C. Key." With the Ex Libris bookplate of Page Stegner, Wallace Stegner's son who.....
NY: Harper & Row, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Keith, with best wishes, David Douglas, October 1993." Uncommon signed. Also laid in is a short handwritten letter to Keith. A slender book at 100 pages that explores the spiritual dimensions of wilderness, arranged in.....
Peregrine Smith, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed as a gift on the front free endpaper by David Brower, the first and longtime executive director of the Sierra Club: "For Karen Gosling, with every best wish, presumptively, David R. Brower (who likes the grand canyon, too), January 31, 1986.".....
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.....
College Station: Texas A&M UP, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To my friend, Harley Reno -- peerless naturalist. Frederick R. Gehlbach." Uncommon signed. Reno was Gehlbach's colleague at Baylor and a professor of biology. "In this engaging personal narrative, biologist Fred Gehlbach.....
Salt Lake City: Torrey House, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the editor and contributor Jacqueline Keeler (Diné/Dakota) on the title page. Uncommon signed. A collection of essays and poems from a wide variety of indigenous voices giving testimony to the importance of the Bears Ears in southwestern Utah, which.....
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.....
Tucson: U of Arizona P, 2005. First edition. Softcover. Signed by Lamberton on the title page. A paperback original, uncommon signed. This is Lamberton's third book, a collection of essays about the natural world written from prison where Lamberton spent twelve years. His first book, Wilderness and Razor Wire, won the.....
NY: Dell, 1991. First edition. Softcover. Second printing. A paperback original. A nice cross-cultural association copy, inscribed by the editor Craig Lesley opposite the title page: "For Rudulfo [Anaya], with admiration and appreciation. I hope each story brings pleasure. Craig, 1-23-92." Also laid in is a typed postcard signed (TLS).....
NY: Harper, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing. Signed on the title page by Momaday and uncommon thus. "In Earth Keeper, [Momaday] reflects on his native ground and its influence on his people. . . . He shows us that the earth is a sacred place of wonder and beauty.....
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by both Nabhan and the illustrator Paul Mirocha on the title page. Uncommon signed. Nabhan's second book, the winner of the John Burroughs Medal in natural history writing. Includes twelve chapters on different, bountiful desert plants and their uses, and.....
Tuscon: U Arizona P, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Joe Tainter, with gratitude, Gary Nabhan." Uncommon signed with no other copies available as of this writing. Tainter is a prominent anthropologist, historian, and professor in the Department of Environment and Society.....
Santa Fe: SAR Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "With sincere appreciation and thanks to Scott, David Grant Noble." The recipient, N. Scott Momaday, wrote the five-page foreword, in which he begins: "David Grant Noble writes out of an extraordinary fund of knowledge.....
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing, 1968. Signed by Perceval on the half title page. From the library of N. Scott Momaday, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for House of the Rising Dawn in 1969 and a key figure of the literary Native American Renaissance. He received the.....
Notre Dame, IN: Snite Museum of Art (U Notre Dame), 1999. Hardcover. A nice family association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper in the year of publication to N. Scott Momaday by his daughter: "1999, For Dad-- Happy Father's Day! We love you so much . . . Jill.....
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.....
NY: Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Press, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to no recipient on the half-title page: "Reach, Erik." Uncommon signed (apart from a bookplate). Weihenmayer climbed Mt. Everest as a blind man, as detailed in Touch the Top of the World, and then took up this challenge: kayaking.....