Helena, MT: Falcon, 1994. First edition. Paperback. A paperback original, inscribed in the year of publication on the epigraph page (following the copyright page): "8/14/94, Terry Shade 50th Birthday, 'Best wishes on the second 50' and good fishing, Frank C. Craighead, Jr." Scarce signed, and Frank Craighead's signature seems scarce.....
Amherst: U Massachusetts P, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to former United States Forest Service Chief Jack Ward Thomas: "Best wishes to Jack Ward Thomas, Richard M DeGraaf, Gretchen M. Whitman." Signed by both authors. Thomas has signed his name, date (1979) and.....
NY: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To C.E. Hutchinson, with best wish [sic] and the hope that reading this book will give you pleasure. Willis J. Gertsch." Uncommon signed. Also laid in is a one-page typed letter signed.....
NY: Harper & Row, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Hay on the title page: "For Carl and Mary Taylor, with all good wishes, John Hay." Possibly the Carl Taylor who was a prominent physician of international health at John Hopkins. "In describing the land and inhabitants of the North.....
Berkeley: U California P, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Ed Fitzsimmons, With hopes of sharing time again in La Paz or one of the other coastal parts of Mexico, ASL." Also signed in full, "A. Starker Leopold," on the title page. Uncommon signed, with no.....
The Alcade Press, Austin, Tx, 1964. 1st Edition. Soft cover. First softcover edition, inscribed on the half title page: "with best wishes, Lady Bird Johnson." Also affixed to that page is a "Welcome to the LBJ Ranch" name tag sticker of Scott Bermer, a cameraman for NBC, who presumably obtained.....
Houghton Mifflin (T), 1980. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed generously on the dedication page in red ink to the person who spearheaded the book's production at Houghton Mifflin: "For Morton Baker -- Terry -- This book has a great deal of you in it. With our gratitude, Roger Tory.....
NY: Norton, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Boldly inscribed on the half-title page: "To Patty Jackson, one of the great Nols grads, with love, Paul Petzoldt." Uncommon signed. Paul Petzoldt was an accomplished and pioneering mountain climber (he first climbed the Grand Teton at age 16, becoming the fourth or fifth.....
NY: Thomas Nelson Inc., 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing, September 1972. Inscribed to no recipient on the title page: "The variety of winter adaptations of invertebrate animals is amazing and mind boggling. Helen Ross Russell." Uncommon signed. One has to love the very specific nature of this book, which.....
NY: Viking, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Herb Gold, best wishes, Rebecca Solnit (and Farley)" [the parenthetical difficult to parse . . . perhaps "and fondly"]. Uncommon signed, with no other copies available as of this writing. Herb Gold was an influential.....
Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by both Solnit, who provides the text, and Caron, the illustrator, on the half-title page. Uncommon signed. Inspired by classic bestiaries, which were often fantastical, this book presents factual but wondrous accounts of California animals including the acorn woodpecker, California condor, grizzly.....
Cambridge, MA: The University Press (Harvard), 1888. First edition. Copy 19 of only 100 copies, and thus scarce. A book that gives classification and description to geographical features both common and uncommon, mainly in North America, and an important book because it ties nomenclature to real world examples. An early.....
Cambridge, MA: University Press (Harvard), 1874. First edition thus. Hardcover. The third edition, or "pocket edition," revised and corrected, "having incorporated into it some additional information procured in 1873" as Whitney writes in the "Prefatory Note." Published by the authority of the legislature and originally published as a quarto in.....
NY: Harper & Row, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Zwinger in blue ink, and uncommon signed by her. This book was a finalist for the 1973 National Book Award in Science. "The first comprehensive book on the ecology of the alpine tundra of the United.....