Stamford, CT: Pushcart Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Edward Abbey's copies of this fun project from the longtime editor the Pushcart Prizes, Bill Henderson. Two volumes, each with Abbey's ownership signature ("Abbey") on the front free endpaper and "Abbey" written on the bottom face of the text block. These books.....
NY: Knopf, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Inscribed for Marcia Clapp with love by Will Beebe." Marcia Clapp [DeRocco] was an artist who sculpted a stone bust of Beebe that's now held in his archives with the Wildlife Conservation Society. She later founded the Pocono.....
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.....
London: Little, Brown, 1999. First thus. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "To Dava Sobel, with admiration, Edmund Blair Bolles." Uncommon signed. A great anthology of the literature of science, including both scientists and popular writers, including such names as Issac Assimov, John McPhee, Stephen Jay Gould.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to no recipient on the front free endpaper: "With great respect for your work in conserving the world's environment. F. H. Bormann, S.R. Kellert." The inscription is in Bormann's hand, but it's signed by both authors. Uncommon signed. From the.....
Boston: Beacon Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page by the editor and Carson's biographer: "For Isabelle [?], with warm good wishes and gratitude, Linda Lear." Uncommon signed. This book includes Carson's previously uncollected writings, including newspapers articles, Fish and Wildlife Service publications, journal entries, letters, and.....
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993. First edition. Softcover. Signed by Daly on the half-title page. Uncommon signed. A significant revision of Daly's book Economics, Ecology, and Ethics, this anthology includes "more than twenty classic and recent essays that broaden economic thinking by setting the economy in its proper ecological and ethical context." Includes.....
NY: HarperCollins, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the title page to National Book Award-winning novelist Robert Stone and his wife: "For Janice and Bob, love Annie." Also signed in full by Dillard lower on the page. Robert Stone and Dillard were good friends, and Dillard wrote.....
Orbis Books, 2016. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Association copy, with a post-it on the title page from this anthology's editor Brian Doyle--the much beloved, late essayist and posthumous winner of the John Burroughs Medal--written to contributor Father Charles Gordon: "Charles--See pg. 181, and thank you. Brian." Gordon's essay "Why I......
W W Norton & Co Inc, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed on the front free endpaper by the editor, Robert Finch, and four contributors: Stanley Kunitz, Mark Doty, Mary Lou Weisman, and E.J. Kahn Jr. A nice collection of signatures. Kunitz and Doty are both winners of the National Book.....
Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed by the editor on the title page: "For Howard Lamar, with pleasure and admiration, and with warmest thanks, Christiane Fischer, 23. IX. 1977." Lamar was an influential historian of the American West at Yale and was for two.....
Munchen, Germany: Saur, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. E.O. Wilson's copy of this uncommon anthology providing bios of and excerpts from all the General Nonfiction Pulitzer winners across the thirty years since the inception of the category in 1962. Laid in is a typed letter signed (TLS) from the editor Heinz-Dietrich.....
Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. E.O. Wilson's copy of this uncommon, and momentous, anthology born out of a symposium to mark the bicentennial of the nation and examine the history of American science and its explorations of evolution across that period. With Wilson's ownership signature at.....
Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fifth printing, but a rock star association copy, inscribed on the dedication page: "To David Byrne, all the best, Don Henley, 10-27-91." Byrne is of course famous as the front man for Talking Heads, but has gone in many directions since then.....
Lexington: UP Kentucky, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing (number line to 2). Signed both by editors on the title page. A collection of oral histories from people directly impacted by and/or fighting in central Applachia against moutaintop removala, a highly destructive coal mining technique in which whole mountain tops.....
Charlotte: The East Woods Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the editor on the title page: "For Jack Remington -- I appreciate your counsel and your friendship. Enjoy these [riparian?] experiences, and let's run another river together before long. Verne Huser." Possibly the Jack Remington who wrote several Oregon.....
Garden City, NJ: Hanover House, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To our good friend Dr. Michael J. Jordan, with best wishes to all the family. From Margaret and John Kieran, Rockport, Mass." The inscription is in Kieran's hand. Uncommon signed. With commentaries and biographies of.....
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).....
Trinity University Press, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by the the editor, the late Barry Lopez, in blue ink. A handsome coffee table book and a wonderful resource in that it not only is an education in geographic terms, but also a survey of contemporary environmental.....
NY: Vintage, 2000. First edition. Softcover. An uncorrected proof signed with a Sharpie on the title page by Matthiessen. A book issued as a paperback original, uncommon signed and more so in this proof form. Selections from his nonfiction from 1951 to 1999, including excerpts from The Snow Leopard and Wildlife in America.....
NY: Vintage, 2000. First edition. Softcover. Inscribed in a blue pen on the title page: "For Marlene, with warm regards, Peter Matthiessen." A paperback original, uncommon signed. Selections from his nonfiction from 1951 to 1999, including excerpts from The Snow Leopard and Wildlife in America, among his many other books. Edited and introduced.....
2008: Library of America, NY. First edition. Hardcover. Second printing. Inscribed on the title page: "For Ruth Anne -- Part of a great tradition. Bill McKibben." Uncommon signed. A handsome and excellent anthology edited by McKibben and with a foreword by Al Gore. The classics like Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey.....
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the second blank: "For Dan, namaste in abundance, dear amigo. Lovingly, Terri, 12/7/96." Uncommon signed. The recipient is important photographer Dan Budnik, with his name stamp at the lower corner of the front free endpaper. Budnik is.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the half-title page by John McPhee: "For Stephanie Schlant, on the occasion of a fine evening in Denville, Yolanda and John McPhee, 12/19/76." "Yolanda" is in John McPhee's hand. An association copy, inscribed to the stepdaughter of senator/basketball star Bill.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First printing. An uncommon book in hardcover, and notable for the bibliography of McPhee work it includes. A fine book except that the upper corner of the front free endpaper is clipped; in a near fine jacket on account of one eighth-inch.....