NY: Broadway Books, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page: "To Veronica, MAny thanks and all very best wishes, Bill Bryson." Uncommon signed in this US edition. A contemporary outdoor classic and only rivaled by Cheryl Strayed''s Wild as the most-read and -beloved thru-hiking memoir, inspiring countless others.....
London: Doubleday / Transworld Publishers, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. The simultaneous British edition, inscribed in the year of publication on the title page: "For Phyllis, All very best wishes, Bill Bryson, Lowon [sp?], November '97." A contemporary outdoor classic and only rivaled by Cheryl Strayed''s Wild as the most-read and.....
NY: Broadway Books, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Bryson on the title page. Uncommon signed in this US edition. A contemporary outdoor classic and only rivaled by Cheryl Strayed''s Wild as the most-read and -beloved thru-hiking memoir, inspiring countless others to "get out there," with a sense of humor. .....
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.....
NY: Knopf, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Kevin, with many thanks for photographs and memories from Grand Canyon, 1989. Colin Fletcher, 4 Dec 90." Uncommon signed. "The Pied Piper of walkers," Fletcher had a big hand in the popularization of backpacking via books like.....
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed to Legends of the Fall author Jim Harrison on the title page in a flowing cursive with an elegant brown pen: "To Jim Harrison (who helped launch Blue Highways). Heat-Moon." A great connection between place-based authors of renown, and a......
Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page: "Greg + Rita, Two people who have experienced the herd. K Heuer." Uncommon signed, with no other copies available as of this writing. Winner of the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award and a National Outdoor Book.....
Ashland, OR: Lewis Osborne, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. An uncommon limited edition, this number 645 of 1000 copies, and a nice association copy, inscribed in the year of publication by the editor via a label affixed on the limitation page: "Christmas, 1972, For Jean Hanna Clark who, by ancestory [sic].....
Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the "Also by" page: "For Charles Colburn, see page 87, with best wishes, John Hanson Mitchell." Pages 87-90 detail an encounter and conversation on Hanson's 15-mile bushwack pilgrimage to Thoreau's grave with an old man on his longstanding family land.....
Mariner Books, 1993. First edition. Softcover. Signed by both Delia and Mark Owens on the title page. Loosely a sequel to Cry of the Kalahari, which was set in Botswana and won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing. This book tells of their new efforts in Zambia to.....
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by Teale on the title page. Uncommon signed. A book about Teale's move to northern Connecticut from Long Island and his discovery of his new acreage and its ecology via his daily rambles, in the vein of Thoreau at Walden and Burroughs.....
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1978. Hardcover. Not signed, but taped to the front free endpaper is an envelope with a small notecard written and sent by Teale. It reads in full: "February 5, 1979, Dear Mrs. Ahlefeld--Thank you for your letter about my books--especially "A Walk Through The Year." I am.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. First printing with all points present. One of 2,000 copies. April ads at rear, which are the earliest, though the ads are of no priority. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Rebacked with the original spine expertly laid down. Original boards.....
n.p. Homebound Publications, 2021. First edition. Paperback. A paperback original, inscribed on the dedication page: "Jan, 2022, For Jane -- who represents the power and hope and wild force that women embody. [star sketch] Brooke" (the dedication is "For the women in my life . . ."). Also signed in.....