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Washington, D.C.:: Island Press,, (1991.). First edition -. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A collection of essays about the environment and the movement to protect it by Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey, Barry Commoner, Anne and Paul Ehrlich, Wendell Berry and others. Notes on the contributors, index. 282… Read more about this item

New York:: Free Press,, (2004.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. A fascinating account of the struggle to bring justice after an environmental crime at an acid fertilizer plant in Soda Springs, Idaho, that left a young man permanently brain damaged. This precipitated a three-year investigation and trial. Written by… Read more about this item

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1899.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in original light olive green pebbled cloth binding, with a small decoration of a stag, borders and titles in gilt on a green panel. Top edge gilt. Bookplate, some rubbing to the lettering and sides of the spine, corners slightly bumped.. First printing - (stated… Read more about this item

New York:: Oxford University Press,, 1951,. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in yellow cloth (booksellers line on bottom edge), no dust jacket.. First printing. A rather droll - but still serious - examination of the extinction of some species and the threat of extinction faced by others. Illustrated with cartoons by Richard Taylor. Introductory chapter by… Read more about this item

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1966.. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket. (short closed tear, other edgewear, price-clipped). First printing. "A wilderness tale of a deer, his mate, their offspring and two human friends." From their backwoods cabin in the Gunflint range of Northeastern Minnesota, the author and her husband first encountered the starving deer they… Read more about this item

New York:: Atlantic Monthly Press,, I2009). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Foreword by David Suzuki and responses by Richard Branson, Bill McKibben and others. Notes. A small but important book. 167 pp.

New York:: Dodd, Mead,, 1914.. Hardcover first edition -. Good overall in burnt sienna cloth with gilt lettering, gilt top edge - bookplate, wear to corners and edges of boards, but tight and sturdy.. First US printing. Eleven essays most on mason-bees, including results of his experiments, exchanging the nests, and the tribulation of mason-bees, but also… Read more about this item

London:: Century, , (1990). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A book in which this "pioneering voice in modern nature writing" looks at the origins of his love of nature and landscape. In this "nature is rowdy, cosmopolitan and full of hope; and in his absorbing account of bringing a Chiltern… Read more about this item

Austin:: University of Texas Press,, 1993.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. 'A book which describes "all aspects of the kite's life cycle, from breeding and nesting, raising young, and hunting and feeding to the kite's annual return to its winter range in South America'." Illustrated with photographs,most in full-color,… Read more about this item

New York:: Viking,, (1989). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (remainder line). First printing. Iowa-based author's first book - in it he "sets out here to bridge the everyday and the eternal, using his experience of a familiar prairie river as a starting point for observations about the universe. 'Rivering,' as he… Read more about this item

New York & Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1992.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A biologist describes an expedition to Baja California in search of the landscape described in John Steinbeck's Sea of Cortez. He describes the magical landscapes there from a scientist's point of view and explores how his experience on… Read more about this item

Seattle:: Mountaineers Books, , (1996). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. A collection of essays on the environmental past and future of the Western United States. Like Abbey and Wallace Stegner and other both established and younger writers, Frome refused to quit pointing fingers and naming names until he… Read more about this item

New York:: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, , (1997). Good condition overall - some wear to covers, straight spine, tight and clean. . 1st trade paperback printing. A book which interweaves personal observation, scientific theory and history as it examines evolution and extinction on islands. Maps by Kris Ellingsen. Notes, bibliography, index, 702 pp.

New York:: Liveright,, (2014). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a good only dust jacket (approximately half of the rear flap of the dust jacket has been cut off) . First printing. A book in which "memory, mythology, and obsession collide . . Moses Harvey was the eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist who first photographed… Read more about this item

Oxford:: Basil Blackwell,, 1950.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in tan boards with red lettering (minor wear to the spine ends), no dust jacket. . First printing. The preface by Paul Geroudet notes that "information about these colonies of the Camargue was scanty, unpromising and even misleading, and we were doubtful if the bird could… Read more about this item

New York:: Random House,, (1989). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Described as a "beautifully proportioned mix of personal reminiscence and natural history" this is an intensive study of a single ecosystem. "Hammock" refers to a hardwood grove in Florida's open marshes and pine woods, and Bulow Hammock, north of Daytona, is… Read more about this item

New York:: Viking,, (1991). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. A book by one of the founders of the Sanctuary movement - one which presents "his beliefs and experiences as a former goat raiser, naturalist, activist, and Quaker whose wanderings have led him to many locations in the United… Read more about this item

New York:: Lyons Press,, (1997). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. An "account of life on the banks of North Carolina's Lower Neuse River, of the people who live there, and of a way of living in step with the rhythms of the natural world that… Read more about this item

Helena, MT:: Falcon Publishing,, (1998). SIGNED first edition -. Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. Collects the stories of 18 attacks by grizzlies between 1977-1997, of the sometimes remarkable bravery of those involved both during the account and afterwards. The encounters were in Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, in Alaska, Montana and… Read more about this item

New York:: Picador,. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. An eloquent book on a modern dilemma by this poet and writer, one which that follows her travels along the fringes of the wild, from an Oregon beach to islands in the sea of Cortez, the Bay of Fundy, southern Mexico, South… Read more about this item