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Boston:: Stratford Co., , 1930.. Hardcover first edition -. Overall very near fine condition - a few small spots to the watered silk covers. . First edition. A scarce privately printed publication in an unusual format - the text is printed only on one side of the leaves (all the leaves are unopened) and each is followed by a blank leaf. Opposing the text is a full page plate of photographs by Gandara of desert scenes in the Southwest or Mexico. An unusual and appealing book.

New York:: Grosset & Dunlap,, (ca 1950, c 1917.). Hardcover -. Very good in a good only dust jacket (significant edgewear to dj, but front cover is bright and appealing).. Reprint. The author's third nature book, about a part wolf, part-dog, based upon a real dog, and written, as he describes in the preface, in the hopes of having his readers know wild animals as they actually live. Bound in tan cloth, illustrated by Frank B. Hoffman, with a plain frontispiece and 5 internal drawings. A title in the Famous Dog Stories series. xi, 303 pp plus 4 pp ads.

New York:: Norton,, 1987.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (small previous owner's stamp.). First printing. An account of the environmentalist's move to a smaller cabin deeper in the woods of the Adirondacks.

New York:: Basic Books / Perseus,, (2014). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. A provocative look at the forces that have enabled man to move from being just another mammal to the dominant force on earth by this MacArthur award winning environmental biologist. The change has been rapid - "In 1950, there were 2.5 billion of us, only 30 percent of which lived in cities. Today there are nearly 7 billion of us, and more than 50 percent of us live in cities. By 2050, there will be 9 billion humans, with 70 percent of us in cities... Yet humanity's footprint on the planet has expanded exponentially in the last century. Each manipulation of nature increased the amount of food our species could produce. The result is the Big Ratchet of the twentieth century, and today's explosion of mouths to feed, meat-laden diets, overcrowded cities, and the irony of overweight populations with too much food in some countries, while others starve."… Read More

Philadelphia:: American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), , (1976.). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in blue cloth with silver lettering (stamp on front endpaper, binding slightly off-center following title page, but overall sturdy and clean.). First printing. ASTM Special Technical Publication Number 607. Includes abstracts of each paper, photographs, graphs and charts. Index. 246 pp.

Philadelphia:: American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), , (1978.). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in turquoise cloth with silver lettering (stamps on front endpaper and title page). First printing. ASTM Special Technical Publication Number 652. Includes abstracts of each paper, graphs and charts. Index. 184 pp.

New York:: Dover Press,, (1962.). Very good condition.. Trade paperback. Facsmile reproduction of this classic work on birds - considered the best general introduction to the subject - originally published in 1925. Illustrated. References, index. 337 pp.

New York:: Random House,, (1994). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a near fine dust jacket (some stains to edges of textblock, but otherwise tight and clean) . First US printing. One reviewer summed this book up well: "A delightful book that manages to make spiders damned interesting." Illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs. References, index, 218 pp.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, (2007.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. A follow-up to the authors original, controversial essay, The Death of Environmentalism, published in 2004; an interesting and eloquent manifesto for political change which argues that human creativity needs to be unleashed to cope with the challenges of global warming, not constrained. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. 341 pp.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, (2007.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. A follow-up to the authors original, controversial essay, The Death of Environmentalism, published in 2004; an interesting and eloquent manifesto for political change which argues that human creativity needs to be unleashed to cope with the challenges of global warming, not constrained. SIGNED on the title page by both authors. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. 341 pp.

Philadelphia:: New Society Publishers, , (1986). First edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. Sets forth Bahro's "views on North-South relations and the peace movement, his opposition to a coalition between Greens and Social Democrats, his ideas of renewal of communities, disaffection with parliamentary politics, and insistence on the need for spiritual resurgence." Translated by Mary Tyler, 219 pp.

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 one of the last stands of these groves on the East Coast, a woodland-marsh where sub-tropical and north-temperate vegetation meet. Conservationists saved it from developers, and it is now a State Park. Bibliography. 170 pp.

Indianapolis:: Bobbs-Merrill,, (1962.). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a good dust jacket (prev owner's name, some edgewear and small chips to the dj.) Uncommon. . First printing. One of the later (and harder to find) books in the 'living forest series' written by a man who, with his wife Giny, found a wilderness home on 'Sanctuary Lake' in Wisconsin, where the North woods stretch from there into Canada, a land of no roads, towns or man-made intrusions, a land where peace lives on.This is a realistic story of a mother raccoon and her four baby coonlets. Illustrated with photographs by Charles Philip Fox. 127 pp.

San Francisco:: California Division of Fish and Game, , 1946.. First edition -. Good in dark green stapled wrappers. . First printing. Includes articles on muskrats and Pacific tuna-like fishes, and more. Illustrated with photographs, charts and maps. pp 163-204. Index to volume 32. Other issues of this journal in stock.

San Francisco:: California Division of Fish and Game, , 1947.. First edition -. Good in dark green stapled wrappers. . First printing. Includes articles on classifying vegetation in California, on the Castle Lake trout. Large full-color folding map on the distribution of vegetation and a section of photographs on glossy stock. Illustrated with photographs, charts and maps. pp 199-329. Other issues of this journal in stock.

San Francisco:: California Division of Fish and Game, , 1945.. First edition -. Good in dark green stapled wrappers. . First printing. Includes a study of the California mule deer at Sequoia National Park, and more. Illustrated with photographs and maps. 32 pp. Other issues of this journal in stock.

San Francisco:: California Division of Fish and Game, , 1946.. First edition -. Good in dark green stapled wrappers. . First printing. Includes articles on the Castle Lake trout and Cooper Hawk nesting, and more. Illustrated with photographs, charts and maps. pp 109-161. Other issues of this journal in stock.

San Francisco:: California Division of Fish and Game, , 1945.. First edition -. Good in dark green stapled wrappers. . First printing. Includes a preliminary study of the fishery resources in relation to the Central Valley Water Project, and more. Illustrated with photographs and maps. pp 33-74. Other issues of this journal in stock.

Oxford, England / Cambridge, MA: : Basil Blackwell,Inc., , (1990). Hardcover -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. 2nd printing. The origins and evolution of humankind against the background of climactic change during the ice ages of the past five millions years - and speculation about possible catastrophic future changes. Appendix, bibliography, & index. vii, 199 pp.

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 felt that important environmental concerns were no longer being sloughed off as second-rate issues. This collection offers environmental criticism at its best. These essays, spanning 30 years, are as relevant today as when they were first published. Included are essays on clearcutting, on destruction in the Bitterroots, on loving our National Parks to death, and "Who's Managing the Managers While They Manage the Wolves?" and much more. Reading list, index. 239 pp.