Search Results: Nature / Ecology from Chris Hartmann, Bookseller

San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books. Hardcover. 1998. 1st Edition. 4to 216pp . Fine in Fine DJ. Color Photographs. Signed by the editor, Harvard Ayers on half title page .

Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press. Hardcover. 1951. 1st Edition. 8vo 623pp . Very Good in Good+ DJ. Slightly cocked, DJ spine darkened Fernow was the first professional forester in North America and the leading American forester from 1876 until his death in 1923 .

New York: W. W. Norton & Co.. Hardcover. 1987. 1st Edition. 8vo 251pp . Very Good in Good+ DJ. B&W Photographs Bottom corner bumped, DJ has tears and two stains on upper edge of rear panel, not affecting the book The author, as a young ecologist built her own cabin in the Adirondacks. In less than a decade the high-tech world had intruded on her peace, so she was forced to seek sanctuary deeper in the woods. This book tells of how she built a second, smaller cabin, Thoreau II, at a cost of $138.38 .

New York: W. H. Freeman & Company. Hardcover. 2001. 1st Edition. 8vo 299pp . Fine in Fine DJ.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.. Hardcover. 1990. 1st Edition. 8vo 317pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations Neat printed name sticker .

Berkeley: Univ. Of California Press. Hardcover. 2002. 1st Edition. 8vo 255pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. Autobiography by a pioneer of international conservation and wildlife ecology .

Syracuse: ESF College Foundation. Hardcover. 1994. 8vo 320pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations Born in 1857, Pack made his fortune by investing in southern timber, banking, and real estate and by inheriting his father's Michigan timber mills .

Austin, TX: Eakin Press. Hardcover. 1989. 1st Edition. 8vo 124pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W and Color Photographs .

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. Hardcover. 1997. 1st Edition. 8vo 335pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations News Release sheet about the book from the Harvard University Press is laid in. A scarce book .

New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press. Hardcover. 1957. 2nd Printing. 8vo 284pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations This copy is signed by Wheeler McMillen, Rene Dubos, and 5 others whose names I cannot distinguish The publication of this book coincided with the fiftieth anniversary of the conservation movement in America. It is a history of the whole movement, and, in effect, a biography of Gifford Pinchot's career in the field of conservation .

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. Hardcover. 1994. 1st Edition. 8vo 277pp . Fine in Very Good+ DJ. An account of America as it was before it got its name. The author paints a heart-rending portrait of the lush, miraculous New World on the eve of the arrival of the first Europeans .

Norman: Univ. Of Oklahoma Press. Hardcover. 1947. 8vo 178pp . Good+ with no DJ. B&W Illustrations. Inscribed by author and with a small sketch. A botanist examines how the white race has plundered and laid waste a storehouse of natural resources .

Lincoln: Univ. Of Nebraska Press. Hardcover. 1988. 1st thus. 8vo 295pp . Very Good in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs Little fading on front cover This is the revised & enlarged edition of: The Conservationists, first published in 1971 .

New York: Viking Press. Hardcover. 1995. 3rd Printing. 8vo 275pp . Fine in Fine DJ.

New York: Broadway Books. Hardcover. 1998. 4th Printing. 8vo 372pp . Fine in Fine DJ.

Lanham: Madison Books. Hardcover. 1996. 1st Paperback. 8vo 316pp . Fine with no DJ. Charts .

New York: Dial Press. Hardcover. 1982. 1st Edition. 8vo 405pp . Very Good in Good+ DJ. Top corners bumped Terrifying account of the Apocalypse due to our crimes against Nature: pollution, overpopulation, the arms race etc .

New York: St. Martin's Press. Hardcover. 1978. 1st Edition. Thin 8vo 154pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. This book traces man's struggles to overcome his obstacles: problems of nutrition, disease, genetics and social problems of frustrated nomadic urges. Man has created an unstable ecology dependent on the expenditure of capital resources of raw materials and energy. A very scarce book .

Seattle: Univ. Of Washington Press. Hardcover. 1995. 1st Edition. 8vo 368pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations Across the inland West, forests have turned into an ecological nightmare. Focuses on the Blue Mountains of Oregon/Washington .

San Francisco: Sierra Club. Hardcover. 1989. 1st Edition. 8vo 282pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations Biography of a beautiful forest in Oregon's Cascade Mountains .