Search Results: Titles starting with S from Rural Hours

International Union For Conservation Of Nature And Natural Resources, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A commemorative volume co-edited by the winners of the 2010 Goteberg Award for sustainability, considered the environmental equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Association copy, inscribed on the front end free paper by one of the winners/co-editors to a colleague: "To Bill Karp, with my very best wishes, Kenneth Sherman, 3/14/11." Bill Karp was the head of the NOAA Fisheries' Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole before his retirement in 2016. Previously he was the deputy director of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center. Kenneth Sherman was the director of NOAA Fisheries Office of Marine Ecosystems Studies and of the NOAA Fisheries Laboratory in Narragansett, Rhode Island. As the Goteberg award citation notes: "In the 1980s, Dr. Sherman, together with others, pioneered the concept of large marine ecosystems (LMEs). Sherman and his colleagues recognized that large areas of the oceans… Read More

Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. An association copy, not signed but from the library of Joan Didion, renown author of such works as The Year of Magical Thinking, Play It as It Lays, The White Album, and Slouching Toward Bethlehem. A bookplate affirming this provenance is on the front free endpaper. With a "Compliments of the Author" card laid in. Fine book in very near fine jacket with light rubbing. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We also have a distinct interest in contemporary essay and invite you to explore our other Joan Didion offerings.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. An association copy, inscribed on the half title page: "To Pat Moynihan, with warm regards, Dillon Ripley." Laid in also is Ripley's card.  Moynihan was a four-term US Senator from NY from 1977 to 2001 who, among other many other activities and accomplishments, served for a stint as the chairman of the Senate Environment Committee. Earlier, as a counselor to President Richard Nixon, he also wrote an incredibly on-the-mark memo to Congress in 1969 about the dangers of carbon dioxide to climate change--a very early public alarm that it seems is seldom recognized in the sweep of climate change advocacy.  Sidney Dillon Ripley was an ornithologist, a wildlife conservationist, and for twenty years the Secretary of the Smithsonian, leading the charge to reinvigorate and expand the institution. He was an expert on rails (the waterfowl) and birds in Asia. He was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom. This title was his primary… Read More

Viking Adult, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Association copy, inscribed on the half title page: "To Joe [Meeker] from Paul, with an Ursus hug." Uncommon signed. With an afterword by Gary Snyder. A great association between influential environmental writers: Shepard is known for his wide-ranging contributions to deep ecological thought, especially the "Pleistocene paradigm," and was recognized with Guggenheim and Rockefeller grants. Joseph Meeker is credited with originating the idea of ecocriticism, which he first called literary ecology in his influential book *The Comedy of Survival: Studies in Literary Ecology* (1972). A very near fine book with a hint of dusting to top face of text block; in a very good jacket with some creasing and very short tears to top of rear panel. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Field Translation Series 3, 1980, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper by the translator Stuart Freibart to Annie Dillard: "Annie, if'n you have time for this some time, here! With affection + regard, S." With Dillard's bookplate. Near fine with faint foxing to upper face of text block; in a a very good dust jacket with rubbing and edge wear. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Viking Adult, 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Association copy, inscribed to Allen Ginsberg in gold ink on the rust-red front free endpaper: "For ol' Ginzie! Sail on, Love, Ken Kesey." A remarkable countercultural pairing, and let's not forget Ginsberg's 1965 poem "First Party At Ken Kesey's With Hell's Angels" ("And 4 police cars parked outside the painted / gate, red lights revolving in the leaves.") Second printing, number line ending in 2. Fine book in fine jacket. A standout book for any library. .

Philadelphia: Ferris & Leach, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. With the long secondary subtitle of "Being a Quaker Maiden's Account of her Experiences with Officers of the Continental Army-1777-1778." Inscribed in pencil on the front fee endpaper: "Amos, from Dan.* Xmas 1902 With the compliments of her relative. *Owen Wister." It appears the entire inscription is in Owen Wister's hand, that he wrote it as a gift inscription to be given by a friend to another friend.  Perhaps unique signed by Wister, and an uncommon book in general with only one other copy available at the time of this writing. With the bookplate on the pastedown of Amos Tuck French, a prominent banker, director fo he Northern Pacific Railway, and New York society man. Owen Wister is duly famous as the author of The Virginian, the seminal Western. Sally Wister (1761-1804) is known for this journal, her firsthand nine-month account of living in the countryside near Philadelphia while it was occupied by the British during… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed on the title page in black ink. Fine book in a very near fine jacket with a single, shallow smudge/spot of wear at upper right corner of rear panel, about a quarter-inch long. Uncommon signed. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Simon & Schuster, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Advanced uncorrected proof, softcover, inscribed on the front end free paper: "For Joe Libs [sp?], with all my thanks for this unlikely bestseller -- Joan Didion, April 7 83." An apparent association copy, probably to someone who helped promote or edit the book, etc., but we can't identify the recipient. Scarce signed in this format in any case. Yellow perfect-bound wraps, lightly soiled and with a few stray, small streaks to the cover. Very faint foxing to upper edge of text block and to FFEP/final page. Quarter-inch split to wraps at bottom of spine. Pages are hand-numbered. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. First printing. Signed by Didion on the front free endpaper. A fine book in a very near fine jacket with a touch of rubbing and a hint of toning to rear edge of spine. Jacket just slightly offset which seems usual for this title. With an "Autographed at Hunter's" red and gold sticker on lower left corner of front jacket panel. Hunter's was the famed Beverly Hills Bookstore on Rodeo Drive--very Didion.

SF: San Francisco Arts Festival, 1963. First edition. Loose leaf. Fine. A 14 x 21 inch folio containing eight broadsides produced at various small presses and printers, each signed by the poet and illustrator. It was offered for sale by Donald Allen's Four Seasons Foundation (the Foundation's true first publishing project, apparently, though that's often said to be the Freeway broadsides of 1964). An orange letterpress prospectus from Four Seasons is included that finishes: "Each broadside is signed by the poet and artist. Limited to an edition of 300, of which we have a few remaining sets we are offering ..." Yet it seems clear that not all sets or broadsides were actually signed. Notably, here Lew Welch's signature is present on his "Early Summer Hermit Song," which is scarce. Almost all of the copies of this broadside that we've seen have been only signed by the illustrator, if that. "Early Summer Hermit Song" was Welch's second solo publication following Wobbly Rock.   The folio includes the… Read More

Aarhus University Press, 2009. Hardcover. Fine. Association copy, from the library of noted Oregon vulcanologist Alexander McBirney. Fine book without dust jacket as issued.

Washington DC: Island Press, 1993. Near fine/Near fine. Inscribed generously on the title page: "To John: Your progressive voice is like a beacon shining from the dark, lighting a path towards the future for Idaho + the West. Rocky Barker." Uncommon signed. A book that is "a journalist's  exploration of the coexistence of endangered species protection and the future of resource dependent communities." Case studies examined along the way include Pacific salmon, grizzly bears, peregrines falcons, and wolves. Barker was an environmental journalist for the Idaho Fall's Post Register and later Boise's Idaho Statesman, and he led a sixth-month investigation on the subject in the Northwest.  He's also written on fires in Yellowstone. A near fine book with a daub of white paint to upper right corner of front board and faint sunning to lower edges; in a very near fine jacket.

Copper Canyon Press, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed on the title page. Not marked, but from the library of naturalist-author and MacArthur Genius Grant-recipient Gary Paul Nabhan, known in particular for his writing on Indigenous populations and their ethnobotany in the Southwest. Nabhan and Harrison were neighbors and friends in Patagonia, Arizona. Nabhan is also a winner of then John Burroughs Medal for nature writing. This book is far less common found signed in its trade issue than the limited edition issue. Fine book in a near fine jacket with sunning to spine. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Copper Canyon Press, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. Signed limited edition, #239 of 250, burgundy cloth, handbound by the Watermark Bindery in Port Townsend. A pristine, "as new" copy.

NY: WW Norton, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Inscribed by Norman Myers on the front free endpaper: "Kate Brown--good colleague and fine friend! Best wishes, Norman Myers." Uncommon signed. A transcript of an influential debate between Myers, a prominent environmentalist, and Simon, an economist and skeptic of environmentalism. The debate took place at Columbia University in 1992. Both wrote opening statements for the event and, afterward, wrote post-debate statements, all of which is included here. From the rear jacket copy: "Humankind does not know whether Simon is right, or Myers. We must come to know. Our collective existence could hang in the balance." Norman Myers (1934-2019) was a prominent British environmentalist who was known especially for highlighting the importance of "biodiversity hotspots," and he also trained his eye on the prospect of environmental refugees. He was named the 2007 Time magazine Hero of the Environment and won at least a half dozen prominent… Read More

W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing, signed on the title page. Scarce signed.

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1961. Very good/Good. Inscribed on the title page and signed by both author-illustrators: "For all the Cooks, from Lois and Louis." The main inscription looks to be in Lois's hand. Uncommon signed, and an uncommon book in general, scarce in dust jacket. .  Lois and Louis Darling are a notable husband-and-wife writer and illustrator team best known for their contributions to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Louis Darling was also the winner of the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing for The Gull's Way. In this book, they "present the vast subject of life as one continuous stream, developing it with the unity, order, and a sense of historical perspective essential to real understanding." A book meant for a youth and lay adult audience.  Green buckram with a branch and swallow illustration in blue on the front board. With 150 illustrations in black and white, a "Books for Further Reading" appendix, and index. Very good with some soiling/brown… Read More

North Point Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Association copy, inscribed to Robert Bertholf, an author and professor at Kent State University and later the curator of The Poetry Collection at SUNY Buffalo. Fine book in a very near fine jacket except for a little toning to edges. Essays on his fellow Beat poets and their triumphs.

North Point Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Association copy, inscribed on the title page to Greg Gatenby, longtime director of the Toronto International Festival of Authors: "For Greg Gatenby, 'What weapon has the Lion but himself?'--Keats, Michael McClure." With Gatenby's ownership signature and date (1985) on FFEP. Fine book in fine jacket.