Search Results: Titles starting with V from Rural Hours

Auckland University Press, 2002. Soft cover. Good. With a standout inscription to poet Jim LeCuyer: "Jack London's dream was a fishing boat with Jim the shipper, Cheers, Bob." Coffee stain to interior and outer textblock, including across inscription, but doesn't affect covers and there's no wrinkling. Small price sticker on back cover.

NY: Franklin Watts, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the title page by Bancroft and located at "Sanibel-Captiva," the islands on the Gulf Coast of Florida where he lived and worked as a writer and nature guide after a career in journalism. With the owl-illustration bookplate on the pastedown of notable naturalist Shirley Ann Briggs and taped below it a note "From the desk of Joseph B. Phillips" dated 1973 that recommends and relays the book as a gift to Briggs. This book is a science-informed novel set in "the immediate future" that traces the lives of a bald eagle, an osprey, and a falcon as they migrate and breed and confront  environmental hazards, notably DDT: "The reader is able to see how the killing of aphids in a small cornfield by DDT can affect birds and animals hundred of miles away  ... The impact [of the book] exceeds that of the most alarming scientific treatise on the subject of vanishing species." Shirley Ann Briggs was a close friend and colleague of Rachel Carson and… Read More

Henry Holt and Co, 2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Peter Matthiessen's copy with his bookplate laid in (your choice whether to affix). Also included is the April 2010 issue of SGI Quarterly: A Buddhist Forum for Peace, Culture, and Education, with an interview with Safina inside and a post-it on the cover with a note that gifts the copy to Matthiessen: "Peter Buddhism and the sea Right up your alley. Best, Carl." Matthiessen read an advanced copy of The View from Lazy Point and lent a blurb to its jacket: "Carl Safina's qualifications as a naturalist, marine biologist, and part-time resident make him the ideal interpreter of The View from Lazy Point; another qualification, of course, is the high quality of his prose, which makes all this fascinating information such a great pleasure to read." These authors were neighbors and friends on Long Island, and close neighbors in their literary and ecological agendas. The View won the Orion Book Award in 2010, and Safina would in 2015… Read More

Houghton Mifflin, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Inscribed in the year of publication on the green front free endpaper: "For Judy + Brad, with much love from Paul, September 1976." Brooks was editor-in-chief of Houghton-Mifflin, and in that capacity alone was a great champion of environmental writing. As Rachel Carson's editor, he suggested the title Silent Spring, and he later wrote a book about her. But Brooks was also a great student of environmental writing and accomplished naturalist writer himself and was the winner of the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing. Here he takes on his native ground, his hometown of Lincoln, MA, in a book published during America's bicentennial about a place key to the Revolution. Brooks's hometown of Lincoln, MA. He takes a long view and explores its shifting landscape, from rural to suburban and the tensions therein. And of course detours to Concord to write about its literary revolution led by Thoreau, Emerson, and Hawthorne. Blurbs among… Read More

New Directions, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Inscribed on the title page in blue ink. Fine book in fine jacket. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in nature writing and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Sasquatch Books, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed in black ink on the title page. Fine book in near fine jacket with final rubbing and mild sunning to spine. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Knopf, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed handsomely on the first blank: "Best wishes to Frank Whittelsey. W.S. Merwin, Aug 2000." Uncommon signed. Fine book in fine jacket. // 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.

Knopf, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Beautifully signed and dated "April 23 2011" on the title page in black ink. Uncommon or scarce signed. A fine book in a very near fine jacket with one minor smudge to front cover that almost blends in.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Very good. Signed at the top of the title page in purple ink by Scheffer. Uncommon signed. Scheffer was a marine biologist who worked for thirty years for government agencies, including the National Park Service, Forest Service, and Fish and Wildlife Service, before he moved to academia at the University of Washington in 1969 and devoted himself to popular writing. He won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1970 for The Year of the Whale. As the jacket says of this volume, "The purpose of this personal, at times poetic and at times philosophical, appreciation of birds and beasts is to stimulate thought about wildlife management and to predict the directions in which it is moving." A whole slew of figures important to the wildlife management movement are thus mentioned and cited. Green cloth with silver lettering, dark green endpapers. Handsome illustration by Ugo Mochi. A good or better copy in green cloth with… Read More

NY: William Sloane Associates, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Signed at the top of the yellow front free endpaper by Krutch and dated "Tuscon 1955." Second printing in the year of publication. As the jacket describes it, "A book that explores the rich, intriguing, unexpected variety of life in the Sonoran Desert of the American Southwest." Krutch was primarily a critic until he moved to Arizona and began writing about natural history; he won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1954, as well as the National Book Award earlier in 1955 for The Measure of Man. Previous owner's signature at the top of the "Books by" page. An about fine book with a little toning to edges to text block; in a very good jacket with edge wear, some short tears to edges of back panel , and a hint of fading to spine.

Copper Canyon Press, 2003. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Signed on the title page. Uncommon signed in this Copper Canyon edition (first thus). Fine book with slightest of bumps to top rear of spine and lower front corner; still fine.

Knopf, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Association copy, inscribed to novelist Jim Harrison, author of *Legends of the Fall*, and his wife on the half-title page: "For Jim & Linda, con un grande abrazo [with a big embrace], Phil." Caputo won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting and is best known for his nonfiction book *A Rumor of War* about Vietnam. This novel is about a sailing adventure from Maine to the Florida Keys that goes wrong and swirling family questions. A fine book in a very good plus jacket with an inconspicuous coffee stain on the front panel (part of a ring), a touch of fading to the spine, and light edgewear and rubbing. From the library of Jim Harrison in Livingston, Montana. // 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.

Henry Holt and Co, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed by Safina in blue ink with a quick sketch of two fish on the title page. Very near fine with a little softening only to spine ends; in a very good jacket with edge wear, in particular to spine ends, with some peeling of the laminate there; "2006" is written in sharpie on the white barcode square on the rear wrap. // 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.