Narratives/Essays/Prose from 100 POCKETS

San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1964. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/Near Fine. Richard Kauffman (Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW. EXHIBIT FORMAT SERIES. First Edition, First Thus. Gilt embossed green linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/nips, chips to upper/lower edges; under mylar. A land that was once was. Text by Scottish-American naturalist John Muir's (1838 - 1914), w/photos… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Penguin, 1990. First Edition, 7th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/trace edge rubs. First published 1962; this is a 1990 paperback reissue. The eloquent sub-title describes well this unique anthology of 17 essays, many first published elsewhere. Prize winning historian, novelist and environmentalist Wallace Earl… Read more about this item

New York, New York,: E.P. Dutton, 1977. First Edition, 9th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Jim Stiles (Illustrator). Text/Bright, clean As New w/folded corner to pg 55. Softcover/VG; strong w/edge rubs & creasings to spine; back cover carries an expressive self-portrait by Abbey. 23 essays from environmental activist & forthright social critic Edward Paul… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Perennial/Harper & Row, 2001. First Edition, First Printing . Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/NF w/trace selfwear. Anthology of true stories. First published 19973; this is a 2001 paperback reprint . Life in New Mexico and the American Southest. Revealing and fun, from Professor Emeritus of journalism at the Univ. of… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/New. Paul Brooks (Author-Illustrator). Text/NEW & Bright. First Edition. Embossed green linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF; price clipped; under mylar. Dyed upper text block.Travel narratives with pen & ink illustrations by Paul Brooks (1909-1998), Editor-in-Chief at Houghton-Mifflin for 25 years (editor for Rachel Carson and Roger Tory Peterson},… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Hastings House, 1965. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Orange linen boards/VG; strong w/light surface wear, and slight soiling to leading text block. DJ/None. PO stamp to fEP. Nebraska novelist, writer and teacher Mari (Susette] Sandoz (1896 - 1966) wrote extensively about pioneer life and the Plains Indians.… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Ballantine Books/Sierra Club, 1970. First Paperback Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Eliot Porter (Photography). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Volume 1, Discovery, only of a 2-volume set. Softcover/VG w/light edge & surface wear. This Volume 1 carries a Forward from David Brower, and an Introduction from Rock Redonodo on "Science &… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2001. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. Collection of essays and stories, some first published elsewhere, connecting with red-rocks of the American Southwestern landscape surrounding writer, conservationist, and lifelong desert dweller Terry Tempest Williams (1955 - ) of Utah. A desert world… Read more about this item

Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highway Department, 1954. Volume XXX (30), No 11, November 1954 . Soft Cover/Magazine. New/None as Issued. Vintage. BRAND NEW Copy, showing trace margin discoloration. Stapled softcover/NF; w/light edge rubs. COVER ART: "State Tree", the Blue Palo Verde, photo by Esther Henderson. This November 1954 36 page issue features: 1, Palo Verde, state tree of Arizona;… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. First Edition, 6th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. N.C. Wyeth (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated softcover/Good; sound w/edge wear & loss to upper front corner, and moisture discoloration to front cover verso. First published 1914; this is a reprint of 1982. (also by Houghton Mifflin); this is a… Read more about this item

San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club/Ballantine Books, 1970. Reprint . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Ernest Braun (Photographer). Text/NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/VG w/faint corner creasings & light surface wear. Vintage 1970 collection of essays, with color photos, to the unspoilt wilderness of the Grand Canyon from the Sierra Club (founded 1892). Published w/o ISBN; ISBN subsequently… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Harpercollins Publisher, 1983. First Edition, 7th Reprint . Soft cover. Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW, with margin discoloration. Softcover/VG w/edge & corner tip wear. Humidity (?) stains discoloration to front & rear covers verso. Anthology. Narrative & travelogues by Annie Dillard (1945 - ). Wesleyan Univ, Middletown, CT professor of English, and, 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Henry Holt & Co, 1985. First Edition, First Printing . Hardback. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/Fine. Carey More (Photographer). BRAND NEW Copy & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing. Gray linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/Fine. Photo portrait & narrative essay of rural life in Provence, France in the late 1970s. Poetic work of father and daughter ---… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2002. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & Collectible. First Edition, First Printing;. Winner of both the Anthony and Agatha Awards for best nonfiction.. Memoir. 76 years of warm & gentle recollections from Oklahoma-born, beloved dean of the American regional mysteries, Tony Hillerman (1925 -… Read more about this item

New York, NY: International Publishers, 1945. First Edition, First Thus . Paperback. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW w/discoloration (acidic paper reaction). Blue softcover with photo portrait of Bryant/VG; strong w/edge & surface wear. 1945 publication, Wartime Book issued in complicance with Government regulations. Anthology of selected works of Massachusetts-born William Cullen Bryant, (1794 - 1878), poet of nature… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Gallery Books, 1987. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/New. David Muench (Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW. Beige linen boards w/trace edge rubs. DJ/NF w/3 small specks of "rubs" to front. First published 1979; this is the 2nd Printing of 1987. An excursion through desert lands of America Southwest with Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) as… Read more about this item

Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith/Gibbs Smith, 1991. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/a whisper of edge wear. First published 1915; this a reproduction of the original edition w/a new introduction by Richard F. Fleck. Memoir of Samual Hall Young (1847 - 1927) exploring Alaskan… Read more about this item

San Francisco, CA: Friends of the Earth, 1971. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/Near Fine. Pete Martin; Wilbur Mills; John P. Milton; Gilbert Staender, et al (Photographers). Text/BRAND NEW. Gilt embossed taupe line boards/Fine. DJ/NF under mylar. Naturalist and non-fiction writer Kenneth Brower (1944 -), son of David Brower, is well known for his books… Read more about this item

San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1995. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & Collectible. Debut volume of a new series devoted to literary works inspired by desert drylands. An anthology, of global origins, of fiction, poetry, folklore, natural history and prose narratives.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/Near Fine. Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW. Off-white boards/NF w/trace pushes to lower front corner & spine. DJ/NF under mylar. Frontispiece: Map. A contemporayr physical and spiritual exploration of the Rocky Mountains (the Shining Mountains being the appellation given by old-time hunters and trappers). Debut… Read more about this item