Search Results: Authors starting with H from Rural Hours

NY: Hatchette Books, 2002. Fine/Fine. Inscribed in the year of publication on the title page in blue ink: "For Marge, with best wishes, David Halberstam, Aug 26, 2002." A book about a one ladder company in New York on 9/11 from a master of literary journalism.

Frankfurt Arts Commission, Kentucky, 1984. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Association copy. A handsome limited edition chapbook signed by both authors, #166 of 450 copies. Also inscribed by Stiles to Donald Hall, our one-time Poet Laureate: "For Don Hall, gratefully, MBS." Brown thick paper covers with flaps held by Japanese stab style binding. The interior is Mowhawk letterpress paper. Printed ny Gray Zeitz of the Larkspur Press. It contains two stories, "Hunktown" by Mason, and "Winter Love Story" by Stiles, which won an inaugural short story competition put on by the Commission and was thus honored by being paired with the Mason story. As the forward by Nash Cox explains, "This chapbook reveals two very different worlds within contemporary Kentuckya small western Kentucky farm and a modest thoroughbred horse breeding operation near Lexington. In each story the central character, a woman, struggles to claim her sense of herself through her relationship with cycles of nature and the land." A… Read More

Green Horse Press, 1977. Soft cover. Very Good. Signed and dated by author on half title page. His street address (presumably) also written lower down on the page. The back cover has three different names and numbers written on it in various hands and some scattered ink blotches. Nonetheless a scarce book, limited to 750 copies. With an introduction by Robert Bly. Red and yellow wraps with the cover illustration of a bus that reads "San Jose.

Iowa State Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed on the title page in blue ink. Uncommon signed (her first book, An Eagle to the Sky, is common signed, but her other books seem the opposite). Laid in are several clippings about Hamerstrom and a book event from The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin. Also a sweet retro Forest Service bookmark (see photo). Strictly for the Chicken is Hamerstrom's second memoir and shares her adventures (and her sense of humor) in field biology with her husband as they studied prairie chickens in Wisconsin. She broke away from an elite--and as she saw it, effete--background in Boston (the cover photo appears to be her at a kind of debutant society occasion as a teenager) to become an important woman in ecology and conservation, the only woman to earn a graduate degree from Aldo Leopold (who encouraged her toward those chickens).  Ultimately she was the author of a dozen books and more than 150 scientific papers. She twice won… Read More

Ames: Iowa State Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Inscribed on the title page: "For Kurt, Happy hunting! Fran Hamerstrom." Uncommon signed (her first book, An Eagle to the Sky, is common signed, but her other books seem the opposite). Hamerstrom broke away from an elite--and as she saw it, effete--background in Boston to become an important woman in ecology and conservation, the only woman to earn a graduate degree from Aldo Leopold (who encouraged her toward those chickens).  Ultimately she was the author of a dozen books and more than 150 scientific papers. She twice won the Wildlife Society Award. With her late husband Frederick, she also won the 1971 National Wildlife Federation Award for Distinguished Service to Conservation, and she is a member of the Wisconsin Writers Hall of Fame. See her New York Times obit for more. One of Hamerstrom's later memoirs, Is She Coming Too? is described thusly on its back flap: "With the growing interest in women moving… Read More

Ames: Iowa State UP, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Signed on the title page by Hamerstrom and by the illustrator Jack Oar. Uncommon signed (her first book, An Eagle to the Sky, is common signed, but her other books seem the opposite).  Birding with a Purpose is Hamerstrom's third memoir, following up on her exploration of her prairie chicken field work in Strictly for the Chickens with this book that's more generally about her passion for birds and her work especially with raptors. Her humor abides again. Hamerstrom broke away from an elite--and as she saw it, effete--background in Boston to become an important woman in ecology and conservation, the only woman to earn a graduate degree from Aldo Leopold (who encouraged her toward those chickens).  Ultimately she was the author of a dozen books and more than 150 scientific papers. She twice won the Wildlife Society Award. With her late husband Frederick, she also won the 1971 National Wildlife Federation Award for… Read More

Floating Island, 1991. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Inscribed to Bay Area poet Jim LeCuyer: "For Jim, In friendship, Michael Hannon, 1991." Blurb by Sam Hamill.

Basic Books, 2018. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed with a quick sketch of a bee on the title page in black ink. Hanson was the winner of the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing for his previous book Feathers. Near fine/near fine with very light bumping to upper corners and spine tail; bookstore price sticker across barcode on rear panel of 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.

Los Altos: William Kaufmann, Inc, 1982. First edition. Softcover. Very good. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page in green ink: "For Ashley Montagu -- First-class Disturber of the Peace! from Garrett Hardin, March 1983." Uncommon signed. This is the simultaneous paperback release.  Ashley Montagu was a British-American anthropologist and public intellectual known for his progressive stances on race and gender and his criticism of creationism. Hardin was a populations ecologist at UC Santa Barbara renown for his often-anthologized Science essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" and for his sometimes controversial stances on overpopulation. They may have overlapped briefly at UC Santa Barbara in 1962 and 1963. Montagu also provided praise for Hardin's earlier book Nature and Man's Fate.  Naked Emperors follows up on Hardin's earlier collection Stalking the Wild Taboo and offers sections of essays on immigration, evolution (including essays on creationism), human ecology, and… Read More

Los Altos: William Kaufmann, Inc, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Signed bold in green ink diagonally across the title page. Uncommon signed. A collection of essays in four sections: abortion, religion, technology, competition. Hardin was a populations ecologist at UC Santa Barbara renown for his often-anthologized Science essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" and for his sometimes controversial stances on overpopulation. A fine book in a very good jacket with sunning to spine. .

NY: Rinehart & Co, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed in a blue pen across the front free endpaper. Uncommon signed. A book that "illuminates the entire evolutionary debate from Darwin to then present, and surveys man's future in the light of recently accepted biological laws governing his destiny."  Ashley Montagu blurbs it: "One of the best books of its kind. As a general introduction to evolutionary theory and the dynamics of human evolution it is something of a triumph . . . an extraordinary well-written book." A very good copy with a modestly slant spine and bumping to corners; it may be ex-library, probably departmental, as there is evidence of a plate removal at the top of the FFEP. In a very good jacket with sunning to spine, edge wear, and wear to spine ends. The call letter "S" is taped to the outside of the removable protective covering of the jacket .

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Association copy, inscribed on the red front free endpaper: "For Bill Murdoch, with all best wishes from -- Garrett Hardin, May 1982." Uncommon signed, and a significant association in the field, inscribed to his colleague and fellow professor of population ecology at UC Santa Barbara William W. Murdoch, recipient of a Guggenheim and the Robert H. MacArthur Award from the Ecological Society of America. His best known book is The Poverty of Nations: The Political Economy of Hunger and Population. Hardin, meanwhile, is renown for his often-anthologized Science essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" and for his sometimes controversial stances on overpopulation, as described for instance in Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos, his best-known book. This slim volume was written in the lead up to Living With Limits  as part of the Danz Lecture Series at the University of… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the title page in blue ink in the year of publication: "For James A. Harder, from Garrett Hardin, 11 June 1993." Uncommon signed. Harder was a Professor of Civil Engineering at UC Berkeley, his main research in fluid mechanics and hydraulics, including studies of fish protection facilities. He served as vice chairman of the Consulting Board for Fish Protection Facilities for the California Department of Fish and Game, California Department of Water Resources, and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Insofar as he was interested in ecology and wildlife populations, perhaps this is one area in which he overlapped with Hardin, a populations ecologist at UC Santa Barbara renown for his often-anthologized Science essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" and for his sometimes controversial stances on overpopulation, as described in this, his best known book, Living Within Limits. A prominent blurb by Paul Ehrlich on the… Read More

SUNY Press, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Association copy, inscribed by editor, contributor, and leading Thoreau scholar Walter Harding on the front end free paper in blue link in the year of publication: "For Joe Basile, lonely survivor of two Concord seminars. Walt Harding, Concord, Mass., Aug. 12, 1976." Joseph Lawrence Basile was also a Thoreau scholar, earning his PhD from LSU with a dissertation called "Man and Machine in Thoreau." Walter Harding's The Days of Henry David Thoreau is considered a definitive study of Thoreau's life. His contribution to this volume is an adaptation of the final chapter from that biography, still forthcoming at the time. This book is a collection of essays on aspects of the life and work of Thoreau published in conjunction with the Thoreau Centennial in 1964. Green cloth, 119 pages. Fine book in a near fine jacket with some wear to spine tails. We invite you to explore our growing collection of signed and inscribed books related to Thoreau. //… Read More

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1990. First edition. Softcover. Fine. Seventh printing. An association copy, inscribed to Diane Di Prima on the title page: "For Diane, with gratitude + respect for your poetry, your life! With love-- Joy, 9/99." A nice association between the great Beat poet, who help lead the way for women in poetry, and Harjo, our recent Poet Laureate and an important ambassador for Native Nations poetry. A fine copy in wrappers with a small price sticker on rear cover that would peel off.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Second printing with number line to 2. Inscribed warmly on the half-title page: "To Karen, a steadfast friend and supporter in my work and in my life. 1986 has been better and more livable because fo you, God Bless for our futures. Larry D. Harris, 7/12/86." Uncommon signed, and uncommon in hardcover in general. Harris spent his career as a Professor of Wildlife and Range Sciences at the University of Florida, where his papers are held. The Fragmented Forest is described as a significant  contribution to the field of ecology, extending E.O. Wilson's important theory to forest management and "creative a practical model that supports diversity and preserves wildlife corridors." It won the 1986 Wildlife Society Publication Award. Green buckram with silver gilt lettering. A fine book lacking the dust jacket, if one was issued with it; likely hardcover copies of this book were few and intended mainly for libraries. a fine.

Copper Canyon Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed in black ink by Harrison on the half title. Uncommon signed (less commonly found than the signed limited edition). Near fine with minor softening to upper front spine and very light bumping to lower corners of boards. A near fine jacket. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Mariner Books, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Association copy, inscribed on the half title page to naturalist-author and MacArthur Genius Grant-recipient Gary Paul Nabhan and his wife: "To Gary and Laurie, for food & wine! Abrazos fuertes, Jim." Uncommon signed in this Mariner paperback edition, first thus. Nabhan is known in particular for his writing on Indigenous populations and ethnobotany in the Southwest and is a winner of the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing among many other honors. Nabhan and Harrison both lived in Patagonia, Arizona (Harrison part-time) and were friends for more than twenty years. Nabhan wrote a touching remembrance of Harrison after his death, detailing their lunch a week before and some of their more surprising connections (Nabhan's cousin had been Harrison's college roommate and introduced Harrison to his wife). Nabhan writes, "Harrison was more than just another pretty face, skilled angler, hedonistic hunter, and bizarre story-teller: he had a deeply… Read More

Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Association copy, inscribed on the half title page to naturalist-author and MacArthur Genius Grant-recipient Gary Paul Nabhan: "To Gary! Big deal scientist! Jim Harrison." Nabhan is known in particular for his writing on Indigenous populations and ethnobotany in the Southwest and is a winner of the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing among many other honors. Nabhan and Harrison both lived in Patagonia, Arizona (Harrison part-time) and were friends for more than twenty years. Nabhan wrote a touching remembrance of Harrison after his death, detailing their lunch a week before and some of their more surprising connections (Nabhan s cousin had been Harrison s college roommate and introduced Harrison to his wife). Nabhan writes, "Harrison was more than just another pretty face, skilled angler, hedonistic hunter, and bizarre story-teller: he had a deeply moral view of the right ways to treat the creatures of the seas, the… Read More

Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Russell Chatham. A softcover uncorrected proof signed on the title page. A very good plus copy with some light bumping to the corners and sunning to spine. Uncommon in this format. Please inquire for photos.