Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Rural Hours

Salt Lake City: Torrey House Press, 2023. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Inscribed on the title page: "For Annie, For the West! Betsy Gaines Quammen, 1/11/23."  Her second book. From the jacket: "As she investigates the origins and effects of myths of the American West, Gaines Quammen travels through small towns and big cities, engaging people and building relationships at every stop." Gaines Quammen is the wife of science writer David Quammen. A fine book in a very near fine jacket with a hint of edge wear .

NY: Scribner, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Quammen on the second blank. Quammen's masterpiece of travel writing and evolutionary theory, winner of the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1997. Glowing blurbs by Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, E.O. Wilson, Thomas Lovejoy, Jim Harrison, Annie Proulx, and Jonathan Weiner. A fine book in fine jacket with a white bookstore sticker on lower rear panel.

W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed without inscription on the title page in black ink. First printing. Post pandemic, this is now one of the books of our times. Blurbs by Walter Isaacson, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Carl Zimmer. Fine in fine jacket; unread and as new in mylar. // 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.

W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed on the half-title page in the year publication: "To Kelley -- with hopes you find this engrossing. David Quammen, December 2012." Good/very good book only in light of an inch-long split at the lower hinge of the front board: through the outer paper, but the board holding, not separated, except for a 1/8-inch length true tear at base. Otherwise near fine, boards and pages clean, corners firm. Dust jacket very good because of a half-inch tear at top of spine on front panel. Not a perfect book, but now uncommon signed, as it has become one of the books of our times.

NY: Delacorte Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Inscribed in the year of publication on the half-title page: "8/88, To John--Any fan of Matthiessen's is a reader with good taste. Thanks for putting me on your list. David Quammen." Uncommon signed, and especially notable in light of the inscription giving praise to his friend and fellow writer Peter Matthiessen, who lends praise on the back of the jacket: "David Quammen's curiosity is infectious, and his thought provocative. Lewis Thomas and Stephen Gould will have to make room for him in the small company of distinguished essayists in the natural sciences." A collection of short evolution and ecology essays largely (but not exclusively) drawn from his Outside magazine column. A slight cock to spine otherwise fine in a fine jacket (with an awesome illustration by Hiro Kimura). With a clipping of the review of the book by Tim McNulty in The Seattle Times and a reading announcement sent by Elliot Bay Books laid in.