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Coffee House Press, 1990. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Inscribed on the title page: "For Isao, warmest regards, Karen Tea Yamashita, San Francisco, 1995." Uncommon signed. A paperback original, third printing. Her first book, a work of magical realism, humor, and satire based on 9 years living in Brazil and much lauded and scrutinized by contemporary ecocritics as a work that pushes the boundaries of environmental writing. As Publishers Weekly said of the book, "This satiric morality play about the destruction of the Amazon rain forest unfolds with a diversity and fecundity equal to its setting." Yamashita has since been a National Book Award finalist. Very good on account of a crease to lower corner of front wrap; otherwise near fine, pages tight and clean, seemingly unread. // 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.

Princeton University Press, 1979. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. Association copy, from the library of Alex McBirney, the founder and longtime director of the Center for Volcanology at the University of Oregon, with his ownership signature on the FFEP. McBirney's specialty was igneous rock formation and his contribution to this volume is Chapter 10, "Effects of Assimilation." A few faint marginal lines and notes in pencil in the interior. Very good plus on account of light dust soiling to the edges of the text block. A very good dust jacket.

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Association copy, inscribed to Denise Levertov on the front free endpaper in the year of publication: "For Denise, who flowers in all available light, from Al with love--March 1976." Great association between these West Coast poets. Fine book, but rear board seems slightly longer that the front board (printer's error). In near fine jacket that is just a tad offset.