Search Results: Titles starting with H from Rural Hours

Black Sparrow Press, 1968. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. # 137 of 250, signed by McClure on the colophon page. Creasing around the edges and light soiling to the pale yellow wraps, but the interior is crisp and clean.

Heinemann, London, 1973. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Association copy, inscribed on the orange front free endpaper: "For Annie Dillard and Robert Richardson, in thanks for their Boston visit in April, admiringly, Peter Davison, 5/2/89." With Annie Dillard's bookplate. Davison's autobiography. He was an accomplished poet--his first book won the Yale Younger Prize--and an influential tastemaker as editor of The Atlantic and at Harcourt Brace (where he stewarded many poets' books to publication, including, for example, Mary Oliver). He grew up among poets (his father was an English professor) and stayed at the center of the contemporary scene. A very near fine book in a near 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.

Beacon Press, 2012. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed on the second blank: "To Marc & Lynn, Can't wait & see you next Tuesday! Love, Phil." Warburg was the president of New England's influential Conservation Law Foundation. Very near fine with lightly bumped upper corners; in a similarly near fine jacket. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We invite you to explore our dedicated, growing collection of signed and inscribed climate change books.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. Signed on the front free endpaper in green ink by Gene Stratton-Porter, and opposite with a small photo of her pasted to the lower left corner of the pastedown. No edition stated, but this is a later printing. Her fifth novel, originally published in 1911, it's a romance inspired by the life of Henry David Thoreau--juicy (and an important nod to an influence)! The book reached "number one" on the bestseller lists in 1912. Gene Stratton-Porter's own influence in American environmental writing may be hard to overstate. She wrote initially from Limberlost Cabin in Geneva, Indiana, near the Limberlost Swamp that was her inspiration for both novels and her nonfiction. She also was an accomplished and pioneering photographer of nature, training her camera especially on Limberlost Swamp, which she roamed and waded habitually, and where she spent days in blinds to get photographs of birds. She worked out a deal with… Read More

Simon & Schuster, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Richard Brautigan's personal copy, a specially-bound gift from the publisher, Simon & Schuster. The book is full morocco leather, a chocolate brown. Gilt-lettered spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers; top edge gilt. Very near fine: Upper corners lightly bumped, and one scratch to top gilt near spine, otherwise fine. Not signed, but perhaps the ultimate association copy for this volume. Unique. // Wood River Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Grey Fox Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Inscribed on the title page in blue ink: "For James McElderry, Gary Snyder." Second printing, but uncommon signed in any edition and printing. Near fine with light toning to spine. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in nature writing and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We invite you to explore our dedicated, growing collection of signed and inscribed Gary Snyder books.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First printing. With a non-authorial gift inscription dated 1967 on the FFEP ("Happy Birthday Arthur!"). Near fine book with minor wear to top and bottom of spine and very light foxing to upper face of text block. A very good, price-clipped jacket because of a slim band of foxing/curling to upper edge (most noticeable on flaps) and two short tears to upper left corner of front panel, the largest a half inch. The front and back panels are otherwise clean and present great. From collection of Arthur P. Morgan, a friend of McPhee, who worked in finance, was a fellow Deerfield Prep and Princeton University graduate, and then a neighbor. Among other civic activity, Morgan was on the board of the Princeton Public Library.

Atheneum, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For the Pacific Northwest Booksellers--with thanks, one more time. Ivan Doig, Spokane, 12, March, 1994." This book was signed to the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) on the occasion of Doig winning its award in 1994. Doig, who lived in Montana and later Seattle, remains one of the Northwest's most standout and beloved writers. He won a PNBA seven times ("one more time"), his penultimate for Heart Earth. A fantastic copy in pristine, unread shape.

Greystone Books, 2021. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed on the second sheet below a quote from the book. A near fine book with bumping to top of spine in a near fine jacket with light edge wear and one spot on rear panel. // 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.

Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Includes several contributor signatures and is inscribed by co-editor Don Henley in the year of publication on the dedication page: "To Dave, Don Henley, Dec. '91." A previous seller billed the book as inscribed to Henley's co-editor Dave Marsh, however the inscription seems unceremonious from one co-editor to another and we have no other details of provenance. Additionally signed by Thomas McGuane, John Nichols (twice signed with inscriptions), and Jimmy Buffett (yes, the late legendary singer) at their contributions to this collection of testimony in the service of protecting Walden Pond.  A book chock-full of meaningful reflections on the pond (and of course, Thoreau) from famous musicians,  actors, authors, athletes, and politicians too numerous to list in full, but including folks like Jimmy Carter (foreword), Edward Kennedy, John Kerry, Tom Cruise, Ted Dansen, Sting, and Meryl Streep (you get the picture,… Read More

William Morrow, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First printing, inscribed on the title page: "To Susan + Zara: Everybody Must Be Part Of The Solution! Joseph Romm, 11/27/07." With blurbs from James Hansen and Tim Flannery among others. Romm, who has a PhD in physics from MIT, is the founder and executive director of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions. A reviewer for Grist.org wrote that this book "may be the most depressing book on climate change Ive read," which probably means it's essential reading. A note in another hand on the FFEP lists a a climate change activism website address, perhaps a note to self about how to take action. Otherwise a fine book in a very near fine jacket. Uncommon signed.

Hawk Press, Christchurch, 1976. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. Sewn wraps with textured dust jacket. Inscribed to Douglas Calhoun, the editor of Anthanor journal, which devoted a special issue to Creeley: "for Doug, with love, Bob." One of 750 copies. Gorgeous little production.

University of California Press, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Moser, Barry. Signed and dated in the year of publication on the first blank: "Robert D. Richardson, Oct 26 1986." Uncommon signed. The late Richardson was a winner of the Bancroft Prize, and this book prompted a fan letter from Annie Dillard (who did her undergraduate thesis on Thoreau) that blossomed into a romance, though they were both married at the time, and subsequently a long marriage. Good stuff. Near fine book with some faint foxing to top face of the text block; in a near fine jacket with an inconspicuous tape repair to a half-inch tear at rear upper corner at the flap fold. We invite you to explore our growing collection of signed and inscribed books related to Thoreau. // 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.

Scribner, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed on the title page. Near fine with bumping to upper corners in a like jacket.

Univ of Iowa Pr, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Sherman Paul, the influential and prolific critic, on the FFEP: "For Bill & Barbara, Experience, Such as it is. Sherman." Paul was the author or editor of more than 20 books, most about what he called "the green American tradition." His titles include Emersons Angle of Vision: Man and Nature in American Experience (1952), The Shores of America: Thoreaus Inward Exploration (1958), and For Love of the World: Essays on Nature Writers (1992). This volume includes essays on Emerson, Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, and Barry Lopez, as well as Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, H.D., Hart Crane, and William Carlos Williams. Very near fine (some ever so slight bowing to front board) in a near fine jacket with some rubbing. Uncommon signed.

Gainesville: U of Florida P., 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Inscribed on the half-title page: "To Robert Barth, with compliments, Archie Carr." Below it is written "Christmas 1958" in a separate pen, but it may also be in Carr's hand. Uncommon signed, and signed books by Carr in general seem scarce. Robert Hood Barth, Jr., was a professor of Zoology at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of The Invertebrate World, described as a landmark in the field. As the Austin American-Statesman reports, "Bob earned his PhD. at Harvard University under the tutelage of the venerable Ernst Mayr who told him, 'Robert, you need to spend some time in the tropics!' And that he did, residing for the summer of 1958 at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's research center on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone, studying the dynamics of mixed-species foraging flocks of birds. ... [He] often recounted stories of his stint on Barro Colorado Island as 'The happiest… Read More

Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed on the title by Snyder: "For Stephen Ronan." Signed by both Snyder and Killion.  The first trade edition of a book that Killion printed under his Quail Press in a  limited edition of 90 copies. His full-color woodcut prints with Snyder's poems and Sierra journal entires, as well excerpts from John Muir's journals. A stunning production. Snyder and Killion went on to produce two follow up books in this vein about the California coast and Mt. Tamalpais.  Stephan Ronan was a poet and a scholar and collector of Beat literature. He was a City Lights Bookstore editor from 1980-1989. His papers are held by the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. An oblong quarto, coffee-table style, in beige textured paper boards. A fine book in fine jacket .

Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by both Snyder and Killion on the title page.  With a  gift inscription at the bottom of the half-title page, below Killion's landscape: "For Leon + Franklin -- 'Who wouldn't be a mountaineer?' Re-visit places in a comfortable armchair! Christmas 2002, Nancy Olmsted." Olmsted was the former editor for the California Explorer newsletter and her papers are held by the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. Laid in is a photocopy of an article that she wrote about Killion (three sheets) for a publication called Discover for the organization Marin Discoveries.  This the first trade edition of a book that Killion printed under his Quail Press in a  limited edition of 90 copies. His full-color woodcut prints with Snyder's poems and Sierra journal entires, as well excerpts from John Muir's journals. A stunning production. Snyder and Killion went on to produce two follow up books in this vein about the California… Read More

Random House, Inc, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Association copy, with the ownership signature of Jane and Grant McConnell on the FFEP. Grant McConnell was an important figure in the Sierra Club's expansion in the Northwest, particularly in the successfully advocacy for the North Cascades National Park, and he is mentioned in this book on at least a dozen pages. In the index McConnell has added two additional pages where he is mentioned in the same blue pen as the signature. A graduate of Reed College, he earned a PhD in political science from Berkeley and became the chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago before becoming the chair of the department at UC Santa Cruz from 1969-1980. Very good plus with sunning and light wear to lower edges of boards and a little black smudge on the upper text block corner. In a near fine jacket except for a piece of a half-inch Scotch tape errantly affixed to the upper right corner of front cover (not a mend, just… Read More

Columbia University Press, 2012. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed on the front end free paper: "4/30/13, to John, It's always great to meet a scientific-literate Nittany Lion! Michael Mann." The title of the book references the shape of the graph that Mann and several colleagues produced that showed the way global warming had rapidly accelerated with industrialization and the use of fossil fuels, a lightning bolt of an image that was contentious and galvanizing. Mann is a professor and the director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State (the Nittany Lions!). With other scientists he jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his work in the International Panel on Climate Change, and in 2012 he was awarded the Hans Oescheger Medal fo the European Geosciences Union. He also cofounded Real Climate dot org. From the jacket: "The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in… Read More