New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 148pp. Octavo [21 cm] Gray cloth. Very good. The extremities are mildly faded and bumped, and there are a handful of very faint stains on the covers. The dust jacket is in very good condition. There are several minor..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 256pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 light gray cloth with light pink paper over boards. In a dust jacket, with trivial soiling. Meloy wrote three excellent books of natural history and contributed numerous pieces to National Public Radio before her untimely death in..... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 256pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 light gray cloth with light pink paper over boards. Spine mildly rolled. In a very attractive dust jacket. Meloy wrote three excellent books of natural history and contributed numerous pieces to National Public Radio before her untimely..... More
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New York: Henry Holt, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. 256pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 light gray cloth with light pink paper over boards. Spine ever so slightly rolled. There is a small black smudge on the front board. In a very attractive dust jacket. Meloy wrote three excellent books of natural..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: The University of Utah Press, 2018. 183 pp. Octavo. [21.5 cm]. Pictoral wraps. A storyteller and avid fly fisherman, Jeff Metcalf is, for compelling personal reasons, an enhanced observer of the human condition, who finds himself often in the streams of the American West. Not only..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1868. First edition. Hardcover. 330pp. Octavo [24 cm] Brown cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title and beaver vignette on the backstrip, and double blind ruled borders on the covers. Illustrated plates 6 and 7 and pp.87-90 completely detached, but present; text block..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 158pp. Oblong quarto [18.5 cm x 26 cm] Brown paper covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine and a blind stamped title on the front cover. Very good. The edges of the covers are gently bumped..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. Francis Lee Jaques. First edition. Hardcover. 242pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Bright green cloth over boards stamped in gilt and silver, with light wear to the extremities. In the illustrated price-clipped dust jacket, with darkening to the spine, and several closed and open tears to..... More
New York: Henry Holt / Owl Books, 1996. Later Printing. Paperback. SIGNED. 288pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Perfect bound with pictorial wraps. New book with no flaws. Signed by Doug Peacock on the title page. "For nearly twenty years, alone and unarmed, author Doug Peacock traversed the rugged mountains of Montana..... More
Petrolia, CA: CounterPunch, 2014. Second revised. Paperback. SIGNED. 174pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Paperback. B&W photographs and illustrations. Signed by Doug Peacock on the title page. From the publisher: "In the 2014 High Plains Book Award winner for Medicine & Science, and his new, substantially revised edition, In the Shadow of..... More
Petrolia, CA: CounterPunch, 2014. Second revised. Paperback. SIGNED. 174pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Paperback. B&W photographs and illustrations. From the publisher: "In the 2014 High Plains Book Award winner for Medicine & Science, and his new, substantially revised edition, In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: Global Warming, the Origins of the..... More
Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press; The Globe Pequot Press, 2006. Early printing. Hardcover. SIGNED. 238pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 dark brown paper with beige paper covered boards. Very good, with bumped spine ends. In a very good dust jacket, with mild rubbing to the surface. Inscribed by both Doug and..... More
Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2009. First edition thus. Paperback. SIGNED. 239pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wraps. Signed by both authors on the title page. Winner of ForeWord Magazine's 2006 Gold Award for Nature Book of the Year. One of the most compelling chronicles of human-grizzly interactions ever written. More
Salt Lake City, UT: Dream Garden Press - Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2005. R. Crumb. Hayduke edition. Leather bound. 196pp. Octavo [22 cm] Half leather over gray cloth boards with "Hayduke" blind stamped on front board. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Separate letterpress printed 'Hayduke' illustration by..... More
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2006. Hardcover. 324pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 beige cloth with blue paper covered boards, and a blue ink stamped title on the spine. Near fine. The spine is very slightly rolled. There are several barely perceptible small stains on the bottom edge of the text block..... More
Houghton Mifflin Co, [1990]. Third edition. Leather bound. SIGNED. 432pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Full red leather. All edges gilt. In the publisher's slipcase. Still in shrink-wrap. One in an edition limited to 2000. Signed by the great naturalist Roger Tory Peterson. More
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2015. First edition. Paperback. 283pp. Octavo [23 cm] in wraps. From the book: "This original collection is a rich literary and historical compendium that provides an indispensable introduction to the nation's twelfth national park." More
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1980. Michael Collier. First edition. Hardcover. 64pp. Oblong quarto [21 cm x 28.5 cm] Light blue and dark blue cloth covered boards with silver stamped titles. The book is in near fine condition. The dust jacket is in very good condition. Lightly rubbed. The spine is..... More
Boston: Stone & Pratt; Cyrus Stone, 1852. First edition. Leather bound. 200; 201pp. Octavo [24 cm] 3/4 leather with marbled paper over boards. Binder's ticket on the front pastedown. Contemporary ink markings on the preliminary and terminal leaves. Pp. 25-36 of part 2 are torn, with loss from the text..... More
New York: Nick Lyons Books, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 221pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 tan cloth with black paper covered boards. In a dust jacket, with subtle fading to the spine. Signed by the author on the title page. First collection of essays from this Rhodes Scholar. Almost all..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: Torrey House Press, 2020. First Torrey House Press Edition. Paperback. 407pp. Octavo [20.3cm]. Matte orange wraps. Orange spine with cream lettering. For more than 12,000 years, the wondrous landscape of southeastern Utah has defined the histories, cultures, and lives of everyone who calls it home. Archaeologist..... More
Questa, NM: Animist Press, 2007. Renny Russell. Paperback. 254pp. Quarto. Illustrated Wrappers. New. Picking up where its predecessor—the bestselling On the Loose—left off, this reflection revisits the physical and spiritual terrain that shaped two brothers’ lives. Consumed by a passion to fully experience the western wilderness and to navigate untamed—and..... More
Baltimore, MD: American Nature Association, 1923-1925. Paperback. Slim quartos [30 cm] Stapled brown, green and black illustrated wraps. All volumes are in very good or good only condition. The wraps have brief intermittent areas of light soiling and rubbing. There are pencil markings on a couple of the front wraps..... More
New York: Stitt Publishing Company, 1905. Charles Livingston Bull. Early reprint. Hardcover. 374pp. Octavo [19 cm] Brown cloth covered boards with black and orange titles and decorative vignettes on the spine and front cover. Good. The extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. There are several very small splits in the..... More
Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Co, 1946. Illustrated flexible cloth in an illustrated cloth pouch. 192pp. A few black and white illustrations throughout. A detailed guide to living in the wilderness, including navigating with a compass; instructions on travelling by canoe, on foot or by dog team; equipment; wilderness food, cooking and..... More