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White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2001. First Edition, 2nd printing 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 273 pages including index From dust jacket: "(The author) brings the heart of a pioneer to the suburbs in New York. Consider this: It costs 435 fossil fuel calories to fly a 5 calorie strawberry from California… Read more about this item

New York: Atheneum, 1984. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 113 pages with blue topstain. There are some black and white illustration and drawings within the text. From dust jacket: "A field guide to the perils of the natural world, including relentless ants, falling stars, disgusting mold, the neighbor's dog, calving glaciers, poisonous toads from South America,… Read more about this item

Farmington Hills, Michigan: Witness, 1989. 8vo size trade paperback; 185 pages with a few black and white illustrations Contributors include: Rick Bass Charles Bowden Jean Craighead George John Hay Edward Hoagland William Kittredge Barry Lopez Sherman Paul Margaret Pettis Gary Snyder John Tallmadge Stephen Trimble Jack Turner Terry Tempest Williams In great condition with only light wear to… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Flat signed on tile page. First Edition with full numberline 4to size pictorial hardcover with matching dust jacket; 32 pages with color illustrations throughout. Green endpapers. From dust jacket: "A nighthawk swoops though the sky catching insects, a family of rabbits peeks from between spikey thistle leaves, and nearby caterpillars await… Read more about this item

Jamaica Plain, MA: Institute for Cultural Landscape Studies;, 1999. 8vo size staple bound booklet with illustrated covers; 31 pages. Foreword by Robert E Cook, Director of Arnold Arboretum Contents include: Chronology Eliot Commissions Bibliography Charles Eliot (1859 - 1897) was a landscape architect who was a pioneer in conservation, landscape planning and development. His design… Read more about this item

Grondahl, 1975. Foreword by Trygve Bratteli, Prime Minister of Norway 8vo size trade paperback with color photo illustrated covers; 85 pages illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and several full page black and white maps Contents include: Geography and climate Flora and fauna History The Treaty of Svalbard Environment protection Svalbard community Exploration and research Overall… Read more about this item

New York: Avon Books, 1995. First Edition Thus with full numberline 8vo size trade paperback; 131 pages with several full page black and white illustrations. From back cover: "This is the chronicle of one woman's evolution from reluctant fly-fishing student to devout angler. But is is more more than her experiences as a woman in a… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1949. 4to size green clothbound hardcover with illustrated dust jacket; 80 pages with black and white illustrations throughout Each tree is illustrated with four lovely black and white drawings and a brief description. Trees featured include: Acacia Alder Apple Ash Aspen Birch Cedar Elm English Oak Ginko Hawthorn Holly Lime Lombardy Poplar… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1964. 8vo size green clothbound hardcover with photo illustrated dust jacket; 433 pages including index and seven technical appendices. Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings throughout. Printed gray laid endpapers. From dust jacket: "The author is especially adept at debunking the endless 'old husband's tales' alleging unprovoked attack, premeditated assault and… Read more about this item

New York: Bantam Books, 2008. First Edition with full numberline. Wide 8vo size trade paperback with interior flaps similar to a dust jacket; 447 pages with black and white illustrations by Davis Te Selle. From flap: "For more than 30 years (the author) has been meditating and gardening at the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Northern… Read more about this item

Salt Lake City, Utah: Gibbs Smith, Inc, 1988. Edited and with an introduction by Stephen Trimble Stated First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 303 pages From jacket: "Contemporary natural history writers speak for the earth. They articulate our neglected connections with the rest of the living world. They may… Read more about this item

New York: Atheneum, 1966. 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 423 pages with red topstain and black and white illustrations; endpapers are maps. From jacket: "... (includes) the works of 14 great writer-naturalists of whom some are as well known as Gilbert White of Selborne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Gerard Manley Hopkins, and some as (undeservedly)… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. 8vo size clothbound hardcover (tan boards over red spine,) 509 pages plus a center section of black and white illustrations on glossy stock; spring green endpapers. From jacket: "...unfolds in this book the lives of the great naturalists, the inspiring, stranger-than-fiction account of man's search for his place in the natural… Read more about this item

1982. 4to size pictorial hardcover with matching dust jacket; 147 heavy weight, glossy pages with full color photography throughout. There are many full page photos. From jacket: "(This) is a book for those who love flowers, birds, the forest floor, and the seashore. It is for those who love walking a woodland trail, or… Read more about this item

Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, 1989. Signed and inscribed by author on third blank page and also flat signed on half title page. First Edition with full numberline The author has informed us that this edition is out of print 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 116 pages plus section of black and white photographs on glossy stock.… Read more about this item

Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club, 2016. 158 pages illustrated with black and white photographs. Contents include: The death of Kate Matrosova; Harriet Freeman, White Mountain Conservationist; Going to Tent Rocks; Up Versus Down; One Tough Gal; AMC's Maine Woods Initiative. Edgewear, price sticker remnants on front cover, address label printed on back cover, bumped bottom corner of back cover and… Read more about this item

Pownal, Vermont: Storey Communications, Inc., 1992. 4to size trade paperback with color photo illustrated cover; 158 pages with black and white how-to illustrations by Brigita Fuhrmann plus a section of color photographs on glossy stock of finished items From back: "In the ancient tradition of using indigenous materials to create basket of beauty and practicality, seven contemporary basketmakers… Read more about this item

Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1998. First Edition with full numberline. This is a First Thus edition. 8vo size trade paperback; 246 pages From back: "(This book) reveals a beach that is not merely a place, but a process that embodies the paradox of change and stability. With our understanding of that process grows the knowledge that… Read more about this item

New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2008. Signed and inscribed by author on title page First Edition with full number line 4to size maroon clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 177 heavyweight glossy pages with color illustrations throughout From jacket: "Any book about trees can't help but be a book about people," writes (the author), and so his book is about our… Read more about this item

Boston: Arnold Arboretum, 2009. The magazine of the Arnold Arboretum. 36 pages with color photographs throughout. Contents include: The Peril and Potential of Butternut; A CLoser Look at Fungi in the Arnold Arboretum; American Chestnuts in the 21st Century; Japanese Clethra: A Hidden Gem; more. Very light wear to covers; address label on front… Read more about this item