Search Results: Titles starting with C from Rural Hours

Make A Hand, LLC, 2015. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Association copy, from the library of naturalist-author, MacArthur Genius Grant-- and John Burroughs Medal-winner Gary Paul Nabhan, known in particular for his writing on Indigenous populations and their ethnobotany in the desert Southwest. But the book is inscribed to Richard Collins, Nabhan's friend, fellow conservationist-author, and an Arizona rancher: "For Richard Collins, In friendship, JPS Brown, Patagonia 2016." Nabhan also lives in Patagonia, Arizona. A neat triangulation of Arizona borderland authors. The story of a battle between cattle ranchers and the (overbearing, this book argues) Center for Biological Diversity. Uncommon signed.

Harcourt, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Association copy, inscribed on the title page: "Leo Connellan, for Annie Dillard, October 16, 1987." With Dillard's bookplate. Blurbs by Sydney Lea, Richard Eberhart, and Hayden Carruth. Connellan live in Greenwich Village during the Beat scene, and later was the the Poet Laureate of Connecticut from 1996 until his death in 2001. He was inducted into Maine's Literary Hall of Fame. An epic poem about the fishing and lobstering industries in Maine. Fine book in 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.

Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Houston in year of publication: With best wishes to Gabrielle Morris. Because you love California! James D Houston, Dec 15, 1982. The intrigue with this copy, however, is that its jacket is signed by Wallace Stegner at his blurb on the rear jacket flap ("It would pay America to read this lively and perceptive account of what is happening on its western edge," the blurb reads, in part). This unlikely addition likely makes it a one-of-a-kind copy. The book is in very good condition because of some noticeable foxing to the upper edge of the text block and its corner; the jacket is likewise very good. Still, a unique item for a Stegner junky.

1981. 1st Edition. No Binding. Near Fine. A large broadside, 17.5 x 23 inches, on delicate cream paper featuring Snyder's poem "The Canyon Wren" in an artful wave-like pattern. One of 200 copies signed by the poet; this is number 33. The attributional line at bottom reads: "For James and Carol Katz - Stanislaus River - Camp 9 to Parrott's Ferry - April 40081" (that's 1981 in Snyder's measurement). The Stanislaus is a tributary of the San Joaquin, flowing into California's Central Valley out of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Modesto. Very near fine with just a touch of light creasing to the lower left corner near his signature. A rare broadside that could command a wall and fill a home with river music daily. // 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. We invite you to explore our growing collection of Gary Snyder items.

Black Sparrow Press, 1980. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Association copy, inscribed by one Beat great to another, from Wakoski to Gary and Masa Snyder on the deep blue FFEP: For the Snyders, An offering. That the inscription is on blue makes it somewhat difficult to read, and photograph. The signature is her uncommon, more-intimate, stylized "D" reserved for friends, and it's dated "June 1982," with one of her patented flower illustrations (modest aside Ginsberg s daisies). This book was originally accompanied by another Wakoski volume inscribed For Gary Snyder, with great admiration, confirming it is those Snyders (photo of the other book available). Softcover edition, mustard wraps with royal blue free endpapers. Near fine because of some minor creasing at the books corners. Please inquire for photos.

Hawthorne Books, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed on the front free endpaper in blue ink. Uncommon signed. A book that explores the unexpected repercussions of a coyote extermination campaign in Klamath County, Oregon, in 1947--a massive rodent explosion. Ashworth calls it "the Carson Factor" or, as the jacket summarizes it, "Rachel Carson's plea, in *Silent Spring,* for universal 'awareness that we are dealing with life.'" A great example of Carson's influence and another writer in sustained conversation with her (indeed, even the form of the book alludes to her, e.g. the opening line "It might be best to begin with a bit of a fable"). Ashworth has written thirteen books on the environment. Near fine with bumping to lower front corner and a series of small numbers written at bottom of FFEP (likely a bookseller's ill-advised notation); in a very good jacket with some sunning to spine and some small loss to spine crown. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology,… Read More

White Pine Press, 2002. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Inscribed to Bay Area poet Jim LeCuyer. Near fine because of a faded spine.

Poetic Matrix Press, 2005. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Signed on FFEP, with additional note about the occasion by former owner: "Cody's 6-26-05.

Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Inscribed on the half title page: "Jan 1985, To Mary Cromwell--I hope your concern for + knowledge of the environment are only heightened by this ecological history. Bill Cronon." Uncommon signed. Cronon's important and influential first book, while he was still at Yale, and winner of the Francis Parkman Prize. Third printing, 1984. Very good with light edge wear and some to lower spine, and light foxing to text block faces and to the front page, which holds the inscription.// 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.

University of Texas Press, 2010. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Inscribed on the half-title page: "For Briget, Chuck Bowden." Uncommon signed. Near fine with light rubbing a shelf wear to corners. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in nature writing and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1959. First edition. Paperback. Very good. Inscribed at the top of the front cover to his close colleague in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania: "To Pete, with affection from Loren." A scarce booklet, scarcer signed. OCLC/WorldCat finds just eight copies in eminent libraries. "Pete" is Alfred Irving Hallowell, a decorated anthropologist and archaeologist who studied Native Americans, especially the Ojibwe, and "Hallowell" is written in pencil at the bottom of the front wrap. His papers are found at the American Philosophical Society, the publisher of this volume.  Reprinted in the same year from the Proceedings of The American Philosophical Society (Vol. 103, No. 1, February 1959), this booklet is the first discrete appearance of Eiseley's controversial and ultimately discredited argument that Darwin's all-important theory was secretly inspired by earlier articles by little known zoologist Edward Blyth. Eiseley doggedly… Read More

Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2003. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Unmarked, but from the library of Alex McBirney, the founder and longtime director of the Center for Volcanology at the University of Oregon. Not signed. Near fine except for a lightly bumped upper right corner.

Vintage, 2000. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the title page: "For Annie Dillard, Friend, mentor, joke-teller, holder of many good cards, generous lender of the house where this story was first written. Patrick, Feb. 13 '00." With Dillard's "Ex Libris" bookplate. Laid in at back are two slips of scrap paper written with "For Hillsboro-- Annie's student's work" and "Wesleyan '87." A nice association between teacher and student (Dillard taught at Wesleyan, and spent part of her time in Hillsborough, NC). Symmes has continued to write about Cuba with a second book on the country. Very good book with foxing to inside wraps and toning to pages. // 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.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper in black ink, in the year of publication, to fiction writer Jack Cady, whom Robert Michael Pyle cites as his most influential writing teacher (at the University of Washington) of the very few he had: "To Jack, with long-time & deep respects -- may you find some narrative in here a tad more compelling than my short stories of 30 years ago! From an old pal, Bob, Spokane, September 25, 1999." Wonderful sentiment. This book won a Washington State Book Award, and Cady was also a winner of that award in fiction. Pyle is a lepidopterist (has also written guide books on butterflies), thus this work lies at the center of his passions. Fine book in fine jacket. First printing. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Inscribed on the blue front free endpaper in the year of publication: "For one Yellow Bird from the other, with a great deal of love, Margie, July 1969." Also signed on the title page with a separate pen (although a nickname is used in the inscription, we are sure it's also Sanger based on a comparison of handwriting samples). Uncommon signed.  Marjory Bartlett Sanger was a mid-century naturalist writer from Florida. She was an ornithologist (a member of the AOU and many other bird organizations) with a specialty on herons and the author of 11 books, most of them about birds and their habitats along with one interpretive biography of William Bartram. Her other nonfiction books on ecology include Cypress Country, World of the Great White Heron, Mangrove Island, and Forest in the Sand. She graduate from Wellesley College and was the editor of Mass Audubon's Bulletin before she moved back to Florida,… Read More

Durham: Forest History Society, 2006. First edition. Softcover. Near fine. The simultaneous paperback edition. Inscribed briefly on the title page and signed by four former US Forest Service Chiefs: R. Max. Peterson, F. Dale Roberston, Jack Ward Thomas, and Mike Dombeck. Uncommon as such. This book collects excerpts from interviews with seven FS Chiefs, who "look back at the issues they faced throughout their 50 collective years of service and provide a glimpse into the inner workings of America's oldest and largest federal land-management agency." A near fine paperback with some sunning to spine.

University of Georgia Press, 2004. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Inscribed on the title page: "For Bill, with thanks for our fellowship, and best wishes for finding grace amid our urban wilds. John Tallmadge, V. 2005." Uncommon signed, a paperback original. Blurbs by Scott Russell Sanders, Robert Michael Pyle, and Ann Zwinger. One of a very few number of books about urban nature and its appreciation, and fairly early at that. A fine book in wraps. // 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.

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Association copy: a softcover uncorrected proof from the library of Joan Didion, with a short signed letter dated 1980 from the director of advertising, publicity and promotion at the publisher conveying the proof to her in Los Angeles and asking for praise. A nice association between a countercultural Beat icon and one of the greatest documenters of counterculture. An extra-tall octavo in purple (lavender) wraps. Very good, with sunning to the top of the front cover as well as to spine, and a few light creases to corners of front wrap. A paper clip is attached to top of first page, with attendant impressions to page and to letter, which is otherwise fine. We invite you to explore our growing collection of signed and inscribed Didion items, including other books from her own library..

Meredith Press, NY, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed on the title page: "They are here uninvited and often unloved--but great teaching material! Helen Ross Russell." On the font free endpaper, the original owner's name stamped in ink "("Thomas J. Rillo") is struck through and Russell has re-dedicated the book beneath it: "To Cliff Knapp." An early book about urban nature, and apparently scarce in hardcover, with no other copies currently available (there are some paperbacks from a 1974 edition). Illustrated by Marcia Erickson. Russell is an important mid-century environmentalist, an early female biologist-conservationist and promoter of environmental education. She was a professor of biology and chair of the science department of what's now Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts. Many of her outdoorsy books were for young adults. Thomas R. Rillo was a prominent figure and professor in the emerging field of Environmental and Outdoor Education, as was Cliff Knapp--both… Read More

SF: City Lights Publishers, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. An association copy: pasted to the front free endpaper is a handwritten and signed postcard from the book's editor, City Lights founder and publisher, and San Francisco Renaissance poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The postcard, dated 1978, mentions enclosing poems for Clemente to consider for a new journal he was editing (which was The West Hills Review). Clemente was a professor at SUNY and his papers are held at Rochester University. This anthology is described as a "comprehensive selection from the influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series [ . . .] a landmark retrospective, celebrating forty years of publishing and cultural history." City Lights famously published Ginsberg's Howl and much else. A small book, sextodecimo, in pictorial paper boards without a dust jacket as issued; a fine copy. The postcard is fully pasted to the FFEP and is very good with browning to edges, ink slightly faded, and one corner slightly clipped.