Search Results: Titles starting with G from Rural Hours

NY: St. Martins Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Signed on the title page by Joseph. Uncommon signed.  As the subtitle suggests, it explores the history of the Gaia idea--that the Earth is a living, self-regulating organism--put forth by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis (the book is dedicated to them and "to everyone who gives them a good argument"). As Publishers Weekly reports, in the book "the twists and turns of Gaian politics are deftly unraveled" and it "explores how the Gaian outlook has influenced feminism, goddess art, neopaganism, and Green Party ecopolitics." Joseph is a science journalist who has written for many national magazines. A very good or better book with light edge wear to boards (one bump to top board) and some sporadic dogeared pages; the binding crackles a little as the cover opens. In a very good jacket with wear to spine ends and some creasing to top edges, with a Barnes & Noble bookstore sticker on rear panel at upper left .

MacMillan Company, New York, 1906. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Inscribed in a handsome cursive on the title page: "For M. E. Hansell, Mabel Osgood Wright, Fairfield, Conn." Writing under a pseudonym in this treatise on gardening, Wright was a pioneering author on the environment and an early leader in the Audubon movement, serving a director from 1905 to 1928. She is perhaps best known for "Birdcraft," an early bird guide (1895). Gray cloth with gilt lettering and a red vine patterning (for this book about gardens). Very good plus with bumping to corners and some foxing to page edges, but the interior clean and tight; fading to red vines on the spine. All and all a very attractive find. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in nature writing and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. WRB452022A.

University of California, Berkeley, 2005. 1st Edition. No Binding. Fine. An 11 x 17-inch poster advertising the presentation of the Chancellor's Distinguished Honor Award at UC Berkeley on April 14, 2005, in part hosted by the program of East Asian Languages & Cultures. The event was followed by a discussion with Robert Hass. Printed in red and black ink on heavy poster stock with a portrait of Snyder on the right side. Near fine with a little toning/ghosting to top portion. A handsome poster suitable for framing; a great present for a Berkeley-area Snyder fan. // 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.

Counterpoint, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First printing, inscribed handsomely on the title page: "For Stacey, Gary Snyder." Fine book in a very good plus jacket with some rubbing. We invite you to explore our growing collection of signed and inscribed Gary Snyder books and broadsides. // 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.

Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very good. Signed across the front free endpaper. Apparently a scarce book, with (it would appear) no other copies available online, though it was re-released by Trinity University Press in paperback in 2013, suggesting its continued relevance. Owner signature in faint pencil on the pastedown across it. A good book with sunning to upper edges of green cloth boards. Wear to all corners with boards peeking through. Half-inch tear to cloth of spine tail. Toning to endpapers, pastedowns, and text block faces. A few spots to cloth, one larger half-inch blot to rear board. Pages are clean and white. Jacket is very good and presents well with wear to corners and spine ends. A flawed copy, but solid, and rare.

Harper and Row, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed to "Cris" by editor and contributor Joyce Carol Thomas, as well as inscribed (each time "to Cris") by five of the contributors--Al Young, Gary Soto, Gerald Haslam, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Rick Wernli--at the head of their stories, all on the same occasion in the year of publication. It represents a surprisingly great gathering of twentieth-century California writers (only Wernli faded to obscurity, and apparently his contribution here, "Colony," was his first published story). A non-authorial (it would seem) gift inscription to Cris from "Ellen" is found on the upper right of the FFEP. Other contributors to this anthology include Gerald Vizenor, Lois Lowry, Ana Castillo, and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. A very near fine book, with just one bump to lower edge of front board, otherwise crisp and clean; in a near fine jacket with a streak of rubbing on the rear panel where cloth to turns to paper underneath. Note that the stock… Read More

No Binding. Near Fine. San Francisco, self-published, 1965. A scarce 11 x 8.5 inch flier, reproducing Whalen's calligraphy, that advocates the celebration of "Gentle Thursday" on March 25, 1965. "Nobody listening to You? Stop yakking," the flier begins. See the photo for the other calls to action (non-action, that is). A message as timely now as ever. Near fine with a slim band of toning/sunning at upper edge, one spot near lower left corner, and a gentle crease across its middle were it was once folded. Please inquire for photos. (Lepper p. 420).

Capricorn Press, Santa Barbara, 1970. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Signed on the title page in blue ink. Ehrlich's first book, a volume of poems published in her hometown of Santa Barbara when she was just 24. At this point, she had had only a single poem published in the California Review, with no other credits. She'd find great acclaim thanks to her third book and first book of prose, The Solace of Open Space. A beautiful production in brown wrappers with brown endpapers, cover illustration by Judy Daniel, lettering in shades of blue and purple. Printed by Noel Young. One of 550 copies, with an additional 50 copies in cloth. Very near fine with only some light creasing along spine. // 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, 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.

Black Rock Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Signed in the year of publication on the title page: "For Jason Shirk, across much geography, Bill Fox, 6/94." Uncommon signed. A chapbook of experimental-ish poetry. "Rainshadow editions." Square octavo, lavender textured wraps that were printed letter press at the Black Rock Press at the University of Nevada, Reno. Very good with substantial sunning to spine and outer edge, ghosting on back. // 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.

City Lights Publishers, 2013. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Signed by McClure and by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the editor and publisher of this volume (founder of City Lights), on the title page. Uncommon signed, and unique with Ferlinghetti's signature. Laid in is a promotional slip advertising McClure reading Ghost Tantras at Moe's Books in Berkeley. A fine, unread paperback.

City Lights Publishers, 2013. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Association copy, with an autographed note laid in from the City Lights publishing to Jack Shoemaker, McClure's friend and sometimes editor-publisher. Shoemaker is a legend in the independent press world who has stuck with the Beats (in particular, Gary Snyder) from start to finish. As the editor of Sand Dollar Books, Shoemaker published McClure's The Book of Joanna and Hail Thee Who Play. As editor of North Point Press, he published McClure's widely read memoir Scratching the Beat Surface. The letter reads, in part, "Dear Jack, Hope this finds you well, and makes you glad! Of course, we have you to thank for this edition ." The signature is a little hard to parse, but might be "Dani"? On official City Lights stationary. A cool item. The book is fine, the letter very near fine with a hint of handling. ALS.

North Point Press, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed on the title page. Fine book in fine jacket. Uncommon signed. // 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.

Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Jane Cottrell, Best wishes, Char, 2-3-07, Portland." Uncommon signed. Jane Cottrell rose to become the Forest Service's Deputy Chief, an office which sits just below the agency's Chief and Associate Chief  (i.e. third in command). Char Miller is an environmental historian, a professor at Pomona College, and the author of more than a dozen environmental book on subjects as diverse as Death Valley, Hetch Hetchy, water policy and controversy, and a lot more. He is a fellow of the Forest History Society. A nice association in light of the subject, and a book described as a "masterful biography," the first of Pinchot in four decades. Blurbs by Jack Ward Thomas (former Forest Service Chief) and Carolyn Merchant. A fine book in fine jacket, as new.

Counterpoint, 2006. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Association copy, inscribed by Berry on the title page: "For Charlie Hughes, with appreciation, Wendell Berry, 6/15/06." Charlie Glemore Hughes, Jr. was the editor of the Kentucky Literary Newsletter and the self-described "owner, publisher, and janitor" of Wind Publications. Fine, a tight book that feels unread but surely was treasured. First paperback edition.

Kansas City: Sheed Andrews & McMeel, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Inscribed on the title page: "For Lee, who has met coyote. --Barry." An uncommonly on point inscription considering the book is Lopez's telling of North American indigenous Trickster Coyote mythologies based on his extensive research (presented in a bibliographic essay at the rear). His second book. Most of the stories are just two to three pages, and Lopez notes in his introduction that he's taken the license of "rewriting, translating, and adapting" these tales to eschew the stiff language of translation and to make them more accessible to a modern audience. A near fine book in blue cloth with just a touch of sunning to edges; in a very good or better jacket with light wear to corners and spine ends.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing, inscribed on the half-title page: "for a high bidder at the 2003 Dining by Design auction of the Arts Council of Princeton, with thanks and all best from John McPhee." A great Princeton connection. Fine book in near fine price-clipped jacket with some faint toning to upper inner edges and a crease down the black flap. Please inquire for photos.

Zasterle Press, 1991. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 16o, number 73 of 500 copies. Inscribed on the title page: "For Patrick, Christopher, Lelia and Greg Ross, these [Gnomic Verses] were fun. With my best, Robert Creeley, Buffalo * 4/4/94." Creeley has boxed the printed "Gnomic Verses" to make it part of his inscription.

NY: Scribners, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Inscribed on the green front free endpaper: "For Father Bonaventure, for the Mount Angel [Abbey] Community, in memory of an enjoyable and enriching experience, Rene Dubos, May 12, 1973." Uncommon signed. Dubos (1901-1982) was a microbiologist and important environmental thinker. He won the Pulitzer in 1969 for So Human an Animal and is credited with coining the essential enviro phrase, "Think globally, act locally." As the jacket describes this book, "If we continued to make choices for our future only relation to negative issues such as pollution and overpopulation, says Dr. Dubos, our civilization will become increasingly dreary and meaningless. Instead, we must learn to cultivate the positive values that exist in man's nature and in the external world." Mount Angel is a Benedictine Abbey founded in 1882 in Oregon, north of Salem. Bonaventure was its eighth abbot. A very near fine book in a very good jacket with faint wear to… Read More

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1965. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Inscribed on the half title page to Douglas Calhoun, the editor of Anthanor journal, which devoted a special issue to Creeley: "For Doug, with love, Bob." Light wear to edges and corners. Pages crisp and clean.