Search Results: Titles starting with M from Rural Hours

Pantheon, 2021. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed generously on the title page in the year of publication: "To Jerry + Zoe, Cara, Mia, + T.R. -- and for Sharon who I believe might have liked this story -- all my love -- Judith, Nov. 5, 2021." Fine book in fine jacket, as new and unread.

Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2018. First edition. Softcover. Fine. Signed on the title page by Pyle. Uncommon signed. A lepidopterist and the author of nearly two dozen books and guides, this is his first novel. Blurbs my Jim Lynch, Molly Gloss, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Brian Doyle. A paperback original, French flaps. In fine condition..

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition, signed on the title page. Following up on her acclaimed book exploring Antartica, Terra Incognita, Wheeler now breaks ice at the other end of the world. From the jacket: "In The Magnetic North, she takes full measure of the Arctic: at once the most pristine place on earth and the locus of global warming." Fine in fine jacket; as new. We invite you to explore our dedicated, growing collection of signed and inscribed climate change books. Please inquire for photos.

Cranium Press, San Francisco, 1971. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Association copy, inscribed to writer and publisher Richard Grossinger on the title page, "hic et nunc, Michael" (here and now). Grossinger founded the journal "Io" at Amherst in 1964, then founded North Atlantic Books in Vermont in 1974, later moving the press to Berkeley. Io published many of the Beats. A near fine book with the usual rubbing for this title on the green front wrapper. Touch of wear to top of spine and a small crease to lower corner of cover. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Cranium Press, San Francisco, 1972. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. A notable association copy, inscribed to McClure s friend and sometimes editor-publisher Jack Shoemaker, a legend in the independent press world who has stuck with the Beats (in particular, Gary Snyder) from start to finish. "This copy for Jack Michael," it reads, on the title page. 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. This book is a collection of plays that read just as well as poetry ("projective verse turned to theater"). It's in very good condition, with a clean interior but some wear and scuffing to cover, as is normal for this title. The cover also has the unobtrusive imprint of a swirling pen, which is only visible in reflective light, and some minor creasing along spine. Still very good, and a compelling association. Please inquire for photos.

e.g., 1987. Soft cover. Fine. Inscribed to the poet Jim LeCuyer: "This is for Jim with love from Mark. San Francisco, 1/27/91." First printing limited to 500 copies.

e.g., 1987. Soft cover. Near Fine. Inscribed to the Bay Area poet Jim LeCuyer: "And this, too, is for Jim. --Mark." First printing limited to 500 copies. A small dark streak on cover (unobtrusive) and some softening to corners.

NY: Columbia University Press, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed to no recipient on the title page in blue ink: "Best wishes, Bob Wyss." Fine book in fine jacket..

Texas A & M Univ Pr, 1991. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed on the title page: "For Baird, with fraternal best wishes, Paul Shepard." His first book, a classic of environmental thinking, uncommon signed. Second printing. Fine book except for a few small dogeared lower corners; in a fine jacket apart from a subtle ridge that runs down the middle of the spine (not quite a crease--more like a pinch). // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in nature writing and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To the Bowles on their anniversary, with my very best wishes, Marjory Bartlett Sanger, Driftwood, 15 January 1966." An uncommon book in general and scarce 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, Checkerback's Journey: The Migration of the Ruddy Turnstone, 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, where she was an administrator and teacher at an Audubon Society camp in addition to her writing. … Read More

North Point Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed on the title page by Buckles. Uncommon signed. As the jacket says: "Twenty-four million people live within one hundred miles of Long Island Sound [in 1997] . . . Yet the land, sky, and intertidal areas that Mary Parker Buckles explores . . . have remained virtually uncelebrated until now." See the New York Times review.  Buckles had written several guidebooks to animals, but this is her first and primary work for a lay audience in the tradition of other tidal explorers like Rachel Carson. Fine in a fine price-clipped jacket.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Association copy, inscribed to 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: " For Gary Nabhan + Karen Reickhardt, from Andrew Weil, Tucson, Arizona, September, 1980." Describes a three-year journey through Latin America, East Africa, and the United States to explore the nature of consciousness as well as mind-altering substances and phenomena. Near fine in very good jacket with general wear, chipping, and sunning to spine.

London: Fouth Estate Ltd, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Signed. Notable for being the British edition, less commonly signed by Ehrlich. Fine book in near fine jacket.

Pantheon, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. An association copy, inscribed in the year of publication to Ehrlich's longtime family housekeeper in Santa Barbara: "For Paulina With much love, & thanks for all your help Gretel, August 25, 1994." Paulina is mentioned in Ehrlich's latest book Unsolaced. An interesting association in that it speaks to Ehrlich's relative affluence and the lifestyle that she was perhaps escaping when she struck out for Wyoming where she wrote her classic The Solace of Open Spaces. Very near fine in near fine jacket .

Mariner Books, 1999. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Inscribed to a Thoreau Society member on the half-title page: "To John Bergstrom, with best wishes, Laura Dassow Walls." Uncommon signed. A slim book (120 pages) of excerpts from Thoreau that shows his early thinking on ecology. With a foreword by E.O. Wilson. A fine paperback. 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.

NY: Riverhead Books, 2021. First printing. Near fine/Near fine. Signed by Groff on a publisher's tipped in page following the front free endpaper. Near fine with a light bump to spine tail; in a very near fine jacket with a touch of creasing to upper corner of front flap.

Jonathan Cape, 1968. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. First thus. Cape Editions 17, auburn dustjacket over white wraps, 16vo. Signed by the editor, Robert Creeley, on the title page. Scarce thus. From the collection of Douglas Calhoun, the editor of Anthanor journal, which published a special issued devoted to Creeley. Very good book because of a damp stain at lower left corner of cover, along spine. Very good dust jacket because some light wear to edges and corners. Presents well. These little Cape Editions are fun and handsome.

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Inscribed on the title page in the year of publication: "For Judy, with my thanks for a fine day (and signed to prove my hand still works!). Bill McKibben, June 2, 1998." Maybe he was doing some hard restoration work; or maybe he just signed a lot of books. In any case, uncommon signed. McKibben's foray into the controversial (over)population debate. A very near fine book with a minor bump to lower text block corner, impacting the outermost tip of about 40 pages; also a touch of binders glue showing where the paper turns to cloth on the front board. In a near fine jacket with a scrape on left side where it looks like a price sticker was peeled. Minor imperfections.

National Geographic, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Merwin and dated "Apr 11 2011" on the title page in black ink. Uncommon or scarce signed. Reissued by Copper Canyon in paperback in 2019. Fine book in fine jacket in minor misalignment with book. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Ashland, WI: Sigurd Olson Institute, 1978. First edition. Softcover. An uncommon staple-bound chapbook in mustard wraps consisting of Sigurd Olson's 1958 address "The Meaning of Wilderness," given to the Utah Academy of Sciences in Provo. We are not sure if this address was collected before it appeared as the title essay of a 2001 collection (reissued in 2015). This booklet was produced in 1978 (it would appear) by the Sigurd Olson Institute at Northland College "as a gift for its friends." With three illustrations by Deb Bartl, Nina Forsythe, and Diana Tesoriere (a particularly funky pinecone drawing by Deb on the rear). 16 pages total plus wraps. Very good with a coffee spot at the top edge and sporadic creasing. Likely a scarce piece of Olson ephemera with none listed in OCLC/WorldCat.