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Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2009.. Edition of 5. 12 x 15.5"; 43 unnumbered pages, many of which fold out from the main text block. Block printed with rubber stamped letters. Cloth bound. Rebecca Goodale: "This book unfolds to reveal a vernal pool with the four indicator species and a poem about mating season." An indicator species is often the most sensitive species in the region and acts as a warning to monitoring biologists. The indicator species of the vernal Maine pool are fairy shrimp, blue salamanders and yellow spotted salamanders, and wood frogs.
Restless Dust. by Wight, Gail - 2009.
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San Francisco, California:: San Francisco Center for the Book,, 2009.. Edition of 50. 7.75 x 9.75 x 3.5" custom wooden box containing one book, two paper birds, velvet, and electronics. Book: 6.5 x 8.25", 36 pages. Linocut and pigment prints. Handset in Cheltentam Old Style. Printed on Rives heavyweight paper. Letterpress printed on a Vandercook press. Sewn binding in leather wrapper with leather tie closure. Gail Wight: "'Restless Dust' is a multimedia work housed in a two-tiered wooden box. The top portion holds a letterpress leather-bound artist's book separated by Plexiglas from a velvet-lined chamber containing two illuminated paper birds (activated when the box lid is opened). The text invites Charles Darwin's ghost to sail to present day San Francisco and wander with me through the greater Bay Area. The focus of the journey is three-fold: to celebrate Northern California's unique species; to examine Darwin's legacy and its impact on the Bay Area; and to acknowledge the fragile and endangered state of local flora and fauna, beleaguered by environmental degradation during Darwin's time and my own. The book was created while in residence with the Imprint at the San Francisco Center for the Book. "The title is a remix of a quote from Mary Wollstonecraft: 'It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.'" Anita Mohan, "Embodying Experience: A Conversation with Artist Gail Wight" (May 24, 2011): "Wight's medium tends to be experimental media, I first became acquainted with her through her playful, more traditional artist's book, 'Restless Dust'.
The book was the direct result of Wight's residency at the San Francisco Center for the Book
She had never made a book before - as with the rest of her work, the depth of her curiosity drove her to learn how. "'Restless Dust' takes as a point of departure an invitation to Darwin: What would you show Darwin if he visited the Bay Area? The idea came to Wight as she was driving around, listening to Otis Redding's '(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay' - I want to meet Darwin at the bay and walk around with him. Uncertain of what to write, Wight sent an email to 30 artists, scientists or theorists of some kind, who shared an interest in Darwin, asking them, 'If you could show Darwin one thing around the Bay Area - what would you show him?' "The resulting book was a conversation between art and science, full of allusions and wordplay that looks at our culture and our endangered environment. At one point, for example, Wight plays with the double meaning of The Red Queen Effect. In Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass', the Red Queen said, 'It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.' A biologist coined the term 'The Red Queen Effect' from Carroll's book to describe the need for any species to continue evolving in order to keep control of its space and keep up with the system within which it is striving to survive. The same sort of linguistic and visual whimsy occurs in asking how Darwin would solve the local problem of an invasive species of crabs that flow into the Bay Area and decimate local species. In a poetic turn, she writes that they would be pushed to sea in eucalyptus canoes; eucalyptus is also an invasive non-native species that crowds out native species, even killing local foraging birds with a suffocating tar-like substance.
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Ice Melts.
by Goodale, Rebecca.
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Clematis.
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Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2010.. Edition of 5. 8.375 x 27.25" closed, extends to 82". Cutouts and pop-up structure. Handcolored silkscreen prints. Bound in cloth with ribbon tie closures. Title tipped on cover. Signed and numbered by the artist. By using the top blue loop (one of the ribbon tie closures), the book can be hung vertically for a cascading display. Clematis continues Goodale's Threatened and Endangered series in a broad sense. Clematis has been classified as a rare plant by the state of Maine. Their first two classifications for plants are those that are imperiled, which are the plants that Goodale usually includes in her series. The rare classification indicates the lack of sightings in Maine (20-100 occurrences). Rebecca Goodale: "My newest book is a tall, cascading book representing the genus Clematis. I drew from two plants, one was Maine's rare Clematis occidentalis. The other was Clematis alpina, which I drew while visiting…
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10 Edible Maine Mushrooms.
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Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2016.. Edition of 5. 7 x 9.25"; 20 pages. Pop-ups. Flutter book construction. Monotype silkscreen prints and monotype gelatin plate prints. Handcut and handcolored with ink and colored pencil. Handwritten text. Cloth bound flat-backed case with an onlay beneath the cloth on the front cover. Rebecca Goodale: "After years of walking in the woods, studying, and eating mushrooms, this is my first book about some of the most delicious mushrooms in my town."
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Where Stucco Meets Chaparrel.
by [Pie in the Sky Press] Rebecca Chamlee.
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[Simi Valley, California]:: Pie in the Sky Press,, 2014.. Edition of 60 + 26 lettered copies. Of the edition there are three states: Deluxe (Lettered copies); Standard (numbered 1-25); and Special (Numbered 26-60). Printed letterpress. Handset California Old Style cast by M & H Typefounders and Gothic XX Condensed wood type. Printed using photopolymer plates and hand-carved Gomuban relief plates. Signed by the artist on the colophon. Standard: 6 x 9"; 108 pages. Printed on Somerset papers. Bound in simplified style with printed abaca wrapped boards and a cloth spine. Numbered. Rebecca Chamlee, prospectus: "Like the self-taught naturalists of the Victorian era, my recent work examines the intersection of my artistic and scientific interests by collecting and cataloging the natural world. I am inspired to record, interpret, and celebrate nature. "In my new artist's book I observe the natural world around me. Where Stucco Meets Chaparral explores the trails through…
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Symphytum officianle, Comfrey, Knitbone.
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Freeport, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2017.. Edition of 6 + 2 AP. 10 x 26" closed, extends to 10 x 39 x 39". Silkscreen prints and dry point prints. Text letterpress printed at Ascensius Press in Bar Mills. Interlocking binding in hinged cover. Bound in green book cloth with paper title label. Signed by the poet and the artists. Numbered. A collaboration between Rebecca Goodale and Stephen Burt with an original poem by Cathleen Miller. The prints show the growth habit of the common comfrey plant. The book is read standing and open. Rebecca Goodale: "In 2016 Stephen Burt and Rebecca Goodale decided to create an artist's book together using serigraphy and intaglio for the pages. The imagery was inspired by the common comfrey plant and a poem by Cathleen Miller. They worked collaboratively cutting stencils, and engraving the plates - passing them back and forth until together they decided the screens and plates were ready to print. The prints were made in Rebecca's…
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Fifteen Maine Birds.
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Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2002.. Edition of 10. 11 x 16.5" with three section compound binding. Hand colored silk-screen prints with collage. This book's pages are composed of portraits of the fifteen birds listed by the state of Maine as Threatened or Endangered.
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Seven Maine Ferns.
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Portland, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2003.. Edition of 5. 9.5 x 12 x 1"; 13 leaves. Handcolored silkscreen prints on handmade paper (including pastedowns). Accordion construction. Green silk cloth-covered boards with illustrated handmade paper on front board. In matching green cloth-covered slipcase. Goodale uses the accordion book structure for bringing attention to these seven ferns on Maine's Threatened & Endangered list. She lists the individual species' names under the name of the genus Woodsia. Her vigorous painting strokes and bold design seem to bring the page alive with ferns.
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eight neighbors and roommates.
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Freeport, Maine:: Rebecca Goodale,, 2019.. Edition of 8. 2.5 x 2.5" miniature. Accordion structure extending from front board. Compound drum leaf assembly with a variation on a secret Belgian binding for the covers. Dry points, á la poupée or hand-colored. Text letterpress printed by Scott Vile of Ascensius Press. Handmade paper by Bernie and Patty Vinzannni as well as handmade paper by Katie MacGregor. Signed and numbered by the artist. Poem and book by the artist inspired by spiders in her life.
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Consider the Oyster: with linoleum cuts by Martin Mazorra
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Prototype Press,, 2021.. Edition of 52. Consider the Oyster was printed on custom paper from the Saint-Armand paper mill. The book cover and clam-shell book box are covered in two additional papers from the mill. Quarterbound in white, foilstamped goat leather. A custom oyster shucking knife accompanies each book to assist with opening the book box. The typeface used for the text is 12pt Monotype Goudy Light. The blue headline typeface is handset Windsor Elongated in a variety of sizes. It is printed in an edition of 52 copies. Cast, printed and bound by the press. Mark Sarigianis: "I first discovered M. F. K. Fishers Consider the Oyster in 2018 while browsing the cookbook section of the Mills College library. It was a first edition, and given the reverence held for Fisher, especially in the bay area, it should have been in the special collections department. Even though it was written in 1941, I was immediately struck by the passionate foodie sensibilities with which she…
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Sea Change.
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La Mesa, California:: Anne Covell,, 2019.. Edition of 25 variants. 9.5 x 1.25 x 12.5 inches (closed). Letterpress printed from photopolymer plates by Boxcar Press on an SP-15 Vandercook Proof Press in the UF School of Art + Art History Type Shop on Somerset Velvet and Masa papers. Designed and printed by Anne Covell during a semester long residency in the fall of 2019. Numbered. Anne Covell: "'Sea Change' is a letterpress printed artist book and companion print series that uses catastrophe modeling to map the projected impact of sea level rise on the Florida Peninsula if action is not taken to combat climate change. In this book, state and regional maps of the Florida Peninsula repeat page by page with hand-cut paper corrections that reflect projections for coastal impacts for up to ten feet in sea level rise. The corresponding text on the verso of each repeating image of the Florida Peninsula rises on the page in tandem with index tabs that visually mark predictions in two foot…
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Restless Dust Postcards.
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San Francisco, California:: San Francisco Center for the Book,, 2010.. Edition of 100. 6 x 4" a set of 4 postcards and sheet of stamps. Postcards separated by perforation. Letterpress and pigments prints. Signed and numbered by the artist. In cellophane envelope. Gail Wight: "'Restless Dust Postcards' is the accompanying trade edition of 'Restless Dust'. It includes an accordion-fold set of four postcards separated by perforation. The postcards are letterpress and the sheet of stamps are archival pigment prints. Text and images come from the 'Restless Dust' book. The text of the book invites Charles Darwin's ghost to sail to present day San Francisco and wander with me through the greater Bay Area. The focus of the journey is three-fold: to celebrate Northern California's unique species; to examine Darwin's legacy and its impact on the Bay Area; and to acknowledge the fragile and endangered state of local flora and fauna, beleaguered by environmental…
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe
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London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., 1976. Good. Softbound limp edition. Cased edition also available Illustrations by Peter Stebbing 1976. Limp. Good. Peter Stebbing.
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ICEBERGS AND GLACIERS
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New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?
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The Natural History of Selborne; With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and The Naturalist's Calendar
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London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Leather Bound. Good. Half leather over cloth boards in good condition. Marbled endpapers. TEG. With 40 hand-colored engravings. Raised bands on the spine. A few words underlined pp. 115-116. Some foxing. Eight pages have a dark mark in the center of the page, but the text is still legible. A damp stain on the lower corner of many pages. With additions and Supplementary notes by William Jardine. Edited with further illustrations, a biographical sketch of the author and a complete index by Edward Jesse.
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Winter - Notes from Montana
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket and mylar cover. Signed by author on title page. Dust jacket has sticker residue over the price, otherwise no wear or soiling present. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pp; Signed by Author .
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale
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Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, [1979]. Softcover book with pictorial wraps. 160p. B&W photos throughout text. This is the original printing, later reprinted by the University of Minnesota Press. Book has been well read and is in very good - condition with wear to the cover image along the edge and reading crease to front cover, corners bumped and shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked with light staining on the edge of a few pages. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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