Search Results: Nature/Gardening/Environmentalism from Gargoyle Books

New York, NY, U.S.A.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1981. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Reproduces the fantastical drawings made over a 20-year period in the 19th century by Lady Elizabeth Hurnshaw, who came upon the mysterious island of Amarantos while traveling to the Americas. Her drawings & accompanying notebooks were rediscovered at Hurnshaw House by antiquarian artist Woodruff, who gives them new life in this volume. This is a stunning, FIRST EDITION First Printing of this oversized hardcover book from 1981, in 127 pages, lavishly illustrated in full color throughout. With borwn cloth-covered boards & gilt lettering to front & spine, it is in breathtakingly Near Fine condition, downgraded solely due to foxing along all outside page edges. Otherwise, it is like new! Completely clean, binding strong & straight, pages white, colors bright. NO writing, underlining, or highlighting; NOT ex-lib. The price-clipped DJ is truly Fine: virtually flawless! Nicely… Read More

Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 1978. First U.S. Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Lavishly illustrated, full-color, oversized celebration of the artists who have made the natural world & its creatures come alive. Orig. published in London, this is the First US Edition from the Overlook Press of Woodstock, NY, in 224 pages with 230 black-and-white pictures + 65 full-color plates. Huge (13.5" x 10" x 1.5") hardcover book has brown cloth-covered boards with bright gilt lettering & design to spine. Condition is Near Fine, AS NEW but downgraded due to splitting of ffep from its webbing next to half-title page. Else, completely clean, pages white, illustrations vivid: no fading, foxing, or edgewear. NO writing/underlining/highlighting; not ex-lib. The unclipped DJ is equally flawless: bright & colorful with just a hint of edgewear; beautifully protected in new clearl mylar cover Free!Our photos show the Exact book you will receive, never "stock"… Read More

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Barefoot Books, 2020. Hardcover. As New. Collection of 6 stories from around the world (Australia, Wales, the American Southwest, Bali, Kazakhstan, & India) that demonstrate our deep connections to the natural world. Each story includes hands-on activities or projects (planting seeds, making a bird feeders, etc). designed to help kids connect & take care of our planet Earth. In 79 pages, lavishly illustrated on every one. Orig. published in hardcover in 2009, this is the First Paperback Edition, first printing, from 2020. Condition is Fine: looks & feels Brand New & never opened! Completely clean & bright, binding straight & strong, pages vividly colored. Flawless! Our photos show the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have on hand. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Pacific time (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

San Diego, California: San Diego Chapter of the Sierra Club, 1972. Third Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Everything you need to know to head out on a mountain adventure, from map reading to essential equipment, alpine camping & cooking, planning trips, navigating trails & rock climbing, desert & alpine treks, & "climbing miseries" & first aid treatment thereof. In 136 pages, illustrated with line drawings throughout, suggestions for further reading in rear. Orig. published in 1961 & in a second edition in 1965, this is the Third Edition (third printing) from 1972, with the text expanded from 118-135 pages & major revisions to some chapters. From right here in San Diego where it was published, this paperback small 8vo has a red cloth-wrapped spine, stapled binding, & red paper wrappers decorated & lettered in black & white to front. Condition is VG+: completely clean & unmarked, binding secure, slight fraying to cloth at head of spine & minor… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: George H. Doran Co., 1919. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Collection of "studies, essays, & sketches of animal life" from the renowned Anglo-Argentinian naturalist, ornithologist, & author (1841-1942), in 360 pages with Index. A FIRST EDITION, first printing from 1919, this hardcover book has light green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to front & spine.Condition is Near Fine: exceptionally clean, binding tight & square, hinges secure, deckled-edge pages are creamy white--many untrimmed at lower edge. Modest tanning to outside page edges, NO foxing. Old gift inscription dated 1919 on ffep, else unmarked. No DJ, likely as issued. Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.

Garden City, New Jersey: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. Smith, Cam. The inventory of the geodesic dome & 1970s guru teams up with photographer Cam Smith in this collection of inspirational verse & images designed to cultivate appreciation of our endangered planet. Unpaginated with facsimile signature & date in front matter. A FIRST EDITION from 1972, this softcover small 8vo has white wrappers (slightly tanned to spine side of both covers) with a raised blindstamp of the Earth behind a black-and-white pictorial image of a child to front cover, black lettering to front & spine. Condition is VG: extremely clean, pages white & unmarked, images crisp, extremely minimal edgewear. Only flaw is one typical of this book: the glued binding has cracked, falls completely open in center, & pages are loosening, one completely detached. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we… Read More

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little, Brown and Company, 1929. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. In a companion volume to his earlier books for young readers about birds & animals, the famed children's author here the fascinating world of wild flowers in a collection of 42 charming short stories. In 350 pages + 103 illustrations throughout the text in color & black-and-white, including a full-color frontispiece. Originally published in 1923, this is the 1929 printing of that First Edition, in Fine condition: deep green cloth-covered boards with lighter green design, gilt lettering to front & spine, & colorful front paper pastedown decorative front paste-down. Exceptionally clean & crisp inside & out, binding strong & straight, hinges secure, pages creamy white & completely unmarked. All the color plates are vibrant with clean white margins. No DJ. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we… Read More

Charles Scribners Sons, 1964. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Adams, Adrienne. Children's story about a magical summer between a brother & sister & two swallowtail butterflies, told in "poetic text" with lovely watercolor illustrations by Adrienne Adams. Unpaginated. Orig. published in 1964, this is a slightly later (12/65) printing of that FIRST EDITION. Hardcover small quarto (8" x 10.5") has brightly colored cloth-covered boards with an image matched on the accompanying DJ. An EX-LIB copy, with usual stamps & markings & card pocket, condition is nonetheless VG: quite clean & bright, binding strong & straight, pages lightly tanned but unmarked. The price-clipped DJ is Near Fine, having been protected under old library mylar; this has been carefully removed & replaced with brand new! Only DJ flaw is very minor wear to head of spine & old paper library call number to lower spine. Our photos depict the Exact book… Read More

Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.: Self-published, 1936. First Edition First Printing . Spiral-bound Hardcover. Near Fine. Comprehensive guide to 54 flowering plants that are native to California. Offered for the Nature Lover, the author's introduction asserts that "Nature's Garden is ours to protect, & an acquaintance should make us eager to preserve it for those who are to know it in the coming years..a knowledge of our native flowers will do more for conservation than will laws that prohibit the gathering of them." Harris (1873-1956) was an Iowan turned California landscape artist who specialized in botanical studies. Self-published from her home in Los Angeles, this oblong spiral-wire bound 32 mo (7.5" x 5") has green cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt lettering & butterfly image &1938 date to front cover. Printed on recto only, each page has a lithographed color image, plant name in English & Latin, family affiliation, physical description, &… Read More

New York, New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1939. Second Revised Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Prescient early work on the impacts of climate change on various species & the Earth, in 223 pages with illustrations throughout. W. D. Matthew (1871-1930) was a renowned paleontologist who had recently passed away. His early work from the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences on the impact of climate on evolution, first published in Feb. 1915, is reprinted here, along with a new Preface & "critical additions by the author and others & a bibliography of his scientific works by Charles Lewis Camp & Vertress Lawrence VanderHoof." With navy blue cloth-covered boards lettered in gilt to front & spine, this hardcover small quarto is in Near Fine condition: exceptionally clean & bright, with slight fading to upper edges of rear board only. Binding strong & straight, pages creamy white & completely unmarked save for former owner's name stamp… Read More

Jersey City, N. J.: self-published, 1866. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket, as Issued. Go back to he early days of organic healing & naturopathy with this self-published guide to medicinal plants, self-published by the author in 1866 (copyrighted the previous year, but never printed). Oliver Phelps Brown was born in the US & established a propriety medicine business in New Jersey (where he wrote & published this book), after which he moved to London & sold his remedies through an apothecary. In this book (his only published work), after offering a brief history of traditional medical practice & identifying its failings, "planetary & climatic influences on the herbal kingdom" are identified & the value of the "crude organic remedies" found in plants is touted. The majority of the book consists of an alphabetical listing of foreign & native (to the US) plants, their physical description, medical properties, history,… Read More

London, England: Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc., 1941. First, Thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Jullian, Philippe. Reflections on a memorable year in an unchanging rural England,'' based on the author's personal diary that she kept from Autumn 1939-Autumn 1940, impacted by the war, but steeped in the quiet resilience of the countryside. 85 pp. Orig. published in the New Statesman & Nation magazines, then in book form in London by the Hogarth Press, this is the First American Edition, First Printing, from Doubleday Doran, 1941. Small octavo bound in soft green cloth over boards lettered in black to spine is in VG condition: very clean, binding strong & straight, pages modestly tanned but completely unmarked. Mild rubbing& a bit of sunning to extremities, lightly bumped corners. The semi-clipped at front flap corners DJ (orig. $1.00 price intact) is just Good, with heavier rubbing, a short unclosed to bottom edge of front cover, & chipping at all corners/spine tips;… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: G. A. Baker & Company, 1926. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair-Good. Consisting of "58 sketches of American life, a hundred years ago, which Audubon interpolated into the text of his monumental work, "The Birds of America.''' In 349 ages + an Introduction by Western Reserve Biology professor F. H. Herrick. Preface, errata slip laid in, map endpapers. A FIRST EDITION, first printing from 1926, this hardcover book has rich black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Condition is VG: exceptionally clean, binding straight & strong, pages lightly tanned; no foxing. Former owner's name in faded pen on ffep & half-title page.The unclipped DJ (with orig $4.50 partially scratched out) is downgraded to Fair-Good- due to a darkened spine, large chip missing from foot of spine & smaller chips elsewhere, light soil, general edgewear all around. Nicely protected now in new mylar cover. Our photos depict the… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Friend of the Earth/Ballantine, 1979. Revised Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good+. Zimmerman, Kathleen; Iwamoto, Ralph. Very nice clean & bright copy of this mass market paperback edition of the vegetarian classic, still the bible for "high-protein meatless cooking," in 410 pages, including Appendices, Notes, & Indexed, with pen-and-ink illustrations & recipes throughout. First published in 1971 at the dawn of the burgeoning environmental/back-to-the-land/vegetarian movement, this is a 12th printing from 1979 of the Revised Edition that was first published in 1975, with 100 more pages than the original , updates, & a new Preface by the author. Condition is VG+: clean, binding straight & strong, pages creamy white with age-appropriate tanning, heaviest to edges & inside both covers, but completely unmarked. Very minor exterior edgewear & mild surface soiling. Protected in new clear mylar bag Free! Our photos depict the Exact… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ballantine, 1974. First Paperback . Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Way ahead of its time when it was first published in 1964, this was one of the first books to promote solar energy as a way of meeting our energy needs without ruining the planet. Nearly 60 years later, its advice is still invaluable! describing agricultural, industrial, & personal uses for solar energy for heating, refrigeration, electricity, photochemical conversion, cooking, water distillation, & much more! In 271 pages, with line drawings throughout, along with charts, graphs, & 8 pages of black-and-white photos in center. This is the First Printing of the First Mass Market Paperback Edition from Feb. 1974, NOT a modern reprint! Condition is Near Fine, marred only by a slight musty odor & extremely slight darkening to white areas of both cover. Otherwise, completely clean, binding straight & secure--feels never opened! NO writing, underlining, or highlighting. Endpapers &… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1979. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. In light of rapidly worsening climate change & dwindling fossil fuel resources, the movement to use the earth itself as a source of protection from the elements & temperature moderation as never been more relevant. This work from 1979 was a early foray into alternative forms of housing, in 318 pages, lots of diagrams, figures, architectural renderings, & black-and-white photos of real earth-sheltered houses. Written in nontechnical prose wherever possible, this book is designed for both architects & homeowners. A FIRST EDITION, 7th Printing, this oblong hardcover is in Near Fine condition: looks & feels like a Brand New book in all aspects except for foxed spots to all outside page edges. Otherwise, completely clean, binding straight & firm, pages white. The unclipped DJ is also Near fine, marred only by a 1/4" vertical tear descending from top… Read More

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Mentor/New American Library, 1959. First Mass Market Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good/Good. Hines, Bob. Carson's third book on Earth's oceans, this one focused on the American Atlantic coast, with emphasis on three areas: the rocky shore, the rim of sand, & the coral coast. In 238 pages with Index, 160+ pen-and-ink illustrations throughout the text by Bob Hines. Orig. published in hardcover in 1955, this is the FIRST MASS MARKET PAPERBACK EDITION, First Printing, from Feb.1959 (Mentor MD242). Condition is VG+: exceptionally clean & bright inside & out, but downgraded due to small tear with creasing & slight paper loss to front cover near head of spin; minor edgewear elsewise. Interior pages creamy white with heavy tanning to edges, commensurate with age; completely unmarked. Nicely protected in new clear mylar collector bag Free! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we… Read More

St. Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, 1993. First Edition Later Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine. Your guide to communicating with Nature spirits & elementals, including faeries, tree spirits, elves, gnomes, sylphs, salamanders, water sprites, mermaids, & others! Trade paperback with decorative wrappers, in 216 pages, well-illustrated throughout, with ads for other New Age titles in rear. First published in 1993, this is the 14th printing from 2005. Condition is Near Fine: just slightly less crisp & clean than Brand New! Extremely clean & bright, binding strong & straight, pages white & completely unmarked. A beauty! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive from us, never "stock" image of books we don't actually have! All orders processed before 2 pm Weekdays (PST) ship that same day; weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ballantine, 1970. First Edition Later Printing 3rd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. VG. Collectible work prepared for the very first "national environmental teach-in" -- Earth Day-- on April 22, 1970, which warned that the 1970s might be "the last chance for a future that makes ecological sense." The FIRST EDITION, Third Printing from March 1970, this mass market paperback is in VG+ condition: very clean, pages creamy white with mild tanning, heavier around edges, but completely unmarked. Binding strong & straight, but first page is loosening. Minor rubbing to extremities & one shallow spine crease. Nicely protected in clear mylar collector bag. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received Weekdays by 2 pm (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.

London, England: H.F. & G. Witherby Ltd., 1990. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/As New. Sumptuously illustrated guide to books about birds published over two centuries, with detailed bibliographic information. An indispensable reference! Orig. published in 1953, this is the FIRST EDITION, First Printing in this format from Witherby of London from 1990 (First, Thus). Oversized (4to) hardcover book has deep blue cloth-over boards with fine gilt lettering to spine. Condition of both book & DJ is Fine: indistinguishable from Brand New! Completely clean, obviously never opened, binding strong & straight, page stark white, colors of all plates vivid.The unclipped DJ (with orig. British price at lower front flap) is equally flawless! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping if ordered by 2 pm weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next day. SORRY: book is too… Read More