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The Man Who Would Dam the Amazon and Other Accounts from Afield
by Mitchell, John G
Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. 1990. Very Good Conditoin. xiv, 368 pages. A collection of 12 articles from the field editor for 'Audubon' and former editor of Sierra Club Books. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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$7.94
Icebound Summer
by Carrighar, Sally (signed)
NY: Knopf, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Second printing. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Inscribed with particular pleasure for Ellen and Herman Smith remembering their day in Nome--Sally Carrigahar, July 24, '54." Uncommon signed. Carrighar was an accomplished mid-century naturalist-writer known for her third-person narration that animates wildlife, but doesn't anthropomorphize them. You could call these composite stories, as they're based on her real observations--this...
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$200.00
Wildlands in Our Civilization
by Brower, David (editor) (signed)
SF: Sierra Club Books, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Inscribed on the title page: "To Greg, David R. Brower, 11/94." Uncommon or unheard of signed, as this book itself is scarce in hardcover with no other copies available. The book is an anthology of writings on wildlands issues and wilderness from participants in the first five biennial wilderness conferences which ran from 1949 to 1957. Contributors here include: John Collier, Bruce M. Kilgore, A, Starker Leopold, Wallace Stegner,...
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$750.00
Runes of the North
by Olson, Sigurd (signed)
NY: Knopf, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Twelfth printing, 1977. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For my Icelandic friend George Hanson, who will understand the meaning of ancient Runic inscription. Best wishes, Sigurd F Olson." George Hanson was a college librarian and book collector in Chicago, with a special passion for and scholarly interest in Iceland, and a copy of his obituary is laid in. Illustrated by Robert Hines. A book that "expresses his feelings about the...
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$150.00
Listening Point
by Olson, Sigurd (signed)
NY: Knopf, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Eleventh printing, 1977. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Dear George Hanson, Now that you have a Listening Point of your own, I know your understanding of mine will be far deeper than with most others. Warmest regards, Sigurd F Olson." An inscription of uncommon warmth and extent. George Hanson was a college librarian and book collector in Chicago, with a special passion for Iceland, and a copy of his obituary is laid in....
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$150.00
The Wilderness Hunter: An Account of the Big Game of the United States and its Chase with Horse, Hound and Rifle
by Roosevelt, Theodore
NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons/ The Knickerbocker Press, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. An uncommon book in the first edition, and especially notable because this copy belonged to The American Museum of Natural History which Roosevelt had a close association with. The Museum's bookplate is on the front pastedown with the deaccession stamp "A.M.N.H. Cancelled" on it. Additionally, tipped in on the title page is a "With the compliments of the author" slip--Roosevelt had the book sent to the...
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$3,500.00
A Candle in The Grub Box
by Sheila Douglass
First published in september 1977 this is the second printing 1986.The story of Frank Jackson as told to Sheila Douglassgood condition no markings. Light crease back upper cover .A couple of pages had a small fold at the tip
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$55.61
Water, Ice & Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes
by Green, Bill (signed)
NY: Harmony Books, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Tim Walsh, with all best wishes, Bill Green (April 1996)." Uncommon signed. This book won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1996. Green is a geochemist, a professor emeritus at Miami University in Ohio, and this book shares his science and self-discovery in Antartica where he studied lakes devoid of life. From the jacket: "Water, Ice and Stone is a rare achievement...
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$350.00
The handbook of trail and Wilderness camping
by John A. Ledlie
Small pocket sized book. Some creases on spine.Pages intact . Tight binding.NAP.
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$519.05
Explore Australia's Wilderness Twelve Unique Adventures
by Hemmings, Leigh
Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1990. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 254 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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$9.93
Passage Through El Dorado. Traveling the World's Last Great Wilderness
by Kandell, Jonathan
New York: William Morrow. 1984. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Black & white maps. 312 pages. Travelling an ever-southeastward course, the author discovers the hinterland of South America. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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$13.24
My First Summer in the Sierra
by Muir, John
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. A presumed second printing, but with a scarce original jacket. "June 1911" is stated on the copyright page, but there is no date on title page, and the list of other Muir titles in the front matter includes The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, first published in 1913. Elegant inscription on the front free endpaper reads "Bertha C. Chase, from Charles and Virgie, Christmas 1918." Laid in is a card that reads "Compliments of Dr. &...
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$1,250.00
The American Wilderness, in the Words of John Muir
by John Muir
Country Beautiful Corporation, 1973. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$7.97
Arctic Wild
by Crisler, Lois (signed)
NY: Harper, 1958. Hardcover. Very good. Inscribed to no recipient on the front free endpaper: "Best wishes! Lois Crisler, For 'lands forever wild.'" Uncommon signed. An account of the author and her husband, Herb Crisler, a wilderness photographer, spending 18 months in Alaska's Brooks Range to film caribou and wolves for a Disney documentary. A. Starker Leopold called her wolf observations "the meticulous and complete descriptions of wolf mannerisms and behavior that has been written." Crisler was an...
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$300.00
In The North of Our Lives:
by Christopher Norment
1989 hardcover as pictured. This is the story of a 2200 mile trip across Canada's Northwest Territories; part travelogue and part philosophy. Binding is firm. Red cloth boards with silver stamping are clean and show minmal edge wear aside from a small cut at upper front corner. Endpapers and text appear clean and unmarked. Includes 8 pages of color photographs. Dust jacket is lightly soiled and rubbed with tear at upper front corner. Previous seller's sticker on dust jacket and FEP. Your purchase helps...
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$37.00
The High Sierra of California (association copy)
by Snyder, Gary; Tom Killion (signed)
Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed on the title by Snyder: "For Stephen Ronan." Signed by both Snyder and Killion. The first trade edition of a book that Killion printed under his Quail Press in a limited edition of 90 copies. His full-color woodcut prints with Snyder's poems and Sierra journal entires, as well excerpts from John Muir's journals. A stunning production. Snyder and Killion went on to produce two follow up books in this vein about the...
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$250.00
Encounters with the Archdruid: Narratives About a Conservationist and Three of His Natural Enemies
by McPhee, John
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second printing. Inscribed by McPhee on the title page in the year of publication: "To Mary, from Phyllis Dismore, Christmas 1971, and with best wishes from John McPhee." His classic work that shadows Sierra Club founder David Brower as he conversationally takes on three foes of conservation in the field, including Floyd Dominy, infamous dam builder as the commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation A very good book with...
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$625.00
Reflections from the North Country
by Olson, Sigurd (signed)
NY: Knopf, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Second printing. Inscribed at length, filling the front free endpaper: "For George Hanson, Herewith is my Credo, a crystallization of my faith and belief after a lifetime of exploring the wilderness regions of the continent. I know my thoughts will echo many of your own. Warmest regards, sincerely, Sigurd F. Olson, 3/16/76, Ely." Uncommon signed, especially with this depth of expression. George Hanson was a college librarian and book...
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$275.00
Wilderness and Plenty - The 1969 Reith Lectures
by Darling, Frank Fraser
London: Oxford University Press, 1970. slight wear to covers and cover edges, some library marks, otherwise book clean and tight. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex Library.
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$9.27
Land Above the Trees: A Guide to American Alpine Tundra
by Zwinger, Ann (signed); Beatrice E. Willard
NY: Harper & Row, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Very/Very good. Signed on the title page by Zwinger in blue ink, and uncommon signed by her. This book was a finalist for the 1973 National Book Award in Science. "The first comprehensive book on the ecology of the alpine tundra of the United States," all of that tundra found in the West apart from New Hampshire's White Mountains, mainly in the Rockies, the Sierra, and the Cascades (the illustrated endpapers show a map of it throughout the country,...
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$300.00
Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves and Forests (association copy)
by Flader, Susan (signed): Walter E. Scott (inscribed to)
Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Walter Scott, With deepest thanks for all your help. Susan Flader." With his bookplate on the pastedown and his ownership signature on the first blank. Walter E. Scott of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is thanked in the acknowledgments for "greatly facilitating" her research. Scott was an important Wisconsin environmentalist and is a member of...
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$625.00
