Search Results: Authors starting with V from Rural Hours

Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1941. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Third printing. Association copy: Not signed, but with the bookplate of Larry McMurtry, standout literary Texan and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The third in the American Folkways Series. From the jacket: "The Short Grass Country is bounded by Ozarks and woodlands on the east, by the foothills of the Rockies on the west, by the Colorado River on the south, and by the corn-lands of Kansas and Nebraska on the north. A land of colorful history and lusty life, it stretches from Wichita almost to Denver." It also, according to the books illustrated endpapers, includes upper Texas. A great gift for someone from this area. Near fine in very good jacket. Please inquire for photos.

Merillville, IN: ICS Books, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Don Townsend -- May your visions be filled with wild beauty, and the spirit of Robert Service, Jim Dale Vickery, February 1987." Uncommon signed. Another National Parks ranger turned writer, Vickery was the author of three books and lived in a remote cabin in the Boundary Waters region. His second book, Open Spaces, won the inaugural Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. Wilderness Visionaries is his first book and in separate chapters it explores the "wilderness visions" and ethos of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Robert Service (known as the "bard of the Yukon," and mentioned in the inscription), Aldo Leopold, Margaret Murie, Bob Marshall, Calvin Rustrum (perhaps the least known of these wilderness writers), and Sigurd Olson. With an extensive bibliography and source notes. Reissued in 1994 in paperback.  A near fine book due to a barely perceptible bow, otherwise fine; in a… Read More

Minneapolis: U Minnesota P., 1998. First edition. Softcover. Near fine. Inscribed on the half-title page: "Claudia, One writer to another, Jim dale Huot-Vickery." With a small landscape sketch following his signature and the previous owner's tidy signature (Claudia Curran) at the top of the page.. His third and last book, only issued in softcover. Uncommon signed. A National Parks ranger turned writer, Vickery was the author of three books and lived in a remote cabin in the Boundary Waters region. His second book, Open Spaces, won the inaugural Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. Winter Sign  is "the profound story of fifteen years of serving the seven-month-long odyssey of winter in the far north ... Against this backdrop, Huot-Vickery writes authoritatively on the ecology the area and philosophically about winter's probing of the human spirit." A near fine, gently read copy with rubbing and light edge wear.  .

Grove Press, 2019. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed on the title page: "For Karin, with best wishes from Ketchum [Idaho]. Madhuri Vijay." Fine book in near fine jacket because of one quarter-inch tear to lower front panel.

McGraw-Hill, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Signed on the title page by this noted science writer and physicist, a Chancellor Professor of Physics at the College of William and Mary. Near fine book with bumped corners, in a very good jacket because of a two tears, both about a half-inch, one along lower spine at front, the other at top rear along the flap. Uncommon or scarce signed.