Search Results: Titles starting with W from Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller

Graywolf Press, 2018. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 6x0x9. Tracy K. Smith boldly ties America’s contemporary moment both to our nation’s fraught founding history and to a sense of the spirit, the everlasting. These are poems of sliding scale: some capture a flicker of song or memory; some collage an array of documents and voices; and some push past the known world into the haunted, the holy. Smith’s signature voice―inquisitive, lyrical, and wry―turns over what it means to be a citizen, a mother, and an artist in a culture arbitrated by wealth, men, and violence. Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of The Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near-death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the… Read More

Blue Rider Press, 2012. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. 6x1x9. Several sentences underlined, else In Very Good+ condition and Very Good+ dustjacket. For the first time, legendary singer, songwriter, and guitarist Neil Young offers a kaleidoscopic view of his personal life and musical creativity. He tells of his childhood in Ontario, where his father instilled in him a love for the written word; his first brush with mortality when he contracted polio at the age of five; struggling to pay rent during his early days with the Squires; traveling the Canadian prairies in Mort, his 1948 Buick hearse; performing in a remote town as a polar bear prowled beneath the floorboards; leaving Canada on a whim in 1966 to pursue his musical dreams in the pot-filled boulevards and communal canyons of Los Angeles; the brief but influential life of Buffalo Springfield, which formed almost immediately after his arrival in California. He recounts their rapid rise to fame and ultimate break-up; going solo and overcoming… Read More

David R. Godine Publisher, 2001. Softcover. Like New. 6x0x9. Sperry, Armstrong. Previous Owner Name. Why Armstrong Sperry, one of the more versatile and vivid authors and illustrators this country has produced, is not more appreciated staggers our imagination. His great grandfather, Sereno Armstrong, was a clipper captain, and his tales of life under sail in the South Pacific obviously captivated the Connecticut youngster, and ultimately provided the setting for his Newbery Award winner, Call It Courage. But his historical novels, all based on solid research and a strong narrative line featuring younger boys facing daunting challenges, are real page turners. This is one of his best, and despite a whiff of period chauvinism, it will really give you a sense of what a journey along the Santa Fe Trail in 1846 must have been like and how a restless America managed to wrestle much of the Southwest from Mexico and the Indians. As always, the book is illustrated with spirited drawings by the author, and… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dustjacket. A charming tale that tells the life story of a tadpole as he changes to a frog. He makes the acquaintance of insects, newts, lizards, snakes and other creatures, some harmful and some harmless, who inhabit the Blue Pool, is instructed by the Patriarch, the great frog of many Summers, who hints that Wagtail may become Patriarch himself some day. Kurt Wiese (April 22, 1887 – May 27, 1974) was a German-born book illustrator, who wrote and illustrated 20 children's books and illustrated another 300 for other authors. He was a Caldecott and Newbery Award Winner. A scarce children's title.

Hawaiian Goddesses Publishing Company, 2005. First edition. Limited ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x9x0. Limited to 3500 copies. A visual celebration of a special part of Hawaii, its unique history and vivid portrayal of a colorful cowboy legacy which grew from it. A paniolo culture flourished Hawaiian style in the rolling green hills and ranchland beauty of Waimea. Photographer Linda Ching takes you there with her award winning images of a Hawaiian treasure.

Harper & Row, 1948. Good/No Dustjacket. Once upon a time in the dark of the moon there was a little raccoon…From the beloved author of such classics as Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, Margaret Wise Brown, and renowned children’s book illustrator Garth Williams comes the story of a curious little raccoon who wants to see the night. But his mother says, “Wait. Wait till the moon is full.” So the little raccoon waits and wonders until, at last, the very special evening arrives…".

Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Softcover. Like New. 5x0x8. We humans are a minority of giants, stumbling around in the world of little things, Sue Hubbell writes in this marvelous book. Each of these little things has a complicated and special way of getting on in the world, different from ours and different from one another's. In Waiting for Aphrodite she explores the ways of sponges and sea urchins, horseshoe crabs and the sea mouse known as Aphrodite -- as well as our ways. She takes us on a journey through the mysteries of time -- geological, biological, and personal -- as she writes of the evolution of life on this planet and the evolution of her own life: her childhood next to a Michigan graveyard; the three colleges where she learned three things; her twenty-five years keeping bees on a farm in the Ozarks; her move to a strange little house in a small Maine town, the place I wanted to grow old in. And in the tide pools and ocean waters there she discovered a whole new world, the world of little… Read More

Conundrum Press, 2014. Trade paperback. Like New. 88x3x133. With provocative insights on every page and new language for the heady, raw experience of being alive, these poems focus their gaze on the existential dilemma of how one finds meaning in a fallen world. They locate themselves in the detritus of modern, consumer life, finding redemption and spiritual sustenance in a landscape beyond words. The poet is more than accomplished; he is simply splendid, and his work offers hope while stripping away the world's disguises, revealing the stable, comforting, agreeable ground of living in the present moment. This is nourishment for the "smoky crevices of the heart." Sigman Byrd teaches writing at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of Under the Wanderer’s Star, which won the Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, and Who We Were, a chapbook of poems.

Journey Editions, 1994. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jack.

Bison Books, 1998. Softcover. Very Good. 5x0x8. Signed by Author. About four page corners have been creased. Gift inscription by and signed by Tom Kizzia. (And with brief gift inscription by previous owner). Signed copies rarely offered. In the course of a two-year odyssey . . . Kizzia visited numerous native settlements, interviewed leaders and followers, and wrote the feature articles that make up this charming, informative book. . . . Kizzia writes a clear, unobtrusive prose that crystallizes in memorable images.- Washington Post A boatful of native Alaskans slapping downriver through the chop on their way to the biggest softball game of the season. A hunter singing the old songs for hunting luck, as he snowmobiles onto the ice with his rifle. Such contrasts-Eskimo and outsider, ancient and modern-run through Tom Kizzia's chronicle of travels in the Alaska bush in search of 'ancestral landscapes. Tom Kizzia traveled widely in rural Alaska during a 25-year career as a reporter for the… Read More

Dutton Adult, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 13x10x0. Foreword by David R. Brower. Two short tears and some edgewear to dustjacket. For more than ten years, William R. Curtsinger has specialized in photographing marine mammals. No one else in the world has produced a body of work on them anything like it. His photographs are the kind that make you wonder how in the world they were taken. Sidney Holt's introduction, drawn from his decades of experience with the politics and biology of the sea, gives the scientist's view of the so-called rational exploitation of living marine resources, and concludes that "the state of the art of assessing the state of the whale consists of some hard data, soft theory, a little knowledge, and a heap of speculation." Wake Of The Whale has the power, we hope, to prevent a wake for the whale, for other cetaceans, and for their distant relatives, including ourselves. A classic work in the field.

Thundercloud Books, 2004. Softcover. Like New. 6x0x9. A rousing tale of idealism, love, and survival. Author Gail Wanman Holstein also tackles several moral questions, both large and intimate: What is the ethical treatment of ancient sites and artifacts? Can we create a practical Utopia? At what point must loyalty end?This is a thriller for intelligent adventurers.

Quality Paperback Book Club, 1997. Trade paperback. Like New. All four volumes in Fine, unread condition. The slipcase has some light wear. Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic… Read More

Doubleday, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Good/Good . Max Waldman (1919-1981) was a dance and theater photographer who was also well known for his dramatic shots on a great range of subjects from football players to immigrants. The photographer became best known for his portraits of such celebrated ballet dancers as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova through his books, including "Waldman on Theater" and "Waldman on Dance." Contemporary photographers such as Daniel Nicoletta, was influenced by Waldman. His photographs were exhibited in numerous group and one man shows in a wide variety of venues, including; the New York Public Library, the La Jolla Museum of Art, and the Rose Museum of Brandeis University. His work is also found as part of many private and public collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the George Eastman House.

Putnam Publishing Group, 1977. First edition. Hard cover. Very good. Some light edgewear to jacket; else Dustjacket in Near Fine condition. A bright, fresh copy. The author's second book. The story of the Westcott family of the American West, through the Depression to about 1976. It depicts an idyllic childhood in the Pacific Northwest and later years in Montana. "Margaret Craven was an American author most well-known for the bestselling novel I Heard the Owl Call My Name (1967), inspired by her visits to native villages on the coast of British Columbia. Her second novel, Walk Gently This Good Earth (1977), was followed by a memoir, Again Calls the Owl (1980), and a collection of short stories, The Home Front (1981)".

Dodd, Mead, 1978. Hardcover. Good/No dustjacket. 9x6x1. Set down on the spot and in season, it is a richly varied interweaving of discoveries, reflections, original observations, remembrances, firsthand experiences and fresh insights into nature. A companion volume to Teale's A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm, it brings vividly to life a year of days at Trail Wood, his New England homestead.When you come to the end of these daily walks, they will remain in your mind as sharply defined as experiences of your won. You will remember the encounters with such unusual creatures as the loneliness bird, the cold-tailed squirrel, the butterfly swallowed by a flower, the cat that went hunting with a beagle. You will recall the beauty, the strangeness, the surprises, the thoughtful digressions along the way. Edwin Way Teale (1899 – 1980) was an American naturalist, photographer and writer. Teale's works serve as primary source material documenting environmental conditions across North… Read More

Roaring Fork Press, 1990-12-01. Hardcover. New/New. 9x6x1. New Old Stock. In publisher's shrinkwrap. An entertaining and informative look at big game hunting from a man that has successfully harvested all 24 species of North American big game. Includes accounts of hunting elk, moose, Stone Sheep, Mountain Goat, and caribou in the Muskwa Country, Dall Sheep in Arctic Red River, Black bear and grizzly bear, Alaska-Yukon Moose, Bighorn Sheep, The North American Deer Slam, and much more. Dr. Yajko is the recipient of the ultra-select lifetime achievement honor; the SCI International Hunting Award.

Simon & Schuster, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. 6x1x9. Dustjacket price clipped. From catfishing as a young girl in the lazy, red clay waters of the South to battling marlin in the Caribbean, Lorian Hemingway has had a passion for fishing all her life. It was a passion that would sustain her even as the burden of a broken family and her own alcoholism threatened to consume her. Walk on Water is her poignant and powerful memoir about loss, recovery, coping with the family you are born into, and making a family of your own. But above all it is an homage to fishing -- its ability to bind people, to challenge, and ultimately, to heal. Hemingway is one of 12 grandchildren of American novelist and Nobel Prize-laureate Ernest Hemingway.

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Distributed by the Viking Press, 1979. Hardcover. Like New/Very Good . 9x7x0. A short tear to dustjacket. An illustrated tour of The Cloisters, presenting hidden treasures and details of the collection that might be missed by the casual visitor.

Roaring Fork Press, 1990. First Edition. Hard cover. Like New/Fine. A bright, fresh copy. An entertaining and informative look at big game hunting from a man that has successfully harvested all 24 species of North American big game. Includes accounts of hunting elk, moose, Stone Sheep, Mountain Goat, and caribou in the Muskwa Country, Dall Sheep in Arctic Red River, Black bear and grizzly bear, Alaska-Yukon Moose, Bighorn Sheep, The North American Deer Slam, and much more. Dr. Yajko is the recipient of the ultra-select lifetime achievement honor; the SCI International Hunting Award.