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THE BACKCOUNTRY HANDBOOK: An Illustrated Guide to the Techniques and Joys of the Wilderness Experience by the Editors of Mother Earth News
New York: Fireside / Simon and Schuster, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Very good in like jacket. Jacket lightly toned at edges, mild edgewear. Book bumped at a couple corners. Clean and sound overall. First edition of this guide to the outdoors and a rather uncommon Abbey item. 191pp. with index. Illustrated.
New York State Museum Bulletin, No. 332 - Februrary 1943
Albany, NY: University of the State of New York, 1943. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Very good. Covers toned. Mild edgewear. Else sounds and complete with all maps and plates. Geology of the Coxcackie Wuadrangle, New York by Winifred Goldring. With a chapter on glacial geology. Includes three...
YOSEMITE: Summary of the Draft General Management Plan
n.p. Department of the Interior / National Park Service, 1978. First Edition. Wraps. Folio. Saddle-stapled beige wraps. Moderate wear and scuffing to wraps. Original address label affixed to back cover. Very good. 1978 proposal for general management of Yosemite National Park, with alternatives considered and assessment of impacts. Illustrated.
URBAN FOREST: Images of Trees in the Human Landscape
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Silver-stamped black cloth boards in black and white photographic dust jacket. Minor edgewear. Page edges faintly toned. Near fine overall. 144pp. Bayles' photographs of trees contained by human boundary lines: behind barbed wire, in concrete planters, on sidewalks, in...
GARDENS OF REVELATION: Environments by Visionary Artists
New York: Abbeville Press, 1995. Third printing. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Green cloth boards in photographic dust jacket. Lightly shelfworn. Very good plus overall. 223pp. Discussion of 25 gardens designed by "visionaries" for personal, spiritual, and artistic ends. Illustrated throughout with photographs by James Pierce. Includes index.
THE BESLER FLORILEGIUM
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989. First edition thus. Hardcover. Large folio. Cream cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, in matching pictorial slipcase with cream cloth at top and bottom edges. Light wear and faint spotting to slipcase. Minor shelfwear to book and jacket; both near fine in very good...
THE HIDDEN CANYON: A River Journey
(New York): Penguin Books, (1977). First Edition. Wraps. Oblong 8vo. Photographic wraps. A very good copy. Mild surface scratching to wraps. Interior bright, clean overall with minimal touches of foxing. Good and sound.135pp. First paperback edition concurrent with hardcover. Contains essays by Abbey and Litton along with Blaustein's photographs in...
THE ART OF BOTANICAL ILLUSTRATION
Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club Ltd., 2000. Later printing. Hardcover. 4to. Green cloth boards, stamped in gilt. In pictorial dust jacket. Minimal shelfwear. Faint foxing along upper edge of text block. Near fine. Revised and enlarged new edition of this major work, first published in 1950. Comprehensive survey of botanical illustration...
EVOLUTION AND VARIATION WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SEX
Santa Rosa: n.p., n.d. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled wraps. Sunning to edges and light edgewear and foxing to wraps. Faint creasing and touches of foxing to pages. 7pp. Pagination error reverses pp. numbers 3 and 6 (numbers only; page sequence is itself correct.) Very good. Pamphlet by the horticulturalist and experimental...
WITH WINGS ON THEIR FINGERS: An Intimate View of the Flying-Fox
(New York): Angus & Robertson / HarperCollins, (1994). First American edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown boards in pictorial dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. Two small price stickers to jacket. Interior bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 168pp. First American edition concurrent with first Australian edition. Detailed look...
INSECTS INJURIOUS AND BENEFICIAL: Their Natural History and Classification. An Elementry Text Book for the Use of Schools
San Francisco: Bancroft Co., 1888. Third edition. Cloth. 8vo. Boards. A good copy. Cloth rubbed, edges worn. Hinge just starting and a touch shaken. PO name to front pastedown. Minor soil to edges. Else a sound copy. Revised third edition. 171pp. with index. Well illustrated.
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[Small Archive of a Mail Order Chicken Farm]
Seneca, NY: Old Homestead Poultry Yards, [Circa 1900]. Includes: Single sheet blank blue letterhead, measuring 8.25" x 11" approx.; ten blank blue envelopes with Old Homestead logo, 6.5" x 3.5" approx.; Two cards advertising poultry books, 3.25" x 5.25" approx.; two egg delivery cards, 4.5" x 5.25" approx.; and pink...
EATING ANIMALS
New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey boards in green and white dust jacket. Minor edgewear. SIGNED on title page. Near fine overall. 341pp. Foer's case for moral treatment of animals in general and against factory farming in particular.
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[Album of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Forest Service Insect Research Program]
np: [ca. 1953-1955]. Wraps. 4to. Ful-Vu brand commercial album, model 11-8 10. Full leather wraps, metal spiral bound. 21 leaves with 36 color and black and white photographs plus 20 typed descriptive sheets mounted both recto and verso. 13 color photographs and one black and white additionally loosely laid in...
THE FIRST NEW EARTH CATALOG
(San Francisco): GNU Publishing, (1972). First Edition. Wraps. Folio. Saddle-stapled wraps. Good plus to very good. Heavy wear to wraps, particularly at edges, with a tear to right side of front cover. Pages significantly toned throughout but clean, sound. Unpaginated. First issue of this biannual publication providing "sources for knowledge...
EARTH WEEK '70
Philadelphia: (Moderator Communications, Inc. / Earthweek Committee of Philadelphia), 1970. First Edition. Wraps. Square 4to. Saddle-stapled wraps. Light edgewear and scuffing, minor creasing to corners. Very good plus. Official publication of the Philadelphia Earth Week Committee, produced as a program for and memento of the first Earth Week. Organized in...
UEBER DIE WARMEABSORPTION DURCH KOHLENSAURE UND IHREN EINFLUSS AUF DIE TEMPERATUR DER ERDOBERFLACHE
Stockholm: [Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien / Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences], 1901. First edition thus. Wraps. 8vo. Grey-green printed wraps. Near fine. 25-58pp. Early publication (in German) on anthropogenic global warming by Swedish scientist and Nobel laureate (1903) Svante Aarhenius, "On the heat absorption by carbon dioxide and its influence on the...
#1 EARTH DAY SERIES [Earth Day Poster]
n.p. Earthternity Company, 1970. First Edition. Poster. 17.5'' x 23'' approx. Minor edgewear and creasing. Very good plus. Poster commemmorating the first Earth Day, with a striking and spare drawing of trees signed "S. Palmer 1970" and the Ron Cobb-designed "Ecology" flag. Printed with a quotation by M.L. Hartwell: "The...
FROM THE HUDSON TO THE WORLD: Voices of the River
Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc., 1978. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Orange wraps. Light edgewear, some scuffing and creasing to wraps. Very good. Ecology-focused literary anthology of Native American stories and poetry from the Hudson Valley region. Introductory pieces by Pete Seeger and Vine Deloria, Jr. With glossary of Hudson River...
CLEAR CREEK: Animal Behavior Special / The Environmental Viewpoint No. 8 November 1971
San Francisco: Clear Creek Associates, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Folded newsprint. Uniformly toned, lightly foxed. Mild wear and some tears to page edges. Very good. Early, short-lived Bay Area environmentalist newsletter. This issue features a spread on the rhesus monkey, November's "Life Form of the Month."
CLEAR CREEK: Boise Cascade's Dream Lake / The Environmental Viewpoint No. 6 September 1971
San Francisco: Clear Creek Associates, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Folded newsprint. Uniformly toned, lightly foxed. Mild wear and some tears to page edges. Very good. Early, short-lived Bay Area environmentalist newsletter. This issue features Nathan Hare on Black Ecology, an interview with Hare by Edward Washington, and an article...
CLEAR CREEK: The Environmental Viewpoint / No. 5 August 1971
San Francisco: Clear Creek Associates, 1971. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Folded newsprint. Uniformly toned, lightly foxed. Mild wear and some tears to page edges. Very good. Early, short-lived Bay Area environmentalist newsletter. This issue focuses on local American government at the county level, and features a Manifesto for Citizen Counterrevolution...
THE RURAL LIFE
Boston: Little, Brown & Co. / Back Bay Books, (2004). First edition thus. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound printed wraps. Very good plus to near fine. SIGNED by Klinkenborg to title page. Exterior clean and sharp. Pages lightly toned throughout, but clean and unmarred. 213pp. First paperback edition of this collection of...
BIRDS OF KASHMIR
Srinagar: K. A. Korula / Wesley Press, 1968. Third edition. Paperback. 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. Very good minus. Chipping to top of spine, edgewear. Else a clean, sound, complete copy. Third edition. 111pp.
MEAT MARKET
Ithaca, NY: Brio Press, (2005). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. SIGNED at title page. Publisher's boards in original advance printing jacket. Bright, clean and tight. Fine. Handsome, signed copy of this limited advance printing. An examination of animal agriculture and its social costs.