Search Results: Environmental LIterature from Charles Agvent

Letter. Near Fine. A fine archive of 4 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED in Beston's neat hand consisting of 10 pages and 2 hand-addressed and SIGNED envelopes along with a small photograph of Beston and his wife, Elizabeth Coatsworth, annotated in another hand on the rear. Three of the letters are addressed to Wilmot Brewer and one to Brookes More, both of Hingham, Massachusetts, where Beston lived. Brewer edited a collection of poems by More and wrote a brief biography of him. In the letter to More, Beston thanks him for sending his translation of Ovid's METAMORPHOSES. In a letter to Brewer he thanks him for his book on More: "In days so confused and really terrible as these, it is sustaining to the spirit to read of one who has dedicated his life to beauty and the works of the muses." In another letter to Brewer dated 28 December 1941 Beston mentions World War II and thanks him for his "most readable study of the place and influence of the METAMORPHOSES." In the longest letter Beston comments on a book… Read More

Letter. Near Fine. Mostly undated though a few are dated from 1933 to 1950. Size ranges from about 4" x 5" to 6" x 11" with some printed on stiff, heavy stock. All of the cards feature personal covers from photographs to drawings with subject matter including fish and birds, Beebe's famous bathysphere, home views, etc., many with a humorous slant. Seventeen of the 24 cards are SIGNED as "Will" often with additional handwritten greetings. There are also 9 cards from Mrs. William Beebe, the author Elswyth Thane, SIGNED just by her and likely dating from after her husband's death in 1962. There are also 3 cards SIGNED by Jocelyn Crane, Beebe's research assistant. All of the cards were sent to Faith Dennis. William Beebe (1877-1962) was a naturalist, oceanographer, ornithologist, and an executive of the New York Zoological Society. With Otis Barton, he was the first to use the bathysphere, a deep-sea diving device, using it to set a dive record of 3,028 feet in 1934 that was not broken until 1949. Beebe… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1986). First Edition. hardcover. Foxing to bulked text edges, mostly at the top; otherwise Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Co-winner of the National Book Award.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1986). First Edition. hardcover. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Co-winner of the National Book Award.

New York: Random House, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with light soiling and minor wear. A novel about how a tribe of Stone Age natives in the Amazon are affected by various Americans.

New Haven, CT: Published by the author., 1902 [1903]. First Edition. Softcover. Front wrap and endpaper detached. Octavo (6-1/8" x 9-1/2") in original printed green wraps; x, 548 pages. Illustrated with 40 plates and over 250 cuts in the text. A detailed history of the island including detailed accounts of flora, fauna, and climate.

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Light to moderate foxing. Spine a touch rubbed but gilt still sharp. A bright, Near Fine copy. Original brown cloth. Binding C, no priority. BAL 20115: 2,040 copies printed. Borst A5.1.a states that 2000 copies were printed. Catalogue dated December 1864.

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Light to moderate foxing. Spine gilt bright with some fraying to the tips and edges. Very Good. Original purple cloth. Binding A, no priority. BAL 20115: 2,040 copies printed. Borst A5.1.a states that 2000 copies were printed. Catalogue dated December 1864.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to top bulked edge of text. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Collection of essays SIGNED by the author on the title page.

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. One signature pulled, scattered foxing and staining. Covers lightly soiled with minor wear to the spine, gilt bright. Very Good. Original blue-green Z cloth. Portrait frontispiece, the first book to include a portrait of Thoreau. BAL 20111: 1558 copies printed. Borst A3.1.a states that 1558 copies were printed but only 1500 were bound. Ten pieces are contained within, including a Biographical Sketch by Emerson of Thoreau and nine essays by Thoreau, among them the famous "Walking." Early owner name of Edward L. Temple on the front blank and the early bookplate of the Rutland High School on the front pastedown.

New York: The Viking Press, (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. Minor bumping to corners. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page.

London: Thornton Butterworth, (1929). First Edition. Hardcover. Bookpate on front free endpaper. Wear to corners. Lacking the slipcase. Near Fine copy of this attractive book. Eric Daglish. First Edition thus of this classic first published in 1789. Quarto (9-1/4" x 11-3/4") bound in publisher's parchment-backed boards covered with batik paper. Illustrated with 2 portraits, 16 mounted wood engravings by Eric Daglish, and a folding map. Copy #90 of only 125 numbered copies issued with an extra SIGNED wood engraving "The Snipe" by Daglish mounted by the publisher at the front.

Boston: Shambhala, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to top bulked edge of text; tiny tear to outer margin of half-title page. Still about Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. In these journals Matthiessen intersperses his personal account of his recovery from his wife's death through the practice of Zen with a history of Buddhism in America.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1978). First Edition. Hardcover. Very slight sunning to spine tips, as usually the case; foxing to bulked text edges. Very Good in a Fine dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. His third book and the one for which he is perhaps best known.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1978). First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing to bulked edges of text; crease to the inner front flap of the dustwrapper. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Review copy with insert of author's third and perhaps best known book.

New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with some wear and soiling. The naturalist writer's first book, a collection of poems. Hay is the grandson of Abraham Lincoln's secretary, John Hay.

New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good, price-clipped dustwrapper with a closed two-inch tear at the bottom of the front panel. The naturalist writer's first book, a collection of poems. Hay is the grandson of Abraham Lincoln's secretary, John Hay.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1980. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase without the printed label on the backstrip. Alfred Eisenstaedt. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full blue buckram with an overall design stamped in blind and the spine titling in gold; 284 pages. Introduction by Maitland Edey. Copy #877 of 2000 numbered copies illustrated with 3 two-page color photograph spreads, including the endpapers, and a beautiful frontispiece portrait of Carson in her natural habitat by Alfred Eisenstaedt. SIGNED by the photographer on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Summit Books, (1986). First Edition. Wraps. Light soiling to front cover. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof in tall light blue wraps of this novel by one of America's finest essayists.

New York: Viking Press, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. Light rubbing to the leather, mostly the spine tips and corners. Very Good or better copy, lacking the slipcase. Robert Verity Clem. Folio (10" x 14") bound in full brown leather with marbled endpapers. The deluxe edition of this landmark book on shorebirds, beautifully illustrated with color plates. This is copy #253 of 350 SIGNED by editor Gardner Stout, illustrator Robert Verity Clem, Ralph Palmer who provided species accounts, and Matthiessen who wrote the text.