Environmentalism from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1932. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Beige cloth stamped in purple; 223,[1]pp; frontispiece, three plates, and one in-text diagram. Mild rubbing with slight soiling to spine, internally clean and tight: Very Good. Mabel Powers was a white writer and lecturer in western New York state who was adoptd by the Tonawanda Seneca… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Publisher's pictorial cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 369pp. With expected sunning to the spine, slight forward lean, gentle curve to front board, and minor rubbing: Very Good. A collection of anthropomorphic animal stories in Seton's usual vein, a sequel of sorts to… Read more about this item

New Haven: Privately published, 1930. First Edition. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on front cover; 116pp. Trace of rubbing on spine ends and board corners, else straight, clean and unmarked; Near Fine. Uncommon memoir by Woolsey (1879-1933), a major figure in the fields of forestry and conservation. With much on his early Forest Service career in the… Read more about this item

Menlo Park, CA: Portola Institute, Inc, 1969. First Edition. Tall quarto (37.5cm); photo-illustrated newsprint wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and toning to extremities, small bump at upper spine-fold; Near Fine. Early issue of this counterculture magazine/catalog, focused on self-sufficiency, ecology, and the DIY ethos. The long-running publication was the brainchild of Stewart Brand, which ran from September, 1968… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Publisher's pictorial cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 369pp. The expected sunning to the spine, but still a tight, clean, Near Fine copy, with the pictorial elements of the binding clean and unfaded. A collection of anthropomorphic animal stories in Seton's usual vein,… Read more about this item

New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 34pp. Complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better.

Berkeley: Black Oak Books / Okeanos Press, 1990. First Edition. Broadside, with text and decorative rule letterpress printed in black and green on cream card stock, measuring 15.5cm x 26.75cm (6" x 10.5"). A Fine copy. Attractive broadside printing an excerpt from Nichols's 1990 environmental manifesto The Sky's The Limit, printed on the occasion of a reading at Black… Read more about this item

New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Inscribed by author to former owner on front free end paper; Octavo (23cm); orange cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; map endpapers; dustjacket; 76pp.; Fine copy. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.95) chipping and short tears to the extremities; foxing mostly to rear panel. Very… Read more about this item

N.p. [Weston?]: Upper West Fork River Watershet Association, N.d. [ca 1980]. Broadside, 11" x 8-1/2". Photocopied on standard copier bond. Old folds for mailing, else Fine. Broadside/flyer expressing opposition to a major Army Corps of Engineers dam project in Lewis County, in north-central West Virginia. Cites the project's expense, the destruction of farmland and wildlife habitat it… Read more about this item

New York: Harmony Books, 1999. Revised Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; xxii, 314pp. Author inscription to title page. Trivial shelf wear to dust jacket, else a tight, clean, new-appearing copy. Fine. A sociological and anthropological exploration of how to live more sustainably.

Munich: Hanns Georg Müller Verlag, 1953. Octavo (20.75cm); publisher's beige unprinted card wrappers; dustjacket; [6],7-87,[1]pp; text is entirely in German. Trivial wear to spine ends, a few faint creases to front wrapper corners, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is lightly shelfworn, with shallow losses to spine ends, light dust-soil, a few tiny tears and stains, and a short split along… Read more about this item

[Sao Paulo]: by the Author, 1982. First Edition. Signed copy, inscribed "to Erika, with love," undated but apparently contemporary. 12mo; pictorial card wrappers; 106pp. Clean and tight; Very Good. The well-known Brazilian actress and television presenter (1935-2018) offers her ideas on ecology and conservation. Uncommon, especially signed. Text entirely in Portuguese.

Roma: Donzelli Editore, 1995. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial stiff card wrappers with French flaps; 111pp. Text entirely in Italian. Introduction by Massimo Cacciari.

Sydney: Friends of the Earth, 1980. Second edition (revised). Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 120pp. Fine, unmarked copy. On global environmental law with respect to the Antarctic continent.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. Second Printing. Octavo (18.5cm); forest green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, pebble grain; 319pp. Spine gilt faded, some material chipping and splitting at joints and extremities; boards show rubbing and wear, moderate soiling; corners bumped. Textblock is toned, with foxing and soiling; bindings shaken, cracked hinges throughout; pp.243-262 partially pulled; Ben & Bernarda… Read more about this item

Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1969. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); brown cloth, stamped in gilt on spine, in rust red pictorial dustwrapper; green endpapers; x, 13-189pp. Dustwrapper sunned, especially along spine; mild rubbing, extremities creased and chipped. Textblock top edge toned; ownership signature on ffep, else text clean and unmarked. Near Fine in Very Good dustwrapper. A collection of anecdotes,… Read more about this item

New York: Viking Studio, 2000. First American Edition. Quarto (27.5cm); green cloth, stamped in gilt, in color pictorial dustwrapper, with illustrated endpapers depicting a map of the grounds; 8-192pp. Dustwrapper has light surface wear; minor bumps to heel/crown of spine; evidence of damping at spine (visible verso only); inner panel price-clipped. Textblock overall clean and solid; tailband slightly frayed;… Read more about this item

Peking: Xin Hua Publication Center, 1995. Second Printing. Square quarto (26cm); plain paper wrappers, in color pictorial dustwrapper w/ gilt; 71pp. Dustwrapper shows moderate toning; mild shelf wear, scratches and rubbing; lower rear edge bumped and chipped towards spine. Interior margins also lightly toned; handling wear, intermittent smudging; rear copyright page has small card w/ English distribution information tipped-in.… Read more about this item

Sao Paolo, 1993. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (22cm); pictorial paper wrappers; 44pp. Proceedings of a 1992 Conference, "Semi-Árido Nordestino: Realidade e Perspectivas" held in Recife, 26-28 June, 1992. Text entirely in Portuguese.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. First Edition. Heavy quarto (28.5cm); olive green pictorial cloth, stamped in foil, in white, green, and magenta pictorial dustwrapper; in grey cardboard slipcover; ix, 345pp, 33 colorplates. Text and dustwrapper toned and foxed throughout; soiling, minor edge rolling and creasing to dustwrapper, with bumps and small chip to crown of spine. Slipcover also foxed… Read more about this item