Search Results: Authors starting with F from Rural Hours

Bantam, 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed on the title page: "For Peggy, Thanks for fighting the good fight! Dan Fagin." Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Fourth printing. A fine, unread book in a fine jacket. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

W. W. Norton & Company, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First printing hardcover, fine in fine jacket. Inscribed to poet Jim LeCuyer: "For Jim, with best wishes, Pete Fairchild, 9/9/03." With silver "National Book Critics Circle Award Winner" sticker on lower front cover.

Alice James Books, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. First printing. Inscribed to poet Jim LeCuyer: "For Jim, with best wishes, BH Fairchiled, 9/6/03." Introduction by Anthony Hecht. National Book Award finalist silver sticker on front cover. Fine except for the slightest bump to lower right front cover. Small faded price sticker on back cover.

Stanford University Press, 1980. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Inscribed by the translator John Felstiner to the poet Jim LeCuyer on the half title page: "For Jim, Thanks for your presence! Hoping--knowing--Neruda will go on speaking to you (here)! John Felstiner, Cody's, 3 XI '07

No Binding. Fine. A framed etching by the famed Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a key member of the San Francisco Renaissance and influential publisher of City Lights Books. This is No. 10 of 20 copies. Signed by Ferlinghetti in black ink on the bottom margin. While in Paris in 1985, Lawrence Ferlinghetti etched this drawing into a copper metal plate. This design was the poet's first etching. Image size: 6x9 cm (2½x3½"); with matting and frame: 27x27 cm (10½x10½"). The frame is deep, 2 3/8-inches, so it can stand on its own on a surface or hang on the wall. Unexamined outside of frame, but in fine condition. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

SF: City Lights Publishers, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. An association copy: pasted to the front free endpaper is a handwritten and signed postcard from the book's editor, City Lights founder and publisher, and San Francisco Renaissance poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The postcard, dated 1978, mentions enclosing poems for Clemente to consider for a new journal he was editing (which was The West Hills Review). Clemente was a professor at SUNY and his papers are held at Rochester University. This anthology is described as a "comprehensive selection from the influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series [ . . .] a landmark retrospective, celebrating forty years of publishing and cultural history." City Lights famously published Ginsberg's Howl and much else. A small book, sextodecimo, in pictorial paper boards without a dust jacket as issued; a fine copy. The postcard is fully pasted to the FFEP and is very good with browning to edges, ink slightly faded, and one corner slightly clipped.

Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed by the editor on the title page: "For Howard Lamar, with pleasure and admiration, and with warmest thanks, Christiane Fischer, 23. IX. 1977." Lamar was an influential historian of the American West at Yale and was for two years the president of Yale. He wrote about the myths of the American West and its territorial histories. He provides a blurb for this book on its front flap. "In this book, Christiane Fischer sets the record straight by letting us see what the young west [sic]--particularly the territories that are now California, Nevada, and Arizona--looked like to the perceptive eyes of twenty-five women." Laid in are some publicity sheets. Very good in red buckram; in a very good jacket with browning to spine. A nice association.

Yale University Press, 2007. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Inscribed to poet Jim LeCuyer on title page: "For Jim, with best wishes! Jessica Fisher." Yale Younger winner.

Collins, London, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The British edition, signed on the front free endpaper in blue ink: "With my best wishes, Roger T. Peterson." Published a year earlier in the U.S. and now a classic of American nature writing, this book details the 30,000-mile journey by Peterson and his British colleague/counterpart James Fisher in 1953 around the edges of the United States and into Mexico, a one hundred-day journey to see and assess its natural splendor. They went south to the Gulf and then north to British Columbia. A very good book with bumping to crown of spine and a dampstain adjacent on the upper face of the text block that doesn't effect pages. A square of aged sticker residue below the inscription on the FFEP. In a very good jacket with a prominent chip/tear to lower edge of front panel (partially tape mended), general edge wear, and some loss to spine ends. This journey was so iconic that it's been retraced several times, and also included here are two… Read More

Houghton Mifflin, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. The 1963 Sentry paperback edition, inscribed boldly on the title page in red ink: "For Martha Sykes, with my best wishes, Roger Tory Peterson." First thus, uncommon signed in this edition or any. Martha Sykes Hansen served as the director of the Audubon Center in Greenwich, Connecticut, and there is now an endowed chair in ornithology in her name at her alma mater, Earlham University in Indiana. Originally published in 1955 and now a classic of American nature writing, this book details the 30,000-mile journey by Peterson and his British colleague/counterpart James Fisher in 1953 around the edges of the United States and into Mexico, a one hundred-day journey to see and assess its natural splendor. They went south to the Gulf and then north to British Columbia. A very good, handsome book in a durable synthetic wraps ("the durability of cloth but the price and compactness of paper," says the rear wrap) with toning to text block faces and a slight flare… Read More

Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Walter Scott, With deepest thanks for all your help. Susan Flader." With his bookplate on the pastedown and his ownership signature on the first blank. Walter E. Scott of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is thanked in the acknowledgments for "greatly facilitating" her research. Scott was an important Wisconsin environmentalist and is a member of the state's Conservation Hall of Fame (Wisconsin seems to have a particularly illustrious one); he and Leopold were colleagues and examples of their correspondence can be found online. Scott was also a serious collector of natural resource-related books. Susan Flader is professor emerita of American western and environmental history at the University of Missouri-Columbia (which published this volume). She is now on the board of the Aldo Leopold Foundation (see her bio). This book Thinking Like a… Read More

Reed Books, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Association copy, inscribed on the front free end paper: "To Stephen J. Gould, with warmest regards, Tim Flannery, 12th May 1995." The first book from this decorated scientist-writer, later known for his blockbuster The Weather Makers, and a powerhouse association copy signed to another lauded scientist-writer. An ecological history of Australasia. Uncommon signed. Fine book in fine jacket.

William Collins, 2021. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Signed on the title page. Winner of the 2022 John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing. Explores Chernobyl, Scotland (Scottish Islands), the volcanic regions of the Caribbean, and Tanzania, in the vein of Alan Weisman's "The World Without Us." With a blurb by Kathleen Jamie on the back. Fine paperback with a touch of wear to front wrap lower corner; still fine. With an attractive "signed by author" sticker on upper corner of front wrap. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We invite you to explore our dedicated, growing collection of signed and inscribed climate change books. WRB162023E.

NY: Penguin, 2008. First thus. Softcover. Near fine. A great association copy, inscribed ornately to his fellow eminent New York City writer: "For Oliver Sacks, who I admire enormously, best, Jonathan Safran Foer." Foer's acclaimed debut novel, uncommon signed in this edition. It won the The Guardian First Book Prize and the National Jewish Book Award among others. Toning to pages, otherwise fine in wraps.  Oliver Sacks was a British neurologist that the New York Times dubbed "the poet laureate of contemporary medicine." He spent the bulk of his medical career as a professor of neurology at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine. There he began to write about some of his neurology patients (he burned the manuscript of his first book, Ward 23, in a fit of anxiety about his new direction). He went on to publish fourteen books from 1970 to 2015, the year he died also of cancer, most of them with a focus on highly researched clinical anecdotes, including such lauded works as The… Read More

Harper/Collins, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Association copy, signed by Forche to Bay Area poet Jim LeCuyer on the title page: "For Jim, May your life and work be blessed -- Carolyn Forche, 16 May 1995." Fine book in a near fine jacket because of some very light rubbing.

Harper/Collins, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed on the title page. First printing, fine in a very near fine jacket on account of some extremely minor dark scuffing to the outer edges of the flap folds.

Ravens Eye Press, 2014. First edition. Softcover. Fine. An organizational association copy, inscribed on the half-title page, "For NMWA, Dave Foreman."  NWMA is the New Mexico Water Authority, based in Albuquerque, making this an interesting association to a diverter (or more charitably, manager) of the rivers that Foreman fought to protect his whole career, most famously as the co-founder of Earth First! Foreman also died in Albuquerque. This is his last book. In it he narrates and reflects on the long battle between "resourcism and Nature conservation." Foreman went on found the Wildlands Project and Rewilding Institute. Raven's Eye Press is his own venture, it seems, an interesting activist approach to publishing. A fine soft cover in glossy wraps, one modest crease to back lower corner; still fine, unread.

The Macmillan Company, New York, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Dear Mother Whitney, with much love, Pieter." Uncommon signed. A collection of essays selected from those that Fosburgh wrote as the founding editor of *The Conservationist*, the official publication of the New York State Conservation Department. It explores the wildlife and rural life of New York and one particular "Forest Preserve" and along the way "reveals a fresh philosophical attitude toward conservation." He was also the president of the North Woods Club in the Adirondacks, a group dedicated to conservation. See Fosburgh's obituary in The New York Times on March 7, 1978. A near fine book with a hint of soiling to board edges in a very good jacket on account of some sunning to spine and a damp stain to lower corner of spine. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special… Read More

Black Rock Press, 1994. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Signed in the year of publication on the title page: "For Jason Shirk, across much geography, Bill Fox, 6/94." Uncommon signed. A chapbook of experimental-ish poetry. "Rainshadow editions." Square octavo, lavender textured wraps that were printed letter press at the Black Rock Press at the University of Nevada, Reno. Very good with substantial sunning to spine and outer edge, ghosting on back. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Washington D.C.: National Geographic, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed on the half-title page: "For Kathleen, Best wishes on your journey, John Francis III." Uncommon signed. Francis is renown for his book *Planetwalker* about his 22-year-long pilgrimage and 17 years of silence in response to an oil spill in San Francisco and the state of the planet. Blurbs by Bill McKibben and Thich That Hanh. Fine book in fine jacket..