Search Results: Titles starting with F from Rural Hours

Ecco, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed on the front end free paper. Translated by the author and Robert Hass. Near fine, because of some minor foxing to the top edge of the text block, in a near fine jacket. Please inquire for photos.

Henry Holt and Co, 2019. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Gentle bump to top of spine, but still fine. In a very near fine jacket with an "Autographed copy" sticker on front panel.

Beacon Press, 1996. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Signed by John Elder on the title page in blue ink. Uncommon signed. An anthology that draws together tales about nature from indigenous cultures around the world. Elder was longtime faculty at Middlebury College and has been influential in contemporary environmental writing and ecocriticism. A very near fine book in wraps. // 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.

Grove Press, 2019. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed on the title page: "For Karin, with best wishes from Ketchum [Idaho]. Madhuri Vijay." Fine book in near fine jacket because of one quarter-inch tear to lower front panel.

Random House, 1975. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second printing, signed on the title page. A hardcover in very good condition, only because there's a bit of wear to its lower rear spine and some slight fading to the lower edge of the caribbean-blue board. The jacket shows a little waviness. As Eleanor Clark puts it on the back jacket, theres a feeling all the time of it being written by the sea itself. A neglected masterpiece from Matthiessen.

NY: Delta, 1980. First thus. Softcover. Very good. NY: Delta, 1980. First thus. Softcover. First Delta paperback edition, following the 1976 Viking first. Scarce signed in this edition. An association copy: This was one of Harrison's personal copies, sent to novelist and memoirist Kaylie Jones (daughter of National Book Award--winning novelist James Jones and actress Gloria Jones). Harrison has sketched his patented face on the half-title page and in a dialogue bubble the inscription reads: "To Kaylie, Jim." A novel with some transcendent descriptions of rural Michigan and its woods. A very good plus paperback with some light wear, handling, and toning.  A nice find for the complete Harrison collector. A photocopy of a note from Harrison conveying the book will be included. .

Bostok Press, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. Association copy: Alexander McBirney's own copy, specially bound in black patterned board with gold stamped lettering. McBirney was a noted vulcanologist at the University of Oregon. Published under the name of Bostok Press, Eugene, Oregon, 2004. Fine book without jacket as issued (in an edition, probably, of one). // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

University of Georgia Press, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Elizabeth Hughes Bass. Signed on title page. A short story with illustrations by Elizabeth Hughes Bass, his then wife. With a Russell Chatham painting on the cover. Fiber is a story about the ravages of activism and the healing properties of art. Fine in near fine jacket.

Yale University Press, 1973. Soft cover. Fine. Inscribed on the title page (to no recipient): "best, Robert Hass." Tenth printing. Winner of the Yale Younger award, sending Hass off on a great career that culminated in a turn as Poet Laureate and finally a Pulitzer and National Book Award. Fine book, unread. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in nature writing and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Yale University Press, 1973. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Fifth printing. Inscribed to fellow Bay Area poet Jim LeCuyer on the title page: For Jim, best, Bob Hass. Winner of the Yale Younger award, sending Hass off on a great career that culminated in a turn as Poet Laureate and finally a Pulitzer and National Book Award. Very good plus with some light scuffs (mostly noticeable on the rear cover), a lightly bumped lower corner, and one bump/minor indentation to the front covers outer edge near its top corner. Along with Hasss beard in the author photo, an old bookseller sticker on rear adds to the atmosphere. A great read and important first book.

Yale University Press, 1973. Soft cover. Very Good. Fifth printing. Inscribed to fellow Bay Area poet Jim LeCuyer on the title page: "For Jim, best, Bob Hass." Winner of the Yale Younger Award. Very good plus with some light scuffs, mostly noticeable on the rear cover. Along with Hass's beard in the author photo, an old bookseller sticker on rear adds to the atmosphere.

Houghton Mifflin (T), 1980. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Association copy, inscribed generously on the dedication page in red ink to the person who spearheaded the book's production at Houghton Mifflin: "For Morton Baker -- Terry -- This book has a great deal of you in it. With our gratitude, Roger Tory Peterson, Virginia Marie Peterson." Virginia's signature is in her separate, equally lovely hand--unusual to have her signature as well. Morton Baker is among those thanked in the third to last and penultimate paragraphs of the acknowledgments, e.g.: "In addition to the skill of these craftsmen and the production department of Houghton Mifflin, under the direction of Morton Baker, I have drawn on the expertise . . ." A nice association. Near fine with a touch of rubbing to corners in a similarly near fine jacket. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. With an unusually personal inscription from Lopez: For Betsy with great pleasure bless you, for all this support Barry Lopez. Clearly an association copy, but unfortunately Betsy is unknown to us. Fine in a very good plus jacket. Please inquire for photos.

Bloomsbury USA, 2006. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing. Signed with a strikethrough on the title page. The second book from Kolbert; her third, The Sixth Extinction, won the Pulitzer Prize. A wide-ranging travelogue and reportage about climate change. As the jacket description finishes, "Growing out of a groundbreaking three-part series for the New Yorker, Fields Notes from a Catastrophe brings the environment into the consciousness of the American people and asks what, if anything, can be done to save our planet." Near fine condition with some light soiling to outer edges of black boards (hard to notice). The jacket is also near fine with one small spot and a two-inch scratch (indentation) on the the left side of the front panel. Nice book still: signed first printings are uncommon. Please inquire for photos. We invite you to explore our dedicated collection of signed and inscribed climate change books.

Hill & Wang Pub, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed on the title page: "For Deborah, Thanks for doing the hard critical work. With admiration, Philip Shabecoff." From a longtime New York Times environmental reporter, "a definitive environmental history" of the U.S. Weaves Thoreau, Parkman, and George Perkins Marsh among others 19th Century influences into the narrative. Blurbs by folks including E.O. Wilson and Paul Ehrlich. Fine book except for a half dozen dogeared pages around its middle. In a very good jacket only because of a 3/4-inch tear at upper right and a small price sticker blacked out with a sharpie mark that's run off the sticker just a hair, both blemishes on the front panel. // 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.

Arif Press, Berkeley, 1974. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Association copy, inscribed to publisher Donald Allen: "For Don, with love and all that -- Bobbie." One of 426 copies, string-bound blue wraps with a center title label. Allen founded and edited the important Four Seasons and Grey Fox presses, which published the Beats, and he also edited the highly influential anthology The New American Poetry. Hawkins was married to poet Robert Creeley and was very much a part of the San Francisco/Bolinas scene. Fine book. With a preface by Robert Duncan. // 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.

Buffalo Press, 1990. Soft cover. Fine. Inscribed to poet Jim LeCuyer: "For Jim, with many thanks for many hours of friendship. Paula." 1990 Buffalo Press Chapbook Winner.

Crosby, MN: Masconomo Forestry, 1999. Very good. Inscribed on the half-title page: "Spence, thanks for your moral support and listening to the stories. Enjoy, Peter." From a certified forester, the book is "a series of vignettes that offer a ... vision [that] challenges many of today's assumptions about trees, preservation and forestry practices. It's a journey into the heart of the northwoods and a vision of land stewardship in the 21st century." Very good  plus with slight edge and corner wear.

North Point Pr, 1982. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Association copy, inscribed on the half-title page to poet Bruce Berlind and his wife: "For Bruce and JoAnn, love from Bill, Nov 1996, Colgate." Softcover with dust jacket; uncommon signed in this paperback edition. Bruce Berlind was an old friend of Merwin's, as they graduated from Princeton within a year of each other and both studied with John Berryman there. Berlind was a longtime English professor at Colgate and ran its visiting writer series. There's a good story about how Merwin and Hayden Carruth dined and drank wine together at Berlind's house while Carruth played hooky from the National Book Award ceremony. All hungover, Berlind and Merwin drove over to Carruth's place the next morning to tell him he had in fact won the award. Very near fine book and jacket. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.

Simon & Schuster, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing, inscribed on the title page in Sharpie: "Skip, Great Supporter, Peace [with a drawn heart], Mariel Hemingway." Fine book in fine jacket. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in nature writing and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.