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Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists


Furmansky, Dyana Z.

Softcover. A Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages, with black & white photographs and a foreword by Bill McKibben. Very clean and bright copy.

Record # 457781


Price: $19.00 

We Like it Wild by: Angier, Bradford
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We Like it Wild by: Angier, Bradford

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, The Stackpole Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 213 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some minor wear on the corners, but is in generally good condition. Interior binding and pages in good condition. This book explores the magnetism of living out in nature without connection to the concrete jungle. It is the story of the woods, the cabin, and the husband and wife who decided to make them their retirement home. Previous owner placed a sticker with their name on the title page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33604
Price: $18.00 

 

Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick


Uglow, Jenny

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 458 pages, b&w illustrations. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 402728


Price: $18.00 

Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick Uglow, Jenny
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Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick


Uglow, Jenny

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st US, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 458 pages, with illustrations. Small mark on bottom edge, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 455818


Price: $28.00 

Alaska Days With John Muir by: Young, S. Hall
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Alaska Days With John Muir by: Young, S. Hall

Hardcover. NY, Fleming H. Revell , 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 226 pages, hardcover. Exterior pictorial board shows some wear and tear, particularly with respect to scuffed and fading text. Interior pages and binding are in very good condition. B&W photographs throughout. In this fascinating account of John Muir's travels in Alaska from 1879 to 1880, we are brought into an intimate acquaintance with this great interpreter of Nature by one who was his companion on many expeditions. Clean copy. Record # 33622
Price: $18.00 

 

The Nature of Generosity


Kittredge, William

New York, Knopf, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages.

Record # 204687


Price: $20.00 

Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick Uglow, Jenny
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Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick


Uglow, Jenny

Hardcover. 1st US, June 12, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 458 pages, b&w illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket. Lovely copy. Like new.

Record # 450402


Price: $25.00 

 

Refiguring the Map of Sorrow - Nature Writing and Autobiography


Allister, Mark

Hardcover. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609167


Price: $15.00 

 

Nature's Engraver - A Life of Thomas Bewick


Uglow, Jenny

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 458 pages. Softcover. Black & white engraver's illustrations throughout. Clean, crisp & unmarked copy.

Record # 750924


Price: $19.00 

 

Drawn from Nature: The Botannical Art of Joseph Prestele and His Sons


Van Ravenswaay, Charles

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 357 pages. Letter from publishers laid in. Light edgewear.

Record # 801805


Price: $13.00 

Bernhard Eduard Fernow: A Story of North American Forestry by: Rodgers, Andrew Denny III
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Bernhard Eduard Fernow: A Story of North American Forestry by: Rodgers, Andrew Denny III

Hardcover. Durham, NC, Forest History Society, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 623 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition, with some minor edge wear. Cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This edition includs a frontispiece photo of Bernhard Fernow. A comprehensive biography of the life and career of Bernhard Eduard Fernow (1851-1923), the first professional forester in North America and an organizer of the forestry movement. Andrew Denny Rodgers reveals the history of forestry in North America through the lens of biography. Clean copy. Record # 33817
Price: $15.00 

 

Moon Man, The: A Biography of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay


Webster, E.M.

Hardcover. Berkely, Univeristy of California Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 421 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Brown cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, some fading to dj spine (see image), very good condition. Binding tight, spine straight. Red endpapers. Pages clean and unmarked. In great shape.

Record # 32202


Price: $23.00 

 

World of George Perkins Marsh, America's First Conservationist and Environmentalist: An Illustrated Biography


Curtis, Jane

Hardcover. US, Billings Farm & Museum, 1st, 1982-07-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 125 pages. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Corners warped. Edge wear to dust jacket. Else clean, tight copy.

Record # 466417


Price: $50.00 

 

Orion on the Dunes: A Biography of Henry Beston


Payne, Daniel G.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 391 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Otherwise, clean and tight copy. Black and white photos.

Record # 750041


Price: $19.00 

 

Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick


Uglow, Jenny

Hardcover. New York, FSG, 1st US, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 458 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of famed British engraver. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Slight soiling to front flyleaf. Detailed line drawings and woodcuts throughout. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 952253


Price: $15.00 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci: The Marvelous Works of Nature and Man (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Kemp, Marint

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Hardvard University Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. B/w illustrations throughout. Boards bound in maroon, gilt title on spine. Spine has some damage at bottom where label was pulled off, doesn't affect pages or text. Some foxing top edge. Clean inside, binding tight. Prior owner signature on front flyleaf.

Record # 31223


Price: $38.00 

My Paddle to the Sea: Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Lane, John
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My Paddle to the Sea: Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Lane, JohnMy Paddle to the Sea: Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Lane, John

My Paddle to the Sea: Eleven Days on the River of the Carolinas [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Lane, John

Hardcover. Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, hardcover. Dust jackets, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. John Lane sets out with friends from his own backyard in upcountry South Carolina to calm his nerves and to paddle to the sea. Along the way he recounts local history, and spars with stream-side literary presences. Paddle stroke by paddle stroke, Lane is reminded why life and rivers have always been wedded together. Author's title page inscription reads: "For Jack, good friend and a friend of living waters. Here's to trips downstream & upstream. All best, John Lane. Clean copy. Record # 33913
Price: $30.00 

 

Audubon, By Himself


Ford (Ed.), Alice

Hardcover. NY, Natural History Press, 1st , 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 276 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with heavy edge wear to dust jacket, now covered in brodart. A profile of John James Audubon from his selected writings.

Record # 60126


Price: $15.00 

 

Bernhard Eduard Fernow: A Story of North American Forestry


Rodgers, Andrew Denny

Hardcover. Durham, N.C., 1st, August 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 623 pages. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451951


Price: $15.00 

 

In the Dust of Kilimanjaro


Western, David

Hardcover. Washington, DC, Shearwater Books, September 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 297 pages, with photographs. Slight dust jacket edge wear and previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 455373


Price: $18.00 

 

George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation


Lowenthal, David

Softcover. University of Washington Press, 1st PB, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, INSCRIBED BY EDITOR on front end paper. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458959


Price: $31.00 

Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson by: Rosenthal, Elizabeth
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Birdwatcher: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson by: Rosenthal, Elizabeth

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Softcover. US, Lyons Press, 1st, 2010-03-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 437 pages. Softcover. Black and white/ color photographs in center. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 466747
Price: $12.00 

Home to the wilderness by: Carrighar, Sally
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Home to the wilderness by: Carrighar, Sally

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust jacket: None, Silver gilt titles on spine and cover. Foxing to top edge. Spine cocked, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 330 pages. Record # 467703 Record # 467703
Price: $12.00 

Dangerous World of Butterflies, The: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists Laufer, Peter
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Dangerous World of Butterflies, The: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists


Laufer, Peter

hardcover. Guilford, Conn., Lyons Press, REPRINT, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468801


Price: $13.00