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Master List (A-L)

 

 

Abbey, Edward [Link]

Fire on the Mountain - 1962.  NF in NF NPCDJ

Desert Solitaire - 1968 - Signed.  VG in NF NPCDJ

Appalachian Wilderness - 1970.  Inscribed.  Photos by Elliot Porter.  VG+ in VG+ NPCDJ

Sunset Canyon [Black Sun]- Abbey's own copy of UK edition with his edits (for new US ed?).  The book was originally published in the US with the title Black Sun in 1971.  VG in VG NPCDJ

Slickrock - 1971.  Coffee-table style book with photos by Philip Hyde.  NF in VG+ NPCDJ

Cactus Country - 1973.  VG+ in VG PCDJ (only non-subscription copies had DJs)

The Monkey Wrench Gang - 1975.  Signed.  VG+ in VG NPCDJ

The Monkey Wrench Gang - 2008 printing of 1985 tenth anniversary ed illustrated by R. Crumb, inscribed by Doug Peacock, the model for the book's protaganist, George Hayduke.  F in a NF NPCDJ.

The Journey Home:  Some Words in Defense of the American West - 1977.  VG+ in VG+ NPCDJ

Abbey's Road - 1979.  Inscribed.  NF in VG- NPCDJ

Down the River - 1982.  Inscribed.  VG+ in NF NPCDJ

In Praise of Mountain Lions - 1984.  Chapbook/pamphlet.  Signed.  

A Fool's Progress - 1986.  Two sets of galley sheets, one bound, with Abbey's edits.

One Life at a Time, Please - 1988.  Inscribed (to unnamed recipient).  F in a F NPCDJ

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness - 1989.  First trade ed.  From Matthiessen library.  NF in G NPCDJ

Confessions of a Barbarian - 1994.  F in F NPCDJ

Postcards from Ed - 2006.  Forward by Terry Tempest Williams.  F in F NPCDJ

[Newspaper] The Canyon County Zephyr - 2009.  Last paper issue.  Contains a personal memorial tribute to Abbey

 

[See also Howard Wolke's Wilderness on the Rocks (1991) [Link] - Abbey, channeling George Hayduke, wrote the Intro; and American Earth (2008) [Link] in Anthologies]

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Abbott, Charles C. [Link]

Upland and Meadown:  A Ponetquissings Chronicle - 1886.  VG

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Adams, Ansel [Link]

Sierra Nevada:  The John Muir Trail - 1938.  First, signed limited edition #218 of 500.  Separately inscribed.  VG-VG+

Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada - 1948.  Inscribed to protege Ray McSavaney.  Text selections from Muir.  G in VG DJ  

Yosemite and the Range of Light - 1979.  Signed.  NF in NF DJ

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Adams, Ansel & Nancy Newhall [Link]

This is the American Earth - 1960.  First.  The first of Sierra Club's celebrated and influential exhibit format books.  VG+ to NF- in a G+ NPCDJ

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[See also Tomorrow's Wilderness (1963) [Link] in Anthologies, with contributions from Adams] 

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Adams, John H.

[One of ten CEOs of national environmental organizations - in his case the Natural Resources Defense Council, which Adams founded - credited with the authorship of An Environmental Agenda for the Future (1985 - Catalogued in Anthologies)]​

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Albright, Horace M. [Link]

The Birth of the National Park Service: The Founding Years 1913-33 - 1985.  Catalogued in Chapter 1916-62.  "As told to Robert Cahn."  Cahn was a prominent environmental journalist who won a Pulitzer in 1969 for his 16-part series on the national parks.  Inscribed to prominent environmental advocate Marian Sulzberger Heiskill.  NF in a VG DJ.

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[See Hans Huth's Nature and the American (1957) [Link] in References, which is inscribed to Albright.  See also Cahn, below]

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Allen, Durward L. [Link]

Our Wildlife Legacy - 1954.  Inscribed to Jack Reneau, leader of the Boone & Crockett Club.  VG in G PCDJ.

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Anderson, Samuel Gilmore

[See Leopold's Game Survey (1931) [Link], which is inscribed to Anderson, a wildlife conservationist who served on the Federal Migratory Bird Advisory Board from 1929-35]

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Anderson, Sheridan

[Semi-legendary cartoonist, climber, author, illustrator, and fly fisher who wrote and illustrated the cult classic Curtis Creek Manifesto (1978 - not in the Collection), one of the best-selling fly-fishing guides of all time.  His ownership sig is on The Sierra Club Wilderness Handbook (1967) [Link] edited by and listed under David Brower; and Paul W. Nesbitt's Longs Peak (seventh ed of 1969) [Link] is inscribed to him.]

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Andrews, Roy Chapman

[Prominent naturalist and explorer who worked for and ultimately ran the AMNH.  He wrote the Intro to Douglas Burden's Look to the Wilderness (1960) [Link].]

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Armes, William D.

[William Dallam Armes was a key figure in the founding and organization of the Sierra Club and served as a founding director and the first secretary.  John Muir's The National Parks (1901) is personally inscribed by Muir to Armes.]

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Arthur, Stanley C. [Clisby]

[Louisiana naturalist to whom William Hornaday inscribed the Congressional Edition of his Thirty Years War for Wild Life (1931).  The Hornaday book was accompanied by a silver gelatin print of Arthur, completely camouflaged, at the edge of marsh with a camera]

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Audubon, John James [Link]

Birds of America - 1870.  Seventh Royal Octavo edition.  NF+

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Audubon, John Woodhouse [Link]

Western Journals of 1849-50 - 1906.  Catalogued in 'Before Walden.'.  VG++

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Austin, Mary [Link]

The Land of Little Rain - 1903.  VG+

California: Land of the Sun - 1914.  VG+

Earth Horizon - 1932.  Inscribed.  Autobiography.  G+

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[See also American Earth (2008) [Link] in Anthologies]

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[Mary Austin]/Pearce, T.M. [Link]

Literary America 1903-1934:  The Mary Austin Letters - Typescript "apparently" annotated by Pearce.  Two vols.  Clasp-bound cardboard covers.  Contains ALS by TMP.  VG

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Babbitt, Bruce

[Interior Secretary under President Clinton, politician, and former head of the League of Conservation Voters.  He contributed a "focus essay" to From Conquest to Conservation: Our Public Lands Legacy (2003), [Link] co-written by Mike Dombeck, Christopher Wood and Jack Williams, and Catalogued under Dombeck's name]

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Bade, William Frederic [Link]

[Bade was an archeologist, professor of ancient languages, theologian, mountaineer and conservationist who served as the head of the Sierra Club from 1919-22 and edited its Bulletin for 12 years.  See John Muir [Link] - Bade was his literary executor and edited many of his posthumous publications.  See also the1920 Sierra Club pamphlet reprinting Henry Fairfield Osborn's article Save the Redwoods [Link], with a TLS from Bade seeking support for the campaign]

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Bailey, Florence Merriam [Link]

The Birds of New Mexico - 1928.  First trade ed.  VG

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Bakker, Elna [Link]

An Island Called California: An Ecological Introduction... - 1971.  Assumed first.  F in F NPCDJ

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Bailey, Liberty Hyde [Link]

The Holy Earth - 1915.  G-

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Ballou, Maturin [Link]

[See Ballou's Alaska (1894) [Link] in Guidebooks, and Henry Fairfield Osborn [Link], who owned the book and hand-wrote a poem in it]

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Barrus, Clara [Link]

[Extensive appearances in Burroughs and Related sections [Link] as she was Burrough's longish-time companion and literary executor who also wrote several books about him]

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Barton, Benjamin Smith

[A prominent naturalist, botanist and physician, brother of Willam Barton (below).  BSB worked in his time with William Bartram, Thomas Nuttall and Meriweather Lewis.  See the EC History section for more on him.]

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Barton, William [Link]

Flora of North America - 1821/22/23.  3 vols bound in one.  Uncolored ed.  From William S. Reese's private collection.

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Bartram, John [Link]

Observations on the Inhabitants.... - 1751.  From Bruce McKinney's library.  Contemporary marginalia.  Last 15 pages are Peter Kalm's account of Niagara Falls.

An Account of East Florida.... - 1766.  First ed of JB's journals, published with a second ed of William Stork's account.  Bound by Riviere.​

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Bartram, William [Link]

Travels - 1791.  Excellent condition - very tight.

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[See also John and William Bartram's America (1957) [Link], a selection of their writings edited by Helen Cruickshank, in Reference section]

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Bass, Rick [Link]

Brown Dog of the Yaak - 1999.  Stated first.  Inscribed to author and outdoor publisher Nick Lyons.  F no DJ.

Wild to the Heart - 1987.  Inscribed.  F in a VG DJ.

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[See also Heart of the Land (1994) [Link]Testimony (1996) [Link], and American Earth (2008) [Link], all in Anthologies, with contributions from Bass.  He also contributed a "focus essay" to From Conquest to Conservation: Our Public Lands Legacy (2003), co-written by Mike Dombeck, Christopher Wood and Jack Williams, and Catalogued under Dombeck's name]

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Bass, Rick and Duncan, David James [Link]

The Heart of the Monster - 2010.  First ed. issued in paperback only.  Signed by both authors.  NF​

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Beck, Lewis C.

[Important early geologist who once owned the Collection's copy of Thomas Nuttall's Travels into the Arkansa Territory (1821) [Link]]

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Bedichek, Roy [Link]

Adventures with a Texas Naturalist - 1947.  VG+ in Fair- DJ

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Beebe, William [Link]

Galapagos:  World's End - 1924.  Inscribed to friend with subsequent bequeathments.  Also library markings.  G no DJ

The Arcturus Adventure - 1926.  VG in VG DJ

Beneath Tropic Seas - 1928.  Stated first.  Inscribed by Beebe, his right-hand man John Tee-Van and artist Helen Tee-Van ("Tante Helen"), all of whom were on the expedition described in the book, to Tee-Van nephews. G+ no DJJ

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[Beebe also wrote the Intro and contributed to The Pacific World (1944 - Anthologies) [Link], edited by Fairfield Osborn.  See also Carol Grant Gould's 2004 biography of Beebe in the Reference section [Link], and the associated 11/10/2023 blog piece about the biography and the amazing man himself [Link]] 

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Beecher, Henry Ward [Link]

Star Papers; or Experiences of Life and Art - 1855.  Inscribed.  VG-

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Bennett, Hugh H. (and Pryor, William C.) [Link]

This Land We Defend - 1942.  Stated first.  VG+ in G- NPCDJ

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Bennett, J.J. 

Bennett, Edward Turner [Link]

[ETB compiled the "well-regarded" 1837 edition of White's Selborne [Link] in the Collection.  He died before publishing same - his brother JJB wrote the Preface.  ETB was a founder and Secretary of the Zoological Club of London.  JJB was Keeper of the Botany Dept at the British Museum and, in his role as Secretary of the Linnean Society, was the presenter (reader) of the first papers of Darwin and Wallace on evolution]

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Benson, Frank W.

[Distinguished and decorated American artist whose early work in particular focused on ornithological subjects.  He illustrated William Brewster's Concord River (1937) [Link]]

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Berger, John J. [Link]

Restoring the Earth - 1985.  Inscribed.  F in a F NPCDJ

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Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques [Link]

Studies of Nature - 1796.  Second ed (first English ed) - Five volumes.  VG to VG+

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Berry, Wendell [Link]

Citizenship Papers - 2003.  Stated first.  Signed.  F in NF NPCDJ

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[See also American Earth (2008) in Anthologies [Link]]

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Beston, Henry [Link]

The Outermost House - 1928.  Inscribed with separate note with drawing laid in.  Spine sun-faded to illegibility, covers faded, interior VG+

The St. Lawrence - 1942.  First/First with colophon.  Part of Rivers of America series.  VG+ in VG PCDJ

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[See also American Earth (2008) in Anthologies [Link]]

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Blake, H.G.O.

[Henry David Thoreau's [Link] friend who inherited Thoreau's journals from Thoreau's sister and edited and published them in various volumes]

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Bohlman, Herman T.

[Photographer for William Finley's American Birds (1907) [Link]]

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Bookchin, Murray [Link]

Toward an Ecological Society - 1980.  First edition in softcover (published simultaneously with hardcover).  "Review Copy" handwritten on ffe.  Inscribed.  VG to NF in paper wraps.

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Boone & Crockett Club [Link]

[See Trail (1897) [Link] and Hunting (1925) [Link] in Anthologies and Trefethen (1961) [Link] in Conventional Books, all published by B&C]

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Borland, Hal [Link]

Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country (1962).  Catalogued in the 1963-89 section.  Stated first, inscribed to Borland's son.  VG+ in VG+ NPCDJ

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Bouseman, John K. [Link]

[See Tony Fitzpatrick's Signals from the Heartland (1993) [Link], which is partially about and is inscribed to Bouseman, for more on this Illinois naturalist]

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Bowles, Samuel [Link]

Our New West - 1869.  VG+

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Brant, Irving [Link]

Adventures in Conservation with Franklin D. Roosevelt - 1988.  CATALOGUED IN 1916-62 CHAPTER GIVEN CONTENT.  Assumed first.  Bookplate of Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Murray Gell-Mann.  NF+ in NF+ DJ

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Breton, Mary Joy [Link]

[See her Women Pioneers for the Environment (1998) [Link] in the Reference section.]

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Brewer Jr., George E.

[Important but unheralded environmentalist who, among other things, helped Fairfield Osborn found the Conservation Foundation, which later merged into the World Wildlife Fund.  See Francis Farquhar's classic History of the Sierra Nevada (1965) [Link], inscribed to Brewer and his wife, for more on Brewer.]

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Brewer, William H. [Link]

Up and Down California in 1860-1864.  Published in 1930 but catalogued in 1855-90 section.  Ed. by Francis P. Farquhar.  VG++ to NF in VG NPCDJ

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]See also Steel's Mountains of Oregon (1890) [Link] wherein Brewer pops up in the tale of the creation of Crater Lakes NP.  Brewer also participated in the Harriman Alaska Expedition, the report of which is in Anthologies (1901) [Link].]

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Brewster, William [Link]

Concord River - 1937.  First?  VG+ to NF in VG NPCDJ

October Farm - 1937.  Second printing.  NF

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Briggs, Shirley Ann [Link]

Silent Spring: The View from 1987 - 1987.  A 20-page pamphlet containing a 9,000+ word Afterword that Briggs wrote for a 25th edition of Silent Spring that was rejected by the publisher for being too pessimistic.  Published by the Rachel Carson Council.  VG+ in paper wraps

Basic Guide to Pesticides: Their Characteristics and Hazards - 1992.  Third(?) printing.  Cowritten by the staff of the Rachel Carson Council.  NF no DJ (as issued?).

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[Briggs was a naturalist who was a colleague, close friend and biographer of Rachel Carson.  See Carson's FWS "Conservation in Action" pamphlet on Chincoteague NWR (1947) [Link] illustrated by Briggs and Katherine L. Howe (see below). See also Roderick Nash's seminal Wilderness and the America Mind (1967 - Reference) [Link] and Paul Brooks' Speaking for Nature (1980) [Link], both with Briggs' bookplate and the latter inscribed to her]

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Brinkley, Douglas [Link]

[See his Silent Spring Revolution (2022) [Link] in the Reference section.  The book is the third in the trilogy which includes Wilderness Warrior and Rightful Heritage, my copies of which are not collectible, but which collectively make up an outstanding (albeit long) history of the US EC Movement in the 20th century.]

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Broecker, Wallace S. [Link]

The Glacial World According to Wally - 1992.  First draft of self-published "proto book."  NF

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Brooks, Allan

[Ornithological artist who illustrated Bailey's Birds of New Mexico (1928) [Link] and, after Louis Agassiz Fuertes was killed, completed the illustrations for Forbush's Birds of Massachusetts ((1925-9) [Link] - Catalogued in Progressive Era section).]

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Brooks, Paul [Link]

Roadless Area - 1964.  VG+ in VG+ NPCDJ

The House of Life:  Rachel Carson at Work - 1972.  Uncorrected galley proof for review.  Paper covers.  Brooks was Houghton's editor-in-chief during publication of Silent Spring and became guardian of Rachel Carson's son after her death.  VG

Speaking for Nature - 1980.  Inscribed to Shirley Ann Briggs.  VG in G NPCDJ.

 

[See also Tomorrow's Wilderness (1963) in Anthologies to which Brooks contributed [Link], and Ansel Adams' Yosemite and the Range of Light (1979), with an Introduction by Brooks [Link]]

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Brower, David [Link]

The Sierra Club Wilderness Handbook (edited by Brower) - 1967.  Second printing, four months after first.  Paper covers.  Ownership sig of author, illustrator, climber, fisherperson Sheridan Anderson on cover.  VG in paper wraps.

The Life and Times of David Brower - 1990.  Signed.  F in NF NPCDJ

Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run - 1995.  Inscribed to (the one and only) Bob Denver.  NF in NF NPCDJ.

 

[Insofar as Brower was the head of the Sierra Club and the driver of their publishing efforts while in that position, he wrote Intros and Forewords to a fair number of books published by them, and some others as well.  He is also represented in a number of anthologies.  A list of the former includes Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall's This is the American Earth (1960) [Link]; Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb (1968) [Link]; William Shutkin's The Land that Could Be (2000) [Link]; Eliot Porter's The Place No One Knew (1963) and "In Wildness is the Preservation of the World" (1989) [Link].  Anthologies with contributions from Brower include Tomorrow's Wilderness (1963 - Anthologies) [Link]; Wilderness: The Edge of Knowledge (1970 - Anthologies) [Link], and American Earth (2008 - Anthologies) [Link].  See also John McPhee's Encounters with the Archdruid (1971), his book about Brower [Link]; also see Wildlands in Our Civilization (1964 - Anthologies) [Link], an anthology edited and inscribed by Brower with two essays and an extensive Foreword by him.]

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Brown, Lester [Link]

Building a Sustainable Society - 1981.  Inscribed.  VG in NF NPCDJ

Plan B 3.0:  Mobilizing... - 2008.  Advance copy in paper wrappers with post-it note from the author to Peter Matthiessen, with underlining to Preface and Intro, presumably by PM.  G

Breaking New Ground - 2013.  Signed.  F in F NPCDJ

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Browne, Janet [Link]

[Author of outstanding two-volume Darwin biography, Voyaging (1995) [Link] and The Power of Place (2002) [Link], catalogued in the Reference section]

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Bruncken, Ernest [Link]

North American Forests and Forestry - 1902.  NF

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Bryant, William Cullen [Link]

[See Home Book of the Picturesque (1852) [Link] and Picturesque America (1872-4) [Link], both in Anthologies, the former with an essay by WCB, the latter nominally edited by him]

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Buell, Lawrence [Link]

[See his Writing for an Endangered Environment (2001) [Link] in the Reference section.]

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Bunce, Oliver Bell [Link]

[See Picturesque America (1872-4) [Link] in Anthologies, of which Bunce was the uncredited primary editor]

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Burden, W. Douglas [Link]

Look to the Wilderness - 1960.  NF in VG PCDJ

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Burroughs, John [Link]

Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person - 1867.  Rare, self-published.  Inscribed to JB's closest friend Myron Benton, with whom JB first read Whitman's Leaves of Grass.  Charles E. Benton's bookplate.  Beautiful condition.

Wake Robin - 1871.  Inscribed by JB to Joel Benton, Myron's cousin and noted literary figure.  NF

Winter Sunshine - 1875.  VG

Birds and Poets - 1877.  Bookplate of New Haven Book Club.  VG

Locusts and Wild Honey - 1879.  VG to VG+

Pepacton - 1881.  VG++

Fresh Fields - 1885.  VG+

Signs and Seasons - 1886.  VG+

Indoor Studies - 1889.  VG++

Riverby - 1894.  VG++

Whitman:  A Study - 1896.  VG in primitive DJ

The Light of Day - 1901 printing (originally pub 1900).  VG

The Light of Day.  Vol XI of Riverside Ed of JB's Works.  Inscribed to collector Oscar Haywood with some materials related to the auction of Haywood's collection laid in.  VG

Literary Values - 1902.  Later printing.  Signed.  VG+

Life of Audubon - 1902.  Inscribed by JB to dedicatee Clara Barrus, the only book JB ever dedicated to a human.  Very worn - spine illegible.

Far and Near - 1904.  Signed.  VG++

Ways of Nature - 1905.  Later printing.  Signed.  Original photo signed and captioned by JB tipped in.  Also laid in is an inscription on separate paper from JB.  VG+

Bird and Bough - 1906.  Inscribed.  VG+

[Booklet]  Camping with President Roosevelt - 1906.  Reprint of a magazine article which was later expanded into...

Camping and Tramping with Roosevelt - 1907.  Inscribed by Roosevelt.  Also contains a note from JB that he does not know where to get an autograph from Bryant [presumably William Cullen].  VG

Leaf & Tendril - 1908.  Signed.  VG++

Time and Change - 1912.  VG++

The Summit of the Years - 1913.  VG+ in G DJ

The Breath of Life - 1915.  Signed by JB.  Inscribed by Barrus to close friends John and Adele Shea.  G+ in VG NPCDJ

Under the Apple Trees - 1916.  Inscribed to John Shea, from Breath of Life above.  Separate inscription by Barrus referring to an incident involving Sheas which is recounted in the book.  VG-

Field and Study - 1919.  VG+ in G+ NPCDDJ

Accepting the Universe - 1920.  VG+

Under the Maples - 1921.  VG+

Last Harvest - 1922.  VG+ in G+ NPCDJ

My Boyhood:  An Autobiography - 1922.  Lengthy ALS from JB laid in.  VG+ in G NPCDJ

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John Burroughs - Compilations etc. [Link]

In Nature's LaboratoryPrivately published photo album with verse by JB of 'camping' excursion of JB, Thomas Edison, and Harvey Firestone (Henry Ford was a last-minute cancel).  Signed by JB, TE and HF.  Undated but likely early 1917.  NF

Our Vacation Days of 1918Privately published photo album with text by JB of 'camping' excursion of JB, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone.  Published by Firestone with his card laid in.  NF

Burroughs: Sharp Eyes and Other Papers.  Riverside Literature Series.  Issue date unknown.

A Year in the Fields - 1896.  Compilation of JB essays.  Lengthy handwritten character study of JB by book's photographer Clifton Johnston after the Foreword.  G+

In the Catskills - 1910.  Compilation of JB essays.  Compiled and with photos by Clifton Johnston.  Long handwritten note by JB about how he did not approve the book, pick the essays, or like all of the photos.  F

Bird Stories from Burroughs - 1911.  Later printing.  Plates by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.  VG+

With John Burroughs in Field and Wood - 1969.  Edited, illustrated and with introduction by Elizabeth Burroughs Kelley, JB's granddaughter (see JB Related Materials -1959)) and inscribed by her.  VG in G+ NPCDJ.  

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John Burroughs - Related Materials [Link]

Gilbert White's Selborne - 1895 edition with Introduction by JB and signed by him.

On the Instincts of Solitary Wasps - 1898.  By George + Elizabeth Peckham.  Inscribed to JB.  Contains a 180-word early draft in JB's handwriting of what would become his essay 'Nature's Way.'

The Rolling Earth: Outdoor...Scenes...from...Whitman - 1912.  Forward by JB.  VG

Our Friend John Burroughs - 1914.  By Clara Barrus.  Signed by JB and CB.  VG+ no DJ

John Burroughs, Boy and Man - 1920.  By Clara Barrus.  Signed by JB, inscribed by CB to the Sheas (see Apple Trees, above).  G no DJ

The Seer of Slabsides - 1921.  By Dallas Lore Sharp.  G+ no DJ

Whitman and Burroughs Comrades - 1931.  By Clara Barrus.  Ltd 1st ed of 250 (issued with trade?) owned and annotated by Whitman scholar Charles Feinberg (according to the seller of the book to me). 

Whitman and Burroughs Comrades - 1931.  By Clara Barrus. First trade ed.  Chipped NPCDJ.

[Brochure/booklet]  The Retreat of a Poet Naturalist - 1905.  By Clara Barrus.  Paper covers.  2 copies, one signed by JB.

John Burroughs Talks - 1922.  By Clifton Johnston, recounting conversations with JB.  VG

The Real John Burroughs - 1924.  By William Sloane Kennedy.  Kennedy was friends with JB and Whitman and wrote books on WW as well as Emerson, Ruskin, Holmes, Whittier, etc.  G

The Boys Life of John Burroughs - 1928.  By Dallas Lore Sharp.  G- no DJ

The Slabside Book of John Burroughs - 1931.  By AA Haring.  Inscribed by Haring and signed by JB's son Julian.  G in G NPCDJ

John Burroughs, Naturalist - 1959.  By Elizabeth Burroughs Kelley, JB's granddaughter.  Signed.  NF in VG NPCDJ

John Burroughs' Woodchuck Lodge -1987.  12-page pamphlet written and signed by Elizabeth Burroughs Kelly, JB's granddaughter.  F in stapled wraps.

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John Burroughs - Other [Link]

[Pamphlet] Snapshots of John Burroughs.  Small (4"x5") marketing piece for the Wake Robin Edition of JB's collected works

In Remembrance - Program from JB's funeral

[Portrait of Burroughs]  1915 invitation to Chicago exhibition by artist Grace Gassette, with copy of JB's portrait on the invite.  Gassette was a renowned WWI nurse as well as an artist, and is mentioned in Elizabeth Burroughs Kelley's Woodchuck Lodge (1987 - above).

[Outlook Magazine]  Jan 27, 1915.  Article by AH Pratt about visiting Woodchuck Lodge to get early movie footage of JB.  See White's Selborne (1895 ed) above for more on Pratt.

Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and American Nature Writing -  2000.  From the first 'Sharp Eyes' JB literary conference.  Edited by organizer Charlotte Zoe Walker.  NF no DJ.

Writing the Land: John Burroughs and his Legacy - 2008.  From the 2008 'Sharp Eyes' conference.  Inscribed to conference organizer Walker by multiple participants.

                                                            

[See also Essays from 'The Critic' (1882) [Link], In Praise of Walking [Link], In American Fields and Forests (1909) [Link], Joys of the Road (1911) [Link], The Harriman Alaska Expedition (1901-4) [Link], and American Earth (2008) [Link] in Anthologies, and Roosevelt Memorials [Link] (after Roosevelt's books), all with contributions from JB.] 

 

[See also John Burroughs' America (1951) [Link], a selection of his writings edited by Farida Wiley, in the Reference section.]​

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Buzzacott, Francis H. [Link]

[See his The Complete Camper's Manual (1903) [Link] in the Guidebooks section.]

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Cahn, Robert [Link]

Footprints on the Planet - 1978.  Signed.  Foreword by Jacques Cousteau.  NF in NF NPCDJ

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[See also Horace M. Albright's The Birth of the National Park Service (1985) [Link], which Cahn co-authored.  Cahn is also acknowledged (but not formally credited) with having coordinated and provided editorial direction for An Environmental Agenda for the Future (1985), a collaboration of ten CEOs of national environmental organizations which is Catalogued in Anthologies] 

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Callenbach, Ernest [Link]

Ecotopia - 1975.  First edition, ninth printing.  Paper wraps.  Inscribed.  VG in wrappers.

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Calvin, William H. [Link]

A Brain for All Seasons - 2002.  Signed.  F in F NPCDJ

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Cameron, Kenneth Neill [Link]

Atmospheric Destruction and Human Survival - 1992.  [Pamphlet].  F in stapled wrappers.

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Campbell, Susan

[Environmental journalist who was a co-author with Gaylord Nelson on his book Beyond Earth Day (2002)]

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Canfield [Fischer], Dorothy

[Popular author and important educational and social reformer who wrote the Intro to Rockwell Kent's Wilderness (1920)]

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Carhart, Arthur [Link]

Timber in Your Life - 1954.   Excellent 12-page Introduction by Bernard DeVoto.  NF in NF PCDJ.

The National Forests - 1959.  Four-page Introduction by conservationist Joseph W. Penfold.  VG+ in VG PCDJ

Planning for America's Wildlands - 1961.  Most excellent 6-page Introduction by Howard Zahniser.  VG in paper covers

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​Carrigher, Sally [Link]

Icebound Summer - 1953.  Second printing.  Inscribed.  NF in VG PCDJ

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Carson, Rachel [Link]

Under the Sea-Wind - 1941.  Inscribed to HW Goodall (potentially the WWII hero).  VG in Fair- to Poor NPCDJ

Chincoteague: A National Wildlife Refuge - 1947.  Number one of 12 in the Fish and Wildlife Service's "Conservation in Action" series of pamphlets published during the 1940s and 50s.  18 pages plus cover.  NF in stapled wraps.

The Sea Around Us - 1951.  Rare 1st state - one of <100 copies, rejected by RC due to cover.  From the estate of RC's research assistant (per bookseller Ken Lopez).  All first state points are present.  VG+ in VG+ first state DJ

The Edge of the Sea - 1955.  Signed.  VG to NF in VG+ NPCDJ

Silent Spring - 1962.  Signed.  VG+ in G+ NPCDJ

Silent Spring - Uncorrected proof, with meaningful variations from the published text.  Ring bound in cardstock covers.  VG+ to NF.

Mountains in the Sea -1962.  Children's paperback excerpting a 1958 young readers' edition of The Sea Around Us.

The Rocky Coast -1971.  Advance review copy.  Quarto.  Separate publication of a chapter from The Edge of the Sea, accompanied by extensive photos by Charles Pratt.  VG in VG NPCDJ

The Land - [Magazine]  Autumn 1951.  Article excerpted from The Sea Around Us and positive review of same

St. Nicholas - [Magazine]  July 1922.  Eary RC published work, a short piece on seeking bird nests.  She was aged 15 at the time.

Holiday - [Magazine]  July 1958.  Article entitled "Our Ever-Changing Shore" for issue of mag devoted to beauty of nature.  VG

                                                           

[See also Samuel Scoville Jr.'s Everyday Adventures (1920) [Link] with a gift inscription by a teenage RC; Paul Brooks' 1972 bio of Carson (Brooks was RC's editor at Houghton for Silent Spring); RC's friend Shirley Ann Briggs; Ruth Harrison's Animal Machines (1964) [Link] for which RC wrote the Intro; and American Earth (2008) [Link] in Anthologies]

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Related to Carson

Silent Spring: The View from 1987 - 1987.  By Shirley A. Briggs.  A 20-page pamphlet containing a 9,000+ word Foreword that Briggs wrote for a 25th edition of Silent Spring that was rejected by the publisher for being too pessimistic.  Published by the Rachel Carson Council.  Catalogued under Briggs' name.  VG+ in paper wraps

Courage of the Earth:  Writers...Celebrate the Life and Writings of Rachel Carson - 2007.  Edited with intro by Matthiessen.  Essays by Al Gore, TT Williams, John Hay, Edward O. Wilson, etc.  First/first in paper covers.  Catalogued in Anthologies.  NF

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Carver, George Washington [Link]

[Docs/Photo] - Two handwritten, signed intimate letters to close friend and associate Ford Davis, and a silver gelatin print signed by GWC, plus a Tuskegee Institute Bulletin with GWC's markings.

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Catlin, George [Link]

Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians - 1841.  First edition, first issue.  VG

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[See also American Earth (2008) [Link] in Anthologies]

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Caudill, Henry M.

[See Edward Abbey's Appalachian Wilderness (1970) [Link] re Caudill, an environmentalist from Kentucky who wrote the Epilogue.]

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Chamberlain, Allen

[Former head of the Appalachian Mountain Club and prolific journalist instrumental in passage of legislation allowing federal purchases of forest reserves, which was key to establishing them in the East.  Chamberlain supplied appendices with detailed park info to the 1909 revised edition of John Muir's Our National Parks in the Collection]

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Chamberlain, Montagu [Link]

[See Ernest Thomson Seton's Manitoba (1886) [Link], inscribed to Chamberlain by ETS.  Chamberlain was a Canadian ornithologist, ethnographer and businessperson who was a founder of the American Ornithological Union]

Chapman, Frank [Link]

Bird Studies with a Camera - 1900.  VG+ to NF

My Tropical Air Castle - 1929.  Warmly inscribed.  VG+ to NF no DJ

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Chapple, Steve [Link]

[Prolific author and commentator, particularly on environmental topics.  Co-author with David Brower of Let the Mountains Talk (1995) [Link]]

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Chatwin, Bruce

The Songlines - 1987.  Signed Franklin Library edition.  Unopened in shrink wrap.

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Chisholm, Anne [Link]

Philosophers of the Earth - 1972.  Inscribed to author and activist Jessica Mitford.  NF in a G+ NPCDJ

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Christianson, Gale E. [Link]

Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming - 1999.  Inscribed.  F in F NPCDJ

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Church, Frederick [Artist] [Link]

[Famous Hudson River School artist.  See Home Book of the Picturesque (1852) [Link], with engravings after Church]

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Cleveland, Grover [Link]

Fishing and Shooting Sketches - 1906.  VG+

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[See William Steel's Mountains of California (1890) [Link], about Cleveland's role in protecting the Cascade Mountains in Oregon, and the 1880 Niagara Falls Report in Government Publications about Cleveland's role in establishing the first State Park in the U.S. while he was governor of NY] 

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Cockburn, Alexander [Link]

[See The Fate of the Forest (1989) [Link] below under Susanna Hecht, with whom Cockburn co-authored the book]

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Cohelan, Jeff

[Environmentalist Californian congressperson.  For more see Steward Udall's 1976: Agenda for Tomorrow (1967) [Link], inscribed to Cohelan.]

 

Colby, William [Link]

[See John Muir's Studies in the Sierra (1950) [Link].  Colby was a close friend of Muir's and an important force in the Sierra Club for decades; this book is inscribed by Colby and was published by the Sierra Club in his honor]

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Cole, Thomas [Link]

"Essay on American Scenery" - 1836.  First edition printing in book form (632 pages) of the first six issues (Jan-Jun 1836) of American Monthly Magazine.  Cole's essay was read at an 1835 meeting of the National Academy of Design and published as the first item in the Jan 1836 issue.  Fair

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[Cole is best known as the artist who founded the Hudson River School.  See also Home Book of the Picturesque (1852) [Link], with engravings after Cole]

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Commoner, Barry [Link]

Science and Survival - 1966.  Inscribed.  VG in VG NPCDJ

The Closing Circle - 1971.  Signed.  VG in VG NPCDJ.

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[See also Chisholm's Philosophers of the Earth (1972) [Link] wherein Commoner was one of the subjects] 

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Comstock, Anna Botsford [Link]

Handbook of Nature Study - 1911.  Inscribed.  VG

Trees at Leisure - 1916.  Inscribed to female colleague.  Paper covers.  VG

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Cooper, Isabel

[Close associate of William Beebe [Link] whose plates, created using a method which she invented, illustrate the 1924 and 1928 Beebe books in the Collection.] 

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Cooper, James Fenimore [Link]

[See Home Book of the Picturesque (1852) [Link] in Anthologies, which contains writings by Cooper]

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Cooper, Susan Fenimore [Link]

Rural Hours - 1850.  Authorship credited to "A Lady".  VG+

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[See also Home Book of the Picturesque (1852) [Link] and American Earth (2008) [Link] in Anthologies, both containing Cooper's work]

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Coues, Elliott [Link]

[Prominent early ornithological figure.  See Mabel Osgood Wright's Citizen Bird (1897) [Link] coauthored by Coues, for more on him.  See also Powell's Colorado River (1875) [Link] in Government Publications, with contributions by Coues]

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Cousteau, Captain J.Y.  [Jacques Yves].  [With Frederick Dumas - accents over both e's] [Link]

The Silent World - 1953.  First ed, early printing.  Signed.  NF in VG PCDJ

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[See also Robert Cahn's Footprints on the Planet (1978) [Link], with a one-page Foreword by Cousteau] 

 

Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean de...aka St. John, John Hector [Link]

Letters from an American Farmer - 1782.  First first (UK).  Full calf, two folding maps.  Interesting provenance.​

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Cronau, Rudolf [Link]

Our Wasteful Nation - 1908.  First ed, later printing.  VG

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Cropsey, J.F.

[Jasper Francis Cropsey was a successful Hudson River School artist whose work is contained in Home Book of the Picturesque (1852)]

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Crowe, Thomas Rain [Link]

[See Janisse Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (1999), personally inscribed to Crowe and his partner.  Crowe is a well-known author and poet (among other things)]

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Cruickshank, Helen G. [Link]

[Prominent ornithologist and nature photographer who edited the fourth of five books, on John and WIlliam Bartram, in Devin-Adair's American Naturalist series (1951-61) [Link], which is Catalogued in the Reference section.]

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Crutzen, Paul J. [Link]

[See Atmosphere, Climate and Change (1995) [Link], co-written with and listed under Thomas Graedel].

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Daniel, John [Link]

The Trail Home - 1992.  Stated first.  Signed.  VG+ in NF NPCDJ

Winter Creek - 2002.  Stated first in paper wraps.  Signed.  VG

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​​​​Darwin, Charles [Link]

On the Origin of Species - 1860. Second edition.  [Originally published 1959].  Original binding.  VG+

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Darling, J.N. "Ding" [Link]

Ding's Half Century -1962.  With presentation materials from Max McGraw, a prominent conservationist, laid in.  NF in a VG+ NPCDJ

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Darwin, Erasmus [Link]

Zoonomia (Part II only) - 1797. First American edition.  [Originally pub 1794-6].  Two vols.  Original binding.  VG+

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Davis, Devra [Link]

When Smoke Ran Like Water - 2002.  Second printing.  Inscribed.  NF in a NF NPCDJ

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Deming, Alison Hawthorn [Link]

The Edges of the Civilized World (1998) - Uncorrected proof/advance review copy with publisher's materials laid in.  NF- in paper wraps.

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Devall, Bill and Sessions, George [Link]

Deep Ecology - 1985.  VG+ in VG NPCDJ

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DeVoto, Bernard [Link]

Saturday Evening Post - 7/22/50.  [Magazine].  Influential article opposing proposed Echo Park Dam (see This is Dinosaur (1955 - Anthologies)).  Shrink-wrapped.

The Uneasy Chair - 1955.  Inscribed.  VG in VG- NPCDJ

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[See also Wallace Stegner's Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1954) [Link] with an Intro by DeVoto; Stegner's biography of DeVoto (1974) [Link]; and DeVoto's outstanding 12-page Intro to Arthur Carhart's Timber in Your Life (1954) [Link]]

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Dillard, Annie [Link]

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - 1975.  First UK edition - originally pub 1974.  Signed.  VG in VG NPCDJ

                                                           

[See Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces (1985), from Dillard's library with her ownership signature [Link].  See also American Earth (2008) [Link] in Anthologies]

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Dobie, J. Frank [Link]

The Longhorns - 1941.  Signed.  VG in VG PCDJ

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Doig, Ivan [Link]

This House of Sky (1978).  Stated first.  Inscribed.  NF in VG NPCDJ

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[See also Marc Reisner's Cadillac Desert (1986) [Link], inscribed to Doig]

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Dombeck, Mike [Link]

From Conquest to Conservation: Our Public Lands Legacy - 2003.  Co-written by Christopher Wood and Jack Williams.  First in paper covers.  Inscribed by Dombeck and Wood to prominent environmental attorney James Pipkin.  F in paper covers.

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Donnille, Shawn

[Donnille is an environmental activist and well-known natural living proponent, the founder of Mountain Rose Herbs, a large organic products retailer.  A half-dozen of the books in this Collection came from the 2023 PBA Galleries auction of Donnille's similar collection]

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Douglas, Marjory Stoneman [Link]

The Everglades:  River of Grass - 1947.  First/first with colophon on title page.  VG++ in VG PCDJ

Florida: The Long Frontier - 1967.  Stated first.  Inscribed.  NF in NF PCDJ

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[See also American Earth (2008) [Link] in Anthologies]

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Douglas, William O. [Link]

My Wilderness:  The Pacific West - 1960.  Signed.  VG in VG+ NPCDJ

My Wilderness:  East to Katahdin - 1961.  Early printing?  Signed.  VG+ in G+ NPCDJ

The Three Hundred Year War - 1972.  NF to F in NF NPCDJ

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[See also American Earth (2008) [Link] in Anthologies]

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Drury, Newton B.

[Drury was an important 20th century environmentalist who served in various leadership roles for the Save the Redwoods League for nearly 60 years, and who served as fourth head of the NPS for eleven years and director of the CA State Parks Commission.  Drury's 1951 Foreword opens The Sierra Club Wilderness Handbook (1967) [Link], edited by and Catalogued under David Brower.  See also Henry Fairfield Osborn's pamphlet Save the Redwoods (1920) [Link]]

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Dubkin, Leonard [Link]

The Natural History of a Yard - 1955.  NF in VG+ NPCDJ

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Dubos, Rene [Link]

The Wooing of the Earth (1980).  Signed.  NF in NF NPCDJ

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[See also Chisholm's Philosophers of the Earth (1972) [Link] wherein Dubos was one of the subjects] 

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Dumas, Frederick [Link]

[See Cousteau's Silent World (1953) [Link], coauthored by Dumas, who was a colleague and fellow diver of Cousteau's]

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Duncan, David James

[See The Heart of the Monster (2010) [Link] co-written with and listed under Rick Bass, above.  Duncan is a prominent novelist and essayist] 

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Dunlap, Louise C.

[One of ten CEOs of national environmental organizations - in her case the Environmental Policy Institute - credited with the authorship of An Environmental Agenda for the Future (1985 - Catalogued in Anthologies)]

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Durand, Asher

[Successful Hudson River School artist whose work is contained in Home Book of the Picturesque (1852)]

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Dutcher, William [Link]

[Dutcher was an ornithologist and major force in the movement for bird conservation.  See Transactions of the Linnaean Society (1882-4) [Link] in the Anthologies section, with contribution from Dutcher, for more on him.  Hornaday's Our Vanishing Wild Life (1913) [Link] is dedicated to Dutcher]

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Dutton, Clarence [Link]

[See Dutton's seminal Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District (1882) [Link] in the Government Publications section.  See also John Wesley Powell's 1875 and 1881 reports [Link] in the Government Publications section, both with contributions by Dutton.  See also William Steel's Mountains of Oregon (1890) [Link] about Dutton's role in the protection of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Crater Lakes NP.  See the EC History chapter 1885-90 for more about Dutton]

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Earle, Sylvia [Link]

Sea Change - 1995.  Second printing.  Signed, and also personally inscribed to friends, with the inscription having extensive small drawings of various animals by Earle.  F in a NF NPCDJ

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Eastwood, Alice [Link]

A Handbook of the Trees of California - 1905.  Scarce signed leather-bound presentation binding.  Apparent ownership sig of David Starr Jordan, Sierra Club big and founding president of Stanford.  NF

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[See also McFarland's Roses (1936) [Link], which has an ALS by Eastwood laid in]

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Eckelberry, Don

[Ornithological artist who illustrated, quite beautifully, Richard H. Pough's Audubon Bird Guide: Eastern Land Birds (1946)]

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Edge, Rosalie

[Influential environmentalist and suffragist who established the Emergency Conservation Committee in 1929 and led it until her death in 1962.  The ECC was an important force in the lead into FDR's New Deal conservation measures.  She was considered the most militant conservationist of her time.  Irving Brant was an early ECC leader.  With the help of Richard Pough, Edge created the world's first raptor preserve on Hawk Mountain in PA.  Edge did not write any books and is thus not represented in the Collection (Brant and Pough are), but her name comes up often]

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Ehrlich, Gretel [Link]

The Solace of Open Spaces - 1985.  Signed, with Annie Dillard's ownership sig and bookplate.  VG+ in VG NPCDJ

The Future of Ice - 2004.  From author's library per seller Ken Lopez.  F in F NPCDJ

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Ehrlich, Paul [Link]

The Population Bomb - 1968. Stated first printing. Paper covers. NF for a 50+ yr old cheap paperback.

Eco-Catastrophe - circa 1970.  [Offprint].  Ecology Center Reprint 1 (of 1969 Ramparts mag article) on stapled plain paper.  First thus.  VG

The Machinery of Nature - 1986.  Second printing.  VG+ in VG NPCDJ

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[See also Wilderness: The Edge of Knowledge in Anthologies (1970) [Link] and American Earth (2008) [Link] in Anthologies with contribution from Ehrlich; and Chisholm's Philosophers of the Earth (1972) [Link] wherein Ehrlich was one of the subjects]

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Ehrlich, Paul and Ehrlich, Anne [Link]

One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future - 2004.  Warmly inscribed by both authors to the book's editor.  F in a F NPCDJ 

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Eiseley, Loren [Link]

The Immense Journey - 1957.  VG+ in a G- NPCDJ.

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Elliot, Henry Wood [Link]

Our Arctic Province - 1886.  VG- 

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[See also C. Hart Merriam's Birds of Connecticut (1877), which is inscribed to Elliot [Link]]

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Elliott, William [The Hon. W.M.] [Link]

Carolina Sports by Land and Water - 1867.  First English ed., first published in the US in 1846.  NF

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Emerson, George [Link]

Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts - 1846.  VG+

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[Decades later, Emerson served on an important subcommittee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science along with Franklin Hough.  The subcommittee's work led to the creation of the nation's first federal forestry position.  See Hough (1882)​ [Link]]

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo [Link]

Nature - 1836. 2nd state.  With handwritten ALS by RWE to the publisher.  From Robert Hoe's collection.

 

[See also Oliver Wendell Holmes' bio of Emerson (1885) [Link]; Thoreau's Excursions (1863) [Link] with a long Foreword by Emerson about Thoreau; and Thoreau's Letters to Various Persons (1865) which was edited by Emerson, all in the 'Thoreau and Emerson' Catalogue]

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Evans III, Evan C.

[Physicist and environmentalist who previously owned the Collection's copy of Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth (1956) [Link] in Anthologies]

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Evers, Alf

The Catskills:  From Wilderness to Woodstock - 1972.  Early ed?  Signed.  G+ in Fair- PCDJ

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Facklam, Margery and Howard [Link]

Changes in the Wind - 1986.  Stated first.  A very early climate change book, written for a youth audience.  Inscribed.  F in F NPCDJ

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Farquhar, Francis P. [Link]

History of the Sierra Nevada - 1965.  Inscribed to significant, unheralded environmentalist George E. Brewer Jr.  NF in a NF NPCDJ.

[See also William H. Brewer s Up and Down California in 1860-64 (Catalogued 1860) - which was published in 1930 and edited by Farquhar [Link]]

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Fenn, Harry

[A British artist who was the most prolific contributor to Picturesque America (1872-4)]

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Fernow, B.E. [Bernard] [Link]

[Prominent early forester.  See Fernow's Report Upon the Forestry Investigations of the US Department of Agriculture 1877-98 (1899) [Link] in Government Publications.  See also the Harriman Alaska Expedition report (1901-04) [Link] in Anthologies, to which Fernow contributed.]

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Finch, Robert [Link]

The Primal Place - 1983.  Signed.  NF in a NF PCDJ

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Finley, William Lovell [Link]

American Birds: Photographed and Studied from Life - 1907.  Inscribed first.  NF no DJ

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Firor, John [Link]

The Changing Atmosphere - 1990.  First printing.  Inscribed.  F in a F DJ.

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Fischer, Dorothy Canfield

[See entry for Dorothy Canfield above]

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Fisher, James [Link]

[See Wild America (1955) [Link], co-authored by Fisher and Roger Tory Peterson and Catalogued under the latter's name]

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Fitzpatrick, Tony [Link]

Signals from the Heartland - 1993.  First printing.  Inscribed to conservationist John Bouseman.  F in a F DJ.

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Flagg, Wilson [Link]

Studies in the Fields and Forest - 1857.  VG+

The Woods and By-Ways of New England - 1872.  VG+

The Birds and Seasons of New England - 1875.  VG+

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Flint, Richard ("Dick") [Link]

[Minnesota lawyer and environmental leader.  Sigurd Olson's book The Singing Wilderness (1956) [Link] is inscribed to Flint]

Forbush, Edward H. [Link]

Useful Birds and Their Protection - 1907.  2nd ed.  Inscribed to George Bird Grinnell. VG to NF no DJ

Birds of Massachusetts and other New England States - 1925-9.  Three vols.  Bookplate of Forbush correspondent, with laid-in notes and letters by Forbush, among other items.  VG-VG+

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Foreman, Dave [Link]

Confessions of an Eco-Warrior - 1991.  Inscribed.  F in a F NPCDJ

The Great Conservation Divide - 2014.  Signed.  Paper covers.  F

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[See also Howard Wolke (1991) [Link], with whom Foreman was a cofounder of Earth First!]

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Forester, Frank [Link]

[See William Henry Herbert (1849) [Link] - Frank Forester was Herbert's pen name]

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Fosburgh, Pieter W. [Link]

The Natural Thing: The Land and Its Citizens - 1959.  Inscribed to Fosburgh's mother.  NF in a VG NPCDJ

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Fossey, Dian [Link]

Gorillas in the Mist - 1983.  Uncorrected proof in paper covers with corrections in an unknown hand used in the final publication.  NF.

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Freeman, Otis W. [Link]

[See The Conservation of Northwest Resources (1950) [Link] in Anthologies, co-edited with Margaret Thompson].

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Frick, Childs [Link]

[Frick was a wildlife conservationist, and a paleontologist closely associated with the AMNH.  He was the son of industrialist Henry Clay Frick.  Frick was one of the two people from the American Committee of the International Wildlife Conservation who conceived of the anthology The Pacific World (1944 - Anthologies), which was edited by Fairfield Osborn, and to which Frick contributed.  See also the advance proof of Fairfield Osborn's The Limits of the Earth (1953), inscribed by Osborn to Frick]

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Fryxell, Fritiof [Link]

The Tetons: Interpretations of a Mountain Landscape - 1938.  Inscribed to head of university where Fryxell taught.  VG no DJ

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Fuertes, Louis Agassiz (Artist) [Link]

[Described by the LOC as "the most notable ornithological painter since Audubon."  For books containing illustrations by Fuertes, see Wright [Link] and Coues [Link] (1895 and 1897); Forbush [Link] (1907 and 1928-9); the Harriman Alaska Expedition report in Anthologies (1901-4) [Link]Bird Stories (1911), a compilation of Burroughs essays [Link]; Mershon's The Passenger Pigeon (1907) in Anthologies, and Florence Merriam Bailey's Birds of New Mexico (1928). [Link]]

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Gabrielson, Ira N. [Link]

Wildlife Refuges - 1943.  Signed.  NF+ in a G NPCDJ

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[See also Leonard Hall's Stars Upstream (1958), with a Foreword by Gabrielson]

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Gaede, Marc

[Environmental activist, photographer who worked with Ansel Adams, environmental issues professor, and grandson of Irving Brant, among many other things.  Gaede's photos, along with Adams', illustrate Brant's Adventures in Conservation with Franklin D. Roosevelt (1988 - but Catalogued in 1916-62 section) [Link]]

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Gardner, James T. [Link]

[See the Special Report of the New York State Survey on the Preservation of the Scenery of Niagara Falls (1880) [Link], of which Gardner was the primary author as Director of the Survey, and to which Frederick Law Olmsted was a collaborator and contributor, in Government Publications]

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Gell-Mann, Murray

[Nobel-prize winning theoretical physicist, birdwatcher and nature lover, and overall polymath, whose bookplate graces Irving Brant's Adventures in Conservation with Franklin D. Roosevelt (1988 - but Catalogued in 1916-62 section) [Link]]

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George, Henry [Link]

Our Land and Land Policy - 1871.  First edition booklet in original paper wrappers.  Folding map of California.  VG

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Gerry, Eloise

[Gerry was the first female scientist employed by the Forest Service's Forest Products Laboratory.  Her ownership signature is in two books in the Collection, what appears to be an limited, presentation edition of John of the Mountains (1938) [Link] inscribed by editor Linnie Marsh Wolfe; and Gifford Pinchot's The Training of a Forester (1914) [Link], with a TLS by Pinchot to Gerry laid in.]

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Gessner, David [Link]

A Wild, Rank Place: One Year on Cape Cod - 1997.  Signed.  NF in NF unclipped DJ

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Gibbs, Lois Marie [as told to Murray Levine] [Link]

Love Canal: My Story - 1982.  Inscribed.  NF in VG NPCDJ 

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[See also American Earth (2008) [Link] in Anthologies]

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Gignoux, R.F.

[Regis Francois Gignoux was a successful Hudson River School artist whose work is contained in Home Book of the Picturesque (1852)]

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Gilbert, G.K. [Link]

[Eminent geologist who participated in and contributed to the reports of various surveys undertaken by J.W. Powell, Clarence King, Clarence Dutton, et al, as Catalogued in Government Publications.  He was also a member of the scientific team on the Harriman Alaska Expedition [Link], the report of which is in the Anthology section.  See the EC History chapter 1885-90 for more about Gilbert] 

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Gilder, Richard Watson

[Gilder (1844-1909) was the editor of Century magazine (originally Scribner's Monthly from 1881 until his death.  As such he was among the most influential Americans (to the extent that the 1880s have been referred as "the Gilder Age."  Robert Underwood Johnson succeeded Gilder as Century editor.]

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Gilder, Rosamund

[Prominent theater critic (Tony Award and Guggenheim Fellowship) and daughter of Richard Watson Gilder whose ownership sig and annotation are contained in Robert Underwood Johnson's Remembered Yesterdays (1923)]

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Gilpin, William [Link]

Three Essays:  On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; and On Sketching Landscapes - 1792.  Also bound in is a fourth ed of An Essay on PrintsFrom the private collection of William S. Reese with his bookplate.  Spine nicked in spots but o/w VG+

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Goin, Olive [Link]

World Outside my Door - 1955.  VG in G NPCDJ

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Goldman, Edward A.

[Goldman was an assistant biologist at the US Biological Survey.  See offprint of his essay Conserving our Wild Animals and Birds (1921) [Link] in Government Publications.]

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Goodall, Jane [Link]

Hope for Animals and Their World - 2009.  Inscribed and signed also by coauthors Gail Hudson and Thane Maynard.  F in F NPCDJ

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Gore, Al [Link]

Earth in the Balance - 1992.  Signed.  F in VG- NPCDJ

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[See also Courage for the Earth (2007) [Link] in the Anthology section, to which Gore contributed  and American Earth (2008) [Link], also in Anthologies, with a two-page Intro by Gore]

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Gould, Carol Grant

[See her Remarkable Life of William Beebe (2004) [Link] in the Reference section.]

​

Graedel, Thomas E. and Crutzen, Paul J. [Link]

Atmosphere, Climate and Change - 1995.  Catalogued under Graedel.  Inscribed by Crutzen. F in a F NPCDJ

​​

Graham, Edward H. and Van Dersal, William R. [Link]

Water for America: The Story of Water Conservation - 1956.  Y.A. book.  Inscribed by both authors.  VG in VG NPCDJ

​

Grange, Wallace Byron [Link]

Those of the Forest - 1953.  Inscribed by conservationist Herbert L. Stoddard to ornithologist Alex Sprunt Jr.  G+ in G NPCDJ

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Grant, Madison [Link]

The Rocky Mountain Goat - 1905.  First stand-alone publication.  VG no DJ

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[See also Trail and Camp Fire (1897) [Link] and Hunting and Conservation (1925) [Link] in Anthologies both published by the Boone and Crockett Club, with contributions by Grant.]

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Graves, Henry S. [Link]

[Magazine]  The Forest - 1918.  Graves wrote the entire 6/1/18 issue of The Mentor, an unusual periodical with a relatively limited subscription base which covered one topic per issue.  "Learn One Thing Every Day" was its motto.  G

​

Grinnell, George Bird [Link]

Blackfoot Lodge Tales - 1892.  VG

When Buffalo Ran - 1920.  Zane Grey's copy with name in blind stamp.  VG

​

[See also Edward Forbush's Useful Birds and Their Protection (1907) [Link] inscribed to Grinnell; the Harriman Alaska Expedition (1901-04) [Link] with contributions from Grinnell; and the Boone & Crockett books Trail and Camp Fire (1897) [Link] and Hunting and Conservation (1925) [Link] in the Anthologies section, both edited and with contributions by Grinnell] 

 

Haas, Ernst

[Famed photographer whose work illustrates Edward Abbey's Cactus Country (1973) [Link]]

​

Hagen, Dyhenfurth, von Furer-Haimendorf, Schneider [Link]

Mount Everest - 1963.  First Eng ed.  Ownership sig of George Lowe of the first Trans-Arctic Expedition (See "Fuchs et al" in Anthologies (1955-58)).  NF in VG NPCDJ

​​​

Hair, Jay D.

[One of ten CEOs of national environmental organizations - in his case the National Wildlife Federation - credited with the authorship of An Environmental Agenda for the Future (1985 - Catalogued in Anthologies)]

​​

Hall, Leonard

Stars Upstream: Life along an Ozark River - 1958.  Inscribed.  VG in VG NPCDJ

​

Hallock, Charles [Link]

[Early and influential outdoor magazine publisher and conservationist.  See Camp Life in Florida (1876) [Link] in Anthologies, edited and with contributions by Hallock]

​​

Hamerstrom, Frances [Link]

Strictly for the Chickens - 1980.  Stated first.  Signed.  NF in VG- DJ

My Double Life:  Memoirs of a Naturalist - 1990.  Paperback edition of unknown priority.  Signed.  G+ in paper wraps.

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Hamilton, Alice [Link]

Exploring the Dangerous Trades - 1943.  Stated first.  Inscribed.  NF no DJ.

​

Hancock, Lyn [Roger Tory Peterson] [Link]

Looking for the Wild - 1986.  Signed.  F in F NPCDJ

​

Harriman, E.H. [Edward Henry] [Link]

[See Harriman's Alaska (1901-4) [Link] in Anthologies and John Muir's 39-page memorial volume about the railroad magnate, published after EHH's death in 1911 [Link]]

​​

Harris, Eddy L. [Link]

Mississippi Solo -1988.  Priority to come.  Signed.  F in NF DJ

​

Harrison, Ruth [Link]

Animal Machines - 1964.  Foreword by Rachel Carson.  VG in VG NPCDJ

​

Harte, John [Link]

The Green Fuse: An Ecological Odyssey - 1996.  Inscribed.  F in NF DJ

​

[See also Patient Earth (1971) [Link] in Anthologies co-written and edited by Harte with Robert Socolow]

​

Hartzog Jr., George B. [Link]

Battling for the National Parks - 1988.  Inscribed to Naomi Hunt, important NPS figure.  F in F NPCDJ​

​​

Hawes, Harry Bartow [Link]

Fish and Game: Now or Never - 1935.  Inscribed on frontispiece.  NF+ in a VG+ NPCDJ

​

Hay, John [Catalogued 1963-2000] [Link]

Nature's Year: The Seasons of Cape Cod - 1961.  VG no DJ

The Immortal Wilderness - 1987.  From Peter Matthiessen's library, with his markings.  F in F NPCDJ

A Beginner's Faith in Things Unseen - 1995.  Inscribed to Peter Matthiessen.  F in F NPCDJ

 

[See Courage for the Earth (2007) [Link] in the Anthologies section, with a contribution from Hay]

​

Hayden, Ferdinand V. [Link]

[See Hayden's 1883 USGS report - with its focus on Yellowstone [Link] - in the Government Publication section.  See also Government Publications under JW Powell (1879) [Link] and Clarence King (1880 and 1882) [Link]​, to which Hayden contributed.]

​

Hays, Samuel P. [Link]

[Pioneering environmental historian.  See Hays' The Response to Industrialism (1957) [Link] and Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency (1959) [Link] in Reference section]

​

Heacox, Kim [Link]

Visions of a Wild America: Pioneers of Preservation - 1996.  Inscribed to highly respected ecologist Thomas Lovejoy.  NF in NF DJ.

​

Headley, J.T. [Link]

Adirondack; or Life in the Woods - 1849.  VG+

​

Heat-Moon, William

[Travel writer and historian.  See Heart of the Land (1994) [Link] and the limited-edition chapbook entitled simply "Three Essays" (1993) [Link] published in advance of and promoting Heart of the Land and containing the contributions of Heat-Moon, Terry Tempest Williams and Bill McKibben]

​​​

Hecht, S and Cockburn A. [Link]

The Fate of the Forest - 1989.  Signed by Cockburn.  VG+ in VG NPCDJ

​​

Heinrich, Bernd [Link]

The Geese of Beaver Bog - 2004.  NF in NF NPCDJ

​

Heiskill, Marian Sulzberger 

[NYC-centered environmental activist and organizer.  See Horace M. Albright's Birth of the National Park Service (1985) [Link], inscribed to Heiskill, for more on her]

​​

Herbert, Henry William [Link]

Frank Forester's Field Sports - 1849.  Second printing.  Bookplate of Herbert bibliographer William Van Winkle on fpd.  NF+ to F

​​

Hiaasen, Carl [Link]

Tourist Season - 1986.  First printing.  Hiaasen's first solo novel.  Signed.  NF in a NF NPCDJ

​

[See also Heart of the Land (1994) [Link] in Anthologies, with an original essay by Hiaasen]

​​​

Hickel, Walter J. [Link]

Who Owns America? - 1971.  Inscribed to Fred Hack, founder of the modern Hilton Head and a pioneer in ecologically conscious development.  VG+ in VG NPCDJ

​​

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth [Link]

Out-door Papers - 1863.  VG-

​​

Hill, Julia Butterfly [Link]

The Legacy of Luna - 2000.  Inscribed.  VG in a VG NPCDJ

​

Hines, Bob (Artist)

[One of the most prominent wildlife artists in history.  See Trefethen's Crusade (1961) [Link] entry for more on Hines - the book was inscribed by Stewart Udall to Hines.  Also Matthiessen's Wildlife in America (1959) [Link], Sigurd Olson's Wilderness Days (1972) [Link], and Carson's Edge of the Sea (1955) [Link], all with illustrations by Hines]

​

Hoagland, Edward [Link]

Notes from a Century Before - 1969.  Inscribed.  NF in a NF NPCDJ

The Courage of Turtles - 1970.  Later ed?  Inscribed.  NF in a VG NPCDJ

The Moose on the Wall - 1974.  UK First (not published in the US).  From author's library.  NF in NF NPCDJ

Red Wolves & Black Bears - 1976.  Signed.  NF in NF NPCDJ

​​​

Hogner, Dorothy Childs

Conservation in America - 1958.  Written for teenaged audience.  Inscribed to an acknowledgee..  NF in a VG NPCDJ

​

Hoffman, Carl von

[The anthology The Pacific World (1944 - Anthologies) [Link], edited by Fairfield Osborn, is inscribed to von Hoffman, who was a key contributor.  Von Hoffman was an explorer, photographer and pioneering documentary filmmaker]

​

Holmes, Oliver Wendell [Link]

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1885.  Signed.

​

Holmes, W.H. (William Henry)

[Holmes was an explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, art teacher, scientific illustrator, cartographer, mountain climber, geologist and museum Director and curator.  He was with Hayden (1883) [Link] and Dutton (1882) [Link] in Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon respectively, and contributed significantly to both reports, both Catalogued under Government Publications.  Photos from his illustrations of the Grand Canyon are being posted to the Catalogue entry for Dutton's work.]

​

Hornaday, William [Link]

Our Vanishing Wild Life - 1913.  G+

Wild Life Conservation - 1914.  Inscribed to Gustavus Pope.  Ex Libris Gustavus Pope Sportsman's Library at the Cranbrook Institute of Science.  VG no DJ

[Ephemera] - Three photos of Hornaday's library circa 1896.

Thirty Years War for Wild Life - 1931.  First printing - Congressional Edition.  Inscribed.  VG no DJ

​

[See also John F. Lacey Memorial Volume (1915 - under Lacey) [Link] and American Earth (2008) [Link] in Anthologies, both with contributions by Hornaday]

​

Hough, Franklin B. [Link]

The Elements of Forestry - 1882.  VG+

​

[See also Hough's 1878 Report on Forestry [Link] in Government Publications.]

 

Howe, Katherine L.

[Artist who was a close friend and Fish and Wildlife Service colleague of Racher Carson and Shirley Ann Briggs.  Howe illustrated the FWS "Conservation in Action" pamphlets written by Carson [Link], including the one on Chincoteague NWR (1947) [Link] listed under Carson above.  Per a piece on Howe on rachelcarson.org, Howe went to the Univ of Iowa with Briggs, whom she brought into FWS and introduced to Carson.]

​

Hudson, Gail

[See Jane Goodall's Hope for Animals (2009) [Link] of which Hudson was a co-author.]

​

Humboldt, Alexander von [Link]

Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain - 1811.  4 vols (lacks atlas).  First English Language ed.  Provenance - Stamps of Solicitors Supreme Court Library.  

Travels and Researches of A..v..H:  Being a Condensed Narrative... - 1833.  Sexto decimo.  Edited and annotated by William MacGillivray, a Darwin mentor and author of a "large part" of Audubon's 'Ornithological Biographies'.  VG+

Kosmos -1849.  5 vols.  Published by Bohn.  Consists of the first two of the five original German volumes.  Bound by Townsend in full leather.  Beautiful.

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Hunt, Naomi

[Hunt was an uncelebrated yet important NPS figure.  For more on Hunt see George Hartzog's Battling for the National Parks (1988) [Link], which is inscribed to her]

​

Hutchings, James [Link]

Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California - 1861.  Muir's early boss in Yosemite.  VG+

In the Heart of the Sierras - 1886.  First printing, all points present.  Deluxe binding rebacked preserving original spine.  VG.​

 

Huth, Hans [Link]

[See Huth's Nature and the American (1957) [Link], inscribed to Horace M. Albright, in the Reference section.]

​

Hyde, Philip [Photographer] [Link]

[See Edward Abbey's Slickrock (1971) [Link], with photos by Hyde, for more about the influential photographer and conservationistSee also Elna Bakker's An Island Called California (1971) [Link]; Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall's This is the American Earth (1960); This is Dinosaur (1955 - Anthologies) [Link]; and Wildlands in Our Civilization (1964 - Anthologies) [Link], all with photos by Hyde]

​​

Ickes, Harold L. [Link]

The Autobiography of a Curmudgeon - 1943.  Inscribed to Joaquin M. Elizalde, the Filipino nonvoting representative to the House of Representatives and later the country's first ambassador to the U.S.  VG in G NPCDJ.

​

Irving, Washington [Link]

[See Home Book of the Picturesque (1852) [Link] in Anthologies with contribution by Irving]

​

Jackson, Wes [Link]

Becoming Native to this Place - 1994.  Inscribed.  F in a F DJ

​

[See also American Earth (2008) [Link] in Anthologies]

​​​

Jackson, WIlliam H. (Photographer)

[See Ferdinand Hayden's USGS report (1883) in Government Publications, with photos by Jackson]

​

Jacques, Francis Lee

[American wildlife artist, author and conservationist who illustrated several of Sigurd Olson and William O. Douglas' books - more about him in the Douglas Catalogue entry (1916-62) [Link].  He also illustrated John Burroughs' America (1951) [Link], part of the Devin-Adair naturalist series, Catalogued in the Reference section; and was a contributing illustrator of The Pacific World (1944 - Anthologies) [Link], edited by Fairfield Osborn]

​

James, George Wharton [Link]

The Wonders of the Colorado Desert - 1906.  Two vols.  VG+ in NF DJs.

​

Jefferson, Thomas [Link]

Notes on the State of Virginia - 1801 "First Hot-Pressed Edition." Orig pub 1785.  Folding map and plate.  Rebound to style in calf.  G

​

Johnson, Cathy [Link]

The Nocturnal Naturalist - 1989.  Inscribed to Ann Zwinger with ALS to Zinger from Johnson.  F in NF NPCDJ

​​

Johnson, Clifton

[Nephew of Clara Barrus and friend of John Burroughs who published John Burroughs Talks (1922) [Link] from his contemporaneous notes kept when he was speaking with Burroughs.  He also edited and/or contributed photos to several other Burroughs-related books.  See the John Burroughs Catalogue]

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Johnson, Lyndon Baines

[See Robert Kerr's Land, Wood & Water (1960) [Link] containing a presidential presentation bookplate signed by Johnson, who wrote the three-page Introduction [Link].  See alsAmerican Earth (2008) [Link] in Anthologies]

​​

Johnson, Robert Underwood [Link]

Remembered Yesterdays - 1923.  Signed, with ownership sig and annotation of Rosamund Gilder, prominent theater critic and daughter of long-of Century magazine editor Richard Watson Gilder - Johnson succeeded Gilder in that role.  G no DJ

​

Josselyn, John [Link]

New England Rarities - 1865 limited edition, originally published 1672 (or possibly 1671).  Same edition/publisher as Account, below.  

An Account of Two Voyages to New England - 1865 limited edition, originally published 1674.  Stamp and ownership signature of Justin Winsor, noted Boston librarian, historian and cartographer.  Ex Mass Hist Soc.  VG+

​

Kalm, Peter [Link]

[Early scientifically trained observer of American nature.  See John Bartram's Observations (1751) [Link], the last 15 pages of which is Kalm's piece on Niagara Falls]

​

Kearton, Richard and Cherry [Link]

With Nature and a Camera - 1897.  Inscribed by both to the manager of the publisher.  G++ no DJ

​

Kelley, Elizabeth Burroughs [Link]

[John Burroughs' granddaughter - author and editor.  See JB - both Compilations and Related Materials, above]

​

Kelly, Petra [Link]

Thinking Green - 1994.  Likely first.  From library of P. Matthiessen, who wrote Intro.  F in VG NPCDJ

​

Kellogg, Charles [Link]

Charles Kellogg the Nature Singer:  His Book - 1929.  Signed limited edition.  Laid in is signed note dated 1930 requesting $3.00 if recipient wants to keep the book - sent on spec.  VG+ in a DJ made of an unusual glassine paper of minimally pulped wood - the note is printed on the same material.

​

Kent, Rockwell [Link]

Wilderness:  A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska - Three volumes of the same work (no DJs):

                      1920 - stated First/First.  Inscribed.  VG

                      1920 - later ed.  Inscribed.  G+

                      1970 - Signed limited edition.  In original slipcase.  F

​

Kerr, Robert S. (Senator) [Link]

Land, Wood & Water - 1960.  First ed., early printing.  Bookplate signed by Lyndon Johnson, who wrote the Introduction.  NF in a VG PCDJ.

​​

Kimes, William and Maymie

[Authors of John Muir: A Reading Bibliography (1977) [Link] - see Related Materials in the Muir Catalogue page.  Celebrated Muir scholars and collectors.  The definitive Muir bibliography]

​​

Kimmerer, Robin Wall [Link]

Braiding Sweetgrass - 2013.  Second hardcover edition of 2020, with new Intro.  Signed.  F no DJ as issued.

​

King, Clarence [Link]

Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada - 1872.  First impression.  VG.  Provenance Justin Winsor - librarian, historian and cartographer. 

Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada - 1872.  First edition, early printing.  G-  

 

[See also Government Publications, including King's two USGS reports as head of the Survey (1880 and 1882) [Link].  King also contributed to Powell's Lands of the Arid Region (1879) [Link], also in the Government Publications section.]

​​​

King, Thomas Starr - See entry under "S" for Starr King

​​

Kingsolver, Barbara [Link]

High Tide in Tucson - 1995.  Signed presentation copy of specially bound, limited first edition - this is presentation copy "a".  NF in a NF limited edition slipcover, as issued.

​

[See also Heart of the Land (1994) [Link] and American Earth (2008) [Link] in Anthologies, containing contributions by Kingsolver]

​​​​

Kittredge, William [Link]

Taking Care: Thoughts on Storytelling and Belief - 1999.  Stated first in paper wraps.  From Milkweed's Credo series.  Signed on title page.  Sticker from used bookstore on rear cover, otherwise NF in paper covers.

​

Kneeland, Samuel

[See Kneeland's The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley and of California (1871) [Link] in the Guidebooks section.]

​

Kolbert, Elizabeth [Link]

Field Notes from a Catastrophe - 2006.  Inscribed.  NF+ in F NPCDJ

The Sixth Extinction - 2014.  Signed.  NF+ in a NF+ NPCDJ.

​

Kouba, Leslie

[Wildlife artist who illustrated several of Sigurd Olson's [Link] books.  Two-time federal duck stamp contest winner]

​​​

Krupp, Frederick D.

[One of ten CEOs of national environmental organizations - in his case the Environmental Defense Fund - credited with the authorship of An Environmental Agenda for the Future (1985 - Catalogued in Anthologies)]

​

Krutch, Joseph Wood [Link]

Henry David Thoreau - 1948.  From Eleanor Roosevelt's library with her bookplate and estate sale tag.  VG in G NPCDJ

The Twelve Seasons - 1949.  Signed.  VG in VG NPCDJ

The Desert Year - 1952.  Signed.  VG+ in VG- NPCDJ

If You Don't Mind My Saying So - 1964.  Inscribed.  NF in VG NPCDJ

​​

[See also Eliot Porter's In Wildness is the Preservation of the World (1989) [Link] - Krutch wrote the lengthy Intro]

LaBastille, Anne [Link]

Woodswoman - 1976.  Signed.  First printing.  VG in VG NPCDJ

​

Lacey, John [Link]

Major John F. Lacey Memorial Volume - 1915.  Pub by Iowa Park and Forestry Assoc. with memorial tributes (including one by Hornaday) and selected papers on conservation by this important congressman.  Paper covers.  VG+

 

[See also William Steel's Mountains of Oregon (1890) [Link] about Lacey's role in the creation of Crater Lakes NP]

​

LaDuke, Winona [Link]

Last Standing Woman - 1997.  First printing.  Inscribed.  VG+ in NF DJ.

All Our Relations - 1999.  First edition, early printing.  Inscribed.  VG no DJ.

​

Langford, Nathanial Pitt [Link]

Diary of the [1870] Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone... - 1905.  Self-published?  VG+

​

Lanham, J. Drew [Link]

The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature - 2016.  Stated first.  F in F NPCDJ

​​

Lawick, Hugo van

[Dutch photographer and videographer whose work helped popularize Jane Goodall's [Link] chimpanzee research.  Lawick and Goodall married, had a child, and later divorced.  Lawick's photographs are used to illustrate Peter Matthiessen's Sand Rivers (1981) [Link]]

​

Leopold, Aldo [Link]

Game Survey of the North Central States - 1931.  Inscribed.  G+

Game Managment - 1933.  First edition - first or very early printing.  VG

[Pamphlet] "The Ecological Conscience" - 1947.  Offprint from a Sept 47 Bulletin of the Garden Club of America, publishing an important address which Leopold gave at a Garden Club conservation meeting in Minneapolis in June 47.  Octavo with stapled spine.

A Sand County Almanac - 1949.  Inscribed by daughter Estelle to family friends.  VG+ in G PCDJ

Round River - 1953.  VG+ in VG NPCDJ

​​

Related to Aldo Leopold [Link]

Aldo Leopold:  The Man and His Legacy - 1987.  Content from the 1986 Leopold Centennial Celebration at the Univ of Iowa.  Inscribed by editor Thomas Tanner to Jack Lorenz, an important conservationist who was head of the Izaak Walton League.  Catalogued in Anthologies.  VG- in paper covers.

​​

[See also Curt Meine's 1988 biography of Leopold [Link], catalogued in the Reference section.  See also American Earth (2008) [Link] in Anthologies]

​​

Leopold, A. Starker [Link]

[Son of Aldo, a professor, author, forester, zoologist and conservationist.  See Wildlands in Our Civilization (1964) [Link] in Anthologies, with an essay by ASL; see Bob Marshall's Arctic Wilderness (1956) [Link] with an Intro by ASL; see Chisholm's Philosophers of the Earth (1972) [Link] wherein Starker was one of the subjects]

​

Leopold, Carl [Link]

[Son of Aldo, a professor and plant physiologist.  See Aldo Leopold: The Man and His Legacy (1986) [Link] in Anthologies, to which Carl contributed an essay]

​​

Leopold Bradley, Nina [Link]

[Daughter of Aldo, a conservationist, researcher and writer.  See Aldo Leopold: The Man and His Legacy (1986) [Link] in Anthologies, to which Nina contributed an essay.  She also contributed a "focus essay" to From Conquest to Conservation: Our Public Lands Legacy (2003), co-written by Mike Dombeck, Christopher Wood and Jack Williams, and Catalogued under Dombeck's name]

​​

Leopold Estella [Link]

[Daughter of Aldo, a paleobotanist and conservationist.  Aldo Leopold: The Man and His Legacy (1986) [Link] in Anthologies, to which Estella contributed an essay.  Estella also inscribed the copy of Aldo's A Sand County Almanac (1949) in the Collection]

​​

Leopold, Luna [Link]

[Luna Lepold was a leading U.S. geomorphologist and hydrologist.  He edited Round River (1953), with selections from his father's journals.  See also Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth (1956) [Link] in Anthologies; Chisholm's Philosophers of the Earth (1972) [Link] wherein Luna was one of the subjects; and Aldo Leopold: The Man and His Legacy (1986) [Link] in Anthologies, to which Luna contributed an essay]

​

Levenson, Thomas [Link]

Ice Time - 1989.  Signed.  VG+ in F NPCDJ

​

Lewis & Clark [Link]

The Journals of Lewis & Clark - 1959 Antiquarian Press limited edition.  Seven volumes plus maps in box made to look like an eighth.  Six of the seven volumes still in original glassine wraps.  F

​​

Leydet, Francois

[Prolific author on nature subjects and themes.  Editor of Tomorrow's Wilderness (1963) [Link] in Anthologies]

​

Lincoln, Frederick C. [Link]

[Influential ornithologist who co-authored with John C. Phillips American Waterfowl (1930) [Link], which is listed and Catalogued under Phillips' name]

​

Lindsey, Alton [Link]

Naturalist on Watch - 1983.  Signed.  VG in paper wraps

​​

Little, Charles [Link]

The Dying of the Trees - 1995.  Inscribed.  F in a F NPCDJ

​

[See also Stewardship (1965) [Link], Listed and Catalogued under "Open Space Action Committee," which was co-authored by Little for OSI (then OSAC)]

​

Lorenz, John R. "Jack" [Link]

[Award-winning conservationist and Izaak Walton League head.  See Aldo Leopold: The Man and His Legacy (1987) [Link] in Anthologies, inscribed to Lorenz by the editor, for more on him.  Also, one of ten CEOs of national environmental organizations credited as authors of An Environmental Agenda for the Future (1985 - Catalogued in Anthologies)]

​

Lovejoy, Thomas

[See Kim Heacox' Visions of a Wild America (1996) [Link], inscribed to Lovejoy, for more on the deeply respected and honored conservation biologist, who introduced the term "biological diversity"]

​

Lovelock, James [Link]

Gaia - 1979.  NF in VG+ NPCDJ

The Revenge of Gaia - 2006.  Inscribed.  NF in a NF- NPCDJ

The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning - 2009.  Signed.  F in F NPCDJ

​

Lopez, Barry [Holstun] [Link]

Desert Notes: Reflections in the Eye of a Raven - 1976.  Signed.  NF in NF NPCDJ

Arctic Dreams - 1986.  Inscribed to Peter Matthiessen and from his library.  NF in NF NPCDJ

Crossing Open Ground - 1988.  Signed advance review copy with publisher's materials laid in.  NF in NF NPCDJ

​

[See also contributions in Heart of the Land (1994) [Link], Testimony (1996) [Link], A Road Runs Through It (2006) [Link], and American Earth (2008) [Link] in the Anthologies section; and Ken Lopez Books' Nature Writing: A Catalog [Link], which has a four-page, original introductory essay by Barry Lopez, in the Catalogues section (with References, Guidebooks, Government Publications etc.] 

​​

Lummis, Charles F.

[Prominent journalist, poet, Native American rights activist who took the last known portrait photo of John Burroughs, published in JB's Under the Maples (1921)]

​

Lyon, Thomas [Link]

[See Lyon's This Incomparable Land (1989) [Link] in Reference section.  See also Testimony in Anthologies (1996), with a contribution from Lyon]

​

Lyons, Nick [Link]

[See Rick Bass' Brown Dog of the Yaak (1999) [Link] inscribed to Lyons.  Lyons (1932) was a publisher of primarily outdoor books through Nick Lyons Books and Lyons Press]​​

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