New York: Lothrup, Lee & Shepherd, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the life of a barn owl, born during the heat of a Welsh summer, from his first flight to his first kill to finding his mate, and their perilous journey into the deep Welsh hills in an attempt to survive. Illustrated with full page drawings by Dick Kramer. 159 pp. ISBN: 0-688418147.

New York: Lyons & Burford, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Oregon author's first collection of essays on nature. "Her writing, like that of Annie Dillard or Edward Hoagland, shows us a vast, complex, partly hidden and startling world that has always been right before our eyes. In these twenty elegant and provocative essays, she invites us to travel through the West with her, and often with her family, as she rafts down rapids, hikes through dunes, camps in the desert, and walks along riverbanks." INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late Oklahoma collector, Larry Owens, and dated in the year of publication. xiv, 160 pp. ISBN: 1-558214089.

Helena, MT: Falcon Press, (1996). SIGNED first edition - A naturalist's account of the first year after the introduction of 12 wolves to Yellowstone, an event that was almost 25 years in the planning. A "poignant and beautifully told story of the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park." (author Jean Craighead George). SIGNED on the title page. Double page map. xii, 174 pp. ISBN: 1-560445009.

Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley, (1927). Hardcover first edition - The story of a fox family and its struggle for survival, illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three inserted glossy plates by Charles Livingston Bull. An uncommon title by this prolific author, one of over 100 books, most on nature or poetry; upon his death, the New York Times referred to him as the "blind poet of Hadley". He became blind at the age of 13 from a hunting accident and attended the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston, where he befriended Helen Keller. Includes a note to the reader and an introduction to the red fox by the author. [16] 238 pp.

New York: Viking, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A chronicle of Jerome's year spent building a stone wall on his property in the Massachusetts Berkshires - a task which leaves his mind "as free as a colt turned out to pasture" as he muses on the "grace and beauty found within nature and the possibilities inherent in stillness." 212 pp. ISBN: 0-67080195X.

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1959. Hardcover first edition - Primarily an account of animal life in the Hluhluwe Valley in Natal, in South Africa - including details of hunting, protective coloration, game reserves, bird life, seasons, and more - based on two trips the author took - one in 1935-1937, the other in 1953 and also on his boyhood recollections. Cowles was born in the British colony of Natal in South Africa to American missionary parents, and became known for his research on desert ecology and reptile thermoregulation, as well as one of America's first ecologists and conservationists. Illustrated with a map, photographs and small drawings to the head of each chapter. Errata slip laid in. xiii, 267 pp.

New York: Pantheon, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays which uses "poetic and insightful inspiration to urge the reader to become aware, assess the damage, and begin to heal broken bonds." It opens on Africa's Serengeti Plain and then moves on to the deep woods of Sitka, Yellowston National Park, an eulogy for Edward Abbey and more. 142 pp. ISBN: 0-679432442.

Phoenix, Arizona: Atwell Publishing, (2002). SIGNED first edition - A book by an avid river runner. Cover praise from Josh Laughlin, Stewart Udall (who commented "An excellent and provocative book that uses the Grand Canyon as a mirror to look at all life that lies beyond.") and others. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. Bibliography,i index. 254 pp. index, b&w photos. ISBN: 0-971317100.

Boston: Little Brown, (1967.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Eckert watches the month of May as spring arrives at Oak Lake near the Illinois-Wisconsin border. Illustrated by Karl E. Karalus. 244 pp.

Washington, D.C.: Island Press, (1991.). First edition - A collection of essays about the environment and the movement to protect it by Wallace Stegner, Edward Abbey, Barry Commoner, Anne and Paul Ehrlich, Wendell Berry and others. Notes on the contributors, index. 282 pp. ISBN: 1-55963-1201.

New York: Free Press, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A fascinating account of the struggle to bring justice after an environmental crime at an acid fertilizer plant in Soda Springs, Idaho, that left a young man permanently brain damaged. This precipitated a three-year investigation and trial. Written by Joseph Hilldorfer, the Environmental Protection Agency special agent sent to look into the crime, and by Robert Dugoni, this reads like fiction, but it also explores important issues involved in white collar crime and the reluctance of the government - and the public - to see this as 'real crime.' SIGNED by Dugoni on the title page. Photographs. Endnotes, index. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-743246527.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. Hardcover first edition - An early book by this writer who was one of America's most famous naturalists as well as being influential in the Boy Scout movement. A story of tracking and hunting the great stag, although at the end Yan is not able to kill such a beautiful creature. Illustrated with a colored frontispiece and seven other full-page illustrations, with small decorations or drawings on almost every page. It notes that "the designs for title-page, cover, and general make-up, and also literary revision, were done by Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson." 93 pp. (stated "First Impression. October 12,1899").

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. dj. "A wilderness tale of a deer, his mate, their offspring and two human friends." From their backwoods cabin in the Gunflint range of Northeastern Minnesota, the author and her husband first encountered the starving deer they named Peter, and over the next four years they were able to closely observd him and his mate and descendants, as well as other wild animals of the bush country near the Canadian border. Illustrated with drawings by Adrian Hoover. 210 pp.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, I2009). Hardcover first edition - Foreword by David Suzuki and responses by Richard Branson, Bill McKibben and others. Notes. A small but important book. 167 pp. ISBN: 978-0802118981.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1951. Hardcover first edition - A rather droll - but still serious - examination of the extinction of some species and the threat of extinction faced by others. Illustrated with cartoons by Richard Taylor. Introductory chapter by Stanley Edgar Hyman. Index of species. 158 pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1914. Hardcover first edition - Eleven essays most on mason-bees, including results of his experiments, exchanging the nests, and the tribulation of mason-bees, but also on his cats, red ants, insect psychology and parasites. Fabre, a French naturalist, entomologist, was known for the lively style of his popular books on the lives of insects and is considered by many to be the father of modern entomology. Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. Translator's note. Index. vii, 315 pages, gilt top edge and titles.

London: Century, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book in which this "pioneering voice in modern nature writing" looks at the origins of his love of nature and landscape. In this "nature is rowdy, cosmopolitan and full of hope; and in his absorbing account of bringing a Chiltern wood back to life is a vision of a world where humans are not masters or even stewards of nature but its partner." Illustrated with drawings preceding each chapter. References, index. 186 pp. ISBN: 0-712637206.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - 'A book which describes "all aspects of the kite's life cycle, from breeding and nesting, raising young, and hunting and feeding to the kite's annual return to its winter range in South America'." Illustrated with photographs,most in full-color, maps, etc. Number 25 in The Corrie Herring Hooks series. Includes several appendices, including the common and scientific names of plants and animals mentioned, sightings by state over a decade, and readings and references. 115 pp.,. ISBN: 0-292-751486.

New York: Viking, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Iowa-based author's first book - in it he "sets out here to bridge the everyday and the eternal, using his experience of a familiar prairie river as a starting point for observations about the universe. 'Rivering,' as he calls it, becomes a metaphor for the cosmos and eternal change." (Publishers Weekly) Barry Lopez called this a "wondrous, invigorating, and humane work." vii, 115 pp. ISBN: 0-670824410.

New York & Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - A biologist describes an expedition to Baja California in search of the landscape described in John Steinbeck's Sea of Cortez. He describes the magical landscapes there from a scientist's point of view and explores how his experience on the peninsula helped him recapture the natural curiosity that spurred his career. Notes, references. xiv, 227 pp. ISBN: 0-395576490.

Seattle: Mountaineers Books, (1996). First edition - A collection of essays on the environmental past and future of the Western United States. Like Abbey and Wallace Stegner and other both established and younger writers, Frome refused to quit pointing fingers and naming names until he felt that important environmental concerns were no longer being sloughed off as second-rate issues. This collection offers environmental criticism at its best. These essays, spanning 30 years, are as relevant today as when they were first published. Included are essays on clearcutting, on destruction in the Bitterroots, on loving our National Parks to death, and "Who's Managing the Managers While They Manage the Wolves?" and much more. Reading list, index. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-898864755.

New York: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster, (1997). A book which interweaves personal observation, scientific theory and history as it examines evolution and extinction on islands. Maps by Kris Ellingsen. Notes, bibliography, index, 702 pp. ISBN: 0-684-827123.

New York: Liveright, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book in which "memory, mythology, and obsession collide . . Moses Harvey was the eccentric Newfoundland reverend and amateur naturalist who first photographed the near-mythic giant squid in 1874, draping it over a shower curtain rod to display its magnitude." One review called this is a "deliciously delirious layering of science, biography, history, mystery, linguistics, myth, philosophy, epistemology, adventure, travel . . a truly great essay. Illustrated with small drawings. Sources. xi, Small format. 297 pp. ISBN: 978-0871402837.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1950. Hardcover first edition - The preface by Paul Geroudet notes that "information about these colonies of the Camargue was scanty, unpromising and even misleading, and we were doubtful if the bird could succeed in raising its young in this district. To Etieene Gallet, of Arles, was reserved the privilege of discovering, in lonely and inaccessible regions, the localities where these wild and magnificent creatures assure the future of their race. To him we owe our knowledge of the most intimate details of thier life." Illustrated with 53 wonderful black and white photographs by the author. Includes statistical information on the colonies, bibliograpy. 127 pp.

New York: Random House, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as a "beautifully proportioned mix of personal reminiscence and natural history" this is an intensive study of a single ecosystem. "Hammock" refers to a hardwood grove in Florida's open marshes and pine woods, and Bulow Hammock, north of Daytona, is one of the last stands of these groves on the East Coast, a woodland-marsh where sub-tropical and north-temperate vegetation meet. Conservationists saved it from developers, and it is now a State Park. Bibliography. 170 pp. ISBN: 0-871566761.

New York: Viking, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book by one of the founders of the Sanctuary movement - one which presents "his beliefs and experiences as a former goat raiser, naturalist, activist, and Quaker whose wanderings have led him to many locations in the United States and Latin America. [He] describes the brutality he has witnessed as an activist in the sanctuary movement.. and expounds upon human rights and civil disobedience in the spirit of Henry David Thoreau, Saul Alinsky, and Gandhi." (Library Journal)" Review copy with publisher's material, including a photograph of the author laid in. xi, 237 pp. ISBN: 0-670828467.

New York: Lyons Press, (1997). First edition - An "account of life on the banks of North Carolina's Lower Neuse River, of the people who live there, and of a way of living in step with the rhythms of the natural world that has all but disappeared today - rhythms replete with fill nets, crab pots, fickle winds, and resourceful neighbors." 160 pp. ISBN: 1-55821657X.