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ILL WIND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of ecological disaster, set in the near future: an oil tanker has crashed, producing the worst oil spill in history. 383 pp. ISBN: 0-312-857608.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 82625More details Price: $16.50 -
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SAVING WORLDS: A Collection of Original Science Fiction Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Collects 16 original science fiction stories and 4 poems on ecological themes. Among the contributors are Terry Carr, George Zebrowski, Lil and Kris Neville, Tom Disch, Katherine MacLean, Andre Norton, Gary Snyder, Gene Wolfe, Dennis O'Neil, R. A. Lafferty, Barry N. Malzberg, Robert Silverberg and others. SIGNED by TWO authors at their stories: Gene Wolfe at "An Article about Hunting" and Robert Silverberg at "The Wind and the Rain." Introduction by Frank Herbert. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-385054092.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (remainder spray bottom edge) .
Book ID: 71763More details Price: $40.00 -
THE NEW SETTLER INTERVIEWS VOLUME I : Boogie at the Brink.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Condition: SIGNED by the editor, and uncommon thus. Very near fine (a new copy).
Book ID: 30032More details Price: $30.00 -
BIOLOGICAL DATA IN WATER POLLUTION ASSESSMENT: QUANTITATIVE AND STATISTICAL ANALYSES: A Symposium Sponsored by ASTM Committee D-19 on Water, Minneapolis, Minn., 20-21 June 1977.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), (1978.). Hardcover first edition - ASTM Special Technical Publication Number 652. Includes abstracts of each paper, graphs and charts. Index. 184 pp. ISBN: 04-652000-16.
Condition: Near fine in turquoise cloth with silver lettering (stamps on front endpaper and title page)
Book ID: 29449More details Price: $24.00 -
BIOLOGICAL MONITORING OF WATER AND EFFLUENT CONTROL: A Symposium Sponsored by ASTM Committee D-19 on Water, Blacksburg, Va., 2-4 Nov. 1975.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), (1976.). Hardcover first edition - ASTM Special Technical Publication Number 607. Includes abstracts of each paper, photographs, graphs and charts. Index. 246 pp. ISBN: 04-607000-16.
Condition: Very good in blue cloth with silver lettering (stamp on front endpaper, binding slightly off-center following title page, but overall sturdy and clean.)
Book ID: 29448More details Price: $24.00 -
ECOLO/JEST.
Edition: First printing.
Los Angeles: Price Stern Sloan, (1972). First edition - A slim book of cartoons about ecological catastrophe - although published 50 years ago, it is just as funny - or more accurately, not funny - now as it was then. They really are now carrying salmon upstream now to try and save them from extinction. Small square format, unpaginated (48 pp). ISBN: 0-84310192X.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated stapled wrappers.
Book ID: 85022More details Price: $25.00 -
TROPICAL NATURE: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990). Classic work on rain forest ecology. Foreword by Thomas Lovejoy, Illustrated with drawings by Sarah Landry, Includes a beginner's guide to tropical travel, list of further reading. Index. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-684-187108.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69192More details Price: $11.50 -
THE CONSERVATION OF PLANT BIODIVERSITY.
Edition: First thus - a trade paperback.
Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, (1995.). Takes an evolutionary perspective to conservation of plant biodiversity, focusing on the different levels of biological organisation at which conservation is being addressed - the gene, the species and the community - and on three conservation strategies: nature reserves, botanic gardens, and germplasm collections. Illustrated with photographs, maps, and diagrams. References, glossary, index. xi, 299 pp. ISBN: 0-521-467314.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 53960More details Price: $12.00 -
UNION BAY: The Life of a City Marsh.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket (edgewear to dj, large chip on back cover.)
Book ID: 27146More details Price: $12.00 -
THERE'S A HAIR IN MY DIRT!: A Worm's Story.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark, light creasing to dj)
Book ID: 85732More details Price: $17.50 -
WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE, November 1989. Volume XXIV (24), Number 3.
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1989. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on McMurty and Cadillac Larry, the frontier myth on stage, Rolvaag's 'Peder Victorius; ecology, and one by Ann Ronald on the wilderness experience in 'Why Don't They Write About Nevada?' Book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Very near fine in tan printed wrappers (small piece torn from upper edge of first page).
Book ID: 32239More details Price: $10.00 -
WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE, November 1990. Volume XXV (25), Number 3.
Edition: First appearance in print of these works.
Logan, Utah: The Western Literature Association and Utah State University, 1990. First edition - The quarterly journal of the Western Literature Associaton. Includes articles on ecology, John Van Dyke's 'The Desert,' and Dan O'Brien's 'Spirit of the Hills.' Book reviews, advertisements. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Very near fine in tan printed wrappers (small piece torn from upper edge of first page).
Book ID: 32240More details Price: $10.00 -
THE FOREVER HERO: Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior, In Endless Twilight.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1999). SIGNED - Omnibus edition containing the complete trilogy of science fiction adventure novels published as paperback originals in the 1980s: Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior, and In Endless Twilight. Together they form The Forever Hero. "Thousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in millennia discovers an abandoned wasteland inhabited only by a few degenerate or mutated human outcasts." SIGNED on the title page. 748 pp. ISBN: 0-312868383.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (light crease to back cover).
Book ID: 73455More details Price: $25.00 -
I WANT TO BE LEFT BEHIND: Finding Rapture Here on Earth.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Da Capo Press, (2010). First edition - A memoir of growing up "between Baptist endtimers and apocalyptic Greens. The authors childhood in the high Sierra with her forest ranger father led her to embrace the entire natural world, while her Southern Baptist relatives prepared eagerly and busily to leave this world." 275 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 69306More details Price: $18.00 -
CHANGING COMMUNITY: The Graywolf Annual Ten
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original, not issued in hardcover.
St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1993.). First edition - A collection of essays published during the previous year in a variety of periodicals. In addition to the contributors mentioned above, this includes Jane Kramer on the Salman Rushdie; Los Angeles Crip warlord Sanyika Shakur (aka "Monster Kody") on his initiation into gang violence at the age of 11; Jean Harris on women in prison; Vlaclav Havlov on politics and morality, and more. Notes on contributors. 290 pp. ISBN: 1-555972020.
Condition: Near fine in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 33540More details Price: $10.00 -
THE TURQUOISE DRAGON.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Yolla Bolla Press Book - Sierra Club Books, (1985.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Environmental writer's first work of fiction - a mystery "thriller with an ecological twist. George Kilgore a forester living quietly in the foothills of California's rugged Klamath Mountains stumbles into a deadly web of intrigue when he discovers the body of a murdered biologist friend." 230 pp. ISBN: 0-87156-8195.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 39337More details Price: $15.00 -
THE TURQUOISE DRAGON.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
San Francisco: Yolla Bolla Press Book - Sierra Club Books, (1985.). First edition - Environmental writer's first work of fiction - a mystery "thriller with an ecological twist. George Kilgore a forester living quietly in the foothills of California's rugged Klamath Mountains stumbles into a deadly web of intrigue when he discovers the body of a murdered biologist friend." 230 pp. ISBN: 0-87156-7105.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 39540More details Price: $9.00 -
DEEP BLUE HOME: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. First edition - An account of the ocean river and of the creatures dependent on this - a combination of cutting edge science by this documentary film-maker and diver and accounts of her encounters with oceanside and underwater creatures ranging from the Gulf of California in 1980 to Newfoundland, the Galapagos and more. Notes. 245 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 57617More details Price: $15.00 -
DEEP BLUE HOME: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2010. dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the ocean river and of the creatures dependent on this - a combination of cutting edge science by this documentary film-maker and diver and accounts of her encounters with oceanside and underwater creatures ranging from the Gulf of California in 1980 to Newfoundland, the Galapagos and more. Notes. 245 pp. ISBN: 9780618119813.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 57772More details Price: $15.00
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