Novato, CA: New World Library, (2016). SIGNED - The story - both geographic and literary - of the history, culture, and changing nature of the 1,100 mile California coastline, from the Oregon border to the international border at Tijuana. A book which has been described as "part history, part travelogue, part love letter." Foreword by Ted Danson. SIGNED on the half title page with the words "Best fishes." An afterword on "the coast is never saved," recommended reading, index. xv, 350 pp. ISBN: 978-1608684403.

New York: Harlan Quist, 1976. First edition - A typically offbeat, but interesting Harlan Quist production- a warning from the whale about what man has done to the planet, other animals and to himself, beautifully illustrated by Jacques Rozier and Monique Gaudriault. Perhaps the final words are even more appropriate now than when they were written: "it may yet be written/Man has killed his planet,/Man has killed himself,/Man no longer exists." While children will enjoy the whimsical paintings, this is not a book just for children. Translated by Susan Singleton. Large square format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-8252-0142x.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1991) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A John Denson mystery, set in Washington state and revolving around the spotted owl controversy -what starts out as a minor marijuana case turns into a majory murder. INSCRIBED and dated on the half title to the noted book collector Larry Owens "from the owl man." 214 pp. ISBN: 0-312851499.

New York: Harper Collins/ HarperOne, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An innovative plan for solving two of our biggest challenges - the failing economy and our devasted environment. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication. Foreword by Robert F, Kennedy Jr. Resource list, notes. 233 pp. ISBN: 0-06-1650757.

Seattle: Seal Press, (1995). SIGNED hardcover first edition - The uncommon hardcover edition of the author's first full-length book - "a beautifully written chronicle of outdoor life. With eloquence and honesty, Legler's work documents a fascinating journey of self-discovery, graphically and intimately exploring the themes of hunting, sexuality, and landscape." INSCRIBED and signed by Legler on the title page "For -- , Many of us share some of the same life stories, best wishes." 193 pp. ISBN: 1-878067702.

New York: Free Press, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A book which explores the effects of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. "From sneaking into factories and dumps around the world to visiting textile workers in Haiti and children mining coltan for cell phones in the Congo, Leonard, named one of Time magazines 100 environmental heroes of 2009, highlights each step of the materials economy and its actual effect on the earth and the people who live near sites like these. [She] shares concrete steps for taking action at the individual and political level that will bring about sustainability, community health, and economic justice." SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with graphs and small drawings. Endnotes, index. xxxiv, 317 pp. ISBN: 978-1439125663.

New York: Harper Collins, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "When the drugs that he takes as part of his chemotherapy transform him from wimp to superhero, sixteen-year-old Fred and his friends plot to rid the town of its most lethal environmental hazard-toxic waste in the water supply." 167 pp. ISBN: 0-06020284X.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1981.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays - stories of memorable encounters with people or nature - a bookwright in remote Wyoming, white buffalo, the disappearance of Niobara River. Illustrated with drawings by Ted Lewin. SIGNED on the half title page. 113 pp. ISBN: 0-684-1681700.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1981.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays - stories of memorable encounters with people or nature - a bookwright in remote Wyoming, white buffalo, the disappearance of Niobara River. SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Ted Lewin. 113 pp. ISBN: 0-684-1681700.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2012). SIGNED - The author's first novel, recipient of The Dana Award for a novel-in-progress. Willa Robbins is a master tracker working to reintroduce the Mexican wolf to the American Southwest. But when Colorado police recruit her to find her own brother, Zeb, a confessed murderer, she is thrown back into the past, surfacing memories of a childhood full of intense love, desperate mistakes, and gentle remorse. SIGNED on the title page. List of resources about the Mexican wolf. 212 pp. ISBN: 978-1582438191.

London: The Viking Press, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, an account of a trip he made in 1983 to Guatemela in search of the quetzal, the bird of life, a bird whose existence in endangered both by loss of habitat and by the civil war raging in Guatemela. A blend of political, social and natural history. Map, selected bibliography, index. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-670-810878.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, an account of a trip he made in 1983 to Guatemela in search of the quetzal, the bird of life, a bird whose existence in endangered both by loss of habitat and by the civil war raging in Guatemela. A blend of political, social and natural history. Map, selected bibliography, index. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-671-52738x.

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.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A "journey into the physical and emotional territory of the American West . . . from the headwaters of the Columbia River to eastern Oregon and to Big Goose Creek, where General Custer's reinforcements camped and went fishing instead of joining the battle at Little Bighorn. [and] through overlooked locations in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oregon -- all of the last best places." Warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page to the noted Oklahoma collector, Larry Owens -"Enjoy the book and someday get to Yellowstone, a park-paradise for anglers." Illustrated with drawings by Glenn Wolff. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-671-792865.

Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An exploration of the separations brought to us by Enlightenment philosophers: of human from nature, of things near and far away, and of the sacred from the mundane. "Moore disguises her philosophical explorations in stories: about vacationing on a tiny island in Alaska [the Pine Island of the title], visiting her father in the hospital, watching grouse perform their mating dance in the desert. Throughout, she shows that, when properly observed, the world is full of opportunities to find hidden connections." SIGNED on the title page. 251 pp. ISBN: 1-571312765.

Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, (1978). Includes papers by Douglas Carter, Malcolm Wells, Dean Manson, Frank Lutz and many others. Illustrated with numerous charts, graphs, drawings and photographs. Biographical sketches of contributors, bibliography (plus a supplemental bibliography dated 1979). ix, 353 pp.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning writer's 20th book, 12th novel. Both sad and funny, this is the story of an aging man, with a bad heart, asthma and more, determined to once again, on his 65th birthday, climb Spoon Mountain with his two grown children. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To -- please always remember that on the top of every mountain there is always another mountain beckoning you to climb higher" with a doodle around his signature, dated in 2013. 223 pp. ISBN: 978-0826352705.

New York: Macmillan, 1932. Hardcover - The emphasis in this book is on the need to restore our forests, where we have "cut lavishly the timber heritage we found here" but not replanted enough. Illustrated with black and white drawings, Includes summary tests. 356 pp.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The story of the struggle to save the Stanislaus, first waged by a small group of whitewater enthusiasts, but later to involve conservationists, economists, state water experts, Congressmen, and also thousands of citizens" - a battle which the conservationists lost, but one which was very influential in the long term. The New Melones dam in 1979 was the last major dam project in California. Frontispiece map. Illustrated with photographs including a section of full color photographs of the wild river. Sources, index. 297 pp. ISBN: 0-520-046056.

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.

New York: Viking, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful book, illustrated with over 100 full color photographs by Eliot Porter, many not previously published in book format, "each highlighting a different element of his lifelong fascination with what he calls the 'jumble and disorder in nature'. The scenes span 35 years and five continents - from the Antarctic ice floe to the American desert to the Icelandic lava field. They feature the wildness - the chaos of mountains and forest regions, plains and deserts, rivers and coastlines." Text by James Gleick. Suggestions for further reading. Large square format. 126 pp. ISBN: 0-670835323.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, 1996. First edition - A courtroom thriller - "ecologists battle industrialists over the re-introduction of wolves to the wild - with deadly results." 350 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. First edition - Includes 28 essays selected and with an introduction by Richard Preston. Series editor, Tim Folger. Includes essays by James Gleick, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Steve Olsen, Michael Perry, Susan Casey, John Seabrook and more. Notes on contributors. xxii, 300 pp. ISBN: 9780618834471.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. SIGNED first edition - Includes 28 essays selected and with an introduction by Richard Preston. Series editor, Tim Folger. Includes essays by James Gleick, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Steve Olsen, Michael Perry and more. SIGNED by Michael Perry at his essay "Health Secrets from the Morgue." Notes on contributors. xxii, 300 pp. ISBN: 9780618834471.

New York: Viking, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of one of the most important firefighting efforts in American history, as wildfires swept across Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana, claiming lives, towns, and mining camps. This also illustrates the larger story of how American bureaucracies, railroads, political scandal, pioneering, and ideas collided with nature. Photographs, notes, sources, index. xiii, 322 pp. ISBN: 0-670899909.

Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, (2017). SIGNED first edition - "Tracing Ramirez's tour of American water sustainable farms - from rice paddies in Cajun Louisiana to a Hawaiian coffee farm to a Boston chocolate factory and beyond - [this book is] an eye-opening account of the under-appreciated environmental threat of water scarcity, a useful cookbook with water-sustainable recipes accompanying each chapter, and a fascinating personal narrative that will teach the reader how they, too, can eat less water." SIGNED on the title page with the words "There is power in the collective." 227 pp plus index of recipes. ISBN: 978-1597090391.