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  • THE MURAL PROJECT: Photography by Ansel Adams. by [Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984] Wright, Peter, and John Armor.
    [Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984] Wright, Peter, and John Armor.
    THE MURAL PROJECT: Photography by Ansel Adams.

    Edition: First printing.

    Santa Barbara: Reverie Press, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first publication of these striking photographs by Adams - originally commissioned by Harold Ickes for a decorative mural of the Western National Parks, for the Department of the Interior's museum in Washington, DC. Adams made the photographs in 1941-1942, completing a series of 225 signed exhibition prints, but the project was put away during WWII, and never completed. This book includes 85 photographs selected by Wright and Armor - including sections on the Grand Canyon, Indians of the Southwest, Yellowstone, Carlsbad Caverns and more - and accompanied with quotes from the writings and speeches of Theodore Roosevelt. Preface by William Mott, Jr., a past director of the National…

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    Santa Barbara: Reverie Press, 1989. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first publication of these striking photographs by Adams - originally commissioned by Harold Ickes for a decorative mural of the Western National Parks, for the Department of the Interior's museum in Washington, DC. Adams made the photographs in 1941-1942, completing a series of 225 signed exhibition prints, but the project was put away during WWII, and never completed. This book includes 85 photographs selected by Wright and Armor - including sections on the Grand Canyon, Indians of the Southwest, Yellowstone, Carlsbad Caverns and more - and accompanied with quotes from the writings and speeches of Theodore Roosevelt. Preface by William Mott, Jr., a past director of the National Park Service. Introduction by Wright and Armor. Index of the photographs. A beautiful book -large format, printed on heavy glossy stock throughout. 112 pp. ISBN: 1-55824-1620.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 91059
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  • BORDERLINE. by Barr, Nevada.
    Barr, Nevada.
    BORDERLINE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - set in Big Bend Mountain National Park in Texas. SIGNED on the title page. 399 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 9780399155697.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 58327
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  • TRACK OF THE CAT. by Barr, Nevada.
    Barr, Nevada.
    TRACK OF THE CAT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Murder in the Guadalupe mountains of West Texas. The author's second book and her first mystery, introducing park ranger Anna Pigeon. (Barr was a National Parks ranger herself at the time she wrote this book.) SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Anthony and Agatha awards for best first mystery. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-380-721643.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83027
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  • SUPERIOR DEATH. by Barr, Nevada.
    Barr, Nevada.
    SUPERIOR DEATH.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in Isle Royale National Park in the midst of Lake Superior. The author's third book and her second mystery, introducing park ranger Anna Pigeon. (Barr was a National Parks ranger herself at the time she wrote this book.) SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Anthony and Agatha awards for best first mystery. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-399-139168.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)

    Book ID: 74427
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  • TRACK OF THE CAT. by Barr, Nevada.
    Barr, Nevada.
    TRACK OF THE CAT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1993.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Murder in the Guadalupe mountains of West Texas. The author's second book and her first mystery, introducing park ranger Anna Pigeon. (Barr was a National Parks ranger herself at the time she wrote this book.) INSCRIBED on the title page. Winner of the Anthony and Agatha awards for best first mystery. 238 pp. ISBN: 0-380-721643.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)

    Book ID: 74405
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  • ENDANGERED SPECIES. by Barr, Nevada.
    Barr, Nevada.
    ENDANGERED SPECIES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - this one set on Cumberland Island National Seashore off the coast of Georgia. INSCRIBED on the title page. 306 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-399-142460.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 73854
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  • Barr, Nevada.
    LIBERTY FALLING.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Putnam, 1999. dj. Hardcover - An Anna Pigeon mystery, set on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. 321 pp.

    Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket.

    Book ID: 15762
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  • HARD TRUTH. by Barr, Nevada.
    Barr, Nevada.
    HARD TRUTH.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - set in Rocky Mountain National Park, where three girls disappeared during a religious retreat. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-399-152415.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 53921
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  • ENDANGERED SPECIES. by Barr, Nevada.
    Barr, Nevada.
    ENDANGERED SPECIES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Fifth mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - this one set on Cumberland Island National Seashore off the coast of Georgia. SIGNED on the title page. 306 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-399-142460.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 52604
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  • HARD TRUTH. by Barr, Nevada.
    Barr, Nevada.
    HARD TRUTH.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - set in Rocky Mountain National Park, where three girls disappeared during a religious retreat. SIGNED on the title page. 324 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-399-152415.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some annotations on a blank page in the rear of the book)

    Book ID: 41994
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  • BLOOD LURE. by Barr, Nevada.
    Barr, Nevada.
    BLOOD LURE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - set in Glacier National Park. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. Map endpapers.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 39542
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  • Barr, Nevada.
    TRACK OF THE CAT.

    Edition: Paperback.

    New York: Avon, (1994.). Murder in the Guadalupe mountains of West Texas. The author's second book and her first mystery, introducing park ranger Anna Pigeon. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-380-721643.

    Condition: Very good+ (no creases)

    Book ID: 38519
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  • BLOOD LURE. by Barr, Nevada.
    Barr, Nevada.
    BLOOD LURE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Putnam, (2001.). First edition - Mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - set in Glacier National Park. SIGNED on the title page/ 320 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 37987
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  • A MONUMENT TO TREASURE: A Journey through the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument. by Bertram, Debbie and Susan Bloom.
    Bertram, Debbie and Susan Bloom.
    A MONUMENT TO TREASURE: A Journey through the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument.

    Edition: First edition.

    Desert Publications, nd (2005). Hardcover first edition - A boy and his grandfather travel through this Southern California monument (established in 2000) as he explains the traditions of his people, the Cahuilla Indians, who lived in these mountains as well as the geology and plants and creatures who live in the desert. Includes two fold-out pages depicting the life zones of the mountains. Beautifully illustrated in full color by Stuart Funk. Bibliography, large square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-977290808.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated boards, no dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82839
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  • CHRONICLING THE WEST: Thirty Years of Environmental Writing. by Frome, Michael
    Frome, Michael
    CHRONICLING THE WEST: Thirty Years of Environmental Writing.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    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.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 86334
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  • ANTELOPE, BISON, COUGAR: A National Park Wildlife Alphabet Book. by Medley, Steven P.; Daniel San Souci, illustrator.
    Medley, Steven P.; Daniel San Souci, illustrator.
    ANTELOPE, BISON, COUGAR: A National Park Wildlife Alphabet Book.

    Edition: First printing.

    Yosemite National Park, California: Yosemite Association, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A colorfully illustrated book featuring animals found in our National Parks - each letter is illustrated by a full page color paintings by Daniel San Souci and tells which park the animal frequents, as well as giving a bit of general information on their habits. SIGNED by both the author and the illustrator and dated in the year of publication. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 1930238037.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 73259
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  • [Sierra Club) Robbins, Royal; Brower, David; Colby, Will; Hyde, Philip and others.
    SIERRA CLUB BULLETIN, Vol 45, No 9, December 1960.

    Edition: First printing in wrappers.

    Washington, D.C.: The Sierra Club, 1960. First edition - Includes an article on climbing El Capitan by Royal Robbins, a section of photographs on endangered places by Philip Hyde with text by Brower, an article on scenic roads and more. Illustrated with photographs throughout. 92pp.

    Condition: Near fine in printed green wrappers.

    Book ID: 28965
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  • Steele, David M.
    GOING ABROAD OVERLAND: Studies of Places and People in the Far West.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, 1917. Hardcover first edition - Accounts based on three transnational journeys by train from Philadelphia, where the author is the rector of the Church of St Luke and the Epiphany, to the West - among the places described are Lake Tahoe, the Grand Canyon, the Dakotas, Jasper National Park in Canada, Yellowstone, and more. Photographs, fold out map tipped in at back. 197 pp

    Condition: Good in dark red cloth with gilt lettering (some wear to the covers, rear hinge cracked, previous owner's name.

    Book ID: 30438
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