New York: Harcourt Brace & World, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Berry's first book of essays - written when he was still an almost unknown young writer. The chapter headings (and the topics themselves) are provocative, dealing with environmental, political and social issues - The Tyranny of Charity; The Landscaping of Hell - Strip-Mine Morality in East Kentucky; The Nature Consumers; The Loss of the Future; A Statement Against the War in Vietnam and more. 213 pp.

Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays, some originally radio pieces, which are loosely connected by "the author's attempt to run down a pronghorn antelope. His pursuit-odd, funny, and inspired-is juxtaposed with stories about sibling rivalry, falling in love, and working as a journalist in war-torn countries" - setting range from the American West, to the mountains of Peru, and Cambodia. SIGNED on the title page.130 pp. ISBN: 1582431116.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon hardcover edition of her second collection of poems, third book. This is a 60 poem sequence, inspired by the migration of the monarch butterfly, which "embodies both the strength and the fragility of the natural world." 74 pp. ISBN: 0-807122300.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (1966.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The history of the Smoky Mountains -including that of the "first half billion years" and of the modern era - the creation of the park, the influence of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Rockefellers, hiking, moonshiners and bootleggers, Appalachian ballads and the Appalachian trail. Very warmly and personally INSCRIBED by the author on the half title page (to a Pan Am pilot - one who joined Pan Am in 1930! - with a reference to logging "more than a few hours in the high places over the world" and dated in 1969. Maps by Stephen Kraft. Contains a camping and hiking appendix, bibliography and notes, index. 394 pp. Full color wildflower photographs on the endpapers.

New York: Feiwel & Friends (Macmillan), (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A lovely book honoring the trees of love, peace, compassion, tolerance, honesty and more. SIGNED and dated by the author on the title page. Includes two pages of facts on each tree and a list of state trees and the years they were so designated. Large square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-312-370172.

Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 1994. First edition - Humorous essays on the Canadian character - ranging from glossing over serious problems (a man suffering from deep depression is descibed as 'down in the dumps'), encounters with the wilderness -including a very funny story about the snapping turtle taken in by his family - and more. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-88922-3505.

New York: Hyperion, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the author's love affair with Montauk in the fall, and the people who are drawn to it "...a story of nature, fishing, and great food." vii, 244 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-67698.

New York: Hyperion, (2001). First edition - The story of the author's love affair with Montauk in the fall, and the people who are drawn to it "...a story of nature, fishing, and great food." vii, 244 pp.

New York: HarperCollins, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Twenty-five essays written with 'the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet' on topics as diverse as modern motherhood, property rights, a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, a battle of wills with a two year old and more. Illustrations by Paul Mirocha. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0172916.

New York: HarperCollins, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Twenty-five essays written with 'the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet' on topics as diverse as modern motherhood, property rights, a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, a battle of wills with a two year old and more. Illustrations by Paul Mirocha. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0172916.

New York: HarperCollins, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Twenty-five essays written with 'the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet' on topics as diverse as modern motherhood, property rights, a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, a battle of wills with a two year old and more. Illustrations by Paul Mirocha. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0172916.

New York: HarperCollins, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - Twenty-five essays written with 'the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet' on topics as diverse as modern motherhood, property rights, a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, a battle of wills with a two year old and more. Illustrations by Paul Mirocha. Olive green cloth spine. 273 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0172916.

New York: Harper Collins, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Nicky isn't happy about having to spend the summer with his grandmother in the Wisconsin woods - but "one afternoon, while Nicky is trying to catch their dinner, a raft drifts down the river towards him.The raft has a calming magic about it, affecting both Nicky and the wildlife of the river and woods.Through the raft and the adventures it brings him on, Nicky finds new common ground with his grandmother, a fellow river rat, who encourages him to explore his newfound talent for art." Includes a note from the author/llustrator who talks about how events from his own childhood inspired this book. SIGNED on the half title page. Oblong format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-688139779.

Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (2007.). Hardcover first edition - A lovely book combining light verse by Brad Leithauser with delicate drawings by his brother Mark. Slightly oversize, bound in illustrated boards with a black cloth spine with gilt lettering. Unpaginated. ISBN: 1567923414.

New York: Lothrup, Lee & Shepherd, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Simple poems - and the author/artist's notes on where the plants were found, from Hawaii to the Florida Everglades to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens - are accompanied by gorgeous watercolor paintings. Unpaginated, somewhat oversized format. ISBN: 0-688134254.

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.

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.

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: The Viking Press, (1981.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of a 1979 safari into the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania, with text by Matthiessen and full color photographs by Hugo van Lawick portray the people, the land, and the numerous wild animals of one of the world's last great wilderness areas. with accompanying photographs, chronicling their 1979 safari to the Selous Game Reserve of southern Tanzania. SIGNED by Matthiessen on the title page. Notes. Slightly oversized format, map endpapers. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-670-616966.

Rockville Center, NY: Freshet Press, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - Poems and brief prose pieces inspired by Mendoza's love for fishing and the countryside. Illustrated with photographs by DeWayne Dalrymple, on colored tissue paper foldouts. 96 pp. ISBN: 0-883950294.

New York: Dutton, 1969. dj. Hardcover - A story of nature and a boy set in the Midwest of one hundred and forty years ago; the ally of the fictional boy in the story is the real great Swedish-American naturalist, Thure Kumlein (1819-1888). Winner of the Dutton Animal Book Award in 1969. Illustrated with black and white drawings by John Schoenherr

New York: The Viking Press, 1951. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A unsentimental and detailed story of a baby fawn that is found in a field, who is brought back to the barn to live - and then the farmer and his children have to help him to learn how to eat and run and live as a deer until he is old enough to explore on his own. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To --- who I hear is as crazy about animals as I. With all good wishes" and dated September 17, 1951, in the year of publication. Illustrated with soft bronze tone drawings by Kurt Wiese. 80 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 40 new poems and a few prose poems by this award-winning writer, including 19 which had not previously been published. One review described her as a 'poet of wisdom and generosity' and these poems fit that definition, deceptively simple and lovely and very human, many inspired by Cape Cod, where she lived and wrote. Oliver was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. 63 pp. ISBN: 0-395850827.

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.

New York: Henry Holt, (1998.). First edition - His fourth collection of poems - the final sequence 'Reading Emerson in My Forty-seventh Summer' is a meditation of many of the great themes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, even blending his own language with quotes from Emerson. 86 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-57145.

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Twenty-five years before, the author and husband left their native Connecticut for an abandoned farmhouse in New Brunswick, Canada. This book chronicles their life there in the country they made their own, illustrated with over 75 stunningly beautiful full-color photographs by the author. Printed on heavy glossy stock throughout - a book to savor and enjoy. 143 pp. ISBN: 1-556704607.

Hauppauge, NY: Barron's Educational Series, (2001). Hardcover first edition - An appealing board book, with great pictures of differnt bats in many habitats, in a tall, thin format. A title in Barron's Little Animal Series, tall thin format. ISBN: 0-764153463.