New York & London: Century Co, (1928). Hardcover first edition - A collection of ten essays, including an account of her childhood in England in the 1880s, others on animals (one of taking their cat on the train with her daughter). Perhaps most noteworthy are two essays on Yosemite (one on sketching there and the other on Clouds Rest) and another called "Attempting Yellowstone." Ironically, considering the fact that several of these essays are about her life as an artist, this is illustrated with small drawings - decorations - by Katharine E Gray and not Greene herself. 274 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992.). First edition - A rather unexpected account of the author's year long journey in search of himself in Africa, the land of his ancestors. 230 pp.

Hilton Head, SC. 1978. First edition - A look at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina from its history to nature studies, with information on fishing, weather,hotels, travel, planets and much more in between. Numerous ads throughout. Illustrated, maps. 116 pp.

New York: Weinstein Books, (2017). SIGNED first edition - Jack Stalwart and his older brother Max are ordinary kids who become secret agents at night. The second adventure in this new series featuring the two brothers, each set in a different country. SIGNED on the first title page. Illustrated throughout by Brian Williamson. An early reader chapter book. 103 pp. plus preliminary maps and other info. ISBN: 978-1602863613.

New York: Weinstein Books, (2011.). SIGNED first edition - Jack Stalwart is an ordinary kid who becomes a secret agent at night. The 13th adventure in this series, each set in a different country. SIGNED on the half title page. Illustrated throughout by Brian Williamson An early reader chapter book. 121 pp. ISBN: 9781602861510.

New York: Weinstein Books, (2017). SIGNED first edition - Jack Stalwart and his older brother Max are ordinary kids who become secret agents at night. The first adventure in this new series featuring the two brothers, each set in a different country. SIGNED on the first title page. Illustrated throughout by Brian Williamson. An early reader chapter book. 117 pp. plus preliminary maps and other info. ISBN: 978-1602863690.

New York: Weinstein Books, (2011.). SIGNED first edition - Jack Stalwart is an ordinary kid who becomes a secret agent at night. The 14th adventure in this series, each set in a different country. SIGNED on the half title page. Illustrated throughout by Brian Williamson An early reader chapter book. 121 pp. ISBN: 9781602861527.

New York: Weinstein Books, (2009). First edition - Jack Stalwart is an ordinary kid who becomes a secret agent at night. The 11th adventure in this series, each set in a different country. Illustrated throughout by Brian Williamson An early reader chapter book. 108 pp. plus preliminary maps and other info. ISBN: 978-1602860988.

New York: Weinstein Books, (2009). SIGNED first edition - Jack Stalwart is an ordinary kid who becomes a secret agent at night. The 11th adventure in this series, each set in a different country. SIGNED on the half title page. Illustrated throughout by Brian Williamson An early reader chapter book. 108 pp. plus preliminary maps and other info. ISBN: 978-1602860988.

New York: Weinstein Books, (2009). First edition - Jack Stalwart is an ordinary kid who becomes a secret agent at night. The 12th adventure in this series, each set in a different country. Illustrated throughout by Brian Williamson An early reader chapter book. 106 pp. ISBN: 978-1602860995.

New York: Weinstein Books, (2009). SIGNED first edition - Jack Stalwart is an ordinary kid who becomes a secret agent at night. The 12th adventure in this series, each set in a different country. SIGNED on the half title page. Illustrated throughout by Brian Williamson An early reader chapter book. 106 pp. ISBN: 978-1602860995.

New York and San Francisco: A. Roman and Company, 1870. Hardcover - Also 'to the Big Tree Groves - the Natural Caves and Bridges - the Quicksilver Mines of New Almaden and Henriquita - Mount Shasta' and more. Originally published in 1860, this third edition is significantly expanded, revised and updated. Illustrated with wood-engraved frontispiece with tissue guard, two maps and 102 illustrations in text. 292 pp plus 4 pp publisher's advertisements.

Raleigh, NC: Pentland Press, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of memoirs which span the years from 1939 to 1946. When war was declared in England in 1939, the author joined the British Red Cross Society and was posted as a nurse to a London hospital and later is sent to India. INSCRIBED on the title page "To dear --- with happy remembrances. Read and enjoy. Affectionately, Eve." Illustrated with photographs. 134 pp. ISBN: 1571970061.

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.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The new China, where religious pilgrims cross paths with born-again capitalists and uprooted communards, is a chaos of true believers pursuing different, often conflicting, visions of fulfillment. The author and the illustrator, an American newsman and his Taiwanese wife, trail a series of such pilgrims: wandering farmhands, itinerant actors, a qi gong guru, a careerist policeman, a muckraking lawyer, a die-hard revolutionary agitator, a Taiwanese con man, a Tibetan lama, and many more. The result is neither a travelogue nor an analytic set piece, but a moral panorama, lit from within by the divergent hopes of Chinese citizens today." Illustrated by Mei-lang Hsu. 394 pp. ISBN: 0-374-299986.

London and Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited. n.d. (ca 1930) dj. Hardcover - An adventure story for boys "based on adventures taken from life . . . in the state of Sumatra when Mrs Ker and I visited it in the year of the eruption" - that is, the eruption of Krakatoa. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three inserted plates by Frances Ewan. 296 pp.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The diaries of Larkin, a young, properous businessman from St Louis, who travelled to Santa Fe in the hopes of improving his health, edited and annotated by Barbour. with a foreword by Marc Simmons. Larkin travelled to Santa Fe in William Bent's caravan in the fall of 1856, and his diaries of the trip as a "tourist" detail his impressions of Plains Indians & New Mexican life. Includes appendices with newspaper accounts, some of his letters from 1866. Photographs, double page route map, extensive notes, bibliography, index. xvi, 202 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-11830.

New York: Henry Holt, (1991.). First edition - Leo's story of homesteading - first with his girlfriend in 1981 - and then for 10 years with his young son - in a wild and beautiful land. 303 pp.

Berkeley, CA: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1995. First edition - Keepsake No. 41. Focuses on Martineau's comments on America, from the time of her visit in 1834-36 - a visit which made her a strong proponent of immediate abolition of slavery - through and beyond the Civil War. Includes a foreword by Peter Hanff, edited and with an introduction and notes by R. A Burchell, a brief biography of Martineau and a chronology. Although Martineau in an introductory note to her autobiography explained why she wanted all of her letters destroyed and not published, fortunately not all of her correspondents followed this request. Frontispiece portrait. 119 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of some of his journeys around the world with his wife, and then children and grandchildren and even an always barking dog named Barney, by this Pulitzer Prize winning LA Times columnist. INSCRIBED on the half title page "For.... with all good wishes for a good road" and dated in the year of publication. Photographs. 225 pp. ISBN: 0-312-29087X.

New York: Ballantine, (2004). First edition - The author's ode to his adopted country - New Zealand. List of recommended readings, and glossaries of English phrases and Maori words. 252 pp.

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.

San Mateo, CA: Wilmac Press, 1969. First edition - The fourth issue of this "personal journal of California, as it is, as it was, as we hope it will be." Included here are articles on John Steinbeck, on John Steinbeck, on Western Graveyards by Audrey Harris, ; on Mary Beal pioneer botanist of the Mohave by Lucile Wright, on the Chumash Indians by Fred Fertig and more. Reviews of two books - William Bronson's How to Kill a Golden State and Curt Gentry's The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California. Illustrated with photographs. Index to the first four volumes. One of 1100 copies only. 72 pp.

Georgetown, CA: Wilmac Press, 1970. First edition - The fifth issue of this "personal journal of California, as it is, as it was, as we hope it will be." Included here are articles on moving the press from San Mateo to Georgetown in the Sierra foothills, a long remembrance of Randall Henderson (publisher of Desert Magazine, and a contributor to early issues of this journal) , on forest trails and Lassen country and more. Illustrated with photographs and maps. 78 pp. Subscription material laid in.

San Mateo, CA: Wilmac Press, 1968. First edition - The third issue of this "personal journal of California, as it is, as it was, as we hope it will be." Included here are articles on California's Royal Road (El Camino Real) and the mission, Wild Palms of the Desert Southwest by Randall Henderson (publisher of Desert Magazine), Cave of the Sea Lions and more. Illustrated with photographs. One of 1140 copies only. 73 pp. plus colophon.

Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a two week trip to Poland and Rome in 1988, in which Michener met with Lech Walesa, and with Pope John Paul II. Included is the story of "his most haunting experience" as a writer: meeting a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Union whose community took one copy of The Source and pencilled a Russian translation of it into notebooks that were passed to thousands of readers. Introduction by Lech Walesa. vii, 119 pp. ISBN: 0-878579109.

New York: Harper Collins, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED on the half title page with the words "To ---- Great cruising Alaska with you. Make life an adventure! All the best." 184 pp. ISBN: 0-06-165332.

Boynton Beach, FL: Adventures Unlimited, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the half title page with the words "Make life an adventure! All the best." 184 pp. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-9660625-0-7.

New York: Hyperion, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The true of Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the physician stranded at a South Pole research station who diagnosed and treated her own breast cancer until she could be airlifted out several months later. In addition, though, this is a book about the wonders of Antarctica and of the difficulties encountered by the scientists and researchers there. Boldly INSCRIBED on the title by Nielsen. Map, photographs. xvi, 362 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-66845.

Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press, (1998). First edition - Essays, written with "a poet's eye and an explorer's heart" - mostly on Canada, but also ranging into other parts of the "new world" by this award-winning writer. The final essay is a moving meditation on the life and death of a friend. 200 pp. ISBN: 1-551520613.