NATURE / Essays from Barbara Bilson Books

Boston: David R. Godine, 1991. Fine in good only dust jacket (see scan: considerably consumed by silverfish, looks like). Beautifully printed--and illustrated by Michael McCurdy (reminiscent of some of Rockwell Kent's black and white illustrations--see scan). Humorous, inciteful essays on farming and environmental issues. Incidentally, the drawing on the silver-fished cover is also shown in the book--undamaged--on page 2 (see… Read more about this item

Boston: Beacon Press, 1994. Near fine (very light edgewear at top of spine) in very good+ dust jacket (some light edgewear). Excerpts from two works each of Austin and Muir, two "nature writers" who knew each other and shaped the course of natural history writing in the western US. Edited and introduced by Ann Zwinger.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Tucson, AZ: El Signo de los Arboles Caidos, 1982. Very good without dust jacket (only defects are some insect damage--small holes--along the top edge of the front cover, and very slight bumping to top corners. You can see both defects in our photograph.) Beautifully printed and given by Powell to friends. Powell, for many years the librarian at UCLA,… Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 1987. Very good (light foxing, mainly on white binding on the spine) in fine dust jacket (about "as new" condition, seems never opened). SIGNED by author on title page. The author, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet and novelist, writes about her experiences living on and hewing out from the woods a farm in New Hampshire. 180 pages.… Read more about this item