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Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole, 1969. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); brown cloth, stamped in gilt on spine, in rust red pictorial dustwrapper; green endpapers; x, 13-189pp. Dustwrapper sunned, especially along spine; mild rubbing, extremities creased and chipped. Textblock top edge toned; ownership signature on ffep, else text clean and unmarked. Near Fine in Very Good dustwrapper. A collection of anecdotes, knowledge, and philosophies from John Kulish, a New Hampshire naturalist, hunter, trapper, and frontiersman, and later an outdoor education instructor at Boston University's Sargent Camp. With special emphasis on respect and conservation, Kulish shares stories and facts of the wilderness and its animal residents, from beavers to bobcats.
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Bobcats Before Breakfast
by KULISH, John W. and Aino
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[Broadside] Not Wanted / the Stonewall Jackson Dam / Lewis County, West Virginia
by [ENVIRONMENTALISM - APPALACHIA] UPPER WEST FORK RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
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N.p. [Weston?]: Upper West Fork River Watershet Association, N.d. [ca 1980]. Broadside, 11" x 8-1/2". Photocopied on standard copier bond. Old folds for mailing, else Fine. Broadside/flyer expressing opposition to a major Army Corps of Engineers dam project in Lewis County, in north-central West Virginia. Cites the project's expense, the destruction of farmland and wildlife habitat it will cause, and notes that less expensive, more environmentally sensitive alternatives are available. Despite vocal local opposition, the Stonewall Jackson Dam was completed in 1986, displacing about 1,800 local residents.
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Broadside: Excerpt from The Sky's The Limit: A Defense of the Earth
by NICHOLS, John
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Berkeley: Black Oak Books / Okeanos Press, 1990. First Edition. Broadside, with text and decorative rule letterpress printed in black and green on cream card stock, measuring 15.5cm x 26.75cm (6" x 10.5"). A Fine copy. Attractive broadside printing an excerpt from Nichols's 1990 environmental manifesto The Sky's The Limit, printed on the occasion of a reading at Black Oak Books in Berkeley.
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Excursions. [Ben & Bernarda Shahn's Copy]
by THOREAU, Henry D[avid]; Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. Second Printing. Octavo (18.5cm); forest green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, pebble grain; 319pp. Spine gilt faded, some material chipping and splitting at joints and extremities; boards show rubbing and wear, moderate soiling; corners bumped. Textblock is toned, with foxing and soiling; bindings shaken, cracked hinges throughout; pp.243-262 partially pulled; Ben & Bernarda Shahn ex libris on front pastedown, previous ownership stamp on title page. A Good, readable (if slightly fragile) copy. Excursions contains nine of Thoreau's essays, published after the author's death in 1862. Along with Ralph Waldo Emerson's biographical sketch, this anthology comprises Thoreau's own writings on the natural beauty of Massachusetts, including Walking, A Winter Walk, Autumnal Tints, A Walk to Wachusett, and Night and Moonlight. BAL 20111.
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Fourth Dimension [Issue Seven / Samisdat, Vol. 30, no. 2] [Broadside Proposal Laid in, Signed by Kemp]
by KEMP, P.J., ed
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Richford, VT: Samisdat, 1982. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial staplebound card wrappers printed in blue; 51pp.; illus. Some toning to spine edge, light wear, else Very Good and sound. Printed broadside proposal for the next issue of Fourth Dimension signed by Kamp laid in. Political and environmental 'zine issued by the poetry chapbook publisher "Samisdat." This issue includes a contribution by animal welfare activist Merritt Clifton.
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Fourth Dimension [Issue Eight / Samisdat, Vol. 32, no. 1]
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Richford, VT: Samisdat, 1984. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's buff pictorial staplebound card wrappers printed in red, designed by animal welfare activist Merritt Clifton; 39pp.; illus. Minor biopredation along upper wrapper fore-edge, additional light wear, else Very Good. Political and environmental 'zine issued by the poetry chapbook publisher "Samisdat.
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The Garden at Chatsworth
by CAVENDISH, Deborah (Duchess of Devonshire); Gary Rogers (photog.)
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New York: Viking Studio, 2000. First American Edition. Quarto (27.5cm); green cloth, stamped in gilt, in color pictorial dustwrapper, with illustrated endpapers depicting a map of the grounds; 8-192pp. Dustwrapper has light surface wear; minor bumps to heel/crown of spine; evidence of damping at spine (visible verso only); inner panel price-clipped. Textblock overall clean and solid; tailband slightly frayed; gift inscription on ffep. Near Fine. After the 11th Duke of Devonshire (Andrew Cavendish) inherited the Dukedom, he and wife Hon. Deborah (Mitford) Cavendish set out to restore the grounds and gardens of Chatsworth, the family estate. Read about their trials and successes, as well as a comprehensive history of the family and stately home in this book, with copious color photo-illustrations by Gary Rogers. Incidentally, the Duchess apparently hailed from a famously literary (...among other things) family, being the youngest sister of notable authors Jessica and Nancy Mitford (...among other…
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Georges Bank: Past, Present, and Future of a Maine Environment
by McLEOD, Guy C. and John H. Prescott, eds
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Boulder: Westview Press, [1982]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's green cloth lettered in black; xvi,196pp.; maps and illus. in text. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped, very slight spine lean, else Very Good or better.
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Gone to Sanctuary from the Sins of Confusion. Photographs by John S. Kiewit
by KIEWIT, John S.
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Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1997. First Edition. Quarto. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 254pp; illus. Very fine in crisp, unworn jacket; a near-new copy. One of 1,000 cloth-bound copies in the first printing (there was a simultaneous issue of 3000 softcover copies).
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A History of Gardens and Gardening
by HYAMS, Edward
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New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971. First Edition. Heavy quarto (28.5cm); olive green pictorial cloth, stamped in foil, in white, green, and magenta pictorial dustwrapper; in grey cardboard slipcover; ix, 345pp, 33 colorplates. Text and dustwrapper toned and foxed throughout; soiling, minor edge rolling and creasing to dustwrapper, with bumps and small chip to crown of spine. Slipcover also foxed and toned, with light wear. Overall Very Good. Fans of plants and architecture will appreciate Edward Hymes' comprehensive, worldwide look at the history of the garden, from Stone Age plots carved with ancient tools, to the futuristic landscaping of tomorrow (by 1971 standards). Detailed historical accounts are accompanied by photo- and text-illustrations in color and b/w, plus diagrams and reproductions of blueprints. Illustrations are numbered and indexed for quick reference.
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The Indian As Peacemaker
by POWERS, Mabel (Yehsennohwehs)
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New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1932. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Beige cloth stamped in purple; 223,[1]pp; frontispiece, three plates, and one in-text diagram. Mild rubbing with slight soiling to spine, internally clean and tight: Very Good. Mabel Powers was a white writer and lecturer in western New York state who was adoptd by the Tonawanda Seneca Nation Snipe Clan in 1910. A feminist and pacifist, she advocated for Native American history and culture throughout her career. This work describes the Great Law of Peace, the oral constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy. [62409].
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An Individual Approach to Pollution [cover title]
by KARR, Marilyn and George Antos
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Evanston, IL: Northwestern Students for a Better Environment, n.d. [1971]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original green staplebound pictorial wrappers; unpaged; illus., textblock printed on blue stock. Fine. Typescript note dated 1971 laid in regarding outdated facts on detergents, pp. [6-11]. Duke only in OCLC as of May, 2015.
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Waking Up to Personal & Global Transformation [Inscribed and Signed]
by HARTMANN, Thom
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New York: Harmony Books, 1999. Revised Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; xxii, 314pp. Author inscription to title page. Trivial shelf wear to dust jacket, else a tight, clean, new-appearing copy. Fine. A sociological and anthropological exploration of how to live more sustainably.
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Lebensgefährliche "Lebensmittel". Sind unsere Nahrungsmittel noch Lebensmittel
by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] HERBER-OHLY (pseud. of Murray Bookchin and Götz Ohly)
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Munich: Hanns Georg Müller Verlag, 1953. Octavo (20.75cm); publisher's beige unprinted card wrappers; dustjacket; [6],7-87,[1]pp; text is entirely in German. Trivial wear to spine ends, a few faint creases to front wrapper corners, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is lightly shelfworn, with shallow losses to spine ends, light dust-soil, a few tiny tears and stains, and a short split along lower front flap fold; Very Good+. Attractive copy of the first book by American anarchist and ecologist Murray Bookchin. During the 1950's, Bookchin had close ties to the International Komunisten Deutschlands (IKD), a group of dissident German Marxists based in New York, who published a German-language periodical Dinge der Zeit and Contemporary Issues, its English-language sister publication. "His earliest book, Lebensgefährliche Lebensmittel, published in West Germany in collaboration with Gotz Ohly, was based on a very large article "The Problem of Chemicals in Food," that had been published in Contemporary Issues in…
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The Limits of Environmentalism Without Class: lessons from the ancient forest struggle of the Pacific Northwest
by FOSTER, John Bellamy
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New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 34pp. Complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better.
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Lives of the Hunted. Containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and, in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings
by SETON-THOMPSON, Ernest [aka Ernest Thompson Seton]
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Publisher's pictorial cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 369pp. The expected sunning to the spine, but still a tight, clean, Near Fine copy, with the pictorial elements of the binding clean and unfaded. A collection of anthropomorphic animal stories in Seton's usual vein, a sequel of sorts to his enormously popular Wild Animals I Have Known (1898). Usually found well-worn; this is a genuinely attractive copy.
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Lives of the Hunted. Containing a true account of the doings of five quadrupeds & three birds, and, in elucidation of the same, over 200 drawings
by SETON-THOMPSON, Ernest [aka Ernest Thompson Seton]
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Publisher's pictorial cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 369pp. With expected sunning to the spine, slight forward lean, gentle curve to front board, and minor rubbing: Very Good. A collection of anthropomorphic animal stories in Seton's usual vein, a sequel of sorts to his enormously popular Wild Animals I Have Known (1898). [62405].
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Look At The Sky! [Inscribed]
by SLOANE, Eric
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New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Inscribed by author to former owner on front free end paper; Octavo (23cm); orange cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; map endpapers; dustjacket; 76pp.; Fine copy. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.95) chipping and short tears to the extremities; foxing mostly to rear panel. Very Good or better. "In this unusual and informative book, the main character is an air mass- cP- born in the Northwest, in the cold dry cradle between the Canadian Rockies and the mooist barrier air of the Hudson Bay...showing how it affects the lives of many people it encounters" (from the dustjacket).
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Mt. Huangshan, The Fairyland [Text in Chinese, Japanese, and English]
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Peking: Xin Hua Publication Center, 1995. Second Printing. Square quarto (26cm); plain paper wrappers, in color pictorial dustwrapper w/ gilt; 71pp. Dustwrapper shows moderate toning; mild shelf wear, scratches and rubbing; lower rear edge bumped and chipped towards spine. Interior margins also lightly toned; handling wear, intermittent smudging; rear copyright page has small card w/ English distribution information tipped-in. Overall Very Good. Award-winning photographer Zhu Li presents beautiful Huangshan (Yellow Mountains), an iconic natural wonder (and UNESCO World Heritage Site) in Li's native Anhui province, in eastern China. Each of the range's "Four Merits Without Parallel" (its pines, peaks, clouds, and hot springs) are captured in a variety of unique ways through Li's expert lens; from the dramatic composition of his work, it is clear that our photographer had to demonstrate considerable climbing prowess as well.
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On Chinese Gardens / Shuo Yuan (Text in English and Chinese)
by CONGZHOU, Chen
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Shanghai: Tongji University Press, n.d. [1984]. First Edition. Quarto (26cm); plain paper wrappers in color pictorial dustwrapper; 59pp+106pp+[32 plates], English version bound dos-a-dos with Chinese version, with 32 illustrated plates between. General handling wear, with bumping and rubbing about spine hinges; wrapper toned in patches (English side), edges slightly rolled. Textblock edges also toned, otherwise clean and sound, Very Good or Better overall. Chen Congzhou, a professor at Tongji University, penned this lyrical but informative survey of Chinese garden design and philosophy. He originally wrote the text by hand in brush script, which is provided in the (vertically oriented/right to left) Chinese version of this book, bound dos-a-dos with its English translation. Also includes 32 unnumbered plate illustrations of ancient Chinese garden designs.
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