Catalog 177

NY, Atlantic Monthly, (1995). His first full-length novel, after a collection of stories and some small press publications. Alexie won the National Book Award in 2007 for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036578] SOLD

NY, Atlantic Monthly, (1996). Copy No. 84 of 100 numbered copies signed by the author on a tipped-in colophon. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036579] SOLD

Brooklyn, Hanging Loose Press, (1996). A collection of poems and prose poems. This is the trade edition, bound in black cloth. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036580] SOLD

NY, Atlantic Monthly, (2000). A collection of stories, his first since The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, which was the basis for the film Smoke Signals. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket with the New Yorker "20-under-40" label affixed to the front panel -- young writers who were supposed to represent the future of literature and to a large extent did: besides Alexie, the list included David Foster Wallace, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, George Saunders, and others. [#036581] SOLD

NY, Grove Press, (2003). A poignant and comic collection of stories. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036582] SOLD

NY, Grove Press, (2009). A story collection. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036583] SOLD

Tahlequah, Cherokee Bilingual Education Program, 1972-1973. A brief (approximately 16 pages, including illustrations) biography of the world champion archer and inductee of the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame. Signed by Thornton. Uncommon: we found no copies listed in OCLC. A simple, comb-bound production. Near fine. [#036637] $300

Great Falls, Stay Away Joe Publishers, (1953). A later edition of this humorous, and now controversial, book by a white writer about Indian characters and lives. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. [#036584] SOLD

(Colorado Springs), (Dentan-Berkeland), (1967. The first edition (Dentan-Berkeland publisher), inscribed by the author in 1969. Note: with the dust jacket of the later edition (Johnson Publishing) and with a Johnson Publishing promotional flyer laid in: possibly a hybrid used as an advance copy. Also laid in is a signed photographic postcard. A historical novel written by a Native American writer, prior to the so-called Native American renaissance which began with N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn in 1968, and took root through the 1970s and into the 1980s. It has been argued that prior to Momaday's book, there were only nine novels written by Native authors, this being one of them. Fine in a near fine, spine-faded dust jacket. [#036585] $125

(Stillwater), Voyageur Press, (1993). A collection of poems and short fiction by a Chippewa writer. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036587] $85

NY, Vintage, (2019). First Vintage edition, a paperback. Inscribed by the author. The recipient's name has been blacked out (but is still visible). One of the most highly praised novels by a Native American writer in recent years. Fine in wrappers. [#036588] $25

(NY), Dutton, (1996). A supernatural crime thriller, his fourth book, and the winner of an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, which is a multiculturally-focused nonprofit. Other winners have included Tony Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Joy Harjo. Owens' other novels won a bevy of prizes, including the Roman Noir for The Sharpest Sight, France's equivalent of the Edgar Award. He began his writing career as a Steinbeck scholar. This novel is described as "blending the gut-wrenching realism of Robert Stone with the Native American magical vision of Tony Hillerman." Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Scarce signed: Owens died in 2002 at the age of 54. [#036589] $150

(NY), Simon & Schuster, (1999). Her third novel, following Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead. Silko was one of the "first generation" of writers of the Native American Renaissance. Her novel Ceremony has become an enduring classic, part of the canon and a staple on high school and college multicultural reading lists. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036590] $125

Washington, DC, Island Press, (1993). A measured look at the "jobs vs. the environment" discussions of the time. Signed by the author. Also warmly inscribed in a different pen, but likely in the same hand, as Barker's is the only signature. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036519] $350

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1933. An early biography of Bartram, the naturalist, explorer, and writer, with particular attention paid to the influence of Bartram on literature (in America, this means Emerson, Thoreau, Thomas Holley Chivers, and Lafcadio Hearn). Fagin taught English at Johns Hopkins, and this copy is inscribed by the author: "To Professor Gilbert Chinard/ with grateful acknowledgments," in the year of publication. Chinard is also acknowledged in the book's Preface, "for first directing my attention to Bartram." A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a small stain at the front spine fold. Uncommon inscribed, and also in dust jacket. [#036638] $375

Chicago, J.G. Ferguson, (1976). An anthology of 200 years (1776-1976) of American outdoor writing and photography, featuring Bartram, Thoreau, Muir, Burroughs, Hornaday, Faulkner, Rawlings, Leopold, and nearly 100 others. Heavily illustrated with paintings and drawings in addition to photographs. This is the limited edition printed for the Outdoor Writer's Association of America. The colophon indicates this is copy No. 84 of 1000 copies bound in steerhide and with "OWAA" branded on the front cover. This copy is inscribed by the co-editor, Bashline, to Charles Kurault, of CBS's "On the Road" fame, in 1990, after Kurault spoke at the annual OWAA conference. Additionally, there's a letter laid in to Kurault from the Executive Director of OWAA, expressing praise and thanks. Note that the colophon was apparently filled in at the time of presentation, as it has been given the same date (6/29/90) as the letter. The letter also provides the information that, despite the colophon statement, only 105 copies of this edition were created, not 1000. The book also contains a fold-out sheet with the printed signatures of the 21 OWAA Officers and Board of Directors. A landmark collection, extremely scarce, and with a good association. Slight foxing to top of text block and slight shelfwear to the steerhide; still a fine copy, without dust jacket, as issued. [#036591] $1,500

Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, (1945). Boerker studied forestry at Dartmouth and Yale and received a Masters of Science in Forestry from the University of Michigan, going on to work for the U.S. Forest Service in California, Wyoming, and Colorado. This book argues for replacing the concept of "conservation" with "forest restoration for multiple use, with human welfare as the ultimate object." Signed by the author, "Yours, R.H.D. Boerker." Owner name and date (August 1945) written above. Illustrated with photographs. Foxing to endpapers and bump to spine base; a very good copy in a good dust jacket with wear at the spine ends and along the rear flap fold. A scarce, early publication on this subject, produced during wartime. Uncommon in the original edition or in jacket, let alone signed. [#036520] $500

NY, Putnam's, (1973). A book for young readers on both the horrors and the marvels of warrior ants, by the author best known for Buried My Heart at Wounded Knee. Boards slightly rubbed; near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a light stain mid spine. [#036592] $125

Washington, DC, Island Press, (2022). Chapman recreates, by automobile, John Muir's 1867 "thousand mile walk" from Louisville, Kentucky to the Gulf of Mexico, assessing the toll of the previous 150 years on the region's ecosystems. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036523] $250

NY, Little, Brown, (2015). A search for the critically endangered saola, or Asian unicorn. Reminiscent of Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with blurbs by George Schaller (Matthiessen's companion on the snow leopard journey), Bill McKibben, Alan Weisman, and Ali McGraw, among others. [#036524] $175

NY, Franklin Watts, (1994). A volume in the Franklin Watts "Impact" series, this one an introduction to the importance of wetlands, their flora and fauna, their future, and the politics of preservation. Warmly inscribed by the author (to film critic Pauline Kael) in the year of publication. Trace top edge foxing, else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#035491] SOLD

Washington, DC, Island Press, (2008). The effects of humans' land use and energy use on natural resources, the atmosphere, the climate, biodiversity, etc. Inscribed by both authors: "For Tom (and Ed)/ with many thanks, great admiration, and fond memories/ Paul and Anne." An owner signature on the front flyleaf appears to be that of conservationist Thomas Lovejoy. The Ehrlichs had been at the forefront of the intersection of science and philosophy for nearly 50 years when this book was published. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with just a hint of spine fading. [#036552] $300

Washington, DC, Island Press, (2003). Ellis looks at the pending fates of fish, marine mammals, marine birds, turtles, and coral reefs. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Foxing to the edges of the text block; near fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036526] $250

(Little Rock), Arkansas Wildlife Federation Conservation Foundation, (1983). Conservation cartoons, collected from the Arkansas Gazette. Signed by Fisher. The collection has four chapters with the themes of: forest management, environmental contamination, and the skewering of the Army Corps of Engineers and Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, James Watt. Near fine in stapled wrappers. [#036553] $200

Princeton, Princeton University Press, (2019). The quest to save the six rarest butterflies. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with blurbs by Elizabeth Kolbert, David Quammen, and Carl Safina, among others. Lower corners tapped, else fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed. [#036529] $200

NY, Rinehart, (1959). The social, political and ethical questions that were still arising from Darwin's theory, 100 years after its publication. Signed by the author. Near fine in a very good, lightly edge worn and spine-sunned dust jacket. [#036554] $225

NY, Julian Messner, (1963). Soil, forests, waterways, and wildlife: Harrison writes with the hope that "the mistakes of the fathers will never be repeated by their sons and daughters." Illustrated with photographs. Owner name in pencil; near fine in a very good, spine-faded and price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon in jacket. [#036530] $125

NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (2004). The saga of the "presumed extinct" Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and its emblematic place as a species of the "sixth wave" of extinction, currently underway. A beautifully researched and illustrated history of the forces conspiring against the bird's survival and the efforts made to stave off its demise. Inscribed by the author to a long-time ("ancient") friend. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036643] $125

NY, New York Zoological Society, 1913. First edition, published by the New York Zoological Society, and likely published simultaneously with the Scribner edition (both state January 1913 on the copyright page). Hornaday was a zoologist and influential conservationist who advocated for game laws and wildlife protection. This copy has a gift inscription on the front flyleaf, a long chip to page 153, and a 1/4" loss of spine cloth at the crown. A good copy, without dust jacket. Uncommon in the Zoological Society imprint. [#036532] $200

New Haven, Yale University Press, (1914). Lectures delivered before the Forest School of Yale University. Inscribed by the author in October, 1915: "To Mrs M.B. Craig. Out on the firing line in Arizona. With the compliments of the author. W.T. Hornaday." May Belle Craig worked in the office of Arizona's State Game Warden. Another owner name front pastedown; a few spots in the text; moderate wear to the boards and joints; and the top corner of the front pictorial inlay is abraded/missing. Still very good, without dust jacket. An early volume on conservation: Teddy Roosevelt had established the U.S. Forest Service less than a decade earlier, in 1905, a watershed moment in the preservation of the country's natural resources and wilderness. [#036644] $1,200