E-list # 211

NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, (1964). A memoir by the longtime civil rights activist, including her working in the Truman administration, her first political appointment in NYC, and her role as the only woman on the planning committee organizing the 1963 March on Washington. A blurb by Senator Jacob Javits calls the book a "...demonstration of how long the so-called Negro 'revolution' has been with us and how recently the conscience of the white community has finally awakened to it..." This copy is inscribed by the author: "To Marian Wise/ with deep appreciation/ Anna Arnold Hedgeman." A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a small price sticker on the front flap, shallow edge staining to the rear panel, and a few small chips, most notably at the crown. [#036820] $450

NY, David McKay, (1971). Twombly's first book, in which he serves as editor and introduces each chronological section. Twombly is best known for his work on architecture, specifically his biography of Frank Lloyd Wright, and his position that architecture is influenced by corporate and state policies and embodies class experiences; in effect, that the architectural is the political. At the time of this title's publication, he was teaching "Afro-American" history at CUNY. This copy is inscribed by Twombly to his parents: "To Mom and Dad/ with much thanks for all the love and encouragement over the years. Love, Bob." Dated in the year of publication. Modest foxing to page edges and endpages; a near fine copy in a good, edgeworn dust jacket. [#036821] $550

Mount Rainier, MD, Fund for UFO Research, 1989. The Fund for UFO Research (FURFOR) was founded in 1979 to research UFOs and to secure the release of alleged relevant classified documents held by the U.S. government. Co-author Bruce Maccabee, a U.S. Navy physicist, had been investigating UFOs/UAPS (unidentified aerial phenomena) and the government’s response to them since the late 1960s, and he was later among the first to obtain the FBI's "flying disc file," in 1998. This document, roughly 20 pages, includes the original 25-question questionnaire that was published in Omni magazine in 1987; a 4-page introduction and explanation of format; and the quantitative results of 237 questionnaires of the 450 received. Note that the trick question (asking if the word "trondant" had any special meaning for the respondent) was included (this, prior to the better known 1991-1992 Roper poll that supposedly introduced the word), and that 5% of respondents fell for it. (Budd Hopkins, a designer of the later Roper poll, is mentioned as an investigator on this Omni questionnaire.) No copies found in OCLC. Photocopy, bound with one corner staple. Fine. Contemporary mailing envelope included. [#036822] $300

(NY), Norton, (2023). Safina, who won the John Burroughs Medal for Eye of the Albatross, here tells the story of raising and freeing an orphaned baby screech owl during the pandemic years. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036823] $225

Berkeley, Conari Press, (1996). A portrait of the "writers, artists and muses" of the Beat Generation: this copy is heavily edited by Carolyn Cassady, wife of Neal Cassady, portrayed as "Camille" in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Most all of Cassady's corrections are within the chapter about her: the chapter runs 18 pages, but the final 10 pages are an excerpt from her own book, Off the Road. Her roughly three dozen corrections cover about 8 pages: some corrections are objectively factual, correcting dates or places, but a good number have to do with correcting mischaracterizations, either of Neal or of her own emotional state or motivations. The only comment she makes outside of this chapter is in the introduction: "Hardly any of this applies to Carolyn Cassady - CC." The book is signed by Cassady at the start of her edited chapter; it is also signed by Joyce Johnson (author of Come and Join the Dance and Minor Characters) at her chapter, part of which is an excerpt from Minor Characters -- her book about the women of the Beat generation as Jack Kerouac's girlfriend in the period when On The Road was published. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036824] SOLD

(NY), Dutton, (2008). Bowen, author of the book Thin Ice, about climate change, and director of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies, tackles the suppression of climate science during the George W. Bush administration. Inscribed by the author in 2014. Page signatures darkening at different rates; else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036825] SOLD

Berkeley, North Atlantic Books, (2018). Eisenstein attempts to broaden the scope of the climate challenge, treating climate change as a symptom of our larger disconnect from the natural world and each other. Inscribed by the author, "in gratitude for your service to the living earth." Near fine in wrappers. [#036826] SOLD

Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982. A joint hearing in the House of Representatives before the Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research and Environment and the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Science and Technology. Among the presenters is James Hansen, best known for his appearance before the Senate in 1988 when he clearly stated that there exists a "cause and effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and observed [global] warming." In his testimony here, six years earlier, Hansen states, "...it is become increasingly clear that we should anticipate substantial climate change during the next several decades as a result of man's impact on the composition of the atmosphere." He advocates funding measurements of solar irradiance, trace gases, global cloud properties, heat storage and transport by the ocean, and ice sheet properties." Most all of these projects did become operational but are facing significant cuts in the current administration, including the proposed dismantling of a $368 million, 900-instrument deep-sea observation system that has provided crucial data on ocean systems and climate change. 150 pages. Stapled wrappers; creasing to the rear wrapper; near fine. A very early Congressional hearing on climate change, seven years before Bill McKibben's book The End of Nature, which is widely credited with being the first to bring this issue before a widespread, general audience. [#036827] SOLD

NY, One World, (2020). An anthology of essays (and poetry) by women in the climate movement, compiled by Johnson and Wilkinson after attending a conference where they found that women were under-represented. "The climate crisis is not gender neutral," but rather a "threat multiplier" that will make "existing vulnerabilities and injustices worse." Signed (initialed) by Johnson and Wilkinson on a publisher's bookplate. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A much-reprinted book, uncommon signed in the first printing. [#036828] SOLD

Washington, DC, Environmental Protection Agency, 1983. A report by the Environmental Protection Agency: facts, figures, projections, and a review of possible policy changes make this publication a time capsule of what was known about climate change by the U.S. Government 40+ years ago, and of what is being denied today. "If climate models prove accurate, changes in world climate are likely to occur at an unprecedented rate. All human activities are likely to be in some way affected. Farming, transportation, coastal habitation, and the provision of water supplies are the most obvious....A 2 degree Celsius increase in temperature by (or perhaps well before) the middle of the next century leaves us only a few decades to plan for and cope with a change in habitability in many geographic regions. Changes by the end of the 21st century could be catastrophic taken in the context of today's world. A soberness and sense of urgency should underlie our response to a greenhouse warming." This is an ex-library copy (Watervliet, MI) and bears several internal library stamps and a circulation pocket inside the front cover. Small cover stain; very good in wrappers. Uncommon. [#036829] SOLD

[London], Allen Lane, (2019). The first British edition, signed by the author. This book is Wallace-Wells' extrapolation of his 2017 article for New York magazine, depicting the worst case scenarios of climate change. The American edition carried the subtitle "Life After Warming"; this edition is subtitled "A Story of the Future," which, given that many of the catastrophic changes underway will play out within a single generation, may be the most optimistic phrase in the book. Pages mildly age-toned; near fine in a near fine dust jacket with minor surface soiling. Rare signed, in any first printing. [#036830] $275

NY, Penguin Press, 2020. Seventh printing. Inscribed by Yergin to John Arnold, "with much respect for what you're doing to help shape the energy future." Yergin, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power here tackles our energy future amid a geopolitical landscape that includes Russia and China as well as the Middle East, at a point in time when some portion of the world was still considering addressing climate change. Spine slanted; lower corners bumped; very good in a very good dust jacket with short, closed tears at each upper spine fold. Yergin, one of the most respected commentators in this field, has been writing on politics and energy for 50 years, since the mid-1970s. Very uncommon signed. [#036831] $250

[Melbourne], Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Random House, (2024). The first Australian edition of this dystopian climate thriller, by one of the most highly celebrated novelists in Australia, a four-time winner of the Miles Franklin Award, among many other awards and accolades. He has been named a Living Treasure by the National Trust and received a number of other "lifetime achievement" awards, and his books have received dozens of awards, prizes and nominations. This book was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036832] $350

[Melbourne], Hamish Hamilton/Penguin Random House, (2024). The first Australian edition of his dystopian climate thriller by one of the leading Australian literary authors, this book having been shortlisted for a major literary award for fiction in Australia. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036833] $350

NY, Knopf, 2022. "Americans increasingly write one another off instead of seeking to win one another over." Giridharadas profiles activists who are still doing the work to build coalitions and examines their bridge building strategies. Signed by the author. Slight softening to spine crown; fine in a very near fine dust jacket. An analysis for our polarized times, and uncommon signed. [#036834] $300

London/NY, Verso Books, (2016). Lapham's final book, in which he recounts the recurring follies of "25 years of imperial adventure," culminating "in the sunset swamp of the 2016 election." Lapham was the longtime editor of Harper's magazine, a winner of the National Magazine Award for his columns, and in 2002 the Thomas Paine Journalism Award. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, with very posthumous blurbs by Kurt Vonnegut and George Plimpton. [#036835] $275

NY, One Signal Publishers, (2023). A long look at the for-profit propaganda machine that swallowed and spit out Trump's 2020 election lies for public consumption. Published after Trump's first term as President had ended and before he won his second term, an interregnum wherein it was possible to think Trump's presidency had been an aberration. The book claims that "Fox News paid almost a billion dollars in legal settlements to bury the contents of this book." Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036836] $250

(n.p.), (n.p.), (n.d.). Disch, a prolific Hugo Award-winning author of speculative fiction, had three novels on Pringle's list of the top 100 science fiction novels: he was also a gay man who killed himself in 2008, not long after the death of his partner of 30 years. In 1970, Disch published the story "The Pressure of Time," in Orbit 7; in 1978 the novella "Chanson Perpetuelle" was published in Immortal: Short Novels of the Transhuman Future: both were intended to be part of a "largescale" (Disch's word) novel. Quoting Lee Sandlin from the website waggish.org, in 2010: "Disch spent many years, off and on, working on a kind of successor to 334 called The Pressure of Time. I interviewed him in the mid-1980s and he said the book was 'almost done,' but even though he published several pieces of it (adding up to maybe half the book) it never appeared. I’m hoping the rest of it exists somewhere in his papers..." Based on online descriptions, the extant manuscript exists within the Disch papers at Yale, which holds an Outline/Synopsis, Book I and Book II. Offered here is a photocopy of the same or similar, from the collection of Disch's friend and fellow writer John Crowley: 8 pages of Outline; 2 pages (title page/epigraph); 14 pages of Prologue; Book One, numbered as pages 15-98; Book II is then paginated 119-197. A second Book Two/ Part II begins and runs 62 pages. The typescript ends with a single page of Book Two/ Part III. Nearly 250 pages in all. Note that the title page states: "Portion: 73,000 words/ Estimated length: 140,000 words." Slight edge wear to the early pages, and a handful of pages have a light wave as though from prior dampening; overall the typescript is near fine or better. A "lost" novel by a prolific, and major, science fiction writer, with good provenance coming from his close friend, the award-winning fantasy author Crowley. [#036837] $7,500

NY, Grove Press, (2010). The advance reading copy (marked "uncorrected proof") of this collection of three novellas. An unaccountably uncommon advance copy. With the increasing digitization of the publishing process, physical advance copies (sometimes misleadingly referred to as "galleys") have sporadically and unpredictably become much scarcer than they tended to be in the less-virtual past. Fine in wrappers, with blurbs by Jennifer Egan and Anthony Brandt on the rear panel, and one discernible change to the front cover ("Jim" is centered over "Harrison" here; in the published version the names are flush left). [#036838] $225

NY, Putnam's, (2004). Wright, a journalist, embedded for two months with a Marine battalion during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. His account of the war was first published as a series of articles in Rolling Stone; the book was later adapted into an HBO mini-series. Inscribed by the author: "To James--/ Happy Father's Day./ Evan Wright." Fine in a very near fine dust jacked with a small nick to the rear panel. Scarce signed. Wright committed suicide in 2024. [#036839] $250

Washington, D.C., Handgun Control, Inc., [1980]. An ephemeral broadside printed the month of Lennon's death (based on the wording of the text), and naming Lennon, D.C. cardiologist Michael Halberstam, and housing activist Yolanda Ward, as three of the approximately 8000 handgun deaths in the U.S. in 1980. The broadside is a call to action against the ready availability of handguns. 8-1/2" x 11". Previously folded; sunned; with foxing in the left margin; about very good. Features a photo of Lennon from his "Walls and Bridges" period. No copies found in OCLC. (N.B. - internet estimates give 15,000 as the approximate number of gun homicides in 1980, with another 15,000 suicides by guns, overwhelmingly handguns; apparently such statistics were not as accessible in 1980.) [#036840] $350

[Sherman Oaks], Ninja Press, 1995. Copy No. 121 of 160 copies of this exquisite production of a single, long poem by W.S. Merwin that was inspired by events in the life of Manuel Cordova-Rios that took place deep in the forest at the headwaters of the Amazon River in 1907. From the Ninja Press website: "Printed in hand set Samson Uncial on kakishibu, a persimmon-washed and smoked handmade paper from the Fuji Paper Mills Cooperative in Tokushima, Japan. The accordion-style book may be read in hand, stanza by stanza, or opened entirely to reveal all forty-three, fourteen-line stanzas. Fully extended, the book is fifteen feet long. The image of a river undulates alongside the poem while the setting of the poem itself mirrors the serpentine meanders of the river. The river is printed from photopolymer plates in five colors gradually intermingling one after another. The book’s enclosure is a heavy cream-colored raw flax sheet, handmade at the Center For the Book Papermaking Facility at the University of Iowa. The enclosure is lined with kakishibu on which is printed a map of the world, the first to show the world’s currents, drawn by Athanasius Kircher in 1665. The map is hand-tinted with pencil in five colors echoing the colors of the river. The enclosure is fastened with alum-tawed goat skin and bone. Both book and enclosure are housed in an acrylic slipcase." Signed by Merwin . In addition to the numbered copies, there were 18 lettered copies hors commerce. 47 pages. 3-1/2" by 13-1/4" inches; opens to 15 feet. Fine. [#036841] $2,500

Tuscon, University of Arizona Press, (1974). Her autobiographical second book, following Pima Indian Legends, in which Shaw, whose family converted to Christianity and raised her Presbyterian, here recounts the ways of Pima life. Inscribed by Shaw" "To ___/ Happy Reading! May you learn to read all this soon." Spine-creased; covers rubbed; with minor foxing to the edges of text block. Very good in wrappers. Rare signed. [#036842] SOLD

NY, Viking, (1977). The uncorrected proof copy of her first novel, which combines traditional native storytelling with the Western form of the novel to create a book that embodies what it describes -- the book itself is structured as a healing ceremony. It is considered one of the early and key books of the so-called "Native American Renaissance," and Silko one of the writers who defined that movement. The success of this book, both critically and commercially, helped pave the way for the publishing of later Native American writers such as Louise Erdrich, Linda Hogan and others, and it became a standard text on college campuses in the study of multicultural literature. This copy was apparently damaged by the Postal Service on the way to its reviewer and bears a stamp inside the front cover: "Purchased at USPS Auction." The rear cover is much-smudged and detaching from the top; the front cover has a large corner crease; and the prelims have some residual glue that make one blank page inaccessible. The text of the novel is unharmed. A good copy in wrappers. Scarce. [#036843] SOLD

Berkeley, University of California, 1961. The first volume in the Horace M. Albright Conservation Lectureship series, printing a lecture by Albright himself, "Great American Conservationists." Albright, the second Director of the National Park Service (1929-1933), breaks his tributes into three categories: Early Pioneers, Forest Conservationists, and Leaders in Reclamation and Soil Conservation. A succinct overview, predating the environmental movement of the late 1960s and describing some of the underpinnings of that movement. 30 pages; light tap to upper edge; else fine in stapled wrappers. Scarce. [#036844] $300

NY, Random House, (1960). Winner of the Phi Beta Kappa science writing award, this title is an early study of ecosystems: the rain forest and the sea, and a warning about Man's effect on the biosphere. Inscribed by the author, "with all good wishes." 1961 ownership signature above the inscription, and two owner address stamps to the prelims and endpages. Ink splattered lower boards; a very good copy in a good dust jacket with one ink spot and fragile folds. An obituary of Marston [1974] is laid in: he is remembered as an "internationally famous author of popular books" and "an early leader in the ecology movement." [#036845] SOLD

Boston, Poet Lore Company, 1905. Inscribed by Clara Barrus to John Burroughs and also signed by Burroughs. A 30-page chapbook by Barrus, who, after writing to Burroughs in 1901 became, for two decades, his friend, secretary, traveling companion, (presumed mistress), biographer and literary executor. This early volume in their acquaintance set out to define Burroughs as a "poet naturalist," placing him first in the line of Gilbert White and Thoreau, and then in the line of Emerson and Whitman; it also tells how Barrus came to Burroughs' "Slabsides" cabin and of time spent there with him. This copy is inscribed by Barrus: "To John Burroughs, A souvenir of the day on which his just found warmth & light shelter in the dear Retreat. Clara Barrus/ January 13, 1905." Beneath the inscription, Barrus has added a quote from Whitman: "However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us we are permitted to retain it but a little while." The volume is later signed by John Burroughs on Sept 7, 1908 [?]." Apparently Burroughs signed it before gifting it, as the volume then had a treasured and documented afterlife: the front cover now reads: "Souvenir given by the poet naturalist John Burroughs/ West Park NY/ to R. Howard Wallace/ Morristown NY/ and left by him to his granddaughter Jessie M. Wallace/ Morristown NY." There is an additional note on the rear cover naming the friend who provided the "letters here enclosed," although no letters are enclosed: there are however notes on Barrus and Burroughs in an unknown hand; a printout of a 1919 Barrus letter; an obituary of Burroughs from Normal Instructor and Primary Plans; a newspaper photo of Burroughs at Riverby at age 81; and another photo of Burroughs ("At the Study Door") taken from A Year in the Fields. One line underlined on page 27; text block detached from covers; a good copy in wrappers. Barrus's first book about Burroughs, and a historic association copy. [#036846] $1,500

NY, Morrow, 1957. A biography of John Burroughs: apparently the first not written by a contemporary (Clara Barrus, Dallas Lore Sharp), but compiled using the words of Burroughs and Barrus as well as the recollections of Burroughs' son and grandchildren. With a foreword by Elizabeth Burroughs (who would later write her own works about her grandfather), and with a large number of striking illustrations by Lynd Ward: this copy is signed by Ward. Fine in a bright, near fine dust jacket but for some restoration to the spine extremities that is primarily evident on the verso. Uncommon signed by Ward, famous for his wordless woodcut novels and as founder of Equinox Cooperative Press: the Lynd Ward Prize is given annually in recognition of the best graphic novel or comic book, either fiction or nonfiction. [#036847] $750

Boston, Little Brown, (1965). Douglas, a Supreme Court Justice from 1939-1975, inventories the country's natural resources and advocates for their preservation via a Wilderness Bill of Rights to be administered by an Office of Conservation. In a 1972 dissenting opinion, Douglas would argue for a federal rule that would allow legal standing for "inanimate objects" such as "valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life." This copy is inscribed by Douglas to Victoria Pearl Fort. Douglas was perhaps the most environmentally conscious and active Supreme Court justice ever: in 1962, he was awarded the National Audubon Society's highest honor, the Audubon Medal; he wrote a glowing review of Rachel Carson's landmark book, Silent Spring, which was included as an offprint with all copies of that book sold by Book of the Month Club; he was active in campaigns to preserve Washington's North Cascades, the Alaskan Arctic, Wyoming's Wind River region, and the Allagash waterways of Maine, among other environmental projects. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a small chip at the upper edge of the rear panel. One of his more uncommon titles -- and a key one, given his legal stature and historical postures on ecological matters -- and scarce signed. [#036848] SOLD

(London), Laurence King, (2018). In a striking work of cultural botany, Drori explores the diverse roles of specific tree species in the lives of humans (and our role in their lives). Profusely and beautifully illustrated by Lucille Clerc. Signed by Drori. One of the most striking additions to the recent literature of trees, which has been flourishing in the past decade or so, from Peter Wohlleben's The Hidden Life of Trees to Richard Powers' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Overstory to Suzanne Simard's Finding the Mother Tree, among many others. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036849] SOLD

Portland, (Timber Press), (2021). An impressive journey of 10,000+ miles by bicycle, from Mexico to Canada and back, following the monarch butterfly migration from March to November, 2017. Signed by the author on a publisher's bookplate and including a signed watercolor print by the author depicting her on her journey: Dykman packed a watercolor set on her bike along with her essential gear, and she gave out watercolors to those who aided her along the way. The 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" print is fine; the book is fine in a fine dust jacket. Although monarchs have established themselves elsewhere, their migration is imperiled by habitat destruction, a threat Dykman refers to as "the extinction of a phenomenon." [#036850] $375

NY, Julian Messner, (1963). A history of, and warning against, environmental destruction. 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. Bookplate front pastedown; fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. Uncommon in jacket. [#036851] $125

Washington, DC, W.F. Roberts, 1933. A thin (19 page) hardbound volume collecting two addresses that had been published in separate publications in 1926 and 1928; the earlier has been revised for publication here. Inscribed by Merriam in the year of publication to Robert G. Sproul, President of the University of California. where Merriam was on the faculty before becoming President of the Carnegie Institute, where he worked to develop the educational mission of the national parks. Sproul's bookplate front pastedown; a near fine copy in soft boards, without jacket, as issued. A wonderful association copy, linking key figures in education and conservation. [#036852] SOLD

NY, Knopf, 1945. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, and the first full-length biography of the conservationist and co-founder of the Sierra Club. Inscribed by Wolfe with a quote by Muir, on July 20, 1945. Wolfe had previously edited John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, published in 1938. She died less than two months after this inscription; her Pulitzer was awarded posthumously. This is a very good copy with faded boards and light tanning to the pages, in a poor, first issue dust jacket (1-45 date code on rear flap and explanation of wartime printing standards on rear panel) that is edgeworn, price-clipped and in four separate pieces, now laid into the book. Rare signed. [#036853] $400

(Madison), University of Wisconsin Press, (2002). Inscribed by Nelson on the dedication page, and additionally signed by co-authors Susan Campbell and Paul Wozniak on the title page. Nelson was Governor of, and then Senator from, Wisconsin, during which time (following the lead of activist John McConnell), he founded Earth Day, in 1970. This book, written more than 30 years after, takes stock of the relative strengths and weaknesses of both the environment and the environmental movement. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a business card for the book's website laid in. [#036854] $300

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2015. Writing more than a quarter century after the publication of Bill McKibben's The End of Nature, Purdy (a Duke law professor) makes the case that because all environmental issues have become human issues and therefore political issues, our relationship with nature demands increased democratic engagement. Signed by the author on the title page. Small owner name front flyleaf. One page corner turned. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with a Bill McKibben blurb. Uncommon, especially signed. [#036855] $250

(NY), Winchester Press, (1975). Reiger places the origins of the conservation movement not in the early 20th century, with politicians, engineers and geologists, but in 1871, with the publication of American Sportsman and the emerging code of the sportsman (particularly the hunter) that called for respect of wildlife and habitat. Inscribed by Reiger in the year of publication. Includes a 70-page "Picture Album of Sport Conservation," a pictorial history of the movement. Near fine in a very good, spine-tanned dust jacket that is internally tape-strengthened at the lower front flap fold and spine extremities. Uncommon, especially signed. [#036856] $350

Monroe, Common Courage Press, (2004). An examination of the catastrophic compromises made by politicians, corporations, the media, and even the mainstream environmental organizations that hollowed out the promises of the conservation movement of the 1960s and '70s. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers. [#036857] $225

NY, Longmans, Green, 1961. A review copy of this biography of von Humboldt, which includes an outline of his magnum opus, Cosmos, and 8 photogravures from his work. Signed by Gendron. She has also added: "Thank you so much for one of my really great moments." Near fine in a good, edgeworn dust jacket that is fragile along all folds with a few chips at extremities. Surprisingly, not listed as a source in Andrea Wulf's award-winning 2015 biography of von Humboldt, The Invention of Nature. [#036858] $375

(London), John Murray, (2015). The true first (British) edition of this best-selling, much-reprinted biography of Alexander von Humboldt: extraordinary explorer, geographer and botanist; discoverer of climate zones (and climate change); and early proponent of the theory of the interconnectedness of living things, the web of life. Inscribed by Wulf. Rare signed in the first printing. A perfectbound book, this copy has some foxing to the page edges and endpages; still near fine in a near fine, lightly foxed and edgeworn dust jacket. [#036859] $500

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1916. A 48-page pamphlet written by Yard extolling the virtues of the country's National Parks, in the year the National Park Service was created, largely due to the efforts of Yard and Stephen Mather. Mather would become the NPS's first director; Yard would become executive secretary of the National Parks Association in 1919 and later a founding member of The Wilderness Society (1935). Chapters on the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, Mount Rainier, Glacier, Rocky Mountain, etc. Significantly dampstained, but the discoloration is nearly entirely confined to the covers. A fair copy, in stapled wrappers. A very early, notable piece of writing on the national parks by one of the key figures who helped create the Park Service to protect them. [#036860] $450

(n.p.), Hanna-Barbera, (1965). A promotional comic book for the 1966 animated television special Alice in Wonderland (Or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?), in which a 1960s Alice enters Wonderland by falling through her television set and meets the Cheshire Cat (voice of Sammy Davis, Jr.); the Queen of Hearts (Zsa Zsa Gabor); and a two-headed Caterpillar played by the cartoon characters Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble; among others. Both the television special and the comic book were sponsored by the drug company Rexall. Small stamp of Kasson Drug of Minnesota on the rear panel; one tiny spot to front cover and mild aging to paper and staples. Near fine. 16 pages. Six copies found in OCLC. An unusual look at some of the tropes of the Sixties, in their early stages, pre-counterculture. [#036861] $250

Boston, Four Seas, (1922). An early volume of Stein's experimental prose, intended to capture the techniques of abstraction and cubism that were then current in painting. Inscribed by the author: "For John Lineweaver/ I like that name/ Gertrude Stein." A fine copy in the second issue binding, without the lettering on the front cover, in a very good, spine-darkened dust jacket, with modest chipping, mostly at the crown. [#036862] $750

NY, Random House, (2005). A profile of young female boxers and an examination of the issues surrounding women in the ring: anger, aggression, desire, sexuality, and survival. Signed by the author. Cohen has published five nonfiction books and seven novels, including Train Go Sorry, an exploration of the world of the deaf; Glass, Paper, Beans, a study of the labor behind everyday objects; and the novel To and Fro. One tiny stain at the lower rear board edge; else fine in a fine dust jacket, with blurbs by Billie Jean King and Ken Burns, among others. Very uncommon signed. [#036863] $250

(n.p.), [Self-Published], 1944. A self-published poetry chapbook by Rae, who had an earlier title, Beach Magic, published by the Oregon firm Binfords & Mort, in 1941. This collection features 17 short poems, each rather charmingly illustrated by the author, and all on the varied joys of owning a bike (for uphill, for downhill, for shopping, for scenery, for company, for romance, for one's ego, for coping with wartime gas shortages, for just about everything but exercise). Signed by the author. Note that 1944 was a year of bicycling rationing in the U.S., so as to preserve raw materials for the war effort: one needed to apply to get a stripped down "Victory Bike." Near fine in stapled wrappers. Scarce, with one copy listed in OCLC. [#036864] $500

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1914). The third book in the pseudonymously written Girls at Central High series, which here combines game play with a "Great Gymnasium Mystery." One of the earliest novels to feature women's basketball (following only the Grace Harlowe High School series), and the first to feature the game prominently. Owner name and address to flyleaf; mild foxing to endpages and boards; very good in a very good dust jacket with staining to the spine but rousing jacket art of a basketball game in progress (which differs from the generic series artwork on the boards). [#036865] $350