Santa Fe, New Mexico: Press of the Palace of the Governors, 1982. Hughey, Kirk. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 100 copies, fourteen separate linocut prints with accompanying booklet, folio size, sixteen leaves, housed in the publisher's box. The Press of the Palace of the Governors "is the longest-running operation of..... More
Boston: Alexander Moore, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, small quarto size, 69 pp. plus ten leaves with photographs. Professor Samuel Kneeland (1821-1888) was so taken by the wonders of Yosemite during his first trip that upon arrival home he took it upon himself to publish this early guide for..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-1924. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 750 sets of the "Manuscript Edition", ten volumes (complete), octavo size, approximately 4100 total pp. John Muir (1838-1914) remains perhaps the most well-known and beloved writer for his work on environmental issues, and wrote extensively on the west, including Yosemite..... More
Chicago: The Reilly and Britton Company, 1912. Cardboard covers. Duodecimo size, [95] pp., inscribed by Tiffany Blake (dedicatee). Bert Leston Taylor (1866-1921), humourist, poet, and columnist, writes this ode to the American wilderness, discerning not only the beauty and inspiration found in walking through the woods, but also that which..... More
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, (2003). First Edition. Hardcover. First printing, quarto size, 715 pp. Michael Williams, professor at Oxford, "surveys ten thousand years of history to trace how, why, and when human-induced deforestation has shaped economies, societies, and landscapes around the world...Accessible and nonsensationalist, 'Deforesting the..... More