Venezia e le Acque: una metafora planetaria
Roma: Donzelli Editore, 1995. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial stiff card wrappers with French flaps; 111pp. Text entirely in Italian. Introduction by Massimo Cacciari. More
Roma: Donzelli Editore, 1995. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial stiff card wrappers with French flaps; 111pp. Text entirely in Italian. Introduction by Massimo Cacciari. More
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..... More
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..... More
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..... More
Sao Paolo: 1993. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo (22cm); pictorial paper wrappers; 44pp. Proceedings of a 1992 Conference, "Semi-Árido Nordestino: Realidade e Perspectivas" held in Recife, 26-28 June, 1992. Text entirely in Portuguese. More
Menlo Park, CA: Portola Institute, Inc., 1969. First Edition. Early issue of this counterculture magazine/catalog, focused on self-sufficiency, ecology, and the DIY ethos. The long-running publication was the brainchild of Stewart Brand, which ran from September, 1968 off and on until 1998. "The Whole Earth Catalog functions as an evaluation..... More
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 34pp. Complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. More
New York: Harmony Books, 1999. Revised Edition. A sociological and anthropological exploration of how to live more sustainably. 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. More
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..... More
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. More
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." More
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..... More
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). More
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..... More
[Sao Paulo]: by the Author, 1982. First Edition. Signed copy, inscribed "to Erika, with love," undated but apparently contemporary. 12mo; pictorial card wrappers; 106pp. Clean and tight; Very Good. The well-known Brazilian actress and television presenter (1935-2018) offers her ideas on ecology and conservation. Uncommon, especially signed. Text entirely in..... More
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..... More
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. More
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..... More
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..... More
Munich: Hanns Georg Müller Verlag, 1953. 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..... More
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...... More
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..... More
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..... More
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. Blue, cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 160pp. Mild wear to board edges and spine ends, still a tight, VG copy in the original dustwrapper which is rubbed and slightly faded with a chip at crown, just VG. More
Sydney: Friends of the Earth, 1980. Second edition (revised). Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 120pp. Fine, unmarked copy. On global environmental law with respect to the Antarctic continent. More