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
Environmentalism
Whole Earth Catalog (January, 1971)
Menlo Park, CA: Portola Institute, Inc., 1971. 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. Tabloid (36.5cm); original newprint wrappers, stapled; 48pp; illus..... More
Whole Earth Catalog - Fall, 1969
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. Tall quarto (36.5cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; 128pp;..... More
Whole Earth Catalog - January, 1970
Menlo Park, CA: Portola Institute, Inc., 1970. 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. Tall quarto (36.5cm); photo-illustrated newsprint wrappers, stapled; 56pp;..... More
Whole Earth Catalog - September, 1970
Menlo Park, CA: Portola Institute, Inc., 1970. 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. Tall quarto (37cm); pictorial newsprint wrappers, stapled; 56pp;..... More
Whole Earth Catalog - Spring, 1969
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. Tall quarto (37.5cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; 128pp;..... More
The Garden at Chatsworth
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
On Chinese Gardens / Shuo Yuan (Text in English and Chinese)
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
Nuclear Power - Danger: Radiation. Revised Copy - March, 1976
Vancouver: Voice of Women / Canadian Scientific Pollution & Environmental Control Society (SPEC), 1976. Revised Edition. Quarto (28cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 50pp; illus; text from typescript. Fine. Extended essay arguing against nuclear proliferation, both civilian and military, in Canada. Jointly published by Voice of Women, a Vancouver-based women's political collective..... More
Ronald Reagan & the American Environment. An Indictment prepard by: Friends of the Earth - Natural Resources Defense Council - The Wilderness Society - Sierra Club [&c.]
San Francisco: Friends of the Earth / Brick House Publishing Company, 1982. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; 144pp; illus. Mild external evidence of handling; internally clean, tight and unmarked - Very Good or better. More
É Possível Vencera Seca. Semi-Árido Nordestino: Realidade e Perspectivas
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
Poster: Fight Foul
New York: The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, [ca.1970-71]. Striking poster produced produced by The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, one of the oldest and largest life insurance companies in the U.S. Part of a series of socially-conscious posters the company produced in the..... More
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Pollution Is Only Human [Together With] Oh! Say Can You See: Fight Air Polution
Wilmington, DE: Junior League of Wilmington, Inc. Pair of environmentally-themed posters designed by Edward Cheslock on behalf of the Junior League of Wilmington, drawing attention to man-made pollution. Neither poster found in OCLC. Two illustrated posters, offset printed in black on white stock, measuring 43cm x 55.5cm (17" x 22")..... More
Gifford Pinchot: Forester-Politician
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960. First Edition. Uncommon biography of Pinchot (1865-1946), a Progressive Republican, two-time Pennsylvania governor, and, most memorably, the first director of the U.S. Forest Service, in which role he coined the term "the conservation ethic" in reference to the preservation of public lands. Octavo (24cm). Green..... More
Intuition: Metaphysical Mosaic
Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); navy blue publisher's cloth boards, stamped in foil on spine, in color photo-illustrated dustwrapper; 190pp. Dustwrapper generally toned, slightly scuffed about extremities; offsetting along bottom edge (inner flaps/verso), possibly from textblock's bottom edge speckling; pastedowns foxed, else interiors clean. Overall Very..... More
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West Virginia Birds: Distribution and Ecology [Inscribed]
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1983. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28.5cm.); blue publisher's cloth pictorial boards with gilt lettering, in white pictorial dust jacket; vi,180pp. Text block is clean, with light handling wear; bindings mostly tight, with slight separation from front pastedown to page 6. Pastedowns toned along..... More
The Way to Perfect Health: Spiritual, Mental and Physical. A statement of fundamental principles and their practical application to the end of health and happiness
Auckland: N.Z. Vegetarian Society, N.d. [ca 1930s]. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 7pp. Wrapper edges sunned; text age-tanned but not fragile; Very Good. Food reform tract, extolling the virtues, moral, ethical, and physical, of a vegetarian diet. Uncommon work by the prominent metaphysician, long-time figurehead of the Theosophical Society..... More
A History of Gardens and Gardening
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
Energy Policy and the Poor: A Roundtable Discussion
Washington DC: Joint Center for Political Studies, 1977. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); original mustard yellow printed staplebound card wrappers; xiii,[3],44pp.; text printed from typescript. Wrapper extremities a bit sunned, light wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. More
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An Individual Approach to Pollution [cover title]
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
![Fourth Dimension [Issue Eight / Samisdat, Vol. 32, no. 1]. P. J. KEMP, ed](/pictures/medium/42901.jpg?v=1541801677)
Fourth Dimension [Issue Eight / Samisdat, Vol. 32, no. 1]
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
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Fourth Dimension [Issue Seven / Samisdat, Vol. 30, no. 2] [Broadside Proposal Laid in, Signed by Kemp]
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
Gone to Sanctuary from the Sins of Confusion. Photographs by John S. Kiewit
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
The Destruction of Nature in the Soviet Union
White Plains, NY: M.E. Sharpe, [1980]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; x,150pp. A few small tears and light wear to jacket extremities, spine a hint faded, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. More
Bobcats Before Breakfast
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