Boston: Porter Sargent, 1971. First Edition. Highly critical account of the Corps' "century-long record of scientific inadequacy and environmental neglect." The author was the first chairman of the TVA. Octavo (23cm). Original black cloth boards; dustjacket; 422pp. Tight, near fine copy in lightly worn jacket, VG. More

Olema, CA: S.P.R. Charter, 1966. Substantially complete run of this sporadically-issued journal of "writings on Human Ecology - on Man's interrelationship with his total environment - with the purpose of attempting to evolve a design-theory for Man on Earth." Apparently all content was written by the editor and publisher, the..... More

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

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

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 Typescript note dated 1971 laid in regarding outdated facts on detergents, pp.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, 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

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

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 272, (2)pp; illus. Signed by Olson on front free endpaper. A tight, Near Fine copy in slightly the original pictorial dustwrapper, slightly darkened on spine panel and with small nicks at crown and margins, Very Good. The great... 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

Portland, OR: Out of the Ashes Press, 1979. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 8-1/2"). Staple-bound, pictorial wrappers; (28pp); illus. Fine. Drawings by Ellen Wipperfurth. Examination of the legacy and existing conditions at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washington. Illustrated with photographs of the facility and of the surrounding communities... More

The Netherlands: Aktie Strohalm and the World Wildlife Rangers, n.d., ca. 1982. Poster issued by the Aktie Strohalm, founded in 1970 and today known as the STRO), promoting environmental responsibility. The poster depicts two illustrations by Vesser, that on the left of a jungle suffering from deforestation, the one on... More