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
London: Socialist Workers Party, 1990. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial paper wrappers; 46pp. Clean, tight and unmarked; Near Fine. Economic analiysis of environmental exploitation. More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1970. First Edition. First printing. Small folio (36cm). Green cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 123pp. Gift inscription to front endpaper in green ink, else a sharp, clean copy in the original dustwrapper which shows just a hint of aging at extremities, Near Fine. The elusive... 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
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. Blue, cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 160pp. Signed "Helen & Scott Nearing" on front endpaper, in both hands as usual. Mild wear to board edges and spine ends, still a tight, VG copy in the original dustwrapper which is rubbed and slightly faded... 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
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original printed self-wrappers; vi, 60pp. Cover wrappers a bit loose from handling; previous ownership signature in red ink to upper cover, very occasional neat underlining with same pen, else About Very Good. Report presented at the Eighty-Ninth Congress, Second... 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
![Pollution Is Only Human [Together With] Oh! Say Can You See: Fight Air Polution. ENVIRONMENTALISM, Edward CHESLOCK, design.](/pictures/medium/43521.jpg?v=1551737211)
![An Individual Approach to Pollution [cover title]. Marilyn KARR, George Antos.](/pictures/medium/26507.jpg?v=1529353499)
![Fourth Dimension [Issue Eight / Samisdat, Vol. 32, no. 1]. P. J. KEMP, ed.](/pictures/medium/42901.jpg?v=1541801677)
![Fourth Dimension [Issue Seven / Samisdat, Vol. 30, no. 2] [Broadside Proposal Laid in, Signed by Kemp]. P. J. KEMP, ed.](/pictures/medium/42900.jpg?v=1541801676)
![Environmental Pollution: A Challenge to Science and Technology. Report... [cover title]. UNITED STATES CONGRESS, SUBCOMMITTEE ON SCIENCE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS, AND DEVELOPMENT, RESEARCH.](/pictures/medium/25586.jpg?v=1529353464)
![Poster: Spaar de wereld. Red het oerwoud. Kap dus deze jungle [Save the world. Save the jungle. So cut down this jungle]. Louis VESSER.](/pictures/medium/31778.jpg?v=1529353668)