Williams Terry Tempest Signed (6 results)
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed on title page. Very good book with some mild foxing to cloth backing, and a streak of foxing to title page, but the rest of the pages are clean and bright. In a very good jacket with wear to corners and top of spine.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Association copy, inscribed on the front end free paper to Ezekiel ("Zeke") and Katherine ("Kay") Dumke, prominent Utah philanthropists who gave to institutions including the University of Utah, Westminster College, Weber State University, and Red Butte Garden (the state arbore…tum on the University of Utah campus). Zeke Dumke was also for a time the president of the Utah Museum of Natural History, where Terry Tempest Williams was a curator at the time of this book's publication (later she became its naturalist-in-residence). In the 1960s, Zeke additionally helped establish the boundaries for Canyonlands National Park; conservation and connecting people with the outdoors were part of the Dumkes' philosophy. The full-page inscription reads in Williamss elegant script: "January 10, 1985, Dearest Zeke & Kay, This book comes to you with all the love in the world. I feel as though we are family. You know this country of red rock and ravens. You know the gifts of pen space and clouds. These stories, I hear them whispering through the fingers of sage. To all that binds us. Love, Terry." Also signed in full on the half-title page. A fine book in a very near fine dust jacket (unusual for this title). The jackets only blemish to speak of is, on the front flap, a dogeared upper corner and the residue from a sales-price sticker. Just a touch of fade to the books lower boards, but still fine. The interior pages are crisp and white as salt. The authors first book for adults. With illustrations by Clifford Brycelea. Please inquire for photos.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed in the year of publication by co-editor Terry Tempest Williams on the title page: "For you Lynda, In the name of these stories that shape us. Fondly, Terry Tempest Williams, 12.9.95." Uncommon signed. A great signature for this volume as Tempest Williams embodies Utah… writing through and through. With errata slip laid in. Fine book with one spot of dust soiling to lower bottom corner of text block; still fine. In a very fine jacket with a hint of rubbing. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.
Pieces Of White Shell: A Journey To Navajoland (Inscribed By Author And Signed By Illustrator)
Williams, Terry Tempest ; Full Page Illustrations By Clifford Brycele (With Signed Letter From Jackson Clark)
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 162 Pp. Beige Cloth Stamped In Green, Light Green Boards. First Printing. Book Fine, No Wear; Long Personal Inscription From The Author Noting That Book Comes To Her Through Jackson Clark, Dated January 26, 1985; Also Signed On Title Page By The Artist, C…lifford Brycelea Dated January 1985; And With A Full Page Typed Letter From Clark Presenting The Book To The Recipient As A Birthday Present. Signed by Illustrator(s).
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Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Near fine. First edition. A standout association copy, inscribed on the half-title page to Earth First! cofounder Ron Kezar: "February 5, 1992, Salt Lake City. Dearest Ron, This book comes to you in the name of shared affection toward wildness--internal as well as external. Bless you in your vigi…lance . . . what you inspire in all of us. Refuge, in the land, in each other, Fondly, Terry." Kezar was a former park ranger who later sometimes used the alias Bill Haywood (as in the byline ofEcodefence: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching). Inspired by Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold, and especially Edward Abbey and his The Monkey Wrench Gang, he, Dave Foreman, and three others came up withEF!in 1980 while on a trip to bag a New Mexico peak. Kezar and Foreman were housemates at the time. EF! promoted pushing past the usual lobbying and into "demonstrations" and "confrontations," and one of their famous first acts was unfurling an enormous dark banner that looked like a crack down the Glen Canyon Dam. Refugeis in this lineage especially in its last chapter, "The Clan of the One-breasted Women," in which Williams takes part in a protest and is arrested after trespassing onto the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. The book is about the decline and death of William's mother due to cancer (possibly because Utah was downwind of the nuclear testing) alongside the decline in the level of the Great Salt Lake and thus its hyper-salinification. Each chapter is titled after a different wetland bird.Refugeissaid to be the single-most bestselling contemporary environmental book of the last few decades of the 20th century. A near fine copy with boards that don't quite lay flat (an homage to the aridity of the Interior West); in a very near fine jacket with just one small scuff to lower edge of rear panel. An excellent association that speaks to the history of protest in the environmental movement.
More imagesRachel Carson and Her Sisters (a collection of six signed books)
Musil, Robert; Rachel Carson (subject); Harriet Hardy; Terry Tempest Williams; Theo Colburn; Sandra Steingraber; Devra Davis (signed)
Published by Various, 2002
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near fine. Near fine. First edition. A collection of six signed books taking inspiration from Robert K. Musil'sRachel Carson and Her Sisters: Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2014.A fine/fine copy of that book is provided here inscribed:… "For Susan, Thanks for caring about learning + the environment. Robert Musil." Uncommon signed. Musil is an environmental writer, activist, and the president and CEO of the Rachel Carson Council. Also included are five books from notable 20th-century women environmentalist-authors that Musil profiles in the later half of the book and convincingly argues are in the lineage of Rachel Carson (listed chronologically): Hardy, Harriet L.Challenging Man-Made Disease.NY: Praeger, 1983. Inscribed in a shaky hand on the title page.Uncommon signed, with no other copies available as of this writing.Hardy was 77 at the time of the book's publication, and this memoir looks back at more than four decades of her important career. She is renown for her work in work-related health hazards and was a close colleague of Alice Hamilton who recruited her to be the co-author of their landmark textbookIndustrial Toxicology. She was faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health. A near fine book with a touch of rubbing to corners in a very good jacket with some wear to top edge and a few nicks and short tears to edges. Williams, Terry Tempest.Refuge: An Unnatural History.NY: Pantheon, 1991. Inscribed on the half-title page: "November 6, 1995, For you Patrick, Refuge, in the land, in each other, Blessings, Terry Tempest Williams."A modern classic of environmental writing and reportedly one of the all-time bestselling book of environmental writing of the 20th century. Carson describes her mother's decline and death from cancer alongside the water-level decline of the wildlife-rich Great Salt Lake. A fine copy in fine jacket. Colborn, Theo, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers.Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? -- A Scientific Detective Story.NY: Dutton, 1996. Inscribed movingly on the front free endpaper: "To Wren, It took a lot more than scientific research to make this book possible. Your encouragement, your love, and support have made this possible. -- I hope you can find some satisfaction for yourself personally in the results of this book. Thanks for always being there, Theo." A wonderful inscription, clearly a close association copy.Uncommon signed, with no other copies available online as of this writing.With a foreword by Al Gore, who opens with: "Last year I wrote a foreword to the thirtieth anniversary edition of Rachel Carson's classic work,Silent Spring. Little did I realize that I would so soon be writing a foreword to a book that is in many respects its sequel." This book chronicles "this insidious invasion [of chemicals], which is derailing sexual development and reproduction, not only in a host of animal populations but, it now appears, humans as well." Colborn is renown for her work studying endocrine disruptors; her story is wonderful as she was a "late bloomer," only earning her PhD in Zoology at 58 but going on to do accomplished work. She is the recipient of dozens of notable prizes. Robert Musil profiles Colborn but this book is co-written with scientist John Peterson Myers and environmental journalist Dianne Dumanoski. Steingraber, Sandra.Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment.NY: Addision-Wesley, 1997.Signed and dated 1998 on the title page and additionally inscribed (to no recipient): "With all best wishes, Sandra."Uncommon signed, with no other copies available online as of this writing.Her first book.A biologist, Steingraber survived cancer in her twenties and this book investigates the pathways of environmental contamination with the touch a poet through the lens of her own personal narrative.From the jacket: "Sandra Steingraber is . the first to trace with such compelling precision the entire web of connections between our bodies and the ecological world in which we eat, drink, breathe, and work."An oft-talked about work of contemporary environmental justice writing.A fine book in near fine jacket with a little rubbing. Davis, Devra Lee.When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution.NY: Basic Books, 2002. Inscribed on the title page: "For Danny, [illegible] & thanks for your wise and brave leadership. Devra Davis."Uncommon signed, with no other copies available online as of this writing.Davis is a renown epidemiologist and she likewise "confronts the public triumph and private failures of the public health community's long battle against environmental pollution" while writing about how environmental pollution has impacted her own family. A fine book in fine jacket. Musil devotes a chapter each to Tempest Williams, Colborn, Steingraber, and Dervis. Hardy is profiled in a chapter that also discusses Ellen Swallows Richards and Alice Hamilton. Each of these books is uncommon signed aside fromRefugewhich is sporadically available signed. A great collection ripe for additions based on further reading in Musil's book or beyond.
