Resultados de búsqueda: Narratives/Essays/Prose from 100 POCKETS

Richmond Heights, MO: Saint Louis Univ, 2009. Volume 24, Nos. 2 & 3, Spring 2009 . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW COPY w/trace wear to corner tips of softcover. COVER ART: "Three Pink Cakes", gouache, 2008, Julie Speed. 220 pages. This Spring 2009, Volume 24 issue carries 9 short stories, 4 essays (including a symposium: Is American Literature Too Insular), and verse from 10 poets. Amon

New York, NY: Time-Life Books, 1979. Revised Edition, 1979 3rd Printing. Hardcover. New/None as Issued. Time-Life Books (Photography). BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE, w/light push to lower front corner of highgloss bords. DJ/None as Issued . First published 1973; this is the Third Printing, Revised Edition, First Thus of 1979. Boards w/black linen spine (denoting Library Edition)/NEW. DJ/None as Issued. COVER ART: "Giant Saguaros of Arizona"; photo. DJ/None as Issued. Published w/o ISBN; ISBN subsequently assigned. Natural history of some 69,000 square miles of southern Arizona and northern Mexico desert lands, llustrated with photos. Covering near half of the Sonora Desert. Text is by Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989), long resident of the American Southwest, and who immortalized the region in Desert Solitaire and Abbey's Road. 7 chapters: 1, The Real Desert; 2, The Mountains of Superstition; 3, Winters in Oregon Pipe: The Lavis, Frugal Cacti; 4, The Sacred Peak; 5, Wild Palms & Gold… Leer más

New York, NY: Time-Life Books, 1973. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/No Jacket. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. 1973 Printing w/HOURGLASS GRAPHIC to last page. Illustrated (giant saguaros) boards w/black cloth backstrap. DJ/None (as Isued:). Published w/o ISBN; ISBN subsequently assigned. Natural history of some 69,000 square miles of southern Arizona and northern Mexico Sonora Desert lands. Text by long resident of the Amerian Southwest, Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) who gave us Desert Solitaire, and his personal odyssey in Abbey's Road. Superb photography from the staff of Time-Life Books.

New York, NY: Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1920. Balmoral Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/Near New; trace edges tears to first page reinforced w/archival tape.. Embossed red linen boards/VG; sound w/edge & surface wear, and showing discoloration. DJ/None. Frontispiece w/tissue guard: photo portrait of Scottish novelist, poet and writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894.) best known for Treasure Island, and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. 256 pgs. Anthology in 3 parts: I, A Child's Garden of Verses (first published 1885 under the title Penny Whistles); II, Underwoods (38 poems in English; 16 in Scots) published 1887; and III, "Virginibus Puerisque" and Other Papers (collection of essays dating to 1881).

Provo, UT: Kelsey Publishing, 1990. 3rd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/VG; strong & sound w/nips, rubs to edges, faint vertical creasing to front, and showing trace discoloration. Guide to the world's mountains prepared for mountaineers, rocker climbers and hikers. Text augmented with 447 maps and 450 photos. Fine copy w/lesser soft cover.

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1939. Peguin Reprint, First Thus . Soft cover. Good/None as Issued. Gertrude Hermer (Wood Engravings). Penguin, No. 238. Text/As New, showing margin discoloration. Illustrated soft cover/Good; strong & sound w/wear to spine edges, and discoloration/soiling to surfaces. A discourse, in prose and verse, on the art and spirit of catching fish by Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683) who retired from London mercantile life at fifty to enjoy forty more years in the country. A delightful book the writing of which gave Walton so much pleasure that he says, "I have made myself a recreation of a recreation." First published in 1653, the book was added to continuously a quarter of a century; this Penguin reprint carries The Epistle to the Reader prepared for the 5th Impression.

New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1993. First Edition, First Pinting . Soft cover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. Conservation, ecology, and an appeal to respect the diversity of life, beyond humans, on earth. 11 essays from co-founder and former member of Earth First; written when author was Executive Editor of the Wild Earth reports.

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1982. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Ann Zwinger (Author-Illustrator-Maps); Edwing Way Teale (Photographer). Stated First Edtion. Text/BRAND NEW. Pale blue linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF; price-clipped w/trace edge wear. Map to endpapers. Travelogue of two outstanding naturalist down two historic rivers of Thoreau country --- the Sudbury and Assabet Rivers, which rise southwest of Concord, MA, set off in different directions, to then converge and form the Concord River. Naturalist, photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner Edwin Way Teale (1899 - 1980) and Ann Haymond Zwinger (1925 -) spent several years, together and separately, delving into Thoreau's journals and library archives, canoeing and walking beside the rivers in all seasons, to bring this book together. Edwin Teale died before the book's publication; Ann Zwinger speaks for them both in the Preface.

Boston, MA.: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. Near Fine/New. BRAND NEW Copy w/PO label (Books on Tape, Inc) to front cover verso. Map of the Antartic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands to endpapers. Winner of Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. An excursion in summertime Antartica. Biologist David G. Campbells spent 3 summers in the Antartic --- or, 3 single long days that begin in October and end in March, for it is world where the sun marches around the northern horizon slipping from sioght so briefly that nights never blacken. A wonderous time pulsating with procreation from penguin rookeries to whale nurseries in the bay, and the wandering albatrosses nesting hills overlooking beaches in this windiest place on earth. An splendid and eloquent narrative, an enthralling portrait of a frozen world few will ever lay eyes on.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. New/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. A Memoir, an anthology of essays. A portrait of the people and land of the Dakotas. Poet, essayis Kathleen Norris (1947 - ) considers the inner and outer scenery of the Great Plains with portraits of Native Americans, Benedictine monks, ministers and churchgoers, wind-weathered farmers, and all its plain folks who live complicated yet simple lives in an expanse of desolate yet sublime landscape. The sub-title, "A Spiritual Geography", is most well chosen.

New York, NY: Gallery Books, 1987. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/New. David Muench (Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW. Beige linen boards w/trace edge rubs. DJ/NF w/3 small specks of "rubs" to front. First published 1979; this is the 2nd Printing of 1987. An excursion through desert lands of America Southwest with Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989) as guide, and through the lens of David Muench (1936 -). Poetic collaboration between a naturalist gifted in prose and nature photographer. 239 pgs in12 parts: 1, Introduction; 2, Sand Dunes; 3, Scarce Waters; 4, Rough Rock; 5, Wild Flowers; 6, Cactus Land; 7, Petrifed Wood; 8, Desert Snow; 9, Saltscapes; 10, Mud Mosaics; 11, Cliff Dwellings; and 12, Images on Rock.

New York, NY: Henry Holt, 1994. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. Near Fine/New. Mark Klett (Photographer). BRAND NEW COPY w/remainder mark to upper text edge. A portrait of the 1,000 square mile Sonoran Desert straddling the U.S. - Mexico border. Its story, of nature and man, narrated by Paul Nabhan and captured on camera by Mark Klett.

New York, NY: E.P. Dutton, 1969. First Edition, First Thus First Thus. Hardcover. New/Near Fine. Eliot Porter (Photographer). Stated First Edition. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Gilt embossed beige (subsequent printings in orange cloth) linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/trace rubs to upper front corner tip & upper/lower spine edges; under mylar. Light spotting (acidic paper reaction) to front & rear endpapers. Published w/o ISBN; ( ISBN: 0525095233 subsequently assigned). Volume contains Major John Wesley Powell's (1834 - 1902)1869 journal, 4 boats, in a 13-week Geographic Expedition of 1869 down the Green & Colorado Rivers, marking the first passage through the Grand Canyon. Powell's diaries were first published in Scribner's Magazine; for this volume, the journal is edited & introduced by Don Fowler. Book includes drawings & illustrations by Powell's contemporaries and augmented w/ a 48-page gallery of 4-color photos from photographer Eliot Porter (1901 - 1990) who,… Leer más

Tulsa, OK: Winchester Press, 1980. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Jonathan Newdick (Illustrator). Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated, gilt embossed dark navy boards/Fine. Illustrated DJ/VG; strong & sound w/light edge wear, small loss to mid-back by spine, and trace discoloration/soiling. Anthology of waterfowling tales. Noted on the title page, the authors are Keith C. Russell (Nat'l Trustee of Ducks Unlimited) and friends. The friends include "a doctor, lawyer, factory worker, artist, hunting guide, housewife, advertising executive, stockbroker, truck driver ..." A collection of memorable experiences and insights. Text and illustrations in eye-pleasing sienna. Fine copy.

San Francisco, CA: Friends of the Earth, 1971. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/Near Fine. Pete Martin; Wilbur Mills; John P. Milton; Gilbert Staender, et al (Photographers). Text/BRAND NEW. Gilt embossed taupe line boards/Fine. DJ/NF under mylar. Naturalist and non-fiction writer Kenneth Brower (1944 -), son of David Brower, is well known for his books about the environment, national parks, and natural places. In his own words, this volume "tells two stories." One is an account of a five week trip Brower took with two friends across the Brooks Range of Alaska; the story of the Range we saw. The other story is the Range that is not readily apparent to travellers. Text, illustrated with 59 color plates, in 5 parts: 1, Landforms; 2, First Faunas; 3, Inuit; 4, Explorers; and, 5, Prospect.

Zurich, Switzerland: Verlag De Arche, 1948. Reprint . Hard Cover/Stitched. Good/No Jacket. HARDCOVER. Text/Near New w/faint creasings to upper corner of first & second title pages. Boards/Good; strong & sound w/edge rubs to spine and showing discoloration/soiling. Gift inscription to fEP. First published 1937. A poem, probably in reference to the Thirty Year War, of a way to escape horrors of from major wars inspired the title of this verse narrative. Caught in the cross fire of warfare, an old woman prays from her cottage: "Build a wall around us ... and go away". Enclosure walls rose and became so covered with layers upon layers of snow,. imperial armies from different countries marched by unaware there was a town to pillage. A trim, 24 pages of free verse from German anti-Nazi activist, teacher, poet and novelist Ernst Wiechert (1887 - 1950).

New York, NY: Greenwich House/Distributed By Crown Publishers, 1993. First Edition, 3rd Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Eliot Porter (Photographer). Text/BRAND NEW. Sienna-brown linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/NF; price-slipped, else fine. Gift inscription to front endpaper. A study of how the American people and the American land have interacted. The story is told through photographs (89 plates) of Eliot Poter (1901 - 1990) and the prose of Wallace Earle Stegner (1909 - 1993), author of The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943) and Angle of Repose (1971, Pulitzer Prize), and his writer, novelist, and historian son Page Stegner (1937 -). The chapters and photographs can be construed as "illustrating a stage in the process of adaptation and naturalization). Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 13 are written by Wallace Stegner; chapters 9-12 are by Page Stegner. Chapter 14 is jointly written by father and son.

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1965. First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/NEW & Bright. Illustrated soft cover/VG; light shelfwear w/faint creasing lower front corner & showing faint discoloration. PO name stike-out at lower edge of fEP. Anthology of early 17th century English prose. 514 pgs. Selections of prose of 10 authors : 1, Francis Bacon; 2, Robert Parsons; 3, Lancelot Andrewes; 4, Lancelot Andrewes; 5, Robert Burton; 6, John Donne; 7, Ben Jonson; 8, Thomas Hobbes; 9, Sir Thomas Browne; and 10, Jeremey Taylor. Textual Notes & General Bibliography precede selections.

New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press/Balliett & Fitzgerakd, 1997. First Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/None as Issued. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. Fold-over softcover/Fine. Anthology of 15 memorable expeditions to world-famous peaks. Chronicles of high adventure of skilled mountaineering sportsmen, all of whom are also gifted writers. Contents are: 1, The Devils Thumb (Jon Krakauer); 2, from Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas (Greg Child); 3, from Everest: Alone at the Summit (Stephen Venables); 4, Dangerous Liaisons (John Climaco); 5, From Savage Arena (Joe Tasker); 6, from The Shining Mountain (Peter Boardman); 7, from the Snow Leaopard (Peter Matthiessen); 8, from Minus 148 Degrees: The Winter Ascent of Mt McKinley (Art Davidson); 9, from The Mountain of My Fear (David Roberts); 10, from Everest: The West Ridge (Tom Hornbein); 11, from K2: The Savage Mountain (Robert Bates & Charles Houston); 12, from Annapurna (Maurice Herzog); 13, from Nanda Devi (Eric… Leer más

Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International, 1975. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/New. Yoahikazu Shirakawa (Author-Photographer). BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE w/trace edge wear, and, discoloration to upper front & spine of dustjacket. Stated First Edition. Fold-out map (also BRAND NEW) w/Nat'l Parks and location of photography. Japanese photographer Yoshikazu Shirakawa (1935 -), hailed for his book Himalayas (1971), captures the vastness and grandeur of the American continent on film --- a photo portrait time in celebration of America's Bicentennial year, and above all, a tribute to Nature. Presented in 4 parts: 1, Dawn; 2, Noontide; 3, Eventide; and 4, Earth's Diurnal Course. Followed by appendices on Nat'l Parks (Sigurd F. Olson), The Photographer (Shigene Kanarmaur, Shirakawa teacher), Afterword (notes from Shirakawa), and Notes on Photography and fold-out map.