Edwin Way Teale, Signed (17 results)

Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. From the Art Reference Collection of wildlife artist and outdoorsman Alan James Robinson. This collection was used by Robinson to create his wonderful art and Cheloniidae Press books. Signed by Alan James Robinson on custom bookplate on endpage. Shelf worn. Shelf cocked. Foxed on page edges. Toned on page edges. (photography, nature, america).

Hardcover. First Edition. 10mo, xiv, 210 pages. In Good condition with a Fair dust jacket. Spine off-white and black with black and white lettering. Exterior shows moderate plus wear including foxing, mild sunning, some soiling and several instances of chips to the head/tail edges. Foxing to jacket interior. Boards have slight wear including faint whitish spotting, minor edge wear and slight cocking to the spine. Text block has minimal age toning to the edges. Deckled fore edge. Previous owner's information stamped to the front free end paper. Illustrated. First edition. Inscribed by Charles Broley and signed by Charles Broley and Myrtle Jeanne Broley. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column O, ND-O. 1391251. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. Signed on the half-title page by Platt. Uncommon signed. At the top of that page is a non-authorial gift inscription: "To Helen and Ross with warm affection and many happy memories shared, Esther." Platt was the winner of the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing in 1945 forThis Green World. From the jacket:"In this fascinating volume, Rutherford Platt illustrates the immense force, beauty, and significance of this natural phenomenon [water] in the origin, development, and balance of life." With line drawings by Stanley Wyatt. Green and blue cloth with illustrated green endpapers.Very good plus with light bumping to corners; in a very good, price-clipped jacket with edge wear and similar bumping to corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Signed on the title page by Teale with a blue ball point pen. Uncommon signed, as are books by him generally. In the tradition of Thoreau, this book chronicles Teale's daily walks from his cottage at Trail Wood in Connecticut on seven different paths and is written in dated entries; it's described as the "companion volume" to his A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm. A very good or better book with a hint of lean and very faint spotting to the outer face of the text block, both hardly noticeable. In a very good jacket with light sunning to spine and a few nicks to edges, mainly one shallow tear to top edge of the rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Not signed, but taped to the front free endpaper is an envelope with a small notecard written and sent by Teale. It reads in full: "February 5, 1979, Dear Mrs. Ahlefeld--Thank you for your letter about my books--especially "A Walk Through The Year." I am much interested in your seeing vapor coming from the mouth of so small a bird as a chickadee. I am sure you were helped by seeing the bird against a dark background. I have watch our chickadees here and have never seen any sign of the vapor. But our temperatures are usually above zero. Sincerely, Edwin Way Teale." A charming discussion of ornithological minutia. On the card's front is is an illustration of a teasel and fleabane. The envelope is printed with Teale's Trail Wood address, and just above it the recipient has written a received date tidily in pen on the endpaper. In the tradition of Thoreau, this book chronicles Teale's daily walks from his cottage at Trail Wood in Connecticut on seven different paths and is written in dated entries; it's described as the "companion volume" to his A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm. Near fine in brown cloth except for a tear to the front pastedown, perhaps due the adjacent tape, thus very good. In a very good jacket with sunning to spine and a few nicks and short tears to upper edge and spine crown . Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. A really interesting specimen: A hardcover "dummy copy" of this Teale title, neither a finished advance copy, uncorrected proof, nor excerpt. Instead it's meant to give the feel and flavor of the book, and may have been produced only for internal use at the printers and/or publishing house. It consists of green cloth boards without title or any text on front or spine; photographic endpapers at front (but not at rear); thenfront matter including a half-title, title page, table of contents with zeros for page numbers, and one page of Teale's intro. His intro runs on to a second page, but the remainder of that page appears possibly to be placeholder text and is hard to make sense of. The remainder of this book is black and white plates with Teale's photos, but they are awkwardly laid out so that there are blank spreads in the mix. Doesn't appear to include all of Teale's photos from the text, as the dustjacket advertises 144 photographs and there aren't that many here. This copy is about 60 pages total, and not useful to a reviewer in any sense: only to someone invested in the production of the book. The dustjacket appears to be made for a finished copy, with major offsetting at the spine which is designed for a thicker book. Days without Time: Further Adventures of a Naturalistis Teale's eleventh book (about a third of the way through his career). The subtitle suggests it's a kind of follow up to The Lost Woods: Adventures of a Naturalist, published two years prior.As the jacket describes, "With him, the reader leaves schedules and appointments behind, He lives under the open sky in these pages fresh from the out-of-doors. Sharing the author's adventures, we spend an autumn night with migrating birds at the top of the world's highest building, we find a while new world in a clump of grass and make acquaintance of a remarkable swimming cat." And much more, of course. This book received "mixed reviews" and perhaps was not a great commercial success, which may account for why it now appears to be uncommon. This dummy copy is no doubt very scarce, possibly unique. A very good plus book with light soiling to boards and faint foxing to rear board. Interior clean. In a good only jacket with dampstaining to rear flap fold and several long tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. Fourth printing. Signed on the title page by Teale and located in Baldwin, NY, where Teale lived before moving to Connecticut. A book that is apparently uncommon in general and likely scarce signed. Teale is best known for his quartet of books in the American Seasons series. This book, written after the first of that quartet North with Spring, puts all the seasons together and created a roadmap for the rest of the American Seasons series. "In the company of Edwin Way Teale, who is probably the outstanding naturalist of his day, you grow to appreciate the inter-relationship of natural events, to understand the whole interlocking, synchronized sequence of nature's year." With a non-authorial gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Very good or better in brown cloth with toning to text block edges and a hint of fade to lower board edges. In a very good minus jacket that is internally tape-reinforced along upper and lower edges, and with a tear along the fold of the rear flap.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. Third printing in the year of publication, signed boldly on the title page. Uncommon signed, as are pretty much all of Teale's books. The third book in Teale's classic American Seasons quartet (seeour signed boxed set), of which the final installment,Wandering through Winter, won the Pulitzer Prize.Here Teale meanders from New England along the Great Lakes down to Colorado, and as the jacket argues, "Altogether is makes as pleasant a summer as you have ever spent." A near fine book in green cloth with a hint of foxing top text block face and some faint soiling to rear board. In a very good jacket with some fraying / short tears to spine ends and more significantly a two-inch-wide chip to rear panel at top (see photo). Uncommon signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Zwinger, winner of the John Burroughs Medal, and Teale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, collaborated on this book about the two rivers that join to form the Concord River, beloved by Thoreau. This copy is signed by Zwinger. A landmark collaboration by two of the most respected naturalists writing at the time. Zwinger, whose writings had generally been about the West, was president of the Thoreau Society at the time this book was published. Foredge foxing and shallow loss of color to boards; a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with wear at the crown and a small sticker removal abrasion on the front panel. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. Sixteenth printing, 1960. Signed on the title page by Teale in blue ink, and thus uncommon. "A natural history of spring, a biography of the world's favorite season," in this book Teale and his wife Nellie travel from Florida to Maine following spring as it moves north. The trip was 17,000 miles through twenty-three states across 130 days. The first book in Teale's classic American Seasons quartet (see our signed boxed set), of which the final installment, Wandering through Winter, won the Pulitzer Prize. A very good book with darkening and a faint speckle of foxing to the top edge of the text block, as well as light sunning to spine. In a very good jacket with sunning to spine (mainly it effects the title at the top of the spine) and some fraying/minor loss to spine ends. General edge wear and rubbing and one small chip to lower edge of front panel. The jacket reads "Fifteenth Large Printing" on the front flap.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Later Printing. This is a handsome set of the four seasons by Teale. Each one has a signed bookplate (that has yellowed with age) affixed to the second free endpaper. The "Winter" volume has bleeding to next two pages. Included with the Set is a TLS from Teale in envelope that states that he is sending the four bookplates to the previous owner. All are later printings, all in bright dust jackets that show very little wear. Wandering Through Winter was a Pulitzer Prize Winner. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedowns, map endsheets. 358 pp., 366 pp., 386 pp., 370 pp. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. Signed by Teale on the title page. Uncommon signed. A book about Teale's move to northern Connecticut from Long Island and his discovery of his new acreage and its ecology via his daily rambles, in the vein of Thoreau at Walden and Burroughs at Slabsides. With several sections of black and white photos by Teale. Teale won the Pulitizer for his 1965 book Wandering Through Winter as well as the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing. A near fine copy in sky blue cloth with browning to the pastedowns along the gutters from internal glue, which is typical for this title, and otherwise only a hint of fading to board edges. In a very good jacket with sunning to the spine. The panels present wonderfully.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Teale on the title page. An interesting volume, a mass paperback that's apparently scarce, with no other copies seemingly available and only four copies in libraries according to OCLC (only two in the US). A "Ladder Edition": As the front wrap declares, "This special edition is for readers for whom English is a second language. It can be read by anyone who has learned 2,000 words of English." It's an adaptation of Teale's Dune Boy, his memoir remembering his boyhood in the Sandhill Country, and is illustrative of a special effort to connect young or new readers of English to nature. A handsome little book, and undoubtedly extremely rare signed by Teale, whose signatures are uncommon in the first place. Near fine with toning to pages--great condition for a mass market paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Signed by 13 aviators, including record breaker Frank M. Hawks, Wolfram Hirth and William Hawley Bowlus, who gave gliding lessons to the Lindberghs and supervised the construction of The Spirit of St. Louis. Hardcover, bound in red cloth. The binding frayed at the head of the spine and corners, the lower front board stained. Gift inscription. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5th printing. 255p. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Uneven tanning and small tape stains on front and back endpapers. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The jacket is price-clipped and lightly worn (most visibly at the corners and head of spine), but otherwise intact. SCARCE hardcover edition of the author's most famous work! This early printing is signed by Teale on the dedication page.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Teale's first book, uncommon in general, scarce signed, and here inscribed on the front free endpaper to a significant glider: "To one of the real pioneers of the air -- Capt. Horace B. Wild -- a boyhood hero and a valued friend of the author. Edwin W. Teale." Wild's full obit is worth a read--he undertook all kinds of daring flights-- but importantly"he helped Octave Chanute with his glider experiments in the Indiana sand dunes which helped lay a foundation for the Wrights' successful inauguration of flight in a powered machine." Teale of course grew up visiting the Indiana sand dunes as detailed in his memoir Dune Boy, in which he performs his own gliding experiment and details his early and continued obsession with flight.A wonderful association as such. We can't see that Wild is mentioned in the book, but Chanute's story is at some length. Red cloth with gilt lettering on front board, black lettering on spine. Good or better with some minor stains to boards, a slight lean to upper spine, two small tears to spine tail, wear through cloth to boards at corners, rear hinge starting, but nonetheless very sturdy for its age. A fantastic find for the aviation fanatic or Teale admirer. His only book not solidly on the natural history shelf.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A boxed set of Teale's acclaimed American Seasons series, four volumes, all signed. In Paul Brooks's review of American nature writing, *Speaking for Nature,* he describes this quartet as "a landmark in the literature of nature." In this set, Autumn Across America (1950) is a tenth printing; Wandering Through Winter (1957; winner of the Pulitzer Prize) is a fourth printing; North With Spring (1951) is a twelfth printing; Journey Into Summer (1960) is a sixth printing. North With Spring is inscribed on the half-title page: "To Paul H. and Helen B. Danis--with the best wishes of the author--Edwin Way Teale." The other three are signed on the title page, all with the same pen. The books are fine except for faded spines. No jackets as issued. The textured-paper box is good/very good with wear to all edges, a dampstain on top, and cracking to the top rear edge, but holding firm; it includes a title plate (faded) announcing the series on once side, a great picture of Teale hiking in an alpine environment on the other. Also included in the set is a slim paperback biographical sketch of Teale by Edward H. Dodd, Jr. (the books' publisher), *Of Nature, Time and Teale.* Signed volumes by Teale are uncommon (not one of these titles is available signed as of April 2023), as is this boxed set. No statement of limitation, but from the other few examples we've seen, this set was not issued signed, making this an extremely rare find. // 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. WRB21022E.