Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Snyder, Gary. Turtle Island (A New Directions Book). New Directions, 1974.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Inscribed on the title page in green ink: "For Kate the Great! Gary Snyder, Missoula." Twenty-first printing. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Fine book in wraps. // 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. We invite you to explore our growing collection of signed and inscribed Gary Snyder books.
Seller: Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books), La Grande, OR, U.S.A.
Snyder, Gary. Turtle Island {INSCRIBED}. New Directions, 1974.
Price: US$45.67 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: INSCRIBED by Gary Snyder. 8th printing paperback in good condition.
Seller: Wm Burgett Bks and Collectibles, san diego, CA, U.S.A.
Snyder, Gary. Turtle Island (A New Directions Book). New Directions, 1974.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: signed by author on title page; signature obtained in person by bookseller; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry 1975; some yellowing from age
Seller: Affordably Rare, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
SNYDER, Gary. Turtle Island. New Directions n.y., New York, 1974.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 114pp, (2pp ads). Fine. Later (20th) printing of this Pulitzer Prize-winning volume first published in 1974, inscribed and signed large and handsome and very, very green by the poet on the title page: "For Becky Snyder / Gary Snyder / II.IV.97." Quite attractive -- tight and pristine.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Snyder, Gary. Turtle Island (New Directions Books). New Directions, 1974.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Inscribed on the title page in Snyder's smooth calligraphic style: "For Roger, fellow-worker, Gary Snyder, 30.V.91." Fifteenth printing. A fine book, with a light crease to lower front corner of front wrap, and with perhaps the faint aroma of smoke. Still fine. Remarkably good shape for a paperback.
Seller: Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books), La Grande, OR, U.S.A.
Snyder, Gary. Turtle Island (New Directions Books). New Directions, 1974.
Price: US$69.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. SIGNED by the author. Flat signature. 10th printing. Minimal wear and creases to the cover. Pages are clean and intact.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Snyder, Gary. Turtle Island (A New Directions Book). New Directions, 1974.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed to a poet from Nebraska on the title page in brown ink: "For Nancy McCleery, at Port Townsend, July 40077, Gary Snyder." I.e. 1977, an early signature. This book won the Pulitzer Prize. Sixth printing. Very good with rubbing to cover and a yellowed square on the inside of the front wrap from a laid-in 1993 Snyder clipping from the Denver Post (entitled "Poet's Earth outlook wary"). // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in nature writing and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We invite you to explore our dedicated, growing collection of signed and inscribed Gary Snyder books.
Seller: Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books), La Grande, OR, U.S.A.
Snyder, Gary. TURTLE ISLAND. New York: New Directions, (c. 1974.), 1974.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED hardcover - Later printing. Woodcut illustrations by Michael Corr. Winner of the Putitzer Prize for poetry - according to Snyder because it was "the only book that was quite that gutsy .jumping-in-with-all-fours, taking a stand on things." Snyder explains in his introductory note that 'Turtle Island - the old/new name for the continent, based on many creation myths of the people who have been here for millenia, and reapplied by some of the them to 'North America' in recent years.' SIGNED on the title page. A copy which was printed on demand. 114 pp. Fine in navy blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a fine dust jacket.
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Snyder, Gary.. Turtle Island.. New Directions, New York, 1974.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in dull pale green cloth, in a Fine glossy white and black dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 114pp. Poems and a prose section "Plain Talk" at the end. This collection won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. This copy is INSCRIBED by Snyder to a bookseller in 1995, and SIGNED on the title page. Q19678
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.