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By: (Taylor, Will F.). Fairless, Michael [Barber, Margaret Fairless]
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1922.: 1922.
Seller ID: 26827
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1922.. 1922.. Good. - Small quarto [10 inches high by 7-5/8 inches wide], dark green cloth with a vignette in gilt on the front cover. The binding is lightly bumped & rubbed with a stain to the vignette. ix, [iii] & 121 pages. 20 black-and- white photographic illustrations by Will F. Taylor tipped onto gray stock. The pages are somewhat rippled & the versos of the pages of gray stock are darkened. The rear endpaper is darkened & there is off... View more info
By: (Thoreau, Henry David). Whicher, George F
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Chicago, IL: Packard and Company, (1945).: (1945).
Seller ID: 904
Chicago, IL: Packard and Company, (1945).. (1945).. Good. - 8vo, light gray cloth (lightly bumped; lightly spotted & soiled; stain to tail of spine & adjoining corners of covers) titled in dark green on spine with printed dark green label mounted on front cover. 93 pp. (staining to bottom inside corners of endpapers, prelims & last 10 pages of text, with light staining to remaining text pages; offsetting to front endpaper with owner's ink name & date). Good. "Noth... View more info
By: (Wilson, Alexander). Cantwell, Robert
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1961).: (1961).
Seller ID: 3120
Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1961).. (1961).. Good. - Quarto, green cloth titled in gilt within black rectangles on front cover & spine, in a color pictorial dust wrapper. The covers are bumped with rubbing & slight fraying along the bottom edges. There is a tiny hole in the cloth of the rear cover. The head & tail of the spine are chipped & frayed. The dust jacket is soiled & chipped with a number of pieces out. 318 & [1] pages. Illustrated with... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: NY: The Viking Press, (1961).: (1961).
Seller ID: 328
NY: The Viking Press, (1961).. (1961).. Very good. - 4to, light green cloth (lightly bumped; extremities slightly faded; scoremark to rear cover) titled in gilt with vignettes of birds stamped in gilt on front cover, in dw (rubbed & lightly chipped; stain to front panel; scoremark to rear panel; price-clipped). 256 pp. with text printed on variously colored stocks. Profuse color illustrations, many full-page. Fine internally. First edition. Dust jacket present. First ... View more info
![Image for A MEMOIR CONCERNING THE FASCINATING FACULTY WHICH HAS BEEN ASCRIBED TO THE RATTLE-SNAKE, AND OTHER AMERICAN SERPENTS. By Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D. [Together with]: SOME ACCOUNT OF AN AMERICAN SPECIES OF DIPUS, OR JERBOA. By Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D. [Also with]: A LETTER FROM MR. JOHN HECKEWELDER, TO DR. BARTON, GIVING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE REMARKABLE INSTINCT OF A BIRD CALLED THE NINE-KILLER. [And]: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES OF THE INSALUBRITY OF FLAT AND MARSHY SITUATIONS: AND DIRECTIONS FOR PREVENTING OR CORRECTING THE EFFECTS THEREOF. By William Currie. [From the "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, volume IV"].](/assets/images/product/1173548859.0.l.jpg)
By: Barton, Benjamin Smith; Klein, Jacobus Theodorus; Heckewelder, John; and Currie, William.
Price: $500.00
Publisher: [Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by Thomas Dobson], [1799].: [1799].
Seller ID: 37351
ILLUSTRATED WITH AN ENGRAVED PLATE OF AN AMERICAN JERBOA - Quarto, 11 inches high by 9 inches wide. Unbound signatures from the "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society". 69 deckle-edged pages in all, with large uncut & untrimmed margins, consisting of pages 74 to 142. Illustrated with a full-page plate engraved by Vallance portraying the "Dipus Americana, American Jerboa" [a rodent similar to the gerbil though with Kangaroo-like legs]. The ove... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931.: 1931.
Seller ID: 36314
- Octavo, light brown cloth titled in gilt on the front cover and the spine with an illustration of a hare mounted on the front cover. A Dewey decimal number is penned in white ink on the spine. The covers are slightly bumped. viii, [ii] & 140 pages, profusely illustrated from photographs by the author and Louise Birt Baynes, including several full-page. Ex-library, withdrawn from the "Frank L. Boyden Library / Deerfield Academy" with their withdrawal stamp over ... View more info
By: Beebe, William
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York/London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.: 1928.
Seller ID: 29488
New York/London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.. 1928.. Very good. - Octavo, cloth. The binding is bumped & lightly rubbed with the head of the spine slightly chipped. xiii & 234 pages. Color frontispiece after a painting by Zarh Pritchard with a printed tissue guard and black-and-white photographic illustrations. Some bottom page corners are bumped. Very good. First edition. First Edition. View more info
By: Beebe, William (1877-1962). American naturalist, ornithologist and explorer.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: May 28, 1926.: 1926.
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 35655
- The words "Why not?" are penned by Beebe on an approximately 2 inch high by 3-1/4 inch wide cream card. Signed and dated "William Beebe / May 28 / 1926". Very good. William Beebe [1877-1962] was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer and author. He is best remembered for the numerous expeditions he conducted for the New York Zoological Society, his deep dives in the Bathysphere and his prolific scientific writ... View more info
By: Berridge, W. S
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, (1922).: (1922).
Seller ID: 912
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, (1922).. (1922).. Good. - 8vo, brown cloth (lightly bumped) titled on spine (faded), in dw (soiled & chipped; piece out of top edge of rear panel; dw spine spotted & torn with pieces out of head & mid-section). 253 pp. (light offsetting to endpapers; page edges slightly darkened). B&W frontispiece & B&W illustrations from photographs by the author. Good. This book about the curious habits, dispositions and characteristics of mammals, ... View more info
By: Brown, Dennis A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York: Dial Press, (1978).: (1978).
Seller ID: 24363
New York: Dial Press, (1978).. (1978).. Very good. - Small quarto [10-1/4 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], boards, in a price-clipped dust wrapper.The binding is slightly rubbed & there is some light soiling to the dust jacket. xiv, [ii] & 304 pages, printed in 2 columns. Illustrated in black & white & color. The top edges of the leaves are slightly rippled, probably from humidity. Very good. First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View more info
By: Burroughs, John
Price: $25.00
Publisher: South Brunswick & NY: A. S. Barnes and Co. / London: Thomas Yoseloff Ltd, (1969).: (1969).
Seller ID: 1925
South Brunswick & NY: A. S. Barnes and Co. / London: Thomas Yoseloff Ltd, (1969).. (1969).. Very good. - Octavo, black cloth titled in green, in dw. The extremities are slightly faded & there is a tiny white stain to the bottom edge of the front cover. The dw is rubbed & lightly chipped with light creasing to the front panel & staining to the bottom edge of the rear panel. 148 pp. B&W photographic illustrations & full-page & textual drawings by Elizabeth Burroughs Kelley... View more info
By: Burroughs, John
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890.: 1890.
Seller ID: 15145
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890.. 1890.. Good. - Octavo, olive green cloth backed with dark greenish brown cloth & titled in gilt on the spine with a decoration in black on the front cover. The top edge is gilt. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. [iv] & pages [5]- 255. The top & inner edges of the page are slightly darkened. There is light dampstaining along the bottom inner edges of the pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece... View more info
By: Burroughs, John
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890.: 1890.
Seller ID: 15148
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890.. 1890.. Very good. - Octavo, olive green cloth backed with dark greenish brown cloth & titled in gilt on the spine with a decoration in black on the front cover. The top edge is gilt. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. There is a small area of bubbling to the cloth of the rear cover with some very light soiling. [iv] & 298 pages. Very good. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., (1910).: (1910).
Seller ID: 12652
London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., (1910).. (1910).. Good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt on spine & in dark green on front cover. The covers are bumped & the spine is faded with the head & tail lightly chipped & a small tear along the rear joint. xv, 239 & [1] pp. There is an owner's pencil inscription on the front endpaper & a faded date stamp on the front pastedown; the top page corners in the first half of the book are lightly creased; there are occasional small stai... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Worcester, MA: The Davis Press, Inc., 1911.: 1911.
Seller ID: 31416
Worcester, MA: The Davis Press, Inc., 1911.. 1911.. Good. - Octavo, dark green cloth. The binding is rubbed with some light staining to the covers & with the corners of the covers chipped. The head & tail of the spine are chipped & frayed. 189 pages plus 1-page publisher's catalog. Illustrated with color plates. The bottom corners of a few pages of the preliminaries are creased. Ex-library with a handwritten label on the spine, library labels removed from the front past... View more info
By: Dickey, Florence Van Vechten
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press / London: Oxford University Press, (1936).: (1936).
Seller ID: 11811
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press / London: Oxford University Press, (1936).. (1936).. Very good. - Small octavo, decorative green, white & red limp cloth. The covers are lightly bumped & the head & tail of the spine are rubbed. lviii & 241 pages. Profuse full-page color illustrations, most from photographs by Donald R. Dickey. There is light foxing to the front endpaper & fore-edge. Very good. Second printing. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: U.S Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1965.: 1965.
Seller ID: 35506
- Octavo, softcover bound in cream-colored wrappers illustrated in black & white. The edges of the wraps are darkened & the top corner of the rear wrap is creased. [iv] & 20 pages, including 4 full-page illustrations in black & white. The contents are very good. Good. Catalog, published by the Public Health Service of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, for an exhibition marking the quatercentenary of Conrad Gesner held in November and December 1965 ... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Boston, MA: W. A. Wilde Company, (1936).: (1936).
Seller ID: 9098
Boston, MA: W. A. Wilde Company, (1936).. (1936).. Good. - Small octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The titling on the spine is faded. There are some tiny white marks & a dent to the front cover. The dust jacket is chipped & soiled with a long tear to the upper half of its spine & a piece out of the tail. 124 pages, There is light offsetting to the pastedowns & endpapers. Illustrated with black-and-white plates, including a frontispiece. Good in a fair dust wrapper. Fi... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1967.: 1967.
Seller ID: 5812
- Octavo, pebbled brown cloth. 307 pp. Near fine. United States Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication no. 84.Reprint of the original edition published by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1930. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Delray Beach, Florida: St. Lucie Press, (1997).: (1997).
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 32000
Delray Beach, Florida: St. Lucie Press, (1997).. (1997).. Very good. INSCRIBED TO PETER MATTHIESSEN AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, ROB FARMER, WITH HIS OWN FAMILY TREE - Quarto, 10-1/4 inches high by 7-1/4 inches wide. Printed light green & gray boards, titled in green, black & white. The corners of the covers as well as head and tail of the spine and top edge are bumped xiii, [i] & 253 pages with textual illustrations of charts. Very good. First edition.Inscribed to Pe... View more info