- Small octavo [approximately 6-1/4 inches high by 4 inches wide], printed tan boards. The binding is rubbed & darkened with a small area of tiny black dots to each cover. xi, [1] leaf & pages [9]-308. Illustrated in black & white with 35 full-page & textual engravings. There is light foxing to the fore-edge, pastedowns & endpapers & scattered very light foxing to some illustrations & text pages. Good. Harper's Family Library No. 98. View More...
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1938.. 1938.. Very good. - Octavo, soft covers bound in printed gray wraps. The spine & extremities are darkened & the head & tail of the spine are chipped. There is an ink name in the top corner of the front wrap & there are a few tiny brown marks to the rear wrap. iv & 581 pages, partially unopened. Very good.
First edition.
Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum Bulletin 172. First Edition. View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in printed blue wraps. 104 pages. Illustrated with tables & a few black-and-white drawings. Very good. Printed by Order of The Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Among the contents of this report on the Diamond Jubilee meeting of the Society are The Rose Curculio in Manitoba -- with Notes on Other Insects Affecting Roses by H. Alex. Robertson; The Onion Maggot in Alberta by H. E. Gray; and Winds and Gypsy Moth Spread by E. P. Felt. View More...
Stuttgart: Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, M.B.H., 1946.. 1946.. Good. - Octavo, rust cloth backed tan paper covered boards titled in black The boards are warped & there are 2 tiny indentations to the spine. 253 & [1] pp. & 1-page ad. The pastedowns are partially unglued & the rear endpaper & ad are chipped. The pages are slightly darkened and some page corners creased. Illustrated in B&W. Good. A study of "nutrition and raw materials from the sea". The bulk of the book is about fishing, fish and fish products. Other raw materials from the sea such as coral, pearls, dyes, minera... View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wraps. The binding is soiled & lightly bumped with the spine darkened. 2-page series catalog, [vi] & 370 pages. The bottom edge is lightly foxed. There is a stain & a small piece out of pages 229-230 with very slight loss of text. Good. First edition. The authors were assisted by Walter Parks Bliss. State of Connecticut Public Document No. 47. Bulletin No. 20. First Edition. View More...
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1977).. (1977).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth-backed boards, in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly chipped & soiled. The head of the jacket spine is torn & the top edge of the rear panel is creased. 220 pages. There is a remainder mark on the bottom edge & 1 rear blank is slightly soiled. Black-and-white illustrations from drawings, & color photographic illustrations by the author. Very good in a good dust wrapper.
First edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1969).. (1969).. Very good. - Square 8vo, navy blue cloth (bottom edges of covers slightly faded) titled in silver with vignette of whales stamped in blind on front cover, in dw (darkened & chipped; lightly soiled). viii, [ii], 213 & [1] pp. (owner's blind stamp on half-title). Illustrations in dark blue & white by Leonard Everett Fisher. Very good in good dw. First edition.The author, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a world authority on marine animals, writes in his preface: This story of a sperm whale is fiction based on fact. Some of the... View More...
New York: Delacorte Press, (1975).. (1975).. Very good. - Large octavo, green paper covered boards backed with blue cloth titled in silver on the spine with the title stamped in blue on the front board, in a dust wrapper. The boards are dampstained. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed. [xi], 147 & [4] pages. Profuse color & black-and-white photographic illustrations by Geraldine Brooks. The contents are very good. First edition.Nicely inscribed on the verso of the half-title: For Margaret, / With our thanks for all you've done for Moving Pictures. / So glad you had a chance to meet Loh & Grin, J... View More...
New York: Grove Press, (2002).. (2002).. Fine. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. xiii, 281 & [2] pages. Near fine.
Uncorrected proof.
The book was written with journalist Doug Cress, a member of the board of trustees of Siddle's Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage. The foreword is by Jane Goodall.
From the library of Peter Matthiessen. Laid in is a form letter on "Friends of Chimfunshi" letterhead from Doug Cress asking Matthiessen for a "jacket blurb" for the book. The letter is signed "D. W. Cress" in ink. Also laid in is a leaflet about the orphanage. View More...
[Baltimore, MD]: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 1944.. 1944.. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed light blue wrappers. The wraps are bumped with their edges darkened. Pages 402-409. Very good.
After some ruminations on the history of the truffle in France, the author speculates on the likelihood of getting the government to finance an American truffle industry. View More...
Philadelphia/New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, (1955).. (1955).. Good. - Small quarto [10-3/4 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide], cloth, in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The binding is bumped & lightly rubbed. The dust jacket is darkened, rubbed, chipped & soiled with tears & pieces out. 87 & [1] pages, including profuse black-and-white photographic illustrations. Very good in a fair dust wrapper. Dust jacket present. View More...
Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1964.. 1964.. Very good. - Tall octavo, pictorial paper covered boards. There is a tear to the paper along the rear joint. [viii] & 264 pp. plus section of 187 color illustrations. Also with profuse B&W illustrations. Very good.
- Typed letter filling one side of an approximately 11 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide sheet of his personalized letterhead with a couple of lines on a follow-up sheet. Signed Tony. The top edge of each sheet is creased & each has a tiny chip, a paper-clip mark & pinholes where a staple has been removed in the top left corner. Folded 3 times for mailing. Very good. Smith sends friendly regrets that as he only comes to New York at weekends for events such as CIO conventions he will not be in New York in the near future and cannot accept an invitation to take part in one of Harold Rugg's lunchtime... View More...
- Octavo, softcover bound in printed light tan wraps. There are a few tiny marks to the wraps & their bottom edges are slightly darkened & creased. 84 pages. Illustrated in black & white with tables & diagrams. Very good. Published by Authority of Honourable Thomas L. Kennedy, Minister of Agriculture. View More...
Long Island, NY: Street Press, (1986).. (1986).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in pictorial black, white & magenta wraps. The wraps are rubbed & lightly bumped. 63 & [1] pages. The top corner of the title page [probably an owner's name] has been excised. Numerous black-and- white illustrations & and maps. Very good.
(The Millennium Guild, 1954).. 1954).. Good. - Octavo, light gray cloth titled in purple with a music stave in purple on the front cover. The covers are soiled & lightly bumped and the spine slightly stained. 144 pages, illustrated with a black & white portrait of M. R. L. Freshel. The stamp of the "Anti-Vivisection Society of N.Y." is stamped on the front endpaper. There is some craking to the hinges. Good.
Third edition.
Writings by Wagner on the subject of animal rights with numerous quotations from other authors. View More...
New York: The Ronald Press Company, (1958).. (1958).. Very good. - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly soiled, spotted & chipped with its spine darkened. xv & 321 pages. Illustrated with maps printed in red, gray & white. There is a small stain to the front pastedown & endpaper & the endpaper is lightly soiled. Very good in a good dust wrapper. Dust jacket present. View More...
- Quarto, 11 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, spiral bound light blue wraps titled and illustrated on the front cover. The top and inner edges of the covers are faded and there are a few light indentations to the top left of the front cover. 68 pages, including 4 pages of maps. There is occasional faint minor foxing and the corner of one page is creased. A previous owner's name is penned at the top of the front pastedown. Very good. First edition. Edited by Harold G. Klein and Charles W. Mitchell. Although there are no illustrations of the birds, the book includes descriptions of t... View More...
London: Frederick Warne & Co. / New York: Scribner, Welford & Co., 1871.. 1871.. Good. - Thick octavo, cloth. The covers are spotted with their corners chipped & stained. The spine is faded with a small tear to its midsection. Its head & tail are chipped & there is a small piece out of the head. vii & 631 pages. Illustrated with 4 black-and-white plates, including a portrait frontispiece with a tissue guard. The hinges are just starting & the book is cracked at page 128. There is a previous owner's signature on the front endpaper. The tissue guard is darkened with offsetting to the frontispiec... View More...
New York: Phillips & Hunt / Cincinnati: Walden & Stowe, 1883.. 1883.. Good. - Small octavo, softcover bound in pictorial cream & rust brown wraps. The wraps are rubbed & soiled with a few tiny stains. The spine & extremities are darkened & the lower section of the backstrip is partially detached. 94 pages. Numerous black-and-white illustrations. There are light pencil scribblings to the margins of 1 page. Good.
First edition, wraps issue. First Edition. View More...
