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1982Features: The Unicorn that Goes to Sea; What is Sea Level; the Successful Submarine that Failed; Protection from Shark Bite - a suit of mail; Catalina's life-saving marine laboratory; Up from the deep; Waikiki roughwater swim; The Australian Institute of Marine Science; the Birds of Midway Islands; Life in a Boat Channel. Sound copy. Book
1985Features: Vision in marine animals; The sea birds of northern Britain; Ex Libris - Neptunus Rex; In search of spiny lobster larvae; the unspoiled Little Barrier Reef of Saudi Arabia; Winter kill of summer flounder; The ancient sea that became a state; Master of disguise. Sound copy. Book
1931Pages 385-424. Features: This Tourist Business of Ours - is it a billion dollar ballyhoo? - photo at Radium Hot Springs; Painted Mountains - Cameron Lake of Waterton National Park; Camper - Respect the Weather!; White Water - photo-illustrated canoeing article by Grey Owl; Memories of Flashing Streams - the trout run big in Cape Breton; "A Big Bee" Brings Pipe of Peace - wonderfully photo-illustrated article describes how treaty money is paid, land is dealt, etc. with Ontario's Native peoples; Blackbird Blizzards; When You're Lost in the Woods - using your watch as a compass; Birds for the Prairie Shelter Belt; With Our Junior Fire Wardens; Trailing the Clouds on Horseback - the life of Rocky Mountain Guide Old Man Logan; Jack Miner's Mail Bag; A Bird Sanctuary in Nova Scotia - by John W. Piggott; Forest Business in British Columbia, by Hon. N.S. Lougheed - includes amazing half-page photo of fallers, their long saws and massive fallen timber; ; Black Bass Furnish Hot Weather Sport, by Ozark Ripley. Nice two-colour ad for C.I.L.'s Dominion Ammunition inside front cover. Canadian National ad inside back cover promotes big game hunting in Canada. Nice ad for Western Super-X shotgun shells on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
1961Features: Surprising island of the Northern Sea - Iceland; The Flowers Known as Birds - the Bird of Paradise from South Africa; What Maestros Look like to me - Sol Nemkov tells his adventures in the concert world while playing for such temperamental geniuses as Toscanini and Stokowski; You can't live in New York - untold miseries plague those who set up housekeeping in Manhattan, says long-time resident Horace Sutton; My Next 60 Movies - James Stewart (conclusion); Maybe I'll Pitch Forever - Satchel Paige, the American League's first Negro pitcher; The Coyote - World's Champion People Taunter - some claim he is one of man's best friends. Above-average wear. Covers almost detached. Small clipping from ad on page 55 - text unaffected. 1/6 page photo of coyote clipped from page 42. Top 2/3 of page 81 clipped out - this seems to have removed part of a novel. Nice color Coke ad on back cover. Book
1952Features: In Search of the "Hairy Frog" - an expedition into the British Cameroons collecting specimens of wild animals and birds for zoos, with photos; The Navy Pay-Roll Robbery - an audacious hold-up of a large Navy payroll in Malta, G.C.; Luck of the Game - a story from an original prospector in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast; Ozark Excursion - hunting with the hillmen, including one who uses a crossbow and another who 'catches fish with his teeth'; The Lost Mine (Part 2) - Somewhere in Panama lies Tisingal, reported to be one of the richest gold-mines ever worked by the Spaniards; The Cowrie Shell - White men in Africa usually scoff at the native's faith in charms and amulets; My Friend Bull; House-to-House; Japanese Net Balls (Glass Floats); Brown's Donkey - a strange incident from the North African desert; The Rest-House - a tale from the Eastern Himialayas; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Book
1956Features: Two against the ocean, including a polio victim; White Man Fire-Walker - Methodist Missionary The Rev. Eric. L. Robinson; Pilot's 300 Crashes into Balloon Cables - continuing 'The Sky's No Limit," the first authentic story of the test pilots; The Mongoose - killer of Cobras; I Joined the Rush for Uranium - The Colorado Plateau; Rendezvous with Maneaters - Adventurer's Paradise Continued; Captured by Chinese Pirates - the steamer Ningpo; Below Zero Road - The Alaska Highway; The Trail of Crab Oonaka; Search for the Whooping Crane - trailing two wild birds for over 2,000 miles; We found unknown mountains - Nepalese adventures; The Beads of Assa - Somali adventure; Up-Helly-A - Norse Festival; and more. Backstrip missing; Covers partially loose. Still a worthy copy. Book
196147 pages. Features: The (bilingual) National Theatre School of Canada, located in Montreal; They Expect Miracles of (baseball player) Frank Howard; Dillies by Dali - the famed surrealist applies his ideas to a new medium - the designing of jewelry - with seven colour illustrations; Amanda Blake says "I don't need men" - marriage has no place in the life of the girl TV viewers know as Gunsmoke's Kitty Russell; Maurice Chevalier - the eternal youth; Anatomy of a Wedding - X-ray wedding photos!; Showing the flag - 798 Mini-minor cars are arranged to form a giant Union Jack (with colour photo); They have a word for it - a series of new Canadian dictionaries published by Gage; Essie Johnson - new model missionary - a Canadian works in Northern Rhodesia to prepare the Africans to educate their own people; Colour photos of birds; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
194252 pages. Features: Photo and "Aurevoir" by C.H. Greenway, Wing Commander, Commanding Officer; article by Chaplain F/L W.C. Daniel; The Philosopher and the Birds - A short Christmas Story; Ivan Ackery - A Master Showman, by LAC. S.R. Finkel; Station Adjutant Flight Lieutenant R.A. Kirkwood, by W01 K. Pugsley; Tops in Entertainment; Our First Station Dance; Sergeant John Chipman Kerr, V.C.; Film Cutting in One Uneasy Lesson, by Flying Officer Phillip Booth; Sports - considerable news of station sports activities; Phone interview with Lovely Susan Hawyard; Presentation of a Kittyhawk aircraft to the R.C.A.F.; Acceptance Testing of New Aircraft for the R.C.A.F., by W.L. Thomlinson, Squadron Leader; British Columbia Takes a Bow, by F/Sgt., D.J. Miller; Defence of the Airmen's Mess, by F/O H.J. Bird; Wonderful centerfold montage of photos with captions, and message from Commanding Officer; Army News; Women's Auxiliary to the Air Service; Nice photo ad for Harron Bros. Limited Funeral Home; Dozens of excellent vintage ads for Vancouver-area small businesses; and more. Moderate wear. Tiny ink stamp to front cover, otherwise unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy of this vintage R.C.A.F. publication. Magazine
1992réf. 131558Academic Press, London and San Diego, 1992. 460 S. ; 29 x 22 cm ; Pp. ;
1977réf. VV151741977 xiii, 594 p.,num. figs & pls, cloth (dust jacket). Corner cut out of first end paper, else a very good copy.
1867réf. VV010331867 28 p., 2 (1 double) pls, roy. 4to, disbound. Published in: Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.
réf. 101843aafLondon, R. H. Porter, 1894, in-8vo, Frontispiece + LII (with 1 illustration) + 131 p. + 2 plates (Original-photograph) + 2 folded maps in colour, small legacy stamp on first free flyleaf ‘Guggisberg’, cloth binding, spines-ends a little damaged.
1964A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Shiny pictorial cover. Small format: 6 1/2"w x 4 1/8"h. Approx. 50 pages. #15 in The Odyssey Library Series. Photographs by Arthur Singer.
1936réf. 014089New York: Macmillan 1936. 1267 pages in two volumes ills. photos maps 16 color plates. Geographic background hydrology field work family and species accounts include penguins albatrosses petrels storm petrels shearwaters tropic-birds pelicans boobies cormorants man-o-war birds oystercatchers ducks & geese skuas and jaegers gulls terns skimmers. Nice copy with usual fading of spine but still legible. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Jaques Francis L. ill. 4to. Macmillan Hardcover
1936réf. 012802New York: American Museum of Natural History 1936. This is the limited first edition #1175 of 1200 numbered copies. The Macmillan/AMNH edition was the trade edition. The plates are interspersed throughout the text rather than all bound together at the end. 1267 pages in two volumes illustrations photos maps 16 color plates. Geographic background hydrology field work family and species accounts include penguins albatrosses petrels storm petrels shearwaters tropic-birds pelicans boobies cormorants man-o-war birds oystercatchers ducks & geese skuas and jaegers gulls terns skimmers. Small rubber stamps inside cover/flyleaf otherwise a clean tight copy. First Edition Limited and Numbered. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Jaques Francis L. ill. 4to. American Museum of Natural History Hardcover
1936Two volumes. pp. xx, 640; vii, 641-1245 + 72 monochrome numbered plates and 16 full page plates, in color, showing paintings by Francis L. Jaques. Includes also 80 text illustrations. Large 8vo. Original full cloth bindings. A very nice set of an important work. Especially significant for its descriptions of the birds of the Antarctic seas. SCARCE. NH7
1915Old price (3/-) on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. 150pp. A series of papers, written in turn with each month of the year in mind which describe and discuss the bird life around Tayside in Scotland including a long feature on migration. Photograohic illustrations.
1965réf. nmn20London: Collins. VG: in very good condition dust jacket. Previous owner inscription to fep. 1965. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 140mm 8" x 6". 256pp. . Collins hardcover
1945réf. VV324571945 Librairie Le Triptyque, 1945 : In-4 Carré, Broché. joli frontispice en couleurs, 64 pp., nombreuses illustrations en noir, sépia et en couleurs dans le texte et hors-texte dont une en double page de Marcel Cartier, impression sur beau papier, couverture rempliée verte et blanche, Collection Petits Textes des Grands Auteurs, bel exemplaire ! Jaquette Très bon état, Couv. fraîche, Dos impeccable, Intérieur frais.
1961réf. 1021811961 N° 92, Novembre 1961 - Petit In-4, broché, couverture et 4ème de couv. illustrées - Revue mensuelle illustrée - 53 p. - Sommaire en image
1982réf. SKU1030908Pioneer Press 1982-01-01. Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Signed by Author. Signed by both authors on title page. Good. Light to moderate shelf wear to covers/corners; satisfaction guaranteed. Trade paperback binding.Thank you for supporting Earthlight Books and independent booksellers. Pioneer Press paperback
2007207 pages, illustrated, maps, references, glossary, appendices. eng
réf. 141612aafBerlin, Akademie Verlag, 1987, gr. in-8vo, X + 398 S., ill. mit 362 Abb., davon 1 farbig, 4 Tabs und 3 Bestimmungsschlüsseln, kl. Sammler-Stempel „Joerg Weber“, Original-Leinenband. Orig.-Umschlag.
réf. VV173351962 (3rd ed.) 56 p., 37 figs, paperbound. Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei.
réf. 398351 vol in-4 broché - 61 pages - Année 1886 ( N° 1 - Tome 7 )
