1951réf. 050082South Africa: Trustees of the Mammals of South Africa Book Fund. 1951. VERY HEAVY. xlviii 700pp index map bibliography 138 tables 54 bw & col plates pictorial endpapers. Green cloth with vignette of zebra head no jacket. Spine sunned minor spotting to inside edge of rear cover prev owner anme and small bookseller label inside front cover minor foxing to page edges. The posthumously published magnum opus of Austin Roberts on the mammals of South Africa. Colour plates show the animals and bw plates show the skulls. A must have title for anyone with an interest in South African wildlife and zoology. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Smit Rev. P.J. 4to. Trustees of the Mammals of South Africa Book Fund. Hardcover
1945réf. 18050149Georgian House Melbourne 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Illustrator: Marjorie Rankin. Hardcover. 105 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Georgian House Melbourne 1945. First Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in very good condition and comes in fair dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have superficial wear. Edges of dust jacket have moderate wear and major chips and/or tears. Dust jacket is unclipped. Dust jacket is protected in clear plastic sleeve. Pages are reasonably tanned. Illustrator: Marjorie Rankin. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; Children's Picture Books; Inventory No: 18050149. Georgian House hardcover
1959réf. 24080048Hutchinson UK 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor. Hardcover. 291 pages. PUBLISHING DETAILS: Hutchinson UK 1959. First Edition. CONDITION: The book itself is in good condition and comes in poor dust jacket. More specifically: Edges of boards have moderate wear. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. Dust jacket is unclipped. Edges of pages are slightly foxed. Pages are lightly tanned. Lightly tanned pages. Front and back faces of dust jacket has been cut out and pasted to boards. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. Moderate wear to bottom edge of boards. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Supplied with original box which has superficial wear and a light scratch on the front Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; Annuals; Inventory No: 24080048. Hutchinson hardcover
1880réf. 0009132Philadelphia: Sunshine Publishing Co. 1880-95. Sewn wrappers. Good. Quarto 18 pages lithographed stone wrappers rear cover detached Volume containing miscellaneous uncredited poems and brief stories with corresponding unsigned illustrations on facing pages. Includes a six-page illustrated version of "The Three Little Pigs". The covers include spaces for the names of commercial enterprises generally department stores or the like to whom the book was supplied for use as a promotional gift. The cover and inside pages contain advertisements various Aurora Illinois businesses such as Wilcox & Gilbert dress goods at River Street and Downer Place. With full-page ad for T. Kingsford & Son's "Oswego NY " starches. Records indicate that the title "Our picture book" was used by Sunshine Publishing Co. for volumes of varying content and number of pages. NOTE: the rear cover shows Kate Greenaway-esque children at play on a swing. Sunshine Publishing Co. unknown
1936réf. 54147Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. 1936. 4to. 9.5 x 12.5 in. 12 pp unpaginated. photo plates throughout. Photo-illustrated stiff softcovers red lettering & borders on front & back covers dustsoiling & edgewear minor scuffing still VG copy. First edition of this charming book filled with the curious and adorable animal photographs by Frees 1879-1953 known for his comedic anthropomorphic photos showing baby animals dressed up in clothing and posed in human situations. Rand McNally & Co., paperback
1947réf. 074182New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1947. 1st printing Square and unmarked in full green cloth binding. 233pp. Photos. Jacket is price-clipped and lightly rubbed. In a protective mylar cover. -- The informal story of the Roseate Spoonbill. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Dodd, Mead & Company Hardcover
1940réf. 012089New York: Harper & Row 1940. Black hardcover binding clean square and tight. Red illustrated dustjacket clean and crisp with minor shelfwear. 292 pages. Early reprint of popular dog story. Story of a Skye Terrier and his master. When the shepherd dies alone and homeless Bobby follows his worshipped master to Greyfriars churchyard. Here he began a vigil that lasted 14 years and came to the attention of Queen Victoria. A true story. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Harper & Row Hardcover
1989réf. 967500078New York: Longmeadow Press 1989. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Black Board Covers with Gilt Lettering to Spine; Covers are clean and Corners are sharp; White Endpapers; Square 6to; Dustjacket is Mylar wrapped; gilt spine lettering; Book is tight. bright and dustjacket is bright; Folio; 440 pages indexed; For the first time the entire text and the complete series of John James Audubon's paintings of the Quadrupeds appear in one volume. 155 full-color plates; Complete and unabridged; These superb paintings capture in exquisite detail the breathtaking beauty of the four-footed creatures that populated the North American forests and plains of Audubon's time; A very beautiful book collectable! Extra Postage required. 6.22#; P3; NA; MS0.00; OD090811; ACQ5/93; C-98; Longmeadow Press hardcover
1970réf. 013429New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company Apollo Edition. 1970. Oversized squareback paperback has minimal wear clean square and tight. Shelfwear along edges. Inscribed by author and dated 1977 ffep. 338 pages. Story about a wild black stallion and the man who helps Ben and Dixie keep the horse from being taken by hunter. First in the Tack Ranch series. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 1st Printing. Illus. by Crowell Pers. Signed by Authors. 1st Paperback. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. Thomas Y. Crowell Company Apollo Edition. Paperback
réf. 2566Germany: Be Ha Quality Germany. Pamphlet. Good. Text in German. Purple string-bound pamphlet with gilt titles and a small teddy bear on the cover. No date most likely 30s or 40s. Around 20 pages in good condition with black and white photos of Be Ha's animal toys beyond their soft teddy bears. Wear at the cover edges and the string ends are mussed. Blank teddy bear bookplate inside the front cover. An interesting piece of teddy bear ephemera from "World Toy City" Sonneberg Germany. Be Ha Quality Germany unknown
2001réf. A43621Cambridge England: Cambridge University Press. Near Fine. 2001. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0521782384 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. There is a small bumpt to the bottom corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a section of color graphs and examples at the front of the book as well. "Geosphere-Biosphere - brings together many of the world's leading environmental scientists to discuss the interation between the geosphere-biosphere and climate. The volume arises from a working group of the prestigious Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. The chapters give a state-of the-art summary of our current understanding of the present climate and environment by exploring Earth's past analysing human influence on the climate describing climate and its relation to the Earth's surface ocean and atmosphere and making future predictions of cliimate viability." Chapters include: The Antarctic Ozone Hole a Human-Caused Chemical Instability in the Stratosphere Feedbacks and Interactions between Global Change Atmospheric Chemistry and the Biosphere Atmospheric CO2 Variations Modeling and Evaluating Terrestrial Biospheric Exchanges of Water Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen in the Global Climate System Carbon Futures Global Climate Change in the Human Perspective Earth System models and the Global BIogeochemical Cycles The Role of CO2 Sea-Level and Vegetation During the Milankovitch-Forces Glacial-Interglacial Cycles Nonlinearities in the Earth System Simulations of the Climate of the Holocene Interations of Climate Change The Record of Paleoclimactic Change and its Greenhouse Implications Long-Term Stability of Earth's Climate Physical and Chemical Properties of the Glacial Ocean Ice Core Records and Relevance for Future Climate Variations Toward a New Approach to Climate Impact Studies Research Objectives of the World Climate Research Programme and Panel Discussion: future research Objectives. . Cambridge University Press hardcover
1977réf. 012825Hodder and Stoughton 1977. Brown hardcover binding clean square and tight. DJ has minimal shelfwear interior clean and bright. DJ not price-clipped. Originally published 1950 by Collins. 152 pages. Alison decides to write a pony book - and has to school a pony to get first hand experience. Then her plot requires her heroine wins a gymkhana! Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Illus. by Kennedy Richard jacket and frontispiece only. 1st This Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hodder and Stoughton Hardcover
1923réf. 00007794Washington: The National Geographic Society 1923 118 pages very minor indications of exlibrary. Still a nice horse book. The National Geographic Society hardcover
2007réf. 239New York: Little Brown and Company 2007. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Tan hardcover in dustjacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page "For Terry There is a scent a line of tracks. Follow them. Craig." And then signed in full again above his name on the title page. Upper corners bumped and a bit of bending at the spine ends. Large previous owner's gift inscription on the front free endpaper otherwise a clean unmarked copy. Unclipped jacket with matching edgewear and corner bumps still bright and attractive. 322 pp. some black and white illustrations. A great collection of essays on encounter native animals in the North American wilderness. Little, Brown and Company hardcover
1986réf. 00004623Oxford United Kingdom: Blackwell Publishers 1986 288 pages light crease on cover. Blackwell Publishers paperback
1918réf. 007679New York: Moffat Yard & Co 1918 Blue cloth pictorially stamped in navy 1/4" loss from top of spine hole in spine cloth shelf wear gift inscription light internal soil. Humorous rhymes sometimes with lessons about good behavior. Illustrated in color and b&w depicting humanized animals. The artwork is detailed and lots of fun. Rare in any condition. First Edition. Good/No Jacket. 4to. Moffat, Yard & Co hardcover
1916réf. 011385Boston: Privately Printed / McGrath-Sherrill Press 1916 77 pgs. Grey paper over boards with pastedown to upper cover titled in black ink unevenly soiled upper cover extremities worn bookplate removed from endpaper light to moderate foxing some offsetting opposite photo illustrations. A survey of various working dogs including Life Saving Police Fire Department Military Brotherhood of Hero Dogs Dogs Trained for the Stage Friends and Companions Burden and Service and Hunting. Printed on high quality paper. Illustrated with photographs and line art chapter heads by an unknown hand. Kate Sanborn was an essayist editor and farmer the grand-niece of Daniel Webster and descended from Noah Webster. . First And Only Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Uncredited. 4to. Privately Printed / McGrath-Sherrill Press hardcover
1960réf. 012624London: Collins 1960. Red hardcover cloth binding clean square and tight a few bookstore previous owner stamps front endpapers else clean interior. 254 pages slightly yellowed foxing. DJ has some chips tears wrinkles and rubbing - protected from further damage in clean Brodart jacket. Price clipped. Autumn and winter story centered around the solitary farmhouse of the Merrow family where Tamzin and Rissa keep house for the shepherd and his son during his wife's absence. They wrestle with a plan to beat back city developers by forming a group called the White Riders who gallop over the marsh at midnight. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall 2nd Printing. Illus. by Whittam Geoffrey. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Fair. Collins Hardcover
1901réf. biblio1241901. Charles Scribner's Sons First Edition. Second Impression. Olive green boards w/gold lettering front and spine. Boards sturdy text clean and unmarked lightly tanned. Light shelfwear to edges esp. at spine. Deckle edges. Previous owners' names on front pastedown and endpage. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
réf. WARE435JD009Very Good. Prompt shipment with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Very good copy with clean pages and dust jacket. Fifth printing. 4to. Published in Englewood Cliffs 1969. unknown
1939réf. T3400Platt & Munk 1939. A very good pictorial box with picture of Uncle Wiggily in a hot air balloon. One corner is repaired but nice bright box. Includes 4 softcover books from the 3600 series Platt & Munk FAGE All Books are in fine condition. Bright and probably never read. Copyright 1939. Box is marked 2590A. Boxed Set. Fine. Illus. by Charles Carlson. Platt & Munk Hardcover
2016réf. 554George P. Bonville 2016. Paperback. Good. No dustjacket as issued. Cover has some wear and a couple of light creases down the length of the front. The first three pages have a couple of light creases down the length. First printing. Signed by the author George P. Bonville on front endpaper. George P. Bonville paperback
1982réf. 2569bx22Written and illustrated by G. A. H. C. C. L. Mc'Intyre. Warm author inscription/signature title page dated Oct 1982. Good in stapled wraps with moderate outer wear contents VG. 51pages. bx103 Mc' Intyre paperback
1968réf. 013155New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1968. Pictorial hardcover binding square and tight minimal soiling dj flap glued to ffep. Back pocket intact a few marks but overall clean and tight. 153 pages. Bored with the ranch and her boyfriend Wally Deb visits her friend Kitty on the beach and realizes her impulsive idea of keeping her three-year old stallion Star in Kitty's flimsy corral will not work. Follows Lucky Star. Scarce title. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 1st Printing. Illus. by Savitt Sam - cover only. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. W.W. Norton & Company Hardcover
1993réf. 007106Grayling Michigan USA: The George Griffith Foundation 1993. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. FINE/NEAR-FINE First Trade Edition SIGNED and warmly inscribed by the author. A beautiful keepsake copy with no wear but for one barely bumped corner. Crisp clean solid like-new interiors. Unclipped DJ is very nice light shelf-wear only no tears. 7.25" x 10.25" 230 pages photographs. As a founding father of Trout Unlimited the author reveals the history of the conservation group. The George Griffith Foundation hardcover