Animals and Other Creatures

Hardcover. Neptune City, NJ, T.F.H. Publications, 1st USA, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Hardcover. Photographs by author. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards, glossy. Some tanning to cover boards, pages and very light foxing to front and back pages. Doesn't affect illustrations or text. Reef Corals of the World: Biology and Field Guide.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st UK, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black with a color pastedown label on front cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignettes and 8 plates by Seton. The work follows the story of a gray squirrel that was raised by a farm cat but is forced to learn how to survive in the woods after his home catches on fire. The work was later adapted into a children's Japanese anime series in 1979. Corners with light bumps, no marking.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 624 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 135 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. In the fall of 1996 Sydney Plum encountered a solitary Canada goose on a pond near her home in New England. Caring for the animal became a way for her to reconnect with nature. Walks to the pond were daily rituals--reflective times during which Plum thought about the relationships between humans and animals. Mixing memoir with closely observed nature writing, Plum searches for a deeper understanding of what was changed by the experience with the solitary goose she named SG. In the tradition of Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Plum writes lyrical lessons on the life cycle of geese, the mystery of their great migratory patterns, and their amazing adaptability. Canada geese were not always so plentiful in the United States, she explains, nor were they always denigrated as "flying carp." Plum shows how species-management programs reestablished the birds outside their previous range at the same time as golf courses, office parks, and suburban ponds began dotting the countryside, providing them with prime habitats where they were unwanted.

Hardcover. White River Junction VT, Chelsea Green Publishing , 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 367 pages. In Feather Trails, wildlife biologist and birder Sophie A. H. Osborn reveals how the harmful environmental choices we've made--including pesticide use, the introduction of invasive species, lead poisoning, and habitat destruction--have decimated Peregrine Falcons, Hawaiian Crows, and California Condors. In the Rocky Mountains, the cloud forests of Hawaii, and the Grand Canyon, Sophie and her colleagues work day-to-day to try to reintroduce these birds to the wild, even when it seems that the odds are steeply stacked against their survival.With humor and suspense, Feather Trails introduces us to the fascinating behaviors and unique personalities of Sophie's avian charges and shows that what endangers them ultimately threatens all life on our planet. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Barre, Mass., Imprint Society, 1st thus, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Full color plates throughout, number 380 of a limited 500 copies, slipcase included, green cloth board with ivory spine and gilt title. Very clean and bright copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Arco Publishing, 1st US, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 174 pages, color frontis., b&w photos. Quest to capture an adult tiger shark, written by the son of Arthur Conan Doyle. Dust jacket rice-clipped.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, gray/green cloth stamped with a black and white design. In a dust jacket with two chunks gone from spine. A naturalist ruminates on birds (mostly) and woodchucks in these essays on wildlife. B&w illustrations by R. Bruce Horsfall,Most of these pieces were previously published in magazines.

Hardcover. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in marbled boards with a green cloth spine, 304 pages, 9 1/4 by 12 inches. Ex-lib of Harvard University with bookplate on inside front cover, light stamping. "Reprinted from the Memoirs of the California academy of sciences, vol. IV." 225 pages of text and charts followed by 33 exquisite b&w plates of fish. Sound attractive copy despite scratches, edgewear to cover boards. This book is more for an ichthyologist than a fisherman. Very technical. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 224 pages. Color and b&w photos. A memoir by the wife of Toni Harthoorn, one of the best-known vets and animal scientists in Africa. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Minneapolis, University Of Minnesota Press, 2nd pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 228 pages, color and b&w illustrations. The haunting cry of the loon has for centuries fascinated people living in or near wilderness in northern parts of the world. The loon's call, its ability to dive, and its distinctive black and white feather pattern appear again and again in the myths and legends of North American Indians. There is included a disc recording of common loon vocalizations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Geoffrey Bles, 2nd pr., 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, lightly soiled dust jacket. Blue cloth covers with gilt stamping on spine. 172 pages with lovely pencil drawings of cats by Helen Headland. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Rouses Point NY, Lovell Printing and Publishing Co. Printers, 11th Ed., 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gilt illustrated tan cloth, Eleventh Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 226 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 243 pages. Bright green cloth over boards stamped in gilt and silver, with 28 black-and-white drawings by Francis Lee Jaques. A first edition of the author's second book. "The book has prose that is close to poetry. The discerning eye of the naturalist is in every page. The color, breath, and sounds of the North Country are here in vivid form. Sigurd Olson is our modern Muir and Thoreau. He writes with depth and with feeling. This book of quiet adventure is hard to put down." - Justice William O. Douglas.

Hardcover. Devon UK, Paternoster Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket that's price-clipped, 272 pages, b&w, color illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket that's been price-clipped. 88 pages, "with the standard of points as authorized by the German Shepherd Dog Club of America", b&w frontis repeated on dust jacket. Name on rear fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, D. Van Nostrand, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt lettering, 285 pages. Gertsch, who was a curator at the American Museum of Natural History, was the key authority of his day on spiders and identified over 1,000 spiders and close allies, including the brown recluse. This book is part of the New Illustrated Naturalist series curated by William Beebe, Robert Cushman Murphy, and Fairfield Osborn. Illustrated with color and b&w photos of spiders. Gutter cracked at title page, name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton , 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrations with black & white drawings by Bob Kuhn, 221 pages. Myles Turner, born in London in 1921, spent most of his life in Africa. After serving in World War Two, he worked with various companies leading tours through the African Wild. A avid consevationist, Turner began working for the Serengeti in 1956. This book is the memoirs of this time. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth boards with yellow lettering. Illustration of head of wildcat on front cover. 243 pages, 200 drawings by author. No date (preface dated 1916), title page printed in red and black.

Hardcover. NY, C.M. Saxton & Company, 1st, 1857, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 340 pages+ 2 pages of ads at rear. Worn and soiled brown leather boards with "Presented by the Vermont State Agricultural Society" stamped in gilt on front board. Marbled endpapers. Black spine label with gilt lettering. Many illustrations. Traces the pedigree of the Morgan horse from the original Justin Morgan with hints for breeding, breaking and general use and management. Front hinge cracked, interior clean, binding tight.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth decorated in black and bright gilt. 245 pages with index, many b&w illustrations of plants and insects by Gibson. Bright and clean copy in exceptional condition.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 317 pages, color frontis by Marguerite Kirmse (repeated on dj). Red cloth boards, black stamped lettering on cover and spine. Fading to covers at bottom.

Hardcover. Guilford CT, Lyons Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 269 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Wheat Ridge CO, Hoflin Publishing, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright red cloth covers with gilt rules and lettering, color pastedown on front. 552 pages, 970 b&w illustrations. A wealth of information on every aspect of the German Shepherd Dog. Many contributors on a variety of topics: history, breeding, behavior and care. Front cover art with light rubbing, name and address on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 481 pages. A portrait of the timber rattlesnake, its place in America's pantheon of creatures and in our own frontier history--and of the heroic efforts to protect it against habitat loss, climate change, and the human tendency to kill what we fear. Taking us from labs where the secrets of the snake's evolutionary history are being unlocked to far-flung habitats whose locations are fiercely protected by biologists and dedicated amateur herpetologists alike, Levin paints a picture of a fascinating creature: peaceable, social, long-lived, and, despite our phobias, not inclined to bite. The timber rattler emerges here as emblematic of America and also, unfortunately, of the complicated, painful struggles involved in protecting and preserving the natural world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. A description of that gentle beast, the upland gorilla, and of the African terrain and people. Mr. Schaller has written an informal and exciting story of his two years of travel and observation in East and Central Africa. No markings.

Hardcover. Garden City NY, Natural History Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with light fading to spine. 240 pages, b&w photos. Deals with the problems of imported wildlife, the pitfalls and successes and how the pitfalls seem to outweight the successes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Son's, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY CROWE on the front fly leaf. An account of three extensive journeys undertaken on behalf of the World Wildlife Fund, an international organization working for the protection and conservation of species all over the world. 301 pages with index, b&w photos. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Julian Messner, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 480 pages illustrated with 140 b&w photographs. A book of natural history, travel and adventure. Binding of brown cloth with bold silver titles on front and spine. Very clean, tight binding, solid, square, sharp corners, unmarked.

Hardcover. Chicago, Judy Publishing, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket, 158 pages, many b&w illustrations. A complete presentation with illustrations of the origin, development, breeding, showing, training including field work and field trials, kenneling, care and feeding of this breed of dog, with 22 charts of pedigrees of leading sires. Shelf wear, clean.

Hardcover. Vermillion SD, Buteo Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear. Book is clean, unmarked. A comprehensive record detailing the classification, migration, distribution, ecology, breeding, ecology and conservation of wild geese. The 16 full color identification plates help support the excellent chapter concerned with adult and first winter birds as well the plumage of all ages and species of birds and their variants. Good reference copy.

Hardcover. Stillwater MN, Voyager Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 158 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A tribute to the elk, one of the most popular game animals in the U.S. Featured are writings by some of the outstanding authors in American outdoor literature, including the former editor in chief of Field & Stream and Outdoor Life, Clare Conley; Hal Borland, a longtime writer for the New York Times; Jack Ward, former head of the U.S. Forest Service; and even Teddy Roosevelt. The collection of elk-hunting stories is excellent to read, and the accompanying photographs are truly breathtaking.

Hardcover. NY, Hastings House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 85 pages illustrated with b&w photographs. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Softcover. London, Quartet Books, 1st pbk, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 310 pages. color frontispiece plate + 120 color plates by Martin Woodcock, color photographs, b/w illustrations; map end papers. Superbly produced and lavishly illustrated this was the first major work on Arabian birds for over 25 years, and the first comprehensive book on the birds of any Arabian country. DUE TO WEIGHT, This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 2nd pr., 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and design on front cover, 244 pages, b&w illustrations. The author of Bring 'Em Back Alive relates more tales of collecting and transporting wild animals for zoos and circuses. Includes tigers, elephants, spitting cobras, black leopard, miniature deer and much more, mostly done in India and Borneo. Clean copy. Mild shelfwear, clean copy.

Softcover. Needham Heights MA, Old Trusty Dog Food, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. A promotional booklet issued by a dog food company. The highlight of the book are the many b&w cartoons by Beck. Funny, well done in the style of H.T. Webster. Light chipping to paper spine, otherwise clean. Uncommon.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover. Red quarter cloth. Bumps to corners of covers, top and bottom of spine has some light fraying. Pages have a touch of tanning.

Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, 5th pr., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 682 pages with b&w drawings by Francis Lee Jaques including a fabulous color moose illustration on the dust jacket. First published in 1947. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with fading, 249 pages. Eight beautiful color illustrations by Marguerite Kirmse along with several b&w drawings in text and her endpapers design. Albert Payson Terhune has gathered together in this volume some of his best known and best loved stories. Clean copy.

Softcover. UK, Dodo Press, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 261 pages. Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper (1813- 1894) was an American writer and amateur naturalist. She was the daughter of the well known novelist James Fenimore Cooper. Her most famous work is Rural Hours (1850), a nature diary of Cooperstown, New York. Amongst her works are Female Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Women of America, The Lumley Autograph, and Elinor Wyllys; or, The Young Folk of Longbridge (1846), a novel. Clean copy.

Softcover. College Station, Texas A & M University , 6th pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Illustrations by Joan Walternmire. Seventeen figures and 8 tables. 255 pages, indexed.

Hardcover. New York, M. T. Richardson, 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Boards covered in brown cloth with black design on front cover. Tear near the gutter on the first few pages including the frontispiece but it does not effect the image depicted. Still has previous owner's inscription from 1888. Some staining on pages but otherwise, a tight, clean copy. This book covers detailed illustrations of various methods of shoeing with special directions "for shaping shoes to cure different diseases of the foot".

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated color pictorial boards, 104 pages, approximately field guide size. Color plates by Sutari Bin Supari. Clean copy.

Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 460 pages. Light green cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, laminate white dust jacket with color illustration, over 700 bird species illustrated in color and b&w, in more than 1300 individual paintings, endpapers decorated with maps. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Lexington KY, John Bradford Press, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. Color photographs and B&W illustrations. Pictorial dust jacket with light wear, price-clipped. Green cloth with gilt title to spine. Previous owner's inscription. Overall, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Harper Collins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green cloth-covered boards in excellent condition; slight top edge wear to pictorial dust jacket. 256 pp. This rare title includes extensive photographic documentation of the diversity of bird life in the former Soviet Union. This book also discusses the rich physical geography of the region, accompanied by more than 300 color and b/w photos.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Edited by Gardner D. Stout. Bird paintings by Robert Verity Clem. Light tape residue to end papers where dust jacket was once taped to book.

Hardcover. New York, Orange Judd , reprint, 1865, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp decoration on front cover. Small portion of top dust jacket edge missing. Previous owners stamp on front paste down. Water stain to bottom and fore edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, reprint, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated green cloth, 460 pages, with illustrations throughout. Light corner bumps and edge wear, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, light spine crack on some pages, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. London , Hurst And Blackett , reprint, 1900 , Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 424 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Previous owners book plate on front paste down. Foxing to end papers and paste downs. Previous prices written in pencil on front pastedown. Binding lose. All pages clean and legible.