Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Julian Bell. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Victorian tale centers on a poor elderly widow who, while journeying to claim an inheritance left by her miserly brother, learns that kindness to animals can bring surprising rewards.
hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st thus, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings, frontispiece by Charles Livingston Bull and others. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears, soil. Bright colored animal painting on front of dust jacket. Previous owner's name on ownership page. Scarce in dust jacket.
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. Akron, OH, Saalfield, 1st , 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Pictorial boards with no dust jacket, blue cloth spine. 12 gorgeous color animal plates by Diana Thorne. Light edgewear to covers, frontis with mild creasing, some crayon marking to the reverse side. Plates ate bright, binding solid.
Hardcover. Akron, OH, Saalfield, 1st , 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 12 gorgeous color plates by Diana Thorne. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Spine loose, light soil to front cover. Abrasion on top covers corner.
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.
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. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1st, 1860, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Hardcover. Stated Author's Edition. Brick colored end papers scarred & chipped. Small discard stamp on title-page - ex-library with few markings. Short tear to page 7 of preface. Original embossed brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine faded. Uncommon book detailing the hunting of Indian animals, including man-eaters, panthers, bears, buffalo and wild elephants.
NY, Sterling, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Acclaimed artist and naturalist Jim Arnosky has created a breathtaking and informative reference on the subject, filled with intricately drawn prints from creatures both wild and domestic, as well as large-scale paintings of the animals in their environment. Best of all, many of the tracks are true to size, so children can compare the trace left by a big-footed polar bear (whose paws act as snowshoes in its icy environment) with that of a small bird. Adding to the eye-catching illustrations are four awesome gatefolds that display paintings of a bobcat, wolf, deer and a variety of hoofed animals right next to their prints. And the featured menagerie includes bighorn sheep and goats, chipmunks and rabbits, grizzlies and brown bears, horses and burros, domestic cats and dogs and even slithering reptiles!
Hardcover. London, Picador, 4th pr., 2018, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope. 362 pages, color photos. Small ownership sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Full color illustrations by Don Freeman. Tan cloth. Dust jacket with tape repaired chipping at top of spine. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 304 pages. A comprehensive and intriguing look at the witty and sophisticated art of William Wegman, beloved by the general public and held in critical esteem within the international art world This fascinating book reveals the full range of William Wegman's art. Beloved by the general public for signature photographs of his troupe of Weimaraners, Wegman is also an immensely important figure in the contemporary art world. A pioneer video-maker, conceptualist, performer, photographer, painter, draftsman, and writer, Wegman moves fluidly among various media: from conceptual works to commissioned magazine shots; from videos shown in museums to television segments made for Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live; from artist's books parodying nineteenth-century naturalist studies to children's books revealing tongue-in-cheek portraits of town and country life. William Wegman: Funney--Strange is illustrated with some 250 images. It is the first retrospective volume to consider the artist's entire career from the 1960s to the 2000s and is an essential book for any fan of Wegman's work.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Willow doesn't know what to do. Her mother has taken off again, she has to look after her brother Twig, and they're out on the streets of Vancouver with nowhere to go. Then Willow remembers her grandmother, whom she hasn't seen in years. Gram doesn't even know Twig exists, and Twig is, well, difficult. But Gram is her only hope now. After a few urgent phone calls from a police station in Vancouver to Ontario, Willow and Twig are on their way across the country to a grandmother they hardly know, and a strange household made up of an eccentric uncle, a hostile aunt, and a motley crew of animals. Clean, like new.
Hardcover. NY, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED with a little sketch of a badger by Begin.
Hardcover. NY/Boston, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED with a little sketch of a badger by Begin.
Hardcover. New York , Holt Rinehart and Winston, 4th pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 205 pages, illustrated in color by Michael Hague. INSCRIBED BY HAGUE WITH A INK SKETCH OF RATTY on the blank page opposite the spot illustration in front. Bright, clean copy.
Softcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 295 pages. Wisconsin Chippewa Myths & Tales, originally published in 1977, was the first collection of Chippewa folklore to provide a comparative and sociological context for the tales. These myths and tales were recorded between 1941 and 1944 by four young field workers who later became prominent anthropologists: Joseph B. Casagrande, Ernestine Friedl, Robert E. Ritzenthaler, and Victor Barnouw himself. The tales--which include stories of tricksters, animals, magical powers, and cannibal ice-giants--were told primarily by five members of the Lac Court Oreilles and Lac du Flambeau bands of Chippewa: John Mink, Prosper Guibord, Delia Oshogay, Tom Badger, and Julia Badger. Wisconsin Chippewa Myths & Tales is read as much for its fascinating stories as for its scholarship.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. INSCRIBED BY JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Full color illustrations by Wendell Minor. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Portland OR, Timber Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 336 pages, color illustrations. Long considered an icon of the wild, wolves capture our imagination and spark controversy. Humans are the adult wolf's only true natural predator; its return to the old-growth forests and wild coastlines of the Pacific Northwest renews age-old questions about the value of wildlands and wildlife. As the vivid stories unfold in this riveting and timely book, wolves emerge as smart, complex players uniquely adapted to the vast interdependent ecosystem of this stunning region. Observing them at close range, David Moskowitz explores how they live, hunt, and communicate, tracing their biology and ecology through firsthand encounters in the wildlands of the Northwest. In the process he challenges assumptions about their role and the impact of even well-meaning human interventions.
Hardcover. Bostom, Small Maynard & Co., 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in bright gilt. Essays on nature, originally published in the Boston Transcriot in rhe early 1900s. B&w drawings by Charles Copeland. Top edge gilt. An exceptional copy of a scarce title.
Hardcover. New York , Dodd Mead, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 73 pages plus index, b&w illustrations and dust jacket painting in color by Lewin. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR on the front fly leaf. Dust jacket bright, unclipped.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 199 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout. Edge wear, rubbing, small tears to price-clipped dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Harry Abrams, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 472 pages, 327 illustrations, including 107 full color plates. Published in conjunction with the exhibition honoring the 250th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth. Assembles more than 150 of the objects acquired by Jefferson - the first time they had been seen together since the contents of Monticello were dispersed at his death. Detailed appendices, bibliography. In a bright dust jacket, remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Ars Edition, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glazed boards. Approximately 5 3/4" x 4 3/4", 18 pages. English version by John Theobald. Bohatta was a Austrian writer/artist whose titles were republished in the U.S. in small printings. Charming color illustrations. Clean copy.