animals

Hardcover. London, England, C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1st Edition, 1902, With 48 illustrations. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt top edge.Green cloth bound cover boards, gilt title and design on front cover and spine. Spine has fading and fraying at top and bottom. Front cover board has fading to top. Cover boards having shipping at edges. Pages and edges have some tanning from age.

Hardcover. New York , Golden Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 pages illustrated in color by Greg and Tim Hildebrandt. Glazed boards, A-J line on rear end paper. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, known as the Brothers Hildebrandt. They were American twin brothers who worked collaboratively as fantasy and science fiction artists for many years, produced illustrations for comic books, movie posters, children's books, posters, novels, calendars, advertisements, and trading cards. Light edgewear.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 133 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. An unusual fantasy featuring underwater adventures, giant robots, talking animals, poison gas and death rays. Color frontispiece and b&w Illustrations by Frank Boyd. Abrasion on top cover edge.

Hardcover. New York, Derrydale Books, reprint , 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 88 pages. Retold from the stories of Joel Chandler Harris. Color illustrations by Harry Rountree and Rene Bull. Soiling, scratching to covers. Corners rubbed. Spine a little bumped.

Hardcover. NY, Gulliver Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillion

Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED WITH SKETCH BY AUTHOR AT BOTTOM OF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Eileen Chistelow. Light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 46 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Bill Peet. Dust jacket with slight darkening to spine, minor edge wear. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages with color and b&w illustrations by Slobodkin. Ex-library but with minimal stamping and remnants of tape where dust jacket was attached to cover.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 2nd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Glossy illustrated boards, color illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. Small inscription opposite title page. Otherwise tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Walker & Company, 3rd pr., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY DAVID MCLIMANS ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy. Caldecott Honor sticker at bottom right corner of dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY KEVIN HENKES ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia , Lippincott, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in color by Bethany Tudor (Tasha's Tudor's daughter). Illustrated boards with light wear to corners. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, color illustrations by Ted Lewis - their first collaboration. The Lewins trek through the heat, humidity, mud, and dense vegetation of the Impenetrable Forest of southern Uganda to visit mountain gorilla families and observe the gorillas in their natural habitat.

Hardcover. Safari Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 254 pages. Great African Trophies is a photographic showcase of some of the greatest game trophies ever taken on the Dark Continent, and it includes elephants, buffaloes, the big cats, spiral-horned antelopes, and dozens of other magnificent animals. The focus is on animals that rank in the top five of each species in the Safari Club International and Rowland Ward record books, but also included are historic, unlisted, and little-known trophies, along with their stories. This book is a feast for the eyes for anyone who loves African wildlife, and it contains the best available historical and modern photos of superlative African game animals, as well as the tales--many never before told--of the hunters who were fortunate to connect with them. The photos are accompanied by a description of where, when, and how the animal was taken, and the book provides, if possible, the details of the hunt and how it unfolded. Clean copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Co., 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Tasha Tudor. First printing with all numbers present. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Cedar Crest Books, 5th pr, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, color illustrations by Lesley Anderson. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR opposite the title page. Tells the tale of Gwendolyn and Omar two best friends who have big dreams. Gwendolyn longs to dance ballet, and Omar wants to join the football team. There is just one problem they're both pigs! How will Natasha Levertov, the greatest teacher of dance in ze vorld, help them make their dreams come true? Mild shelf wear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1st UK, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a small close tear. The corpse of a young man lies in the street, his eyes half open, his face covered with insects. The uncaptioned image is like a jolt of electricity; no words could improve upon it. Ian Thomson's introduction confirms that life has little value in Haiti (cheap for humans, worthless for animals), a once proud nation that has declined into a police state where brutal poverty is the order of the day. Bruce Gilden's largely shocking black-and-white pictures reveal that decline as perhaps never before in a shoot-from-the-hip style of photojournalism. 120 pages. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London, L. Reeve & Co., 1st, 1877, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth boards with blind stamping to front and rear and gilt to spine. Illustrated with 13 b&w plates, 247 pages plus publisher's ads. Ex-lib from museum library, light residue, stamping to endpapers, internally clean. 1/4" tear to top of cloth spine, gilt lettering bright on spine.

Hardcover. NY, North-South Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 235 pages illustrated in color by Hoffmann. Felix Hoffmann- one of Switzerland's most important children's book illustrators of the twentieth century-- brings wonder and intrigue to these classic Brothers Grimm fairy tales: Rapunzel, The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, Sleeping Beauty, The Seven Ravens, King Thrushbeard, Tom Thumb, and Hans in Luck. Hoffmann's subtle details and keen ability to portray expression in humans and animals alike make this collection a visual treat and one to explore again and again. Seven classic tales are collected with stylish illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Bound in green paper boards with red lettering on spine and front board and a circular picture of Hare holding a bag of shopping. A story of 63 pages with 14 charming illustrations in full color plus cover illustration. Edges and corner wear. Two thin red line on front cover, lightly worn overall. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London/NY, Granta Books / Viking Penguin, 1st , 1990, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie's classic children's novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, and The Wizard of Oz. In this captivating novel, Haroun sets out on an adventure to restore the poisoned source of the sea of stories. On the way, he encounters many foes, all intent on draining the sea of all its storytelling powers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket with a small chunk gone from rear panel, unclipped. Harry, a little rabbit, does not know how to help his family prepare for winter but succeeds when he brings a summer song. An inspired picture book by an award winning author-artist. The charming, full-color art was produced from watercolor paintings. Unpaginated (approx. 28 pages).

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 June Head. Bohatta was a Austrian writer/artist whose titles were republished in the U.S. in small printings. Charming color illustrations. Front and rear endpapers paste-down with child's scribbles. Otherwise clean.