animals

Hardcover. NY, Lion Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 46 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 2-color wash drawings by Palazzo. Ink price on front paste-down. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Springfield MA, McLoughlin Bros., reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated (64 pages), illustrated with 6 color plates and many other b&w drawings by Chloe Preston (not credited). Color pictorial boards, end paper drawing. Clean, minor wear at corners, top and bottom of spine.

Hardcover. Berkeley, Tricycle Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR ASHLEY WOLFF ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Fourth Estate, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large, oblong format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine, pictorial onlay to front. With original paintings by Anthony Rhodes and photos by Piers Cavendish. This is a celebration of the Peregrine. With the specially commissioned photographs of Piers Cavendish and the paintings and drawings of Anthony Rhodes this book describes the distribution and habitat of the peregrine across the world, its life-cycle, relationship with man and its potency as a cultural icon in many countries. Printed in four-colour throughout on art paper the book will examine the global distribution of the various species, the different names given to the peregrine by different countries and cultures. From there the book will focus on historical references to the peregrine, its links with the monarchy and its various cultural significance across the world, in art and literature, myth and fable. The rest of the book comprises a naturalistic description of the peregrine in the wild, its annual - and life-cycle, its interaction with man, the captive breeding of peregrines and their place in falconry. The final chapter will anticipate the future of the peregrine. Bright, clean copy. No slipcase.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, BC Ed., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, color art by Keats. Archie's cat is missing the day of the pet show - but all turns out well in the end. Vibrant, full-color illustrations fill every page. Oblong format, unpaginated. Clean book club edition.

NY, Greenwillow, BC Ed., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket. Color illustrations by Martine Gourbault. Light edgewear to dust jacket. After seeing all the animals in the zoo, Peter still likes the pigeons he sees every day best. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Koln GR, Taschen, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two large hardcovers in a slipcase, Volume 1: African wildlife photos, Volume II: biography. 494 pages. Text in English. French & German. As a photographer, collector, diarist and writer, U.S. born Peter Beard has fashioned his life into a work of art; the illustrated diaries he kept from a young age evolving into a serious career as an artist. He first visited Africa as a teenager and his documenting of the plight of starving animals, including elephants and rhinos, has continued to highlight the problems facing conservationists. This special edition is based on the original limited Collector's Edition which sold out on publication. NOTE: THIS LARGE HEAVY SET UNAVAILABLE FOR SHIPPING OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Hardcover. Chicago, Saalfield Publishing Co., 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated (48 pages), illustrated boards with light edgewear. 12 color and numerous b&w illustrations by Virginia Albert. Small blue stain to edge of last 10 pages, not affecting text or pictures. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Chicago, Saalfield Publishing Co., 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Unpaginated (48 pages), illustrated boards with a edgeworn dust jacket that matches the boards. 12 color and numerous b&w illustrations by Virginia Albert. Small blue stain to edge of last 10 pages, not affecting text or pictures. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York, Cupples and Leon, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Richard Hudson. In the scarce dust jacket with mild soil, edgewear.

NY, Dutton, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 96 pages. Interior pages slightly age-tanned at the edges, but clean & tight. Dust jacket has only light edgewear. Illustrated with drawings by Sam Savitt. The stories of various pets in rresidence at the White House over the years.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Stated First Edition, with full number line present. As New, pages barely opened. Six double-page smashing animal pop-ups. A 3-1/2 foot folded poster at rear, in pristine condition.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Stated First Edition, with full number line present. As New, pages barely opened. Six double-page smashing animal pop-ups. A 3-1/2 foot folded poster at rear, in pristine condition.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, BC Ed., 1950, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages illustrated by Duvoisin in color and b&w, Weekly Reader's Book Club. Clean copy

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 12th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 830 pages. Known in his lifetime primarily to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure, a writer who, in editor Jonathan Lethems words, wielded a sardonic yet heartbroken acuity about the plight of being alive in the twentieth century, one that makes him a lonely hero to the readers who cherish him.This Library of America volume brings together four of Dicks most original novels. The Man in the High Castle (1962), which won the Hugo Award, describes an alternate world in which Japan and Germany have won World War II and America is divided into separate occupation zones. The dizzying The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) posits a future in which competing hallucinogens proffer different brands of virtual reality, and an interplanetary drug tycoon can transform himself into a godlike figure transcending even physical death.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), about a bounty hunter in search of escaped androids in a postapocalyptic society where status is measured by the possession of live animals and religious life is focused on a television personality, was the basis for the movie Blade Runner. Ubik (1969), with its future world of psychic espionage agents and cryonically frozen patients inhabiting an illusory half-life, pursues Dicks theme of simulated realities and false perceptions to ever more disturbing conclusions. Remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise like new.

Softcover. Munich , Prestel, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Chronologically arranged, each chapter focuses on a particular work or idea that changed the course of photography. Presented in beautiful spreads and with informative text, the book opens with photography's genesis in the form of the camera obscura. Centuries later, Daguerre, Niepce, and Talbot invented their own means of capturing light on paper. The book covers groundbreaking genres such as still life, landscape, portraiture, and nudes. Sections on the role of photography in journalism illustrate how the camera's presence on battlefields, on city streets, and in factories helped inform and reform the modern world. Fashion, animals, Surrealism, and staged portraits are also explored. Perfect for perusing or reading from cover to cover, this book illustrates how photography developed from a concept to a world-changing force--one that attempted to shed light on truth yet can also obscure and alter reality in dazzling ways. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Charlotte VT, Camden House Publishing, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages. Extensive color photography by Richard Brown throughout. Offers advice on photographing people, landscapes, and animals, discusses composition, light, and equipment, and discusses the background of a variety of photographs. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 199 pages, illustrated in b&w by Michael Foreman. "Set in medieval France, the hero is - yes - a pig, a small but highly intelligent pig with a little boar blood lurking in his veins . . . When the feudal lords of Pitou decide with the farmers to rid the nearby forest of wild animals, it is Plantagenet (beloved of the farmer's daughter, Adele) who warns his cousin, the wild boar Grondin, of what is afoot . . . "

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Illustrated in color and b&w by Clifford Webb. In a price-clipped dust jacket that has a long chunk gone from top of back panel.

Softcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 127 pages in b&w. Purple pictorial wrappers. Walt Kelly's career in animation began in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, where he contributed to Pinocchio and Fantasia. In 1941, Kelly resigned at the age of 28 to work at Dell Comics, where he created Pogo. He started drawing the comic strip in 1943 but it was not widely published until 1948. He based his characters on animals native to the Okefenokee Swamp. Pogo, a possum, was the central character and some of his friends were cigar chomping Albert the Alligator, Churchy LeFemme (a turtle), Dr. Howland Owl complete with glasses, and others. His biting political satire was aimed a Senator Joseph McCarthy (Kelly s nickname for him was Simple J Malarkey ), the FBI, the John Birch Society, Nikita Khrushchev, and later, Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Cumbria, Cicely A. Robertshaw, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Limited edition of 500 copies. Softcover, 239 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Spiral bound. Light edge wear, rubbing to covers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover set. Two Volumes, Vol. 1: the land birds, 473 pages, and Vol. 2: game and water birds, 431 pages. Minor spine edge fray and corner wear. Volume 1 has one inch tear along spine and loose pages in front. Otherwise, both volumes have clean pages and are in good condition.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 378 pages plus 6 pages of publisher's ads. Profusley illustrated with 35 b&w line drawings, many full page. Bright green cloth with black and gilt design. Tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st thus, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 193 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Blue cloth, no dust jacket. Lovely copy in excellent condition.