animals

Paperback. Bear Creek NC, Blackie Bear Corp., 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 58 pages, spiral-bound. B&W illustrations by the author throughout. Some rust on binding. Heavy paper cover exhibits some edgewear, bottom fore-edge corner bumped. Small water damage stain to the bottom corner of the spine. Large pencil mark on page 29. Otherwise clean edition. Sixth in a series of Blackie Bear books for children about anthropomorphized, clothes-wearing animals of the Smoky Mountain region. Blackie Bear introduces children to nature through his woodland antics and wildlife adventures.

Hardcover. Long Beach CA, Safari Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 336 pages, color and b/w photographs, b/w sketches by the author. Brown boards, spine titled in gilt. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. As the longtime editor of Safari magazine, Quimby had the chance to hunt on multiple continents for all the sundry game animals found there. In this book he tells us of hunts across North and South America; South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and other parts of Africa; Spain; Mongolia; and New Zealand. Also included is Quimby's successful quest to become one of the very few to take all ten of Arizona's big-game species. Several of his hunts were memorable for what went wrong. A horse panicked and fell off a series of ledges during a hunt for a mountain lion, which led to Quimby and a friend spending a cold New Year's Eve on a ridge without shelter or fire. Then, after he had waited thirty-nine years to draw an Arizona desert sheep tag, Bill is changing a tire on the first day of hunting when a bumper jack slips and breaks his arm. (He shot his ram and completed his "Big Ten" quest twelve days later by firing his rifle one-handed.) Some other stories include the time an Indian guide fell from a boat in the Northwest Territories and drowned on the author's caribou hunt; the time a storm on a Yukon moose hunt kept Quimby and his guide snowbound in a plywood shack for nine days. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, paper covered boards with a black cloth spine. Lovely b&w drawings by Bennett illustrate this tale about a young boy and his pet goat. Two-color endpapers illustration. Cloth spine reinforced with clear tape. corner and edgewear to covers. No markings.

Hardcover. Garden City NY, Garden City Publishing, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with red cloth spine. Copyright 1948 by James and Jonathan. Oversize hardback story/picture book measures about 9 by 11 1/4 inches. Story of Slappy, a duckling who runs away from home to discover the world. Clean copy of a fragile book. Fragments of dust jacket laid in.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2nd pr., 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 233 pages, b&w illustrations. From the minute it opened--on Christmas Day in 1865--it was Chicago's must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the Union Stock Yard. There they got a firsthand look at the city's industrial prowess as they witnessed cattle, hogs, and sheep disassembled with breathtaking efficiency. At their height, the kill floors employed 50,000 workers and processed six hundred animals an hour, an astonishing spectacle of industrialized death. Slaughterhouse tells the story of the Union Stock Yard, chronicling the rise and fall of an industrial district that, for better or worse, served as the public face of Chicago for decades. Dominic A. Pacyga is a guide like no other--he grew up in the shadow of the stockyards, spent summers in their hog house and cattle yards, and maintains a long-standing connection with the working-class neighborhoods around them. Pacyga takes readers through the packinghouses as only an insider can, covering the rough and toxic life inside the plants and their lasting effects on the world outside. He shows how the yards shaped the surrounding neighborhoods and controlled the livelihoods of thousands of families. He looks at the Union Stock Yard's political and economic power and its sometimes volatile role in the city's race and labor relations. And he traces its decades of mechanized innovations, which introduced millions of consumers across the country to an industrialized food system. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY., Thomas Y. Crowell, 4th pr., 1974, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a spine sticker. Illustrated in b&w and 3-colors by Wendy Watson. A lovely picture book that illustrates the importance of sleep through various animals and a comparison to humans. Readers can see the different sleep positions and consider their own. Ex-lib with light stamping and residue to endpapers. Clean internally.

Softcover. Burlington VT, Vermont Migrant Education Program, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, The scarce 1st printing of this charming book for beginning readers. Paperback. B&W illustrations by Jane Clark Brown.

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.

NY, Philomel, 1st illust. thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Alicia Austin.

Hardcover. New York, Abelard-Schuman, Book Club, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Abner Graboff. "Parents' Magazine's Book Club for Beginning Readers" seal on back cover and back of dust jacket. Dust jacket with tape repaired tear at top left edge of front cover - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Two areas of minor staining on final page -otherwise, clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Caldecott Honor sticker on front. Collections of poems which looks at animals, insects & plants found in ponds. Outstanding illus (woodcuts) complement this charming volume. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Diego, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in glossy boards, color illustrations, no dust jacket issued. A collection of illustrated anecdotes about (their) dogs by 43 children's books artists including Hyman, Provensen, Kellogg, Moser. Yorinks, Lane Smith. Wendell Minor & many more. Contributions donated to The Company Of Animals Fund. Publisher's original 4" cover "band" still attached to book. SIGNED by Marcellino, Lane Smith, Steven Kellogg, others. Babbitt, Trina Schart Hymen, Alice Provenson on bookplate.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. All manner of cute animals fall into the water in this colorful picture book illustrated by Dennis Panek. Clean copy.

New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st U.S., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Mary Wormell. Peter the spotted pig tries everything he can think of to remove his spots, from fading them in the summer sun to freezing them off in the winter snow, until he makes a new friend who helps him realize that his spotty look is something of which he can be proud. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Benefic Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with Squeaky on front cover. Illustrations in 3-colors by Edward Miller. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Minton, Balch & Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with blue lettering and drawing of chipmunk on front cover. Squiggles the chipmunk runs off with a doll's red cape around his neck. Adventures ensue as Emmy, the doll's owner tries to retrieve it. Charming drawings by Margaret Freeman, many with red borders. Covers have light soil, previous owner's name opposite half title page. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, North-South Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, color illustrations by Schmid.

Hardcover. NY, North South Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color Illustrations by Schmid. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth covers. Color illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Some light abrasions to cloth covers. Remainder mark on bottom. Clean, unmarked pages.

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.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Company, 2nd Pr., 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Full color frontis. Light abrasion to page edges 233-248. Faint circular damp stain on front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. SIGNED BY NANCY WILLARD AND JERRY PINKNEY ON TITLE PAGE. 1st edition/1st printing. Full color illustrations by Jerry Pinkney. Not ex-library. A bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New Milford CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR AMY SCHWARTZ ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrators. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New Milford CT, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Schwartz. This amusing picture book features Darlene, a relatively svelte hippo, and a cast of other dressed animals in three connected stories. With stars in her eyes, Darlene signs up for theater class and lands a role as "the Flood" in Noah's ark. On opening night she enters, entangles her feet in her long gown, and missing her target, flings a basin of water onto the critic in the first row. His review? "?a drenching, yet refreshing experience. Miss Darlene's performance was especially exciting." Two more plays follow, a science fiction drama in which Darlene flubs her lines, and Sleeping Beauty, which finds the hippo falling asleep onstage. The critic raves "A STAR IS BORN," and the story ends with Darlene's contented smile. Brightened with delicate washes, the fine, clean ink drawings create a series of charming, often droll scenes.