Hardcover. London, Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green pebbled cloth stamped with a gilt design of an Arab horseman standing next to his horse, gilt title on spine. Commentaries by The Emir Abd-El-Kader, translated from the French by James Hutton. Clean and bright copy.
Hardcover. London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1st, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in the publisher's gray paper covered hardboards with blue title lettering to front board. This is the rare first printing of Alison Uttley's second book. 109 pages,color illustrations by Margaret Tempest. Light chipping to paper on spine. A couple smudged pages, binding firm, a penciled name on half-title page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Scholastic, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by David Shannon. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. embossed blue cloth in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. Mild fading to spine. B&w illustrations by Rick Schreiter. Ex-lib with stamping, residue to endpapers, otherwise clean. Wonderful whimscal traditional short stories that detail how various animals got their name. It all starts in God's workshop where he fashions shapes out of clay and breathes life into them. What is interesting is that Hughes gives the animals free will to choose themselves - both in terms of what they will eat, how they will live, what they will do and what their name will be.
Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers stamped with blue design, 60 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Leonard Shortall. Mild soil to yellow boards, no markings. Six-year-old Stephen discovered a new sign on the Museum, "Animal Lending Library," a place which lent animals to children who were at least seven years old. During the next few weeks, Stephen thought about nothing except how he could borrow a small, brown rabbit.
Hardcover. St Paul MN, Minnesota Historical Society , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In this book lush, life-like illustrations by natural history artist Laurie Caple accompany Cheryl Blackford's poetic imagining of a year in the life of an urban coyote. Across the pages, Coyote sneaks, skulks, and scurries in his constant quest to feed himself and his growing family. While Coyote hunts nearby, people enjoy a city park. At the lake, in the marsh, among the trees, children jump, twirl, and play, oblivious to his secret life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Souvenir Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 260 pages. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust jacket, photographs by Pierre Tairaz. Rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NJ, Prentice-Hall, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 112 pages. Sepia-toned drawings by James Pearsall. In this intimate autobiography, a gorgeous Siamese feline pours her heart out to Douglass Parkhirst, who digs cat lingo purr-fectly. As the cat matures and goes out on her own, she describes her adventures in a bachelor's apartment, her jealous fits over one of her master's female admirers, her first encounter with a mouse, plus many other newsy tidbits that will delight sophisticated cat lovers. Clean copy.
Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, Revised Ed., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A new edition of the 1969 book, this one with new color art by Alexander.
Softcover. Decatur IL, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 80 pages. Two long profiles on illustrators Frank McCarthy and Paul Bransom, All in color.
Softcover. Decatur IL, Illustrated Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 80 pages. Two long profiles on illustrators Frank McCarthy and Paul Bransom, All in color.
Hardcover. NY, National Travel Club, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with red lettering, 298 pages. Illustrated with 88 b&w photos. A famous naturalist tells of his adventures in central Africa, accompanied by his photographs. Name and address on half-title page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight fraying at corners of dust jacket and faded spine. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Publishers, 2nd, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 513 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges, closed tear on front and crease on rear dust jacket. Previous owner's name written on front fly leaf. Light foxing to top edge page block.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Kestrel, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Letizia Galli. The animals on the Ark become restless and forgetful until the wise goats remind them of their roles before the flood. 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. NY, Knopf , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color illustrations by Dale Gottlieb. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, and rubbing.
Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Ashgate Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Einar Norelius. Text by Nils Bohman. Areas of staining/darkening to illustrated covers. Interior pages clean, unmarked.
Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. Lavishly illustrated with black & white photographs by Louise Birt Baynes and Ernest Harold Baynes. 145 pages. Super condition, bookmark of former Governor of Vermont (Redfield Proctor) on inside front cover. Otherwise bright and clean.
Hardcover. NY, Random House/Literary Guild , 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages, with sepia-tone Illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Hardcover. NY/London, Frederick Warne and Company, reprint, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in blue cloth covers stamped in black with a color pastedown illustration. Fabulous color plates (all present) and b/w drawings by Brooke. Originally published in 1935. Dust jacket with light edgewear. tanning to edges. Book is clean and bright.
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