Animals

Hardcover. New York, Ward, Lock and Co., 1st, 1885, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Heavy wear on spine, fraying and loose fabric. Gutter cracked on front and rear end paper. Corners bumped, page block loose in binding. Pages lightly ripped near gutter in the beginning.

NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Tim Bowers. During the summer at his grandparents' farm, Fritz stumbles across some unusual rabbits. He follows their footsteps to their home in the middle of a grassy hill. One of the rabbits sees Fritz peering in their window and informs him that the other rabbits are out looking for a new meeting place. Fritz offers his grandfather's shed if they let him become a member, which they do.

Hardcover. NY, Browndeer Press/Harcourt, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. No dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully. Monsieur Lapin and Monsieur Blanc own the Spinach Main, a restaurant in the south of France famous for its fresh vegetables and excellent cuisine. Business is good until the day Monsieur Reynard, the fox, walks in. "Such tasty patrons--I mean portions," he says. "I plan to eat here often." The restaurant empties. What can Monsieur Lapin and Monsieur Blanc do? They have given up their pirate ways and are now rabbits of peace, but the fox is not easily discouraged. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Diego , Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1st U.S., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 86 pages, B&W illustrations by Kathi Bhend.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. Black & white illustrations by Wallace Tripp. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, short closed tear. Rabbits and his fellow citizens save the town from takeover by the evil Mink Mumsey. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with maroon stamping, 64 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Joy Buba. Covers with edgewear. A simple and direct little fact book about the characteristics and care of rabbits charmingly illustrated by Buba. Ex-lib with light marking, envelope in inside rear cover, clean internally.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red cloth cover, wear to edges and corners. Fragile, partial spine separation at front endpage. Color illustrations by Leonard Weisgard. A nice copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Marc Simont. Light rubbing to dust jacket and some sticker residue on front.

Hardcover. Kalamazoo, Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 524 pages. Hardcover. Brown leather covers with rubbing along edges. Narrow 1" separation at top of front cover hinge.Gilt title on spine. Clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Middlebury, VMSBA, 1st, 1887, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 414 pages. Features black & white illustrations. Leather covers, with some rubbing to edges. Spine strip missing. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Sky Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Barry Moser throughout. Gilt titles on spine and cover. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Color illustrations by Adrienne Adams. Previous owners inscription on front endpaper. Green cloth covers. Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket has moderate wear with chunk missing rear spine.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Robins are the most familiar and beloved of all birds, found throughout North America and celebrated as one of the first signs of spring. But there's a lot about them that most people don't know! In this visually stunning picture book that features comic-book panels combined with painterly illustrations, Eileen Christelow tells the story of two young robins' first year, and reveals plenty of little-known facts that are sure to captivate young naturalists. Narrated with humor and filled with kid-pleasing details, this fascinating account of how robins grow up includes an Author's Note, Glossary, More About Robins, and Sources. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, gray/green cloth stamped with a black and white design. In a dust jacket with two chunks gone from spine. A naturalist ruminates on birds (mostly) and woodchucks in these essays on wildlife. B&w illustrations by R. Bruce Horsfall,Most of these pieces were previously published in magazines.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Edward Stern & CO., 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 16 full color plates, black & white line drawings by V. Floyd Campbell. 180 pages. Color plate of bears on front cover. Heavy wear to green covered cardboard covers. Pages browning.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, Book Club, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 60 pages illustrated in 3-colors. A Parisian birdseller's pet turtle Rosalie goes missing, and Gaston the talking blackbird must help find her. Weekly Reader Edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield, reprint, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. "Rum Tum Tummy was a bold, bad elephant. he had no parents, which would have been bad to anybody but a bold, bad elephant in a very wild jungle. He didn't even have an aunt to say ... 'Brush your tusks!' He had nothing but a terrible appetite, and, as you shall see, he had a wild time !" Color illustrations by Holling. Back cover soiled, interior clean.

Hardcover. London, Thomas Nelson, 1st , no date (1949), Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with mild soil, gilt lettering on spine. INSCRIBED BY BOWEN and dated September 1954 on front fly leaf. Color frontis, B&W drawings by L. R. Brightwell. The adventures of a large angora rabbit named Sultan when he escapes from his life in "Show" business.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 46 pages. Line drawings by Lucy Dawson. Corners bumped. Edgewear to cardboard spine edges. Red lettering with black & white illustrations on front book cover.

Softcover. UK, Dodo Press, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 261 pages. Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper (1813- 1894) was an American writer and amateur naturalist. She was the daughter of the well known novelist James Fenimore Cooper. Her most famous work is Rural Hours (1850), a nature diary of Cooperstown, New York. Amongst her works are Female Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Women of America, The Lumley Autograph, and Elinor Wyllys; or, The Young Folk of Longbridge (1846), a novel. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 64 pages illustrated throughout by Hoff in color. Without publisher's zip code on copyright page, so an early printing. Name on blank prelim page otherwise clean. Not a book club.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribners Sons, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 328 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Will James. Green cloth covers with some small areas of spotting. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Louisville KY, Cole Brothers Circus, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, softcover, 20 page circus promotional brochure. 16 pages with 60 b&w photographs featuring behind the scenes circus activity- setting up the big top, loading the train, daily life of performers, etc. Light edgewear.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Full-color illustrations follow a day in the life of a country veterinarian as he deals with examinations, innoculations, and emergencies at his office; makes rounds in his truck; and returns to his office to check his patients. Clean copy.