Animals

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. Rubbing Edgewear and soil to covers. Illustrated end papers. Scarce 1st edition.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages with b&w illustrations by Ian Ribbons throughout. Slight dust jacket edge wear and price clipped, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Stephen longed for a parrot but on a visit to his grandmother he found an injured sea gull that he nursed back to health. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 624 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 80 pages, illustrated in color by William Pene du Bois. Ex-library with light stamping to endpapers, envelope residue.

Hardcover. New York, Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 236 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Front fly leaf missing. Illustrated by Harry H. Lees. Dust jacket shows light wear.

Hardcover. Lexington KY, Commercial Printing Co., 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in black. 305 pages, b&w illustrations. How to raise sheep as a business. Contents include: Choosing the breed of sheep; Selecting and judging sheep; fattening commerical lambs; producing and, handling wool; marketing lambs and sheep; etc. Name on front fly leaf, hinges have some loss of paper, otherwise a solid, clean copy.

Softcover. Ontario CA, ECW Press, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover/Advanced Reading Copy, 228 pages. A restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherd. For 50 years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm, Lambsquarters. In Shepherd's Sight she shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life over the course of a year. Now in her 70s, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the physically taxing work that is her central source of meaning and satisfaction. Through her unsentimental gaze, we witness the highs and heartbreaks of delivering and rearing lambs, the shearing and spinning of wool, the wildlife in the woods (and occasionally in the house), and the garden produce moving from seed to harvest to table. Even after half a century on this land, McLean is still making fresh observations, and she shares them in evocative, elegant prose. As she moves through the calendar year, she also reflects on years past, offering a long view on climate, stewardship and agriculture. With its vivid description and absorbing storytelling, Shepherd's Sight offers an unforgettable glimpse of a life lived on the land. Clean copy.

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 John Theobald. Bohatta was a Austrian writer/artist whose titles were republished in the U.S. in small printings. Charming color illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Edited by Gardner D. Stout. Bird paintings by Robert Verity Clem. Light tape residue to end papers where dust jacket was once taped to book.

Hardcover. New York, The Viking Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 272 pages, with full-page color illustrations by Robert Verity Clem. Dust jacket edge wear and crease, price clipped, and minor foxing on top edge. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Guilford CT, Lyons Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 269 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st US, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Translated from the French by Gwen Marsh. 175 pages. Black & white illustrations by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. Gift inscription on front fly leaf. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

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. 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.

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. 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.