Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Describes how dolphins are trained to perform tricks through the experiences of Squirt, a bottlenose dolphin whose successful training led to appearances in marine shows all across the country. B&w illustrations by Ted Lewin.
Hardcover. Chicago,IL, Rand, McNally & Company Publishers, Early reprint, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 580 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations including full color frontispiece (see image). Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board with navy blue illustration. Soil and light chipping and fraying to spine and bottom edge, as well as top of front cover board (see image). Tanning to pages and boards from age. Very early reprint.
Hardcover. Wash, D.C., Dept of Commerce, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 488 pages, 53 full page plates (30 are fine chromolithographs), 110 text-figures. Fold-out map. Sound, tight, clean. The work contains the following monographs: Evermann - The Golden Trout of the Southern High Sierras (3 chromolithograph plates of trout); Sumner - The Physiological Effects upon Fishes of changes in the density and salinity of water; MacFarland - Opisthobranchiate Mollusca from Monterey Bay, California, and Vicinity (10 chromolithograph plates); Moore - Hirudinea and Oligochaeta in the Great Lakes (1 chromolithograph plate); The Fishes of Samoa: Description of the Species Found in the Archipelago, with a Provisional Check-List of the Fishes of Oceania (16 chromolithograph plates). The final monograph by David Starr Jordan on "The Fishes of Samoa"Several small holes to cloth along spine. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Muller Ltd, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white and color illustrations. Well bound and clean pages, with moderate tanning to text block edges. Light tanning to free endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and moderate crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable backward lean, with heavy sunning overall. A exploration of the Great Barrier Reef.
Hardcover. NY, Fleming H. Revell, 1st US, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green pictorial cloth with tail of a whale on upper board, titled in gilt on spine & upper board. 430 pages illustrated in b&w by Charles Livingston Bull & Theodore Carreras. This is the American edition of "Creatures of the Sea" published in the UK. "His vivid and glowing pictures of the wonderful and varied life of the Deep Sea possess a human and lifelike quality often absent from the elaborate descriptions of severer scientific and technical treatises." Slight wear, flecking to cloth, hinges tender else good plus copy. Previous owner's embossed stamp on the front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Caldecott Winner, beautifully illustrated by author. Very clean and tight copy. Complete number line with "1". No award sticker on jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Clarion Books, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 40 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Blind-stamped covers with light edge wear to dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. Color illustrations (no words) on all pages by David Weisner. Sticker on front dust jacket " Best Illustrated Children's Book Award.
Hardcover. London, England, C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1st Edition, 1902, With 48 illustrations. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt top edge.Green cloth bound cover boards, gilt title and design on front cover and spine. Spine has fading and fraying at top and bottom. Front cover board has fading to top. Cover boards having shipping at edges. Pages and edges have some tanning from age.
Hardcover. London, L. Reeve & Co., 1st, 1877, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Green cloth boards with blind stamping to front and rear and gilt to spine. Illustrated with 13 b&w plates, 247 pages plus publisher's ads. Ex-lib from museum library, light residue, stamping to endpapers, internally clean. 1/4" tear to top of cloth spine, gilt lettering bright on spine.
Hardcover. Portsmouth, NH, Portsmouth Marine Society, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor sunfading to spine. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Arco Publishing, 1st US, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 174 pages, color frontis., b&w photos. Quest to capture an adult tiger shark, written by the son of Arthur Conan Doyle. Dust jacket rice-clipped.
NY, Harper Collins, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Color illust. by Aliki. Children and adults of various ages, races, and physical abilities tour a public aquarium to look at many of the world's marine creatures. The language is almost lyricaland the story is alive with color and action. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, T. Nelson and Sons, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth stamped with black and gilt design, 235 pages, engraved frontispiece and numerous other plates and in-text drawings. Light shelfwear, previous owner's inscription, signatures on front endpapers. Otherwise clean, tight.
Hardcover. Portland OR, Timber Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 208 pages, color photos. The visually arresting and often misunderstood octopus has long captured popular imagination. With an alien appearance and an uncanny intellect, this exceptional sea creature has inspired fear in famous lore and legends--from the giant octopus attack in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to Ursula the sea witch in The Little Mermaid. Yet its true nature is more wondrous still. After decades of research, the authors reveal a sensitive, curious, and playful animal with remarkable intelligence, an ability to defend itself with camouflage and jet propulsion, an intricate nervous system, and advanced problem-solving abilities. In this beautifully photographed book, three leading marine biologists bring readers face to face with these amazingly complex animals that have fascinated scientists for decades. From the molluscan ancestry of today's octopus to its ingenious anatomy, amazing mating and predatory behaviors, and other-worldly relatives, the authors take readers through the astounding life cycle, uncovering the details of distinctive octopus personalities. With personal narratives, underwater research, stunning closeup photography, and thoughtful guidance for keeping octopuses in captivity, Octopus is the first comprehensive natural history of this smart denizen of the sea. Clean copy.
1968, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon of layers of strange fish under the water by Addams. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.
Hardcover. Columbus OH, A.R. Harding, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, putty-colored cloth with dark green stamping. 203+(5) pages, illustrated with photos, sketches and maps. A history of pearling plus instructions for hunting fresh water pearls. Includes pearling history, geographical distribution of pearls, methods of collecting and much more. 56 photographs. Clean copy. NOTE: Page 15/16 was torn, then mended with clear tape. There's some minimal text loss, otherwise no marking.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 205 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Some tanning from age to edges, otherwise pages clean. Cover boards bound in blue, marbled cloth, red quarter cloth (some fading at spine, fraying at top and bottom). Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age. Clarke explores a reef and the people of southern Sri Lanka. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 313 pages, b&w illustrations. Working from the fossil record, Richard Ellis explores the natural history of these fierce predators, speculates on their habits, and tells how they eventually became extinct - or did they? He traces the 200-million-year history of the great ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs who swam the ancient oceans - and who, according to some, may even still frequent the likes of Loch Ness. The first book about these animals in nearly a century, Sea Dragons draws upon the most recent scientific research to reconstruct their lives and habitats. Along the way, the book also provides insights into and tales about the work, discoveries, and competing theories that compose the world of vertebrate paleontology. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 598 pages, green cloth with silver lettering. Illustrated with color and b&w photographs, map on endpapers. The book is clean and square with a small bump/cloth wrinkle on bottom of front panel near spine. Dust jacket worn with chipping at edges, some larger chips to rear panel.
Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, New York / South Street Seaport Museum, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated throughout in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This collection of more than 250 remarkable images is the result of seven years of painstaking fieldwork across the Pacific Ocean, using photographic techniques that Middleton developed to capture these extremely fragile creatures on camera, creatures who are astonishingly diverse in their shapes, patterns, textures, and colors--in nature's fashion show, they are the haute couture of marine life. Middleton also provides short essays that examine the place these invertebrates occupy on the tree of life, their vast array of forms, and their lives in the ocean. Scientist Bernadette Holthuis contributes profiles describing each species, many of them for the first time. Middleton's book is a stunning view of nature that harmoniously combines art and science. 255 pages in color. Clean copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York , D. Appleton and Company, 3rd, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 366 pages, fold-out maps. Red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Light wear and tearing to maps. Light edgewear and rubbing to covers with slight bumping to corners. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Oakland CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 245 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembled tiny deer to carnivorous monsters stalking lakes and rivers and to serpentlike denizens of the coast. Thewissen reports on his discoveries in the wilds of India and Pakistan, weaving a narrative that reveals the day-to-day adventures of fossil collection, enriching it with local flavors from South Asian culture and society. The reader senses the excitement of the digs as well as the rigors faced by scientific researchers, for whom each new insight gives rise to even more questions, and for whom at times the logistics of just staying alive may trump all science.
 "American Game Fishes: Their Habits, Habitat and Peculiarities; How, When, and Where to Angle for Themby: Perry, W.A., A.A. Mosher, et. al.")
 "Giant Fish of Florida, Theby: Turner-Turner, J.")
 "Pearls and Pearlingby: Herbert H. Vertrees")
 "Reefs of Taprobane, The: Underwater Adventures Around Ceylonby: Clarke, Arthur C.")
