Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Co., 1st US, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate with inscription on inside front cover. Black & white illustrations and full color plates by Arthur Rackham. Light wear to Green cloth covers. Titles and decoration in gilt. Foxing to preliminary pages. Dust jacket with chunks of paper missing at top of spine, light chipping along edges, moderate rubbing to back cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Neptune City, NJ, T.F.H. Publications, 1st USA, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages. Hardcover. Photographs by author. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards, glossy. Some tanning to cover boards, pages and very light foxing to front and back pages. Doesn't affect illustrations or text. Reef Corals of the World: Biology and Field Guide.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover. More than seventy b/w engravings by the author. Some tanning to pages due to age. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Some foxing at gutters and endpapers. Binding good. Spine straight. Here is a record of English village life. Several stories out of Leighton's imagination accompanied by her detailed engravings.
Hardcover. Silver City NM, High-Lonesome Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 270 pages, b&w illustrations. Features essays of outdoor sport that range well beyond the usual "where-to-go" and "how-to-do-it" of the Hook & Bullet press. Sporting sharp opinion, insight, and the skills of a natural-born raconteur, the author trails his teen-aged son on a wilderness hunt to a quarter-mile shot at a mule deer buck; and, on a hunt for snowshoe hare, is saved from a killer blizzard by a clairvoyant Bassett. Clean copy.
Softcover. Wyoming RI, Bio-Dynamic , 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 435 pages, b&w illustrations. Explores the profound connection between human culture and the practice of gardening. Storl delves into the historical, spiritual, and ecological aspects of gardening, highlighting how various cultures have shaped their gardens as reflections of their beliefs and values. The book presents gardening as not only a practical endeavor but also a means of connecting with the natural world and understanding our place in it. Storl's work encourages readers to see gardening as a dynamic and meaningful cultural expression that bridges the gap between humanity and the environment. Light coffee cup rings to wraps, internally clean.
Hardcover. London, Richard Bentley, 4th Ed., 1859, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt border design on covers, raised bands on spine with gilt decorations. 319 pages, all edges gilt. The contents are as follows: A Hunt in a Horse-Pond; Rats; The Cobra Di Capello; Fish and Fishing; My Monkey Jacko. Three b&w plates. There is a water stain to the first five pages including the frontis and title page, mostly on the edges. The rest of the pages are bright and clean. A bookplate has been removed fro the inside front cover, leaving tan residue.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st Edition, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 322 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated throughout with eight color plates including frontispiece by Frank Schoonover with tissue guard. Bright gilt decorations by Margaret Armstrong (whose initials appear at lower right in the design), on dark blue cloth-bound boards (some age-wear--see image). Previous owner's dated inscription on front flyleaf (see image). Gilt top edge. Untrimmed deckled edges. Pages and edges have some tanning from age, doesn't affect illustrations or text. Binding is tight. Stories and essays on nature and the outdoors. Beautiful old book.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 250 pages, photos, notes, bibliography. An influential ornithologist, curator of birds at the American Museum of Natural History; expert on the birds of Central and South America, New York City and Massachusetts, Griscom was influential in the shift to modern "binocular" birding and mentored a generation of notable ornithologists. Draws on Griscom's writings and those of his contemporaries. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 329 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 151 pages. 81 black-and-white wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Chipping, wear, tanning, and staining on dust jacket. Now protected by clear, plastic cover. A few pages with tiny tears along bottom edge. Light foxing on all edges. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 151 pages. 81 black-and-white wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker. Dust jacket with light wear, chipping.on dust jacket. clean, tight copy.
New York, Philomel Books, 1st imp, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ron Lightburn. Farm boy Robin loves to watch the eagles soaring over his father's farm but one day, he finds a badly injured eagle and tends to it's wounds rather than put it to sleep. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Middlesex UK, Country Life Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 hardcover volumes in slipcase. Volume 1 - 414 pages plus section of black & white "Under-wing Plates". Full color and black & white illustrations throughout. A clean, bright copy. Volume 2 - 500 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations throughout. A clean, bright copy. Both volumes with brown cloth covers, gilt titles and decoration. A set that shows minimal wear to books and slipcase. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 179 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 188 pages, color and b&w photos. Since its invention, photography has been used to document and interpret the landscape. Survey photographers in the 1860s were the first environmental advocates, arguing for the U.S. national park system. During the first half of the 20th century photographers Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter were central figures in influencing American attitudes toward wilderness and conservation. This book traces the development of environmental photography beginning with Adams, Porter and others, and the next generation of landscape photographers - Robert Adams, Richard Misrach, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Patrick Nagatani, Mark Klett, whose works confronted the issues of landscape and the environment in less idealised terms. Shifting from the historical framework, the book presents new work by twenty-three photographers working in the U.S., the next wave of artists using the camera to engage the environmental issues of the day. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 89 pages. Front board features reproduction of front cover of artist's original work. Illustrated in color throughout. Dust jacket with light wear. Slight yellowing to edges. Clean inside. Splendid reproduction of works from Kiefer's trip to Norway.
Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 319 pages. Portrait of Thoreau on frontispiece with tissue guard. First edition, one of 1,558 copies printed. Original publisher's blue-green pebbled cloth with blind-stamped borders and center wreath. Spine lettered in gilt. Brown-coated end papers. Ten essays including a 33 page biographical sketch by Emerson of Thoreau and nine essays by Thoreau, among them the famous "Walking."
Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 249 pages, 97 b&w photographs. Green cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light rubbing to cover corners. Binding slightly weak in some places. Else a nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. White River Junction VT, Chelsea Green Publishing , 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 367 pages. In Feather Trails, wildlife biologist and birder Sophie A. H. Osborn reveals how the harmful environmental choices we've made--including pesticide use, the introduction of invasive species, lead poisoning, and habitat destruction--have decimated Peregrine Falcons, Hawaiian Crows, and California Condors. In the Rocky Mountains, the cloud forests of Hawaii, and the Grand Canyon, Sophie and her colleagues work day-to-day to try to reintroduce these birds to the wild, even when it seems that the odds are steeply stacked against their survival.With humor and suspense, Feather Trails introduces us to the fascinating behaviors and unique personalities of Sophie's avian charges and shows that what endangers them ultimately threatens all life on our planet. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Merrell Holberton/Natural History Museum, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, 62 color plates, 33 b&w illustrations. A detailed monograph on this early 19th century natural history artist. In publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. London, Elsevier Science, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 600 pages. Hardcover no with dust jacket. Minor soiling to boards. An otherwise unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. Norfolk UK, Black Dog Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover. Author signed. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket front flap price clipped. Clean inside and out. From the dust jacket front flap: "These essays, written over a 30-year period and published to celebrate the Benson Medal for Literature awarded to Ronald Blythe in 2006, offer Blythe's lingering comment on his life as a writer."
Hardcover. White River Jct VT, Chelsea Green Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MITCHELL on title page and INSCRIBED on the front fly leaf. Novelist and shepherd Mitchell presents this account of what happened after a biologist from the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department asked for permission to track bats on his farm. The author having been an iconoclast since his youth, the book is as much a story about a back-to-the-land Vermont farmer coming to collaborate with government as the story of the bats for whose benefit the forested land was managed. This idealist muses on the process of balancing concerns of money, ecology, independence and co-dependence, wrapping up the book with insights learned in convoluted manner about nature, society, and himself.
Hardcover. Owings Mills, Maryland, Stemmer House Publishers, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 87 pages. Color frontispiece and color illustrations throughout. Minor edgewear to cover. Chipping, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a tight copy.
Hardcover. US, Bulfinch, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 139 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with small tear to upper edge. Clean, tight copy. Foliage is an amazing plant book filled with artistic photos of "the architecture of nature." Close-up photos fill the 13" x 11" pages. From grasses and ferns, edibles, leaf coloration, cati and succulents, the essence of green, to seeds of change the reader is in for a visual treat.
Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth stamped with gilt lettering. Color photos throughout. These captivating landscapes by the Magnum photographer Stuart Franklin provide a visual document of Europe in the midst of a growing environmental crisis. Technically flawless, cool, detached, yet highly analytical, Franklin's photos reveal the irrefutable proof of humans' effect on Europe and the vulnerability we face as a result, from the Arctic Circle to the Peloponnese. Footprint brings together a singular photographic perspective with a powerful environmental message to present an engaging picture of the vulnerability of Europe's landscape and population in the wake of ominous change. Features photographs that provide a visual document of Europe in the midst of an environmental crisis.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, Bunker Hill Publishing Inc, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. In the 80 images throughout this book, Haas has forced Nature to do his bidding. Still, Haas's trees are portraits of Los Angeles in all its complexity and quirkiness, and his views of individual trees reveal much about their surroundings and the humans with whom they share their habitat.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, Bunker Hill Publishing Inc, 1st, 2006-11-13, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. In the 80 images throughout this book, Haas has forced Nature to do his bidding. Still, Haas's trees are portraits of Los Angeles in all its complexity and quirkiness, and his views of individual trees reveal much about their surroundings and the humans with whom they share their habitat.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a slipcase. 64 color plates, 100 b&w Illustrations. A compilation of Jaques' work. Gilt flock of geese fying on front board and gilt lettering to spine. Foreword by Roger Tory Peterson. Book and slipcase clean, excellent condition.
Hardcover. New York, Kodansha International, Reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white and color photographs throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name written on front flyleaf. Dust jacket unclipped. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, unmarked. Very good condition.
Softcover. Springfield, MA, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, vintage exhibition catalog, 87 pages, b&w illustrations, color frontispiece. Small tear on spine. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, German Library of Information, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Former library book with labels/stamps/attachments expected. Photographs by the author. Decorated cover boards. Pages and covers have some tanning from age. This volume, intended for American students, interprets the social, economic, hygenic, aesthetic and ethical significance of the German forest, presenting not merely facts but also the philosophy of German Forestry.
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. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 46 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Bill Peet. Dust jacket with slight darkening to spine, minor edge wear. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Heidelberg, Germany, Kehrer Verlag, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. Many color photographs of secret marijuana growing communities. Published under the pseudonym "H. Lee" to protect those whom she photographed.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Island Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 489 pages. Hardcover. gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket has a touch of age-wear (chipping at corners/creases), but very good. Very clean and bright inside. Boards bound in yellow cloth, excellent. Binding tight. In beautiful shape.
Hardcover. New York, Basic Books, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 217 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Price clipping to dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Groombridge and Sons, NA, NA, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Hardcover. No date. Green cloth covers with gilt titles and decoration, wear along spine hinges, edges. Features 36 tissue guarded full color plates, and many black and white illustrations. Foxing to preliminary pages up to page 2 including full color front and one plate; light foxing scattered throughout book. Interior hinges tender with hinge cloth exposed. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Brisbane AU, Steve Parish, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, large oblong volume. Slater dedicated most of his life to the photography and study of Australian birds capturing their incredible beauty on film, recording their unique behaviour in books and sharing here his experiences as a birder with unwavering honesty, compassion and humor. 160 pages of color plates. Oversized. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
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. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages, illustrated throughout in color. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title and title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages, illustrated throughout in color. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title and title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages including index. Paintings by Robert Gillmor and Peter Hayman, foreword by Roger Tory Peterson. Dust jacket with fading, light edgewear at spine. 61 full-page color plates.
Hardcover. London, Black & Son, 1st, 1862, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set. Introduction dated 1862, title page 1862, so presumed 1st illust. thus. 38 hand-colored plates of wild animals & birds. Bright & clean, 3/4 leather marbled boards. Raised band spine with gilt design. One color plate with repaired tear, not detectable. Handsome set.
Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Chauncey Goodrich, Early reprint with appendix added, 1853, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 716 pages. Hardcover. "...With a New (fold-out) Map of the State, and 200 (b/w) Engravings." Significant foxing and tanning to volume from age, as well as some moisture damage to bottom of fore-edge. Leather bound with bands and gilt title on spine. Fading to covers. Binding surprisingly tight. Cover boards slightly warped. In fair condition.