Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott & Co., 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. Profusely illust. with sketches and pictures by Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts. A Woodcraft Series. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket with narrow portion of top missing, Large chunk gone from top and bottom back cover. Same two-color illustration on book cover and dust jacket front.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Clean, bright copy with similar dust jacket. 243 plates, mainly in color, charts. Contains many little-known works of art from the First Fleet landing in New South Wales in 1788, and from the early years of settlement. Chronology, Bibliography. Size: 13 3/4" x 10".
Hardcover. The Pennsylvania Academy of Science, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Brings together in one volume a comprehensive overview of Pennsylvania's avian communities, current and emerging conservation issues, and the specific contributions Pennsylvania biologists, avian ecologists, and conservationists have made to the science of ornithology. Clean.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Margaret Bloy Graham. Some faint areas of soiling on front cover. Pages are clean, unmarked.
Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 347 pages, with illustrations. Minor cover and spine edge wear. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Gilt top edge and decorated cover and spine. Tissue guard on frontispiece. Clean pages and tight binding.
Hardcover. Vancouver, BC, University of British Columbia Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Gray cloth-covered boards and color pictorial dust jacket in near new condition. "Detailed species accounts provide unprecedented coverage of these birds, presenting a wealth of information on the ornithological history, habitat, breeding habits, migratory movements, seasonality, and distribution patterns." Profusely illustrated in b/w. Includes a variety of color charts depicting the occurrence of 86 species of nonpasserines, from loons through waterfowl.
Hardcover. Vancouver, BC, University of British Columbia Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Gray cloth-covered boards and color pictorial dust jacket in near new condition. "Detailed species accounts provide unprecedented coverage of these birds, presenting a wealth of information on the ornithological history, habitat, breeding habits, migratory movements, seasonality, and distribution patterns." Profusely illustrated in b/w. Includes a variety of color charts depicting the occurrence of 183 species of nonpasserines, from diurnal birds of prey through Woodpeckers.
Hardcover. Vancouver, BC, University of British Columbia Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Gray cloth-covered boards and color pictorial dust jacket in near new condition. "Detailed species accounts provide unprecedented coverage of these birds, presenting a wealth of information on the ornithological history, habitat, breeding habits, migratory movements, seasonality, and distribution patterns." Profusely illustrated in b/w. Includes a variety of color charts depicting the occurrence of 91 species of passerines, from Flycatchers through Vireos.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1966, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 56 plates in 6-color plus pencil sketches by Lansdowne.
Hardcover. NY, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated, approx. 200 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a nice, bright copy. In this first collection of his work, more than 120 of Theodore Cross's photograpic bird portraits are magnificently reproduced in full color.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 66 pages, illustrated in 2-colors by Clement Hurd. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Harper Collins, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green cloth-covered boards in excellent condition; slight top edge wear to pictorial dust jacket. 256 pp. This rare title includes extensive photographic documentation of the diversity of bird life in the former Soviet Union. This book also discusses the rich physical geography of the region, accompanied by more than 300 color and b/w photos.
Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Color illustrations throughout. Thick textured paper. The epic poem by the twelfth-century Persian mystic and poet Attar of Nishapur, is here re-told by the acclaimed author and illustrator Peter Sis in a dazzlingly new graphic form.
Hardcover. Exton PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 271 pages. Black and white and color photos throughout. A history and study of the making and use of duck decoys along the Mississippi flyway, looking at makers in regions such as Canada, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Mississippi and Louisiana.
Softcover. BirdLife International, 1st, January 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 846 pages, b&w photographs and illustrations. Light edgewear to covers. Small marks on fore-edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
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.
Softcover. 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 283 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Slight wear to edges, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 48 pages with color and b&w illustrations by Slobodkin. Ex-library but with minimal stamping and remnants of tape where dust jacket was attached to cover.
Hardcover. New York, George Braziller Incorporated, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Heavy damage on 2 inches of bottom right corner. Otherwise, tight copy. Color pictures throughout. Endlessly experimenting with design, composition, and color, Hiroshige captured in these paintings, as no where else in his work, his poetic and idyllic sense of nature.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Design, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pages. Hummingbirds have always held popular appeal, with their visual brilliance, extraordinary flight dexterity, jewel-like color, and remarkably small size. This is the first book to profile all 338 known species, from the Saw-billed Hermit to the Scintillant Hummingbird. Every bird is shown life-size in glorious full-color photographs. Every species profile includes a flight map and key statistics, as well as information about behavior, plumage, and habitat.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday: American Museum of Natural History, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pale gray covers with gilt stamping in a bright dust jacket, 250 pages, 70 tipped-in color photographs by the author. One of the modern classic bird books and a pioneering work on bird photography. Housed In a clear plastic case. With a Foreword by Dean Amadon, Lamont Curator of Birds. Enclosed is a 4-page press release by the museum, a tipped in plate on heavy stock, and a bookmark. A bright. clean copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate, Revised Ed., 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, the best of his paintings from his seven books, including the rarely-seen Rails of the World and Rare Birds of China, and a body of unpublished work from the two decades before his death. For a new audience, this is an excellent introduction to the artist and to the art that gained him admirers from royalty to radicals. Clean copy still in publisher's shrink wrap. A wonderful collection of Fenwick Lansdowne's art and over-view of his life. The watercolor reproductions all are extremely clear and throughout the book a full page is given to almost every image. A wide range of work from the 60s through to the 2000s are shown, as are his most famous works (dimensions are unfortunately not included however). The essays by both family and close friends give an interesting insight into the man behind the paintings, and also his development as an artist. Overall an extremely impressive publication.
Softcover. New York, Christie's Houston, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover auction catalog, 435 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Walker and Company, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Color and B/w gar 12/8illustrations throughout. cover boards bound in red cloth with gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover. Some age wear to dust jacket, very good condition. Clean and unmarked inside, binding tight. In great shape for its age.
Hardcover. Jersey CI, Singram Co. Ltd, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 10 pages. Hardcover. Color, life-like pop-up illustrations throughout. A touch of foxing throughout. Binding tight. Completely intact, all pop-ups are complete and in working order. Last pop-up is a removable flying kestrel that really flies.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead & Co., 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 125 Pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by William Pene Du Bois. Dj with edgewear, chipping. Tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, 640 pages in first volume. 605 pages in second volume. Color paintings by Francis L. Jaques and black & white photographs, maps, and drawings. Previous owner's signature on front end paper in both. Sticker inside front cover in both.
Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 239 pages, with b&w drawings by Kurt Wiese. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. St. Paul, Webb Publishing, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 365 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st thus, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 193 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Blue cloth, no dust jacket. Lovely copy in excellent condition.
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. Boston, L.C. Page, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First impression. Hardcover, 8vo. in ruled green pictorial cloth with gilt letters. 210 pages. illustrated by Louis Rhead with color plates. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, Algonquin Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 240 pages. Each morning at first light, Michele Raffin steps outside into the bewitching bird music that heralds another day at Pandemonium Aviaries. A full symphony that swells from the most vocal of more than 350 avian throats representing more than 40 species. "It knocks me out, every day," she says. Pandemonium, the home and bird sanctuary that Raffin shares with some of the world's most remarkable birds, is a conservation organization dedicated to saving and breeding birds at the edge of extinction, with the goal of eventually releasing them into the wild. In The Birds of Pandemonium, she lets us into her world--and theirs. Birds fall in love, mourn, rejoice, and sacrifice; they have a sense of humor, invent, plot, and cope. They can teach us volumes about the interrelationships of humans and animals.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Tan pictorial boards with green cloth spine.. Scarlet tanager on front board. Gilt lettering on spine. Sixteen tipped-in colored plates and many b/w illustrations throughout. This edition combines two previous volumes (published in 1899 and 1901. No date but circa 1915. Clean, solid copy.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Describes the life of herring gulls and great black-backed gulls on Smuttynose Island, one of the two largest gull rookeries along the New England coast. B & w photographs by Sweet. 63 pages.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st trade, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a lightly worn slipcase. First trade edition limited to 3000 copies. 278 pages with 58 color plates plus many drawings by Karl Karalus, text by Allan Eckert. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Villard Books, Random House, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 382 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to covers. Color pictures throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1991, Large hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Uncommon monograph regarding British ornithological painter Basil Ede with contributions by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Walter H. Annenberg, and Jack Warner plus an essay by Robert McCracken Peck. Includes 103 color plates including one foldout as well as 15 b/w illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. INSCRIBED BY HURD ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Color illustrations by Clement Hurd. Dust jacket shows wear with darkened paper and small tears. Clean, tight copy.
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