birds

Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 460 pages. Light green cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, laminate white dust jacket with color illustration, over 700 bird species illustrated in color and b&w, in more than 1300 individual paintings, endpapers decorated with maps. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 159 pages with 48 plates in color and b&w.

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. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press , 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages, 116 color pates. burgundy cloth covers in a slipcase.

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. Brookfield CT, Millbrook Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, color illustrations by Peter Parnall. A rare insight into the world of bird anatomy and flight depicts the metamorphosis of a young boy whose human anatomy fades away as he begins to feel as a bird feels. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

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. Philadephia, Delaware Valley Orthithology club, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Two volumes complete. Hardcovers in green cloth, two frontispieces in full color with tissue guards, prolifically illustrated throughout and SIGNED by all contributors. Illustrated by Earl L. Pool; Richard Bishop; Conrad Roland; J. Fletcher Street; Herbert Brown. Moderate wear on cover boards. Inscribed by Stone. One of 1400 numbered sets.

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.

Softcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled pictorial wrappers, 16 pages. Color plates by Peat. Light wear, some mild wrinkles.

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. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 602 pages. Dark blue cloth covers, silver titles to spine, illustrated dust jacket, 38 color plates, 39 b&w drawings, textured blue endpapers decorated with map of China, variant names list, checklist of species, Latin and English alphabetical indices. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, pages crisp and unmarked, clean covers; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1stUS, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Gould, Hart, Keulmans and Hayman, 2 b&w plates, maps and photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, illustrations and color photographs by Tad Merrick throughout. SIGNED BY MERRICK on title page. Slight dust jacket rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Visual reference for North American raptors examines 17 hawks, falcons, eagles, and osprey--a must-have volume for carvers and others interested in these magnificent birds.

Hardcover. Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 318 pages, illustrations and color photographs by Tad Merrick throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER on title page. Slight dust jacket rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Visual reference for North American raptors examines 17 hawks, falcons, eagles, and osprey--a must-have volume for carvers and others interested in these magnificent birds.

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. London, Country Life Books, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 155 pages. Beautiful color illustrations by Basil Ede throughout. Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. This book is a record, in word and picture, of 56 British birds that may still be seen in and around English towns and villages. Each bird is described in detail and accompanied by a specially commissioned print showing them in typical surroundings. A useful and attractive reference book, ideal for both bird and art lovers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Milwaukee WI, Bruce Publishing, reprint, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong brown cloth with black lettering and design, 62 pages illustrated with b&w illustrations and photos. Detailed instructions on building birdhouses. Foxing to endpapers otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with gold lettering on spine and front cover. INSCRIBED BY ECKSTEIN on front fly leaf: "to Emilia Johnson with friendly regards/Gustav Eckstein/March 1943". Spine lettering with mild fading, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Philomel, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginatd. Hardcover with dust jacekt. Color illustrations by Thomas Locker. Tight copy.