birds

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.

Hardcover. Barre, Mass., Imprint Society, 1st thus, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Full color plates throughout, number 380 of a limited 500 copies, slipcase included, green cloth board with ivory spine and gilt title. Very clean and bright copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. US, Academic Press, 5th Ed., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 685 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to illustrated boards, else a clean, tight copy.

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.

Softcover. College Station, Texas A & M University , 6th pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Illustrations by Joan Walternmire. Seventeen figures and 8 tables. 255 pages, indexed.

Hardcover. University Park PA, Penn State University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 264 pages. Numerous color illustrations. An exploration of Bartram's writings and artwork; all sixty-eight Bartram drawings owned by the Natural History Museum are brought together for the first time. Works by other eighteenth and nineteenth century natural history artists are included. His love of nature led him to explore the environs of the American Southeast between 1773 and 1777. Here he collected plants and seeds, kept a journal of his observations of nature, and made drawings of the plants and animals he encountered. The completed drawings were sent to his patron in London, and these make up the bulk of the collection held at London's Natural History Museum. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. London, Quartet Books, 1st pbk, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 310 pages. color frontispiece plate + 120 color plates by Martin Woodcock, color photographs, b/w illustrations; map end papers. Superbly produced and lavishly illustrated this was the first major work on Arabian birds for over 25 years, and the first comprehensive book on the birds of any Arabian country. DUE TO WEIGHT, This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

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. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated color pictorial boards, 104 pages, approximately field guide size. Color plates by Sutari Bin Supari. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 224 pages, b&w illustrations by Harold Berson. A charming and absorbing story for young readers set in rural Kansas in 1913 about a family of children, their grandmother, and a nest of orphaned newly-hatched bluejays. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise bight and clean.

Hardcover. Minneapolis, University Of Minnesota Press, 2nd pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 228 pages, color and b&w illustrations. The haunting cry of the loon has for centuries fascinated people living in or near wilderness in northern parts of the world. The loon's call, its ability to dive, and its distinctive black and white feather pattern appear again and again in the myths and legends of North American Indians. There is included a disc recording of common loon vocalizations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 127 pages; black and white illustrations. Discusses American birds of prey, such as eagle, hawk, osprey, and falcon, giving technical information as well as anecdotes of the author's experience with them. Clean 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. NY, Ecco, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. From Bernd Heinrich, the bestselling author of Winter World, comes the remarkable story of his father's life, his family's past, and how the forces of history and nature have shaped his own life. Although Bernd Heinrich's father, Gerd, a devoted naturalist, specialized in wasps, Bernd tried to distance himself from his "old-fashioned" father, becoming a hybrid: a modern, experimental biologist with a naturalist's sensibilities. In this remarkable memoir, the award-winning author shares the ways in which his relationship with his father, combined with his unique childhood, molded him into the scientist, and man, he is today. From Gerd's days as a soldier in Europe to the family's daring escape from the Red Army in 1945 to the rustic Maine farm they came to call home, Heinrich relates it all in his trademark style, making science accessible and awe-inspiring. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY/London, Frederick Warne, 2nd Ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Small hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The original of this story was written by Beatrice Potter in 1907 but never illustrated by her. This Second Edition features the first appearance of the lovely color plates by Marie Angel. 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. Wisconsin, Stanton & Lee Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. SIGNED BY OWEN GROMME. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. "SIGNED" sticker on front cover. Dust cover shows wear: some chipping on spine and edges, small tears along edges, light fading. Boards in great shape, only very light fading along bottom edges. From the dust jacket front flap: "...presents the life and art of a man who through eight decades of accomplishment as a naturalist and artist has provided us with a link between the 19th and 21st centuries."

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket shows very minor wear otherwise clean and nice. Color illustrations by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Hardbound.

Hardcover. Chicago, Follett Publishing, BC Ed., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 32 pages with lovely bird illustrations in color by Leonard Weisgard.

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. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 96 pages illustrated in b&w by John Kaufmann. The story is beautifully written by an author who knows and understands the habits and life of Canada geese. The illustrations are absolutely lovely with careful detail for each goose pictured. Light spottig to edge of text block, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Vermillion SD, Buteo Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear. Book is clean, unmarked. A comprehensive record detailing the classification, migration, distribution, ecology, breeding, ecology and conservation of wild geese. The 16 full color identification plates help support the excellent chapter concerned with adult and first winter birds as well the plumage of all ages and species of birds and their variants. Good reference copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in dark blue. 216 pages, 100 full-page b/w photographs by the author. Presumed First Edition. Atmospheric photographs of waterfowl and shorebirds in the wild. Clean, tight copy.