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A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism
Edition: First printing
New York: Viking, 1995. Cloth & boards. pp (xxii), 745. Index. Erratum slip laid in. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46414More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
AZRAQ: desert oasis. With drawings by John Busby and photographs by Eric Hosking and the author
Edition: First Edition
London: Allen Lane, 1973. Red cloth. pp (xx), 436 + plates. Drawings and maps in text. Index. Near fine in like, price-clipped jacket. Study of the natural history of this oasis in Eastern Jordan. Note: a bit over 1 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43964More details Price: USD $22.00 USD $19.80 -
COUNTRY MATTERS: collected reports from the fields and streams o Iowa and other places
Edition: First printing
New York: Dial, 1973. Octavo, cloth & boards. Fine copy. Price-clipped yellow dust jacket has very light darkening, sunning to the red author lettering, and one minor abrasion, VG.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45973More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
DESERT NOTES. Reflections in the Eye of a Raven.
Edition: First printing
Kansas City [Kansas]: Sheed, Andrews & McMeell, 1976. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Octavo, pale yellow-green boards. (xiv), 89 pp. Photos by the author in the text. Fine copy, no previous owner names. Price-clipped dust jacket has some light rubbing, near fine. "In this collection of narrative contemplations, reminiscent of Carlos Castaneda but without the drugs, Barry Holstun Lopez invites us to walk with him through the desert, where 'things are rigidly clear and elemental." - jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 19117More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
DRAGONS IN AMBER. Further Adventures of a Romantic Naturalist.
Edition: First UK issue
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1951. Black cloth, yellow top page edges. viii, 328 pp. Line drawings in text. Very light endpaper yellowing; covers just a little bowed; else a fine copy. Yellow dust jacket faintly darkened to spine, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 15511More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON'S AMERICA: selections from the writings of the artist-naturalist. Edited with an introduction by Farida A. Wiley. With contributions by Julia M. Seton. and drawings by Ernest Thompson Seton
Edition: First Edition
New York: Devin-Adair, 1954. Octavo, yellow cloth stamped in red, red top page edges. pp (xxiv), 413 + plates. Frontispiece portrait and illustrations in text, index. Yellowing to page edges, slight sunning to the red top edges, a few light foxing spots to front free endpaper; near fine otherwise, no owner names. Price-clipped jacket has some chips, tears, rubbing, spine lightly sunned, just good but still fairly respectable in appearance.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42855More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
Eskimo Year
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985. Facsimile reprint of the 1934 edition, with a new Foreword by David F, Parmalee. pp xvi, 321. Map, illustrations, photos. Focus on natural history. Fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 51685More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
Foraminifera their classification and economic use. Fourth edition revised
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. Sixth printing. Tall octavo, terra cotta cloth. pp X), 605. Illustrated, index. Small rubber stamped maple leaf at front, near fine otherwise, no owner names. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45949More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
GLAUCUS; or, The Wonders of the Shore.
Edition: First US edition
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. Original brown cloth decorated in blind, spine gilt lettered, cream endpapers. [10], 165, [3] pp. Covers have light sunning and light spotting; remains of an 1861 prize label from a St. Catharines, Ontario, school to the front pastedown; small ink name to front free endpaper; ink inscription to front fly leaf; text paper is uniformly quite tanned and many pages have damp stains to margins; else a quite tight, unworn, VG. A book of natural history about animal and plant life at the sea shore by the noted English novelist. UK edition the same year. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 14962More details Price: USD $29.95 USD $26.96 -
HUNTING THE DESERT WHALE. Personal Adventures in Baja California.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Morrow, 1960. Blue cloth, blue on white endpaper maps. 208 pp. Many photos in text. A fine copy. The price-clipped used dust jacket has shallow chips all along top edge; tears to front panel internally repaired; rear panel soiled and damp stained but the damp has not affected the book itself; the jacket is thus just good, but perhaps a bit better in appearance than it sounds, no lettering lost. Adventures photographing grey whales in Scammon's Lagoon in Baja California, by the famous crime novelist.
Condition: Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 9747More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
KLUANE, PINNACLE OF THE YUKON
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1980. Quarto, blue boards, endpaper maps. xi, 175pp + colour photos. Many b&w photos and line drawings in text. Indexed. Slight rubbing at foot of spine, else fine in fine jacket, no owner nam3es. "The unique environment of North America's highest mountain range." Ecological focus. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42648More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
LIVES OF GAME ANIMALS: an account of those land animals in America north of the Mexican border, which are considered "Game." either because they have held the attention of sportsmen, or received the protection of the law...
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. Second printing (first was 1925-28 in a 4 volume format). Quarto, 4 volumes in 8 volume format, original green buckram gilt, 50 maps and 1500 illustrations by the author. Spines lightly sunned, with gilt stamping oxidized and mostly flaked away but stamping still visible; foxing to bottom page edges of one volume. Otherwise a VG+, clean, tight & unworn jacketless set, no owner names. Note: 10.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42871More details Price: USD $295.00 USD $265.50 -
MOOSE MAGIC. Drawings by P.F. Wright.
Edition: First Canadian edition
Toronto: Collins & Harvill Press, 1974. Octavo. Blue boards. (192) pp + photos. Drawings in text. Fine copy. Jacket has some rubbing, short tear, VG otherwise. Adventures with moose in a private game sanctuary in the foothills of the Rockies in Alberta.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45498More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
Natural History of the Islands of California
Edition: First paperback printing
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. pp (xii), 491 + colour photos. Line drawing, maps, index. Very soft cover creases at fore edges, else fine, no owner marks. 1.5 kg parcel.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47081More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
OPTICAL SIGNALS. Animal Communication and Light
Edition: First Edition
Bloomington & London: Indiana University Press, 1977. Black cloth, white spine titles, pp. xix, 362, line-art illustrations, tables, equations. Previous owner's name stamp on all edges and at head of front free endpaper (under jacket flap), otherwise a fine copy in white dust jacket. Hint of sunning to purple spine lettering, else very good dust jacket. "A real understanding of communicative behavior necessitates study of control, ontogeny, preservation and phylogeny, integrating these determinants in a coherent framework. The primary concern of this volume is to predict characteristics of optical signals; the comparative method is particularly useful in checking tentative models of the sort to be proposed." - from the Intro.
Condition: Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 27784More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
Pioneer Ecologist: The Life and Work of Victor Ernest Shelford, 1877-1968
Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1991. Cloth & boards. xviii, 222 pp + plates, indexed. Fine in fine jacket. " [Shelford's] early work on the sand dunes, ponds, streams, and forests bordering Lake Michigan led to the acceptance of animal ecology as a distinct discipline within the biological sciences. Shelford developed the concept of ecological succession of animals, and he was among the first to consider food webs, the intricate interrelationships in feeding habits that ultimately determine species composition and community structure. During World War I Shelford examined the effects of industrial pollution on fish, natural resources, and public health; his work marked the beginnings of water polluction biology." - jacket
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 23538More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
RAMBLES OF AN AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST From the notes and journals of Thomas Ward
Edition: First US issue
New York: Dutton, 1907. Octavo, brown cloth gilt, top edges gilt. pp viii, (344). Bit of wear to spine tips, upper rear joint' front joint repaird externally with brown rice paper; small name label at front; in all, just good externally, but now tight in the binding, text quite clean and unworn, no owner names. Made from sheets of the London (Murray) edition with a cancel title leaf. Ward was a Queensland stock-farmer and a keen amateur naturalist. Detailed account of some Ozian flora and fauna.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 39331More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
RECREATIONS OF A NATURALIST. With Eighty-One Illustrations.
Edition: First Edition
London: Unwin, 1906. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. xvi, (436) pp + frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; illustrations in text. Lightly sunned spine; text paper lightly toned; damp spot to lower inner corner of frontispiece; nick and very small chip to top edge of front free endpaper; a VG tight, clean and unworn copy otherwise, no owner names. Chapters on hawks and hawking, deer, game birds, origin of the domestic cat, hunting with the cheeta, swans, 17th century decoys, the oldest book on fishing, fish-eating bats, and much more. 1.5 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 16916More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
THE ART OF ROBERT BATEMAN. Introduction by Roger Tory Peterson
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Madison Press Books, 1981. Oblong format, 29 x 31 cm, blue cloth. Reproductions in black & white and colour by one of the great wildlife artists of our time. Fine copy. Dust jacket has very light spine sunning, else fine. Signed by Robert Bateman. Promotional card laid in. Note:. 2.5 kg parcel, extra postage will be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 43139More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
Edition: First printing
New York: Scribner, 2000. Octavo, blue and light green boards. pp 287. Bibliography, index. Fine in fine jacket. 26 columns about nature which originally appeared in Outside magazine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46203More details Price: USD $10.95 USD $9.86