Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, Circa 1861. John James Audubon. Later printing. [26.5 x 17.5 cm]; sewing holes visible with minor foxing. 1.5 inch black smudge across left side of image. John James Audubon is known for his studies and depictions of birds and other animals in nature. This plate is from..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, Circa 1861. John James Audubon. Later printing. [26.5 x 17 cm]; sewing holes visible with minor foxing; ex-libris stamp on recto. John James Audubon is known for his studies and depictions of birds and other animals in nature. This plate is from his The Birds of America..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, Circa 1861. John James Audubon. Later printing. [26.5 x 17.5 cm]; sewing holes visible with glue and remnants of previous tipped-in pages along inside margin; minor foxing. Library stamp on recto. John James Audubon is known for his studies and depictions of birds and other animals in..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, Circa 1861. John James Audubon. Later printing. [26 x 17 cm]; sewing holes visible with pieces of original thread; minor foxing. Small loss at top inside margin. John James Audubon is known for his studies and depictions of birds and other animals in nature. This plate is..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, Circa 1861. John James Audubon. Later printing. [26 x 17 cm]; sewing holes visible with minor foxing, minimal smudging within print. John James Audubon is known for his studies and depictions of birds and other animals in nature. This plate is from his The Birds of America..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, Circa 1840. John James Audubon. First Royal Octavo Edition. [26 x 16.5 cm]; sewing holes visible with minor foxing; this print also contains a few original text pages. John James Audubon is known for his studies and depictions of birds and other animals in nature. This plate..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, Circa 1840. John James Audubon. First Royal Octavo Edition. [25.5 x 15.5 cm]; sewing holes visible with minor foxing; this print also contains a few original text pages. Embossed library stamp on top of print. John James Audubon is known for his studies and depictions of birds..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. Lili Rethi. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 183pp. Large octavo [22.5 cm] Orange paper covered boards with brown ink stamped titles. Very good. The edges of the covers are lightly rubbed. There are multiple barely perceptible tiny stains on the covers. The dust jacket..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1994. Paperback. 168pp. Octavo. Pictoral wraps. More
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1987. Elizabeth Hughes. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 141pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Black paper covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. The spine is a bit rolled back. In a dust jacket, with subtle sunning to the spine and along the edges and folds..... More
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1987. Elizabeth Hughes. First edition. Hardcover. 141pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Black paper covered boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. Very good. The extremities are gently rubbed. The head of the spine is just a tiny bit bumped. The dust jacket is in very..... More
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1933. Early edition. Hardcover. 222pp. Octavo [21 cm] Navy blue cloth over boards with silver lettering on the backstrip and front board. Illustrated endpapers. Small area of subtle staining to the front board; spine sunned and spine ends lightly frayed; plates lightly foxed..... More
San Francisco: PQ Blackwell in association with Chronicle Books, 2010. Fourth Chronicle Books printing. Hardcover. 200pp. Large square quarto [31 cm] White printed paper over boards, with several trivial indentations to the bottom edges of the boards. In a dust jacket, with only two insignificant chips to the top edge..... More
New York: G. H. Buek & Co, 1894. Bound book edition (individual issues were published weekly). Periodical covers are not bound in, and this is unpaginated. Hardcover. Oblong quarto [22 cm x 31 cm] Burgundy cloth over boards with decorative lettering and floral designs on the front cover. All edges..... More
Cleveland, OH: The Bird Research Foundation, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 723pp. Thick quarto [26 cm] Green textured cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Color frontispiece illustration with a tissue-guard printed in black. Very good. Mildly rubbed and bumped at the extremities. The..... More
Omaha, NB: Images of Nature. Thomas D. Mangelsen. Hardcover. 264pp. Oblong quarto [28 cm] Black cloth covered boards with silver stamped titles on the spine and front cover, and an illustrated paper label mounted to the front board. Illustrated endsheets. Very good. The bottom edge of the text block has..... More
Wien (Vienna): F. A. Schrämbl, 1791. German language edition. Leather bound. Odd volume (volume 15). Duodecimo [17.5 cm] 3/4 brown leather with marbled paper over boards, and a hubbed spine. "Buffons Vögel, 15" stamped in gilt on the spine. Red text block edges. Green silk ribbon pagemarker. The leather is..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. 110pp. Tan cloth over boards with brown ink stamped titles on the backstrip and front board. Frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt plus 11 plates illustrated from stereographs by Underwood & Underwood. There are a couple of darkened patches on..... More
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1938. Paperback. 77pp. Thin quarto [25.5 cm] Gray and black printed wraps. Good. There are several pieces of tape at the spine ends and on the surrounding areas of the covers. The front wrap has several previous owners' names, a couple of brief notations..... More
Mill Valley, CA: Strawberry Press, 1993. Reprint. Hardcover. ***Will require extra postage due to size. 81pp. Large thin folio [52 cm] 1/2 leatherette with red cloth over boards. Marbled effect endpapers. In the dust jacket with light surface wear and mild creasing to the edges. Lavishly produced reprint of Lemaire's..... More
New York: Back Bay Books, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. 322 pp. Octavo [21 cm]; pictorial wrappers. Epic adventurer and storyteller, Craig Childs, tells of his many enchanting confrontations with wild animals. More
New York: Vintage Books, 2012. Reprint. Paperback. 343 pp. [24cm]; pictorial wraps. From the publisher, "Ours is not a stable planet. It is prone to sudden, violent natural disasters and extremes of climate. In this exhilarating exploration of our globe, Craig Childs goes to where the apocalypse can be seen..... More
Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2002. Later printing. Hardcover. 232pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue paper covered boards. New book with no flaws. Craig Childs-- naturalist adventurer, desert ecologist, and frequent contributor to National Public Radio's "Morning Edition"-- lives in Crawford, Colorado. His previous books include "Crossing Points", "The Desert Cries", and "The..... More
Boston: Back Bay Books, 2002. Later printing. Paperback. 232pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Illustrated wraps. Craig Childs-- naturalist adventurer, desert ecologist, and frequent contributor to National Public Radio's "Morning Edition"-- lives in Crawford, Colorado. His previous books include "Crossing Points", "The Desert Cries", and "The Secret Knowledge of Water" More