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Trade paperback, New. First Harvest Books edition. "The book that proves there is life in outer space." Indexed. 230 pages.

Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2003. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xx, 338 pp. First printing. The book is slightly cocked. The binding is tight and the text s clean. The jacket has a 1/4" closed tear at the base of the rear panel.

Houghton Mifflin College Div, 1992. Hardcover. Good. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ D.J. not price clipped; moderate edge wear/ corners and spine bumped

New York, New York, U.S.A.: W H Freeman & Co, 2001. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor mention of Ed "Doc" Ricketts. Never opened, never read, not a remainder..

New World Publications, 1989. Nice copy with just minor wear. Pages are clean, bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.*** . Soft Cover. Very Good.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 388 pp. First printing. Previous owner notes on the front free endpaper. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.

5.75" x 8.5". 220 pages. Withdrawn from library. Book in Very good condition. No writing in text, pages and spine clean and sound. Dust Jacket BACK has been wet, no mildew. Now protected by Mylar cover. Story of the accidental sighting, then very purposeful hunt for the Coelacanth, which was supposed to have been extinct for millions of years. Science adventure. Our book number 36053.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. 277pp including index Previos owner's last name on front facing page, otherwise book is AS NEW. First Edition. Cloth Hardback. Very Good/Fine.

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1990. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback An account of the six-month voyage of a junk-rigged schooner to find out what man is doing to one of the world's great marine ecosystems. Hardcover BCE Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. Illustrated with black & white photographs, drawings and maps. Binding of navy half cloth with gilt titles, light grey boards.Very clean, unmarked, tight, solid and square. 256 pages with index. 6.3 x 9.5 inches. W W Norton Publishers, NY 1990.

New York: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1990. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback An account of the six-month voyage of a junk-rigged schooner to find out what man is doing to one of the world's great marine ecosystems. Hardcover BCE Book and Dust Jacket AS NEW. Illustrated with black & white photographs, drawings and maps. Binding of navy half cloth with gilt titles, light grey boards.Very clean, unmarked, tight, solid and square. 256 pages with index. 6.3 x 9.5 inches. W W Norton Publishers, NY 1990.

Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.: Mit Pr, 1996. 274pp. Index, Refs., Glossary, Light wear, DJ: wear extremities.. Hb. VG+/VG+.

Cambridge:: MIT Press,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0262071789 . Translated from the Dutch by Sherry Marx-Macdonald. First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. .

Newton Abbot UK, David & Charles, 1975, hardcover, 136 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, tiny bump front board. Dustjacket price-clipped, slight edge nicks, in new Brodart sleeve. A vital guide to the observation, collection and recording of the natural history of the sea shore. Contains more than 70 scraperboard Illustrations by the author. Appended: Further Reading, Index. ISBN 9780715368312

New York: Scribner's / Sierra Club, ( 1974 ). Early printing. Hardcover. good/price-clipped dj. photos, drawings. 4to, 240 pages, boards & cloth; nicked dj " A collection that outlines the capabilities and consciousness of whales and dolphins. Drawing on mythology as well as the most advanced scientific findings, on poetry as well as natural history, on statistics as well as photographs, it is a basic compendium of information about whales and dolphins and a picture of the new understandings that seem to lie just beyond our present knowledge."

Springfield, IL: Illinois State Planning Commission, 1938. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good. 13 foldout maps & charts. 8vo, ii, 42 pages, red cloth, covers spotted, bookplate. One of a series of eight studies prepared for the National Resources Committee of Washington, D. C.. "Much of this basi is underlaid by the principal seams of the Illinois coal measures and although unproved to a large extent, the No. 5 and No. 6 seams are mined extensively in the northern part. The leading oil and gas fields of the state are located in the south central part. "

Springfield, IL: Illinois State Planning Commission, 1940. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good. 15 foldout maps & charts. 8vo, ii, 87 pages, red cloth, covers spotted, bookplate. One of a series of eight studies prepared for the National Resources Committee of Washington, D. C.. The basin is 220 miles long and 180 miles wide. It has an area of 14,290 sqiare ,o;es. pr 9,145,.600 acres.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, ( 1876 ). First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo, 111 pages, brown cloth, damstained head of spine and onto front and rear covers ( not affecting the text block) Early popular science about corals, coral reefs, coral islands and their related fauna and ecology. With 36 woodcuts, including cuts of Oatafu, frigate bird, stormy petrel, sea urchin, sea cucumber, pipe coral, brain coral, polyps, etc.

Journal of Paleontology, 1939. First printing. stapled wrappers. Very Good. 8vo, pp. 267 - 336 pages, rusted staples Presentation Copy of this offprint as a Dissertation, signed by Bowles. Plates.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Very Fine. Green cloth spine, blue boards, silver bright on spine, 277 pages. Illustrated map inside covers and adjacent end papers of Caribbean islands, including the Turks and Caricos. DJ colorfully illustrated with fish on front, spine and back, praise on back from Larry McMurtry and John Graves. DJ has short light scratch near top front tip, light surface wear at spine top edge. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Book. Illus. by Ed Lindlof. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. A complete survey of the freshwater eel, its life cycle, its use as a food source, how people catch, cook, harm, protect, and study them, the many different global culinary recipes using them, their economic importance, much more. Hardcover with dust jacket, illus., bibliography, indexed, 181pp. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free Brodart plastic protector. Rare. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.