The Grasses of Great Britain. by Johnson, Charles & John, E. Sowerby: - 1861

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London, England: Robert Hardwicke. Very Good+. 9999. Hardcover. Hardcover, no dustjacket, original forest green cloth with a bright gold botanical illustration at the center of the front cover and bright gold title on spine and blind-embossed botanical decoration near the corners of the front and back covers, no publishing date (circa 1861) 192 pages plus 144 full-page color plates, this is a very clean copy inside and out, the cloth cover looks great, gold title and illustration is still bright, the cloth has a couple of indentations at top of spine but no harm done, when viewing the pages from the top of the binding they are somewhat uneven, we don't know if this is due to gravity over time or, if a repair was made, in any case the binding does appear to be secure, the contents are exquisite with a few minor exceptions: mild foxing on the second blank end-paper, mild tanning to the title page, mild foxing to plates 104 and 142, moderate foxing to plate 142, the aforementioned plates… Read More

London: Robert Hardwicke. Very Good. 1860. Hardcover. No date but? C 1860, xxxii + 192pp, illustrated with 143 coloured plates by John Sowerby, one other present in facsimile, bound in half green leather.green cloth, sl splitting of spine edges and rubbing of cover edges, gilt spine, raised bands; Octavo .

Dark green leather binding with tooled gilt borders to both front and back and board edges. Spine, five raised bands and five tooled gilt panels plus applied title label. Light marks and wear to faces of boards, greater surface wear to edges of spine and random wear to edges of boards. leather worn through top right corner of rear board. Very good marbled end papers with original sellers sticker, Callander and Dixon Whitehaven on rear paste down.Internally complete, very clean with minor foxing to title page plus some very minor latent defects in the paper used.xxxii plus 192 pages plus 143 plates

Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.

YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., 1976. Good. Softbound limp edition. Cased edition also available Illustrations by Peter Stebbing 1976. Limp. Good. Peter Stebbing.

New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Leather Bound. Good. Half leather over cloth boards in good condition. Marbled endpapers. TEG. With 40 hand-colored engravings. Raised bands on the spine. A few words underlined pp. 115-116. Some foxing. Eight pages have a dark mark in the center of the page, but the text is still legible. A damp stain on the lower corner of many pages. With additions and Supplementary notes by William Jardine. Edited with further illustrations, a biographical sketch of the author and a complete index by Edward Jesse.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket and mylar cover. Signed by author on title page. Dust jacket has sticker residue over the price, otherwise no wear or soiling present. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pp; Signed by Author .

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.

By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.

Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, [1979]. Softcover book with pictorial wraps. 160p. B&W photos throughout text. This is the original printing, later reprinted by the University of Minnesota Press. Book has been well read and is in very good - condition with wear to the cover image along the edge and reading crease to front cover, corners bumped and shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked with light staining on the edge of a few pages. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.

Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. Unabridged. Please see our stock photo. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY.