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London, The Adventurers Club, 1960, hardcover, 192 pp, Very Good in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, tidy name and date to front endpaper, spine-end and corner bumps, foxing to top and fore-edge of textblock. Dustjacket, light edge nicks to spine-ends and corners, spine slightly darkened, in new Brodart sleeve, the best example of this dustjacket I've ever seen. The British-born soldier, administrative officer, and professional hunter's first book about his adventures in northern Africa beginning in 1941 when he was just 22 years old. Illustrated with 16 full-page drawings by Bruno De Sopra.
Wild Life of the South by Archibald Rutledge - 1935
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Wild Life of the South
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Frederick A. Stokes Company 1935, third printing.Illustrated by Charles E. Pont. Book is in good condition. Boards are sturdy, text is clean and unmarked. Light foxing on end pages. Gift inscription signed by author on front end page.
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A Tear for Somalia
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Insects at Home. Being a Popular Account of British Insects, their Structure, Habits, and Transformations. With Upwards of 700 Figures by E. A. Smith and J. B. Zwecker, Engraved by G. Pearson. New Edition.
by Wood, J. G.
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London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large octavo (215 x 140 mm). Contemporary tan calf prize binding, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, black morocco label, double lines rules to boards and Hanley Castle Grammar School Crest to upper board gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, turn-overs ruled in blind. Colour frontispiece and 20 engraved plates, engravings throughout the text. Contemporary presentation inscription to the front blank. Boards a little rubbed and scuffed, small gouge from top edge of lower board, blank piece of paper pasted over an inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper, light spotting to contents. A very good copy. An attractively bound and copiously illustrated work on British insects by the naturalist John George Wood (1827-1889), originally published in 1872. Wood began his career in the Church of England, but from the early 1850s "was developing a career as a natural historian; his first book, The Illustrated…
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The World of Owen Gromme; A Landmark Book from the Dean of Wildlife Artists: Promotional Poster
by Gromme, Owen, (Artist); Introduction by Roger Tory Peterson
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Madison, WI: Stanton & Lee Publishers , 1983. SIGNED BY ARTIST Owen Gromme in ink. Publisher's promotional poster, distributed in limited numbers at the 1983 ABA trade show. Near Fine, small faint creases. SIGNED lower right in ink. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . SIGNED BY ARTIST. First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 23"w x 29"h.
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Ranger Rick's Wonder Book
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Hardcover board book, no dust jacket. Very Good condition, cover has some rubbing, previous owner gift inscription on ffep. Describes how various baby animals are nurtured after birth, when they gain their independence, why play is important to their development, other aspects of their daily lives. 95 pages, indexed. from a nonsmoking home
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The Venomous Reptiles of Latin America
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This is an extensive survey of venomous reptiles inhabiting the deserts and rainforests of Latin America.Due to the size of this item, expedited or priority shipping prices will be individually quoted. Media Mail cost within the U.S. will remain as listed.
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Freddy And The Clockwork Twin
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Freddy And The Clockwork Twin. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Copyright 1937. A Borzoi Book. Doesn't state 1st. USED. From private owner. Bright Yellow Gibraltar Binding. Good+ Condition/ No DJ included. A clean, bright solid copy.
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The ABC Bunny
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Please excuse our group photo. Just 1 book is offered here: The ABC Bunny BY WANDA GA'G. Coward-McCann 1933 First Edition Twentieth Printing Thus. Good Condition. No DJ. Exlib. Library- bound edition. Hand lettered by Howard Gag. Green boards with red titling in white front center panel in nice condition. Green and white wraparound alphabet wall poster still affixed to binding. WOODCUTS.
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The Land of the Lion
by Rainsford, W. S.
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New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 459 pages. Hardcover bound in original green cloth with lettering in gilt. Moderate wear to the binding. Inner hinges secure. A sound copy with secure inner hinges and clean text. Illustrated with black and white photos. Complete with the double-page map.
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King Solomon's Mines
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Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. Longmans Green & Co., London. No copyright date. States New Impression 1921 on the title page. USED. VG/ No DJ Included. Blue boards withdark red- orange titling. 274 pages plus adverts. 5 1/8 X 7 5/8. Summary "King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is one of the first English adventure novels set in Africa and is considered to be the genesis of the lost world genre."
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She: A History of Adventure
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Haggard, H. Rider. SHE. Longmans Green & Co., London. No copyright date. States New Impression, 1921 on the title page. Dedicated to fellow author Andrew Lang. USED. VG/ No DJ Included. Mallard Green boards with bright gilt titling on front board and spine. 310 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 5/8. Summary: "A dying colleague gives Mr. Horace Holly at Cambridge University a locked box, the contents of which lead Mr. Holly to travel to Eastern Africa where he hopes to solve an ancient mystery, only to be captured by the savage Amhagger people who are ruled by a fearsome white queen, who is worshipped as "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed".
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Wild Life Of The South (SIGNED) by Archibald Rutledge
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Good. 1935 in fair shape solid and tight SIGNED by Author on Title Page cream colored boards are soiled and faded but book is solid and tight
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Wild Life of the South
by Rutledge, Archibald
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1935. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Very Good interior. Text and illustrations unmarked. Pages clean and intact with age toning. Cover intact with staining to upper corners of front and rear (see image). Upper spine also lightly stained, to a lesser degree. This does not intact the interior. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped. Light wear. Binding and hinges intact. 253 pages.
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WILD LIFE OF THE SOUTH
by Rutledge, Archibald [Hamilton]
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1935. 254 pp. Original tan cloth covers, moderately soiled and foxed. Spine darkened. Light wear to spine ends and corners. Previous owner's name in pencil on front blank endpaper. Edges of leaves lightly age toned. Illust. w/ b/w drawings.. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Charles E. Pont. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Wild Life of the South
by Rutledge, Archibald
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1935. A very attractive copy of a book tough-to-find in First Edition, especially in dust jacket and in collectible condition as nice as this. SEE PHOTOS. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. The jacket is complete and its colors are still very bright and attractive. NOT price clipped ($1.75). The publisher has blacked out two mistaken words (i.e. "and crocodiles") on the jacket's front inner flap as crocodiles are not mentioned in the book (but alligators are). Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve (temporarily removed for photos to reduce glare). This is an extremely appealing, pretty copy. All pages are creamy white, clean, crisp and unmarked. The jacket art depicts a brown running deer and several greenish waterfowl on the wing. The jacket has minor wear at the corners and at the bottom of the rear panel there are two half-inch closed tears and one 2" closed tear. The front panel of the jacket has a few faint brown…
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Wild Life of the South
by Rutledge, Archibald
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New York: Frederick Stokes Company , 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. Charles E. Pont. 253p, octavo. A very good + copy in a very good + jacket. Boards and text block faintly foxed, slight wear at spine ends and corners. Jacket darkened along spine, with minor wear along edges. Charles E. Pont's bookplate pasted to first free end paper. Pont illustrated this book. Signed by Rutledge on title page.
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Snakes, Lizards & Turtles of the Lake Mead Region
by Grater, Russel K
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Solid staple binding. Crisp, clean full color interiors. Some light shelf wear at the corners. Small fingerprint sized discoloration on back cover from sticker residue. Tiny corner crease not extending into text on page 39 and 41. Nature Guides. Herpetology. 48 pages with species index and bibliography. 8" X 10" X 0.25" 20.5CM X25.5Cm X1CM Full color photos of the reptile species native to the Lake Mead area on the Colorado River in Arizona and Nevada. Includes a full color photo of each animal. Full species index in back. Includes such species as the Chuckwalla, Banded Gila Monster, Texas Softshell, Arizona Glossy Snake, Desert Rosy Boa, Mojave Desert Sidewinder, Panamint Rattlesnake, Sonora Lyre Snake, and Western Blind Snake
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Audubon
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No jacket. blue cloth covers with silver lettering. Wear to edges and spine. Spine is somewhat sun faded. Solid binding but has a visible split in the back inside the back cover. Clean interiors pages. Previous owner's name written on first page. 342 indexed pages. 6.5" X 9" X1.5" 12 color plates reproduced from Audubon's "Birds of America:. Includes additional black and white illustrations by James MacDonald. Biography following the life of John James Audubon from the time he was adopted as a child and went by the name Jean-Jacques Fougère Audubon, to his immigration to the US, and his eventual work on "Birds of America". The author's note in the back includes bibliography and information on how she resolved conflicts between sources.
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
by Engle, Joanna
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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.
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The Elephant's Child: Just So Stories Series
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Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2
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The Silence Of The North
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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.
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BRNSTN BRS GO TO CAMP (First Time Books)
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Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition. Number line starts with 1. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.
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Wildlife America: A Collection of US Commemorative Stamps
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Gorgeous collection of images from US Wildlife US Commemorative Stamps. Includes a mint set of the 50 original commemorative stamp not separated, 22 face value. Original envelop.
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Lao Folktale: Tiger and Toad
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RARE! Vientiane, Lao PDR: Institute for Cultural Research, October 11, 1999. Staple-Bound Pamphlet. Near Fine. Light wear to back cover, otherwise As New. Not from a library. In Lao and English. 18 pages. 17 B&W illustrations.
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Freddy And The Bean Home News
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Freddy and the Bean Home News. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Alfred A. Knopf, copyright 1943, Fourth printing Thus, Jan., 1952. Exlib. No exterior marking. Good/ no DJ included. A clean, solid copy. Please also see our Freddy The Pig Catalogue.
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor
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Freddy And Mr. Camphor. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/No Dust jacket included. Alfred A. Knopf 1944 Stated First Edition. A solid copy. Spine is sunned. Please see our photos. Summary: In Freddy and Mr. Camphor, Freddy is in need of a change and finds an opportunity for one as a caretaker on Mr. Camphor's houseboat. Of course, things never go as Freddy expects and a series of strange, amusing, and sometimes alarming adventures ensue. Please also see our Freddy The Pig catalogue.
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