Search Results: Animals - General from Blue & Grey Book Shoppe

From back cover: "Discover the many benefits of apple cider vinegar! This kitchen cupboard staple has a wide variety of uses throughout the house. As an ingredient in folk remedies, it treats conditions from poison ivy to athlete's foot. Paired with herbs and essential oils, it unlocks their healing elements. In the bathroom it serves as a component in inexpensive hair and skin care formulas. Throughout the house, it can act as a natural cleaner." "In the kitchen, vinegar adds taste without adding calories, providing a healthy alternative to fatty ingredients even as it helps control blood sugar." This book has recipes for remedies, body care products, plus, appetizers, soups, and main dishes.Condition: Very Good+. This book looks like new except that there is very slight bottom edge wear. Nice raised lettering on front cover.Please use photos as part of the description. 256 pages.

From legal page: "Dick Sternberg blends his years of angling experience and scientific training into a text loaded with important facts about fish and helpful tips for the modern angler. A professional fisheries biologist for 16 years, Dick has fished from the mountain streams of Alaska to the Everglades of Florida."
Book - Good condition. Printed paper over boards with blue leatherette spine with gold gilt. Cover has some corner wear, but otherwise looks good. Text is clean and binding is tight.
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160 pages including Index.

Per front DJ flap: "This book will introduce students to fresh-water fishes and their distribution and serve the ichthyologist and ichthyogeographer as an immediate reference."
The Atlas provides voluminous data on fish distribution and fish traits.

Book - Very Good+ condition. The first three pages have a soft corner crease at the top. Very minimal edge or corner wear. Clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Fair condition. Some rubbing and bumping. There is one large stain and a couple tiny ones on the front and some black marks on the back . There are closed edge tears and chips.
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197 pages including Index

From inside front cover: "This magazine will help you escape with a look at stunning flora, fauna and other natural scenes for your to color. The serene pictures will inspire your creativity and help you find some inner peace as you fill them in." The book has a color key in the front and suggested colors on each coloring page. There is also "Solutions" pages at the back that show the colored images for your inspiration.65 pages including the "Solutions" pages at the back.

From the front dust jacket flap: "The pageant of Nature offers much useful instruction for anyone with the will to notice and understand. And the life of the silkmoth - the subject of this book - is an anthology of lessons."
There are three lessons mentioned: patience, durability, and uselessness of judging by appearances.

Quote from back DJ cover: "Written in a reader-friendly style and illustrated with beautiful and informative photographs, A Gift of Wings is easily accessible to nonscientists. It will appeal to both young and old." - Gilbert Waldbauer, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Entomology, University of Illinois

My comment - even though this was written for adults, I think it would make a great book to read to children as a change from the usual story books.

Book - Fine condition. Forest Green cloth over boards with gold gilt text on front and spine. Tiniest bit of wear at spine. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Photographs are beautiful.
Dust Jacket - Near Fine condition. Front cover has… Read More

From back cover: "Are Moles messin' with you lawn? Beetles brunching on your bee balm?...Do your neighbors' pets think your yard is their own personal privy?...Jerry Baker has a terrific tonic or super solution that'll say "Bug Off -- NOW!"
This book is full of solutions for yard and garden problems using common household products.
Very Good+ condition. There is very slight rubbing to the cover and a couple bumps. Very minimal edge or corner wear. Clean and tight.
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374 pages including the Index.

From the Introduction: "In judging live stock there are two faculties which seem to require special development - observation and judgmet."
There is a color photo-engraving as a frontispiece, plus grayscale and greenscale illustrations and photographs throughout the book.
Good condition. Red cloth over boards with border impressions on the front and gold gilt title. The spine has black text. There is edge and corner wear, some soiling, and the spine has some fading. The closed book page edges show some soiling. The previous owner's name is in greenish ink on back of front cover. The front endpapers have cracked at the spine. There appears to be light soiling or age spotting throughout the book. The text is clean and the binding is intact.
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187 pages including Acknowledgements.

From back cover: "The Kansas City Zoo has had some colorful residents in the last century: Sally the cigarette-smoking chimp, Case the bull elephant, a furry escape artist named Nemo and lots of cute babies. You'll meet them and many others on this wild ride through 100 years of zookeeping history." From Foreword: "When the Kansas City Zoo opened in 1909, exotic animals were oddities and a source of fascination because most people had never seen or heard of them. Through the years the novelty has worn off, but the curiosity remains."New book in new condition. Clean. Tight. No flaws. Stated First Edition. This book has been stored in its original shipping case in a dry location. Please use photos as part of the description.154 pages with LOTS of photos.

A journal for pet owners of all ages. Pets' history, health, habits, photo pages. Room for more than one pet.New. Spiral bound. Clean. Original retail price printed in back cover was $10.00. 128 pages.

From front cover this includes:

Their favorite flowers
Their Fascinating beauty and behavior
15 plans for irresistible gardens

Beautiful color photos and lots of information included.
Very Good+ condiiton. Very light rubbing on covers. Soft thumb crease on front. Very little edge/corner wear. Three pages have small corner creases. Clean and tight.
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96 pages including Index.

Quote from first page: "Beyond our maddest hopes...Everyone will pick his own favorites from a rollicking ring-tailed procession - and from about 90 of the most amazing animal photographs ever assembled." - Chicago Tribune. Good condition. A little, but not much edge/corner wear. Spine is creased. Book has a curve. Text is clean and binding is VERY tight. Black & white photos. Closed book page edges have a red tint that is good, but not perfect. Please use photos as part of the description. 192 pages.

A story about a family in the Aleutian wilderness with a boy and a golden seal.Black and white illustrations. Good condition. Some soiling to cover and spine. Pages are lightly tanned and have some light stains/spots. Text is clean. Binding is tight.Please use photos as part of the description.128 pages.

From front DJ flap: "Few biologists in the history of natural science have been as groundbreaking, controversial, and productive as Edward Osborne Wilson, long hailed as 'Darwin's successor'."
Wilson focused on the insect society, then extended his research from social insects through the animal kingdom to human society. He is known for Sociobiology, published in 1975and demonstrated how Darwinian evolution shapes all animal behavior. In the 1990s he recognized the increasing destruction of wilderness and became a leading voice on the crucial importance of biodiversity and conservation.
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Book - Fine condition. Red rust paper over boards with gold gilt on spine. Very minimal wear. Clean and tight.
Dust Jacket - Fine condition. Very minimal wear. Looks like new.
268 pages including Index.

From front DJ flap: "Here...is a definitive work: one that exposes this hostile sea-wolf as he really is, a savage predator who mutilates and murders people every year. Yet, this incredible creature plays a multipurpose rol as a potent benefactor to all mankind by contributing to medical research, commerce, nutrition, and ecology. Astonishingly, this killer actually helps save lives, too."
Book condition: Good. Blue cloth over boards. Minimal edge/corner wear. Light fading at top edge. One color photo, rest are black and white. Previous owners name/address sticker on end paper. Also, a rectangle has been cut out of the bottom corner edge of the title page. The book has a slight slant. Text is clean and binding is tight.
Dust Jacket condition: Fair. Some small tears and a half inch chip at top edge.
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224 pages including Index.

Very simple activity book. From back cover: "Skin, scales, and spots. Play a reptile guessing game!"Very Good. Clean. Tight. 16 pages.

Per title page: "Complete directions for making and doing over 5,000 things necessary in Business, The Trades, The Shop, The Home, The Farm, and The Kitchen." "Recipes, Prescriptions, Medicines, Manufacturing Processes, Trade Secrets, Chemical Preparations, Mechanical Appliances, Aid to Injured, Antidotes, Business Information, Every Day Law, Ornaments, Home Decorations, Art Work, Fancy Work, Agriculture, Fruit Culture, Stock Raising, and hundreds of other useful hints and helps." "Gathered from the Most Reliable Sources." Sample information:Here's an "Economical Hint" that still holds true: "The art is not in making money, but in keeping it..." This is from a tip about making the popular red Easter eggs: boil in a decoction of logwood, then add some alum to convert the violet color to red. Good+ condition. For its age, this is a really nice book (my opinion). The brown cover has black text and decorations. Title in gold gilt block on spine. Some corner wear, very little edge wear. Very slight… Read More