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Philadelphia.: Chilton Company., 1961. First edition.. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket.. 1 Tan cloth over boards. 525 p. 21 cm. Pen&Ink line art, 16 maps, B&W photo section. 5 Appendices. Charts. "The possible existence of the Yeti, Sasquatch, and other Abominable Snowman (ABSMery) forms", from Foreword, describes the roundup of questions, answers, sitings, on various continents over decades. An academic compilation.

Bureau of Mines / US Dept. of the Interior, 1955. Revised July 1955. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 85 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, index. Pulbication list at back for miners. Charts, diagrams, b&w photos. Stapled binding. Stoping; natural or artficial support; rock-burst; rock-fall. How to prevent and deal with accidents.

New York NY.: Modern Library / Random House., 2001. First edition. . Trade paperback. New.. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Science / Philosophy. Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, lawyer, statesman, philosopher, published "The Advancement of Learning" in 1605, offering a then unprecedented systemization of the range of human knowledge. Bacon argued that the sciences must move away from divine philosophy and toward empirical observation.

London / New York: Academic Press, 1966. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Occasional markings in ink pen.. 0 382 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, index, bibliography. Charts; Index by author and subject. Illustrations in B&W, grayscale. Green durable cloth covered boards. Brown spine title box. 1966 edition of zoology classic by several contributors.

New York: Paul S. Eriksson Inc, 1965. First edition. First American Edition.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket.. 0 175 p. 24 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits. Bibliography; Index. How many really understand Einstein's theory that time and space are not absolute but depend on the observer? ...Why have the implications of his doctrines shaken philosophy by the heels? from DJ flap notes.

Philadelphia / New York.: J.B. Lippincott Company., 1961. First edition. Stated 1st.. Hard cover. Very good in fair dust jacket. Surface and edge damage to the dustjacket. Light end paper spotting. Tightly bound.. Wilson, Alexander (Color and B&W Plates from drawings by), and Ball, Robert (Decorations by). 1 Brown cloth over boards. Black decorated title box frame, titles. 319 p. 32 cm. Illustrations. AppendicesIndex. Poet, painter, naturalist, and pioneer Alexander Wilson, b.1766, Paisley, Scotland--d.1813, Philadelphia PA, was the first man to study the birds of America in their native forests. He authored "American Ornithology", "unrivaled for the fidelity of the paintings and the accuracy and humor of the writing", from jacket flaps. Appendices: "The Shark; or Lang Mills Detected" followed by a glossary of Scottish terms used in the poem; "Court Records of Wilson's Arrest", re: accusations of slander in the poem; "Subscribers to the… Read More

New York: Random House Trade, 1955. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket.. 1 Library binding. Cloth over boards. All about Books. Audience: Children/juvenile.

New York.: Dover Publications by arr. w/ A S Barnes Inc., 1985. Reprint. Unabridged republication from 1979 edition.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Slightest cover wear.. Kennedy, Paul E (Illustrated by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. Pen&Ink drawings. Audience: General/trade. Extensive Glossary. Selected Bibliography. Index. Dover Publications list at back.

New York.: The Lion Press., 1966. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Two small back cover stains.. Grossman, Nancy. 1 58 p. Includes illustrations. Pen&Ink drawings, full and partial pages. Light brown paper covered boards. Black ink illustrated cover. Gray & white illustrated endpapers. A book for all ages; a view of the 12 months told in the voice of a tree.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. 4th printing;. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. "Trey" in pencil.. Young, Jerry (Photographs by), and Iley, Mark, and Bendall-Brunello, John, and Hutchinson, John;. 0 29p. Audience: Children/juvenile; Illustrations, color drawings and photos; This series was conceived and produced by Dorling Kindersley Limited in England.

Portland OR / Cambridge UK.: Timber Press., 2004. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 1 Textured maroon paper over boards. Halftones, color photo section, line drawings, black & white. Audience: General/trade. Botanical wisdom over generations, crossing disciplines of history, ethnobotany, and horticulture. The research focuses on the interdependence of plants and the American home.

New York.: The Macmillan Company., 1926. First reprint of 1925 edition.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Lower spine end and front corner wear.. 1 307 p. Red cloth over boards. Gold-stamped front and spine titles. 307 p. 21 cm. Green-toned end paper photo pack camel line. Various B&W photos. Published posthumously, this is a study of the animals used by the military during World War I: horses, camels, mules, donkeys, oxen, dogs, pigeons. A history also of chemical warfare, veterinary services, humane societies. Naturalist, lecturer, and author Ernest Harold Baynes, b.1868-d.1925, was a founder of the large private fenced Corbin Game Preserve in west central New Hampshire, overlapping several community borders. Located just west of the Lake Sunapee region, the park was known for its imported buffaloes, as well as thousands of deer, and wild boars. The keen observations by Baynes also include the smaller creatures and their patterns.

London.: CICO Books / BOOKSPAN., 2004. First edition. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Fine.. Pasztor, Csaba (Illustrated by).. 1 Flexible color illustrated glossy paper over flexible boards. 144 p. Pen&Ink original artwork w/ some grayscale. 16x24 cm. Audience: General/trade. Animal affinity with people. Part One: Your Animals as Guides. Part Two: Dictionary of Animals.

Englewood Cliffs NJ.: Prentice-Hall., 1968. 3rd printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Lower right short corner curl. Clean. Slight cover surface blemishing.. 1 x, 117 p. 25 cm. Pen&Ink art; B&W photos, diagrams, charts. Index. A representation of various groups of organisms, not a catalog of specific animals or plants. It also presents the principles by which biologists study living forms. Animal and plant kingdoms are identified by each phylum. How they are classified, and how they respond to their environments also have chapters.

London / New York / Toronto.: Abelard-Schuman., 1968. First edition. 1st American.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Near fine. Light top and right page blocksoiling. Tightly bound. Minor age-toning to jacket spine.. 1 150 p. Includes: illustrations, maps. Royal blue cloth over boards. 3-color jacket. Grayscale artwork. Line art map Animal habitat / varied species in varied climates and terrain / Natural History. Some of the unusual: the bharal (part sheep and goat); the takin (antelope-like ox). Also the giant panda; wild horses; the golden eagle; the eagle owl; the yak; the Bactrian camel. Turkestan; Afghanistan; Pakistan; Tibet; Sinkiang; Mongolia; Nepal; Assam; Burma; China; Siberia.

New York.: A Signet Book / New American Library., 1967. First edition. 1st printing, stated. Complete and Unabridged. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Front corner short crease.. 1 Mass-market (rack) paperback. 320 p. Adventure fiction: Two American soldiers of fortune have been hired to wipe out a dangerous headhunter tribe in the Amazon. Around these blasphemers, are two fundamentalist missionaries and their repressed wives. The story begins.

Englewood Cliffs NJ.: A Spectrum Book / Prentice Hall., 1983. 3rd printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Minor edge wear. Smooth spine. Clean interior.. Leslie, Clare Walker (Illustrated by).. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 317 p. B&W photos, line art diagrams, drawings, maps. Index. Audience: General/trade. Seacoast geologic processes, types; Coastal weather, climate, storms; Waves, deep-water and shallow; Tides, theories, currents; Beaches, zones, cycles, erosion; Barrier islands, spits; Beach, dune ecology; Salt marsh, tidal ecology; Rocky coast; Coral reef ecology.

Philadelphia.: The Blakiston Company., 1944. 2nd printing after 1943 copyright.. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Clean. Light top page block edge damage. Minor jacket spine darkening. Minor jacket blemishing.. 1 323 p. "Alligator" cloth (maroon) over boards. Title box framed w/ gold lines, titles in gold; same on spine. Jacket: illustrated in white and black on blue; white titles. Glossy text paper. B&W photos, diagrams. Astrophysics / Astronomy. Intended for an audience of intelligent laymen and beginning students of astrophysics, a young science in the 1940s, with 150 illustrations. An Appendix lists the values of astronomical and physical constants; and a summary of the more important astrophysical relationships with examples.

Garden City NY.: Doubleday & Company., 1953. First edition. Introduction copyright 1953. No print line.. Hard cover. Very good in fair dust jacket. Jacket has multiple old cellophane tape repairs, edge wear.. Eckelberry, Don (Color art by), and Poole, Earl L (Line Drawings by). 1 Green cloth over boards w/ bird silhouettes in silver, black. Peach color illus. jacket. viii, 352 p. 19 cm. Color plates, line art. Maps: end papers in orange, cream; Line art frontispiece. Index. "Sponsored by National Audubon Society." Each part has special t.p. "Originally published in two volumes under the titles: Audubon Bird Guide and Audubon Water Bird Guide." Over 1000 pictures of 533 species; 885 in full color.

New York: Viking Press, 1964. Hard cover. Very good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. Edge chipping of DJ.. 0 viii, 256 p. ill., port.; 29 cm. Studio book. A Studio book. Includes: Illustrations, Portraits. Includes index.