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What You See in Clear Water: Life on the Wind River Reservation
by O'Gara, Geoffrey
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Dustjacket
- Edition
- 2nd Printing
- Published
- 2002
- Binding
- Hardcover with dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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£5.68
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This book tells the story of the Wind River Reservation, the Native Americans who inhabit it, and the struggle for the preservation of its natural resources. Item Price
£5.68
Rio Grande
by Fergusson, Harvey
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good Dustjacket
- Published
- 1945
- Binding
- Hardcover with dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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£40.57
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This book tells of the "pseudo-builders, explorers, missionaries, conquistadores, Indians, Mexicans, penitentes, mountain men, prairie men, revolutionists" who all became a part of the history of a beautiful natural world. Item Price
£40.57
Sonoran Desert Summer
by Alcock, John
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1990
- Binding
- Hardcover with dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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£8.11
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This book investigates the wide variety of life that exists in Arizona's Sonoran Desert. Item Price
£8.11
We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth
by Jamail, Dahr and Rushworth, Stan
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2022
- Binding
- Hardcover with dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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£9.74
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This book contains a collection of 20 essays. Item Price
£9.74
The Illustrated Flora of Britain and Northern Europe
by Blamey, Marjorie and Grey-Wilson, Christopher
- Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Dustjacket
- Published
- 1989
- Binding
- Hardcover with dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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£28.40
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This is a beautifully illustrated and comprehensive book, describing and illustrating over 2400 plants. Because of the weight of this book shipping charges will be individually quoted and will depend upon the shipping method and the destination. Item Price
£28.40
Swift Lightning
by Curwood, James Oliver
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Published
- 1926
- Binding
- Bound in green cloth hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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£16.23
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This is a nice older edition of Curwood's classic book. Item Price
£16.23
The Small Fruit Culturist - 1888 Edition
by Fuller, Andrew S.
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Published
- 1888
- Binding
- Bound as a green cloth hardcover with gold decor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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£28.40
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This is a beautifully illustrate3d old book on how to grow and harvest fruit on a small scale. Item Price
£28.40
The Intimate Desert - Inscribed and Autographed by the Author
by O'Kane, Walter Collins
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1969
- Binding
- Hardcover with dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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£20.28
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The title page contains a lengthly handwritted inscription from the author to his "very special and deeply valued friends", dated the 24th day of December 1969, and signed Walter Collins O'Kane. There is also a former owner's name on the front endsheet. Item Price
£20.28
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
by Benton, Michael J.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Dustjacket
- Published
- 2003
- Binding
- Hardcover with dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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£8.11
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This book explores the mass extinction which took place at the end of the Permian Period 251 million years ago when ninety per cent of all life on Earth was wiped out. Item Price
£8.11
Snakes of the World
by Ditmars, Raymond L.
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No dustjacket
- Published
- 1936
- Binding
- Bound in green cloth hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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£8.11
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There is a former owner's name and date pencilled on the front endsheet. Item Price
£8.11
Popular Handbook of Indian Birds
by Whistler, Hugh
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition with some wear.
- Jacket Condition
- No dustjacket
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Published
- 1935
- Binding
- Bound in green cloth hardcover with gold lettering
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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£12.17
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This book is illustrated with 20 full page plates (ninety-five figures) of which five are colored, and ninety-six figures in the text. Item Price
£12.17
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Challenge of the Big Trees: A Resource History of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks - Autographed by Author William Tweed
by Dilsaver, Lary M. and Tweed, William C.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1990
- Binding
- Hardcover with dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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£20.28
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This book is autographed by one of the authors, William Tweed. Item Price
£20.28
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life - Two Volume Set
by Darwin, Charles
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Edition
- 6th Ed., 33rd thousand
- Published
- 1888
- Binding
- Bound in 3/4 leather with marbled covers
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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£1,014.25
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This complete two volume set is the Sixth Edition, 33rd thousand. The volumes are bound in 3/4 leather (leather spines and corners) with marbled covers and endsheets, and gold lettering and decor on the spines. The tops of the page edges are gilded. There is the handwritten name and date (1890) and bookplate of a former owner inside. Both volumes… Read more about this item Item Price
£1,014.25
The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex - Volume Two Only
by Darwin, Charles
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Published
- 1888
- Binding
- Bound in 3/4 leather with marbled covers
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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£121.71
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This is Volume Two only of a two volume set. It is the Second Edition, 22nd thousand, bound in 3/4 leather (leather spine and corners) with marbled covers and marbled endsheets.There is a former owner's handwritten name and date (1890) and bookplate inside. The book is in very good condition. Item Price
£121.71
A Flora of New Mexico - Two Volume Set
by Martin, William C. and Hutchins, Charles R.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1980
- Binding
- Bound in dark mgreen cloth covers with red labels on the spines.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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£320.50
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This complete two volume set of the flora of New Mexico is in Very Good Condition. It is very scarce, and an excellent reference for flora of the North American Soutwest. There is a former owner's name and gift inscription on the volumes, but they are otherwise without writing or notation. The volumes are illustrated with 463 figures and 1300… Read more about this item Item Price
£320.50
John and William Bartram's America
by Bartram, John and William
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition with slight cover wear
- Published
- 1961
- Binding
- Mass Market Paperback With Pictorial Cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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£8.11
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This book is edited by Helen Gere Cruickshank. Item Price
£8.11
Challenge of the Big Trees: A Resource History of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks
by Dilsaver, Lary M. and Tweed, William C.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1990
- Binding
- Hardcover with dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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£16.23
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This book contains much information, hitherto unpublished, regarding the formation and maintainance of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Item Price
£16.23
A Handbook on Trail Building and Maintainance
by Griswold, Stephen S.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1996
- Binding
- Spiral bound
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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£20.28
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This is an excellent guide to building and maintaining hiking trails. Item Price
£20.28
Handbook of Fertilizers: Their Sources, Makeup, Effects and Use
by Gustafson, A.F.
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1928
- Binding
- Bound in pictorial cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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£20.28
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There is a former owners name inside. Item Price
£20.28
Coming Into the Country
by McPhee, John
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good Dustjacket with slight edge wear
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Published
- 1977
- Binding
- Bound in green cloth, with dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Silver City, New Mexico, USA
- Item Price
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£8.11
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This book is about Alaska and Alaskans, both contemporary and historical. Item Price
£8.11