London, United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley, 2004. Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 176 pages, extensively illustrated in full colour and black-and-white. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. Hardcover with dust jacket, later (1974) printing, x + 276 pages, "690 Photographs - 18 Color Plates"; illustrated step-by-step instructions; lightl bumps to spine ends, otherwise in very clean and unmarked unread condition, essentially as new; DJ has two very tiny tears, spine sun faded.. . Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.
Koln [Cologne], Germany: Taschen, 2012. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, 320 pages, extensively illustrated in full colour and black-and-white; very clean and unmarked unread condition, essentially as new. [this copy priced low, priced to go as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H may be requested] . Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973. Oversized hardcover without dust jacket but in protective slipcase, 139 pages including illustrations throughout in full colour and black-and-white; book in very clean and unmarked unread condition, almost as new except for the spine which is ever so slightly sun faded; very bright and colourful slipcase, still in publisher's original shrinkwrap (except cut away at the opening for the book's removal) has very light traces of shelf wear at top and bottom of opening. PLEASE NOTE: the Stock Image provided by next to my listing is not an image of my book (although mine is identical except for that library spine label), and clearly does not not include the very bright and colourful slipcase. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.
London: Oldbourne Press, 1965. Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 156 pages including black-and-white and full colour plates throughout; book very gently used, no shelf wear other than gentle bumps to spine ends, traces of top edge dust soiling, all pages very clean and unmarked, pages fresh and white; DJ rubbed and lightly chipped at spine ends, now in new mylar protector. See also our listing for The Prado Museum: Pictures, Statues, Drawings & Jewels, Selection and Historical Notes by F.J. Sanchez Canton, published by Editorial Peninsular.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good.
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1974. Oversized rade paperback, later printing, 272 pages including many illustrations in full colour and black-and-white; spine creased but still flat, covers faded and curled at fore edge, corners bumped, neat ink gift inscription on half title page, text pages clean and unmarked except ink marks in margins of about six pages, and a tiny spot stain to the last (Index) page.. Soft Cover. Good.
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1924. Oversized softcover with stapled binding, 2 pages of text including 2 Figures, plus XXIV Plates; gentle rubbing along spine, but very gently used, very clean and unmarked. For something completely different, see also our listinng for Barbara Harrisson's Pusaka, Heirloom Jars of Borneo. . Soft Cover. Very Good.
Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1990. Oversized softcover, "Second impression 1991", xvi + 55 pages of text including black-and-white illustrations, plus 32 full colour plates, plus an additional 165 pages of black-and-white plates; very gently used, only tiny traces of shelf and reading wear, spine and covers flat/uncreased, light highlighting on thirteen pages, five-word notation in ink in margin of one page, neat nine-word notation in ink at bottom of another page, all other text and illustration pages very clean and unmarked, fresh and white.. Soft Cover. Very Good -.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1998. OVERSIZED hardcover with dust jacket, 471 pages including "350 illustrations, including 200 plates in full color"; bottom edge remainder mark, just a hint of shelf wear, otherwise essentially as new. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] See also our listings for Sarah Blake McHam's very scarce Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture, and for Italian Paintings Before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago in association with H.N. Abrams, 1998. OVERSIZED hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 376 pages including "300 illustrations, including 124 plates in full color"; bottom edge remainder mark, book and DJ otherwise as new. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977. Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 240 pages including "---177 paintings in full colour and many more in black-and-white"; very gently used, tight in binding, just a hint of shelf wear along bottom cover edges, flawed only by a small faded old spot stain to fore edge with traces of same in the outer margins of two facing pages (89/90), book otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ has gentle edge bumping, but no chips, one short tear to top of front hinge, cover pictorials brilliantly colourful. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good -/Very Good -.
Toronto: Summerhill Press, 1987. Oversized oblong hardcover with dust jacket, 152 pages including "---ninety [black-and-white] pen-and-ink drawings---" throughout; very gently used, just a trace of rubbing to bottom edges of covers, very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ has one very tiny chip and three tiny tears For something similar, see also our listing for Roger Coleman, Downland: A Farm and a Village, and for In the Country: 250 years of country life in paintings, prose and poetry. Seasons of Change: Sketches of Farm Life. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good.
New York: Peter Lang, 2001. Trade paperback, xviii + 174 pages; exterior appears as new, not a trace of shelf or reading wear, but there are pencil underlinings on approximately 75 pages, otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout, pages fresh and white.. Soft Cover. Very Good.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 2000. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, xiii + 178 pages, "---110 full-colour paintings, [seldom-seen Canadian war art images]---[plus] archival photographs..."; book in very clean and unmarked unread condition, essentially as new; DJ has a gold foil stamp on the front panel, two tiny tears to bottom of back panel.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.
Toronto: Prentice Hall of Canada, 1982. Oversized (almost square) hardcover with dust jacket, 191 pages including "Seventy color reproductions---"; tiny traces of shelf wear to cover tips, but book very gently used, very clean and unmarked; DJ spine sun faded, several tiny chips and tears and two short tears. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] See also our listings for Helen Dow's The Art of Alex Colville, and for Tom Smart's Alex Colville: Return, very scarce signed by both Smart and Colville (an early mentor of Pratt).,. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good -.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Douglas & McIntyre and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 2004. Oversized oblong hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 144 pages including "41 full-colour paintings, 31 black-and-white paintings, 24 sketches"; very clean and unmarked unread condition, essentially as new. See also our listings for Tom Smart's The World of John Hooper, and for Helen Dow's The Art of Alex Colville, as well as for David Silcox's Christopher Pratt (an early pupil of Colville). . Signed by Author. First Edition. Fine/Fine.
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada: Prentice Hall Canada and Cerebrus Publishing , 1980. AS NEW oversized hardcover with dust jacket, unpaginated (but approximately 104 pages), with 24 four colour full page plates with facing work sketches and a section of 24 Distribution Maps; exceptionally white cloth covers with very bright and clear gilt lettering to spine, not a trace of shelf or reading wear, all pages fresh and white, colour brilliant and vibrant, very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ has done its duty protecting the book but is gently bumped along edges, several very tiny chips and two short tears. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] See also our listings for Glen Loates [title and author], ISBN 0920016065, published by Nature Impressions, and for more Canadian wildlife art, The Art of Robert Bateman, signed by Bateman. . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good -.
Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1978. Oversized softcover, later printing, 231 pages including "---forty-eight major works---reproduced in full colour, with fifty-six black-and-white illustrations of sketches, drawings, coin designs, paintings, and serigraphs"; hardly a trace of shelf and reading wear other than very tiny corner bumps, but very gently used, very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our listings for Tom Smart's The World of John Hooper, and for his Alex Colville: Return, signed by both Smart and Colville, as well as for David Silcox's Christopher Pratt (an early pupil of Colville).. Soft Cover. Very Good ++.
Toronto: Allen Lane Penguin Books, 1981. Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 179 pages including "---eighty-two colour plates---" and many black-and-white illustrations;---signed by Bateman on the title page without inscription;---very gently used, very clean and unmarked throughout, but there is a thin line of sun fading along the cover edges, and a tiny hole on the back rubbed through the navy blue cloth (see below regarding same anomaly); DJ has two short tears to front, one long tear to back plus a strange tiny hole rubbed through to the book cover. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] See also our listings for a collection of postcard-sized illustrations by that other great Canadian nature artist Glen Loates: titled simply Glen Loates [ISBN 0920016065], and for Glen Loates' Birds of North America.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good -/Good.
New York: Ballantine, 1974. Oversized softcover, 12 pages of text plus 40 full colour plates; light shelf and reading wear, but very gently used, tiny red chop mark on half title page, otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our listing for Beatrice Phillpotts' The Book of Fairies: Enchanted, Erotic, Fantastic Creatures of Dreams, Magic and Mischief. . First American Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good ++.
