Garden City Park, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, Doran, 1935. Hardcover without dust jacket, green cloth covers with bright and clear gilt embossed lettering on front cover (spine gilt lettering faded), xviii + 565 pages, "with sixteen plates in colour and one hundred and sixty in black-and-white from photographs by A. Radclyffe Dugmore", all in addition to the text; gently used ex-school library, tight in binding, light shelf wear to cover corners, moderate wear along spine edges and ends, just a hint of some faded old staining to covers, card pocket inside front cover, rubber stamp and later personal bookplate on free front endpaper, another rubber stamp inside back cover, interior otherwise very clean and unmarked. [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 Canada's best gardening book, Practical Guide to Gardening in Canada: A Definitive Illustrated Manual of Gardening Techniques, Planning, and Maintenance. . . Hard Cover. Very Good -.
Guelph, Ontario, Canada: J. W. Lyon, 1875. Oversized hardcover without dust jacket, 811 pages including "---nearly two hundred beautiful illustrations---"[black-and-white drawings];---leather covers worn and rubbed, spine even more so, only some spine lettering still legible, top and bottom of spine backstrip missing, some cracking and looseness evident in binding, but still intact (no loose pages), almost all pages have light foxing, more so on illustration pages and adjacent pages, otherwise clean and unmarked;---overall exterior condition is Fair, interior Good. [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] . Hard Cover. Fair.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: National Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada, 1978. Square paperback with sturdy metal stay-flat spiral binding, 184 pages including many drawings and full colour photographs throughout;---"Notice to Readers" sticker secured to inside of front cover;---very tiny corner bumps to covers, but very gently used, very clean and unmarked throughout, almost as new. See also our listings for Edible wild Fruits and Nuts of Canada, and for Bradford Angier's Feasting Free on Wild Edibles : A one-volume edition of Free for the Eating and More Free-for-the Eating Wild Foods, and for G. F. Ferri's very scarce The Psychology of Wilderness Survival.. Soft Cover. Very Good ++.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: National Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada, 1979. Square paperback with sturdy metal stay-flat spiral binding, 212 pages including many drawings and full colour photographs throughout; very tiny corner bumps to covers, but very gently used, ink gift inscription inside front cover, otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout, almost as new. See also our listings for Edible Garden Weeds of Canada, and for Bradford Angier's Feasting Free on Wild Edibles : A one-volume edition of Free for the Eating and More Free-for-the Eating Wild Foods, and for G. F. Ferri's very scarce The Psychology of Wilderness Survival.. Soft Cover. Very Good ++.
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, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1971. Trade paperback, later printing, 264 pages including drawings; one spine crease, front cover reader's crease, but gently used, not abused, other tiny traces of shelf wear, all pages age toned but otherwise very clean and unmarked. See also our other Mowat titles, including the very scarce set Farley Mowat Award-Winning Adventure Stories: Lost in the Barrens, The Curse of the Viking Grave, The Black Joke [boxed set of Children's Classics].. Soft Cover. Very Good.
Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1973. Trade paperback, later printing, 218 pages including drawings; tiny traces of shelf wear, faded old waterstain to corner of fore and bottom edges without penetration, all pages age toned but otherwise very clean and unmarked, appears unread. See also our other Mowat titles, including the very scarce set Farley Mowat Award-Winning Adventure Stories: Lost in the Barrens, The Curse of the Viking Grave, The Black Joke [boxed set of Children's Classics].. Soft Cover. Very Good ++.
Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1974. Trade paperback, later printing, 313 pages including 3 two-page maps; one spine crease, other tiny traces of shelf and reading wear, edges age toned, five-word ink gift inscription inside front cover, otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout, pages fresh and white. See also our other Mowat titles, including the very scarce set Farley Mowat Award-Winning Adventure Stories: Lost in the Barrens, The Curse of the Viking Grave, The Black Joke [boxed set of Children's Classics].. Soft Cover. Very Good.
Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1993. Trade paperback, later printing, 264 pages including drawings; very clean and unmarked unread condition. See also our other Mowat titles, including the very scarce set Farley Mowat Award-Winning Adventure Stories: Lost in the Barrens, The Curse of the Viking Grave, The Black Joke [boxed set of Children's Classics].. Soft Cover. Fine. Illus. by Marc G.P. Berthier.
Pleasantville, New York, U.S.A.: Readers Digest , 1979. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, second printing, 411 pages plus Index, "---contains more than 1,000 spectacular color paintings by nature artist Ad Cameron---"; very clean and unmarked unread condition. See also our listings for The Bird-Finding Guide to Canada, and for Michael Warren's Shorelines: Birds at the Water's Edge.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
London: Penguin Books Ltd, 1969. Mass market paperback, later printing, 192 pages including drawings; light shelf and reading wear, ink signature, otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our listing for Durrell's The Picnic and Other Inimitable Stories.. Soft Cover. Very Good ++. Illus. by Thompson, Ralph.
Boston: Little Brown, 1984. Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 223 pages including black-and-white illustrations, plus additional in full colour; gently bumped at spine ends, but very gently used, very clean and unmarked; DJ has several tiny chips, two short tears at spine bottom, now in new mylar protector. See also our listing for Robert Goodden's Beningfield's Butterflies : Paintings and Drawings by Gordon Beningfield.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good -.
New York: Dell, 1962. Mass market paperback, "Second printing - November, 1964", 200 pages including drawings and black-and-white photographs; shelf wear along edges, closed tear at front cover top, nasty corner crease to back cover top, but very tight in binding, very clean and unmarked throughout.. Paperback Original. Soft Cover. Very Good -.
New York: Dell, 1962. Mass market paperback, "Fifth printing - May, 1966", 200 pages including drawings and black-and-white photographs; tiny traces of shelf wear to exterior, spine and covers uncreased, tears to bottom corners of all pages to text page 12 with letters of some words missing on 3 pages, but tight in binding, very clean and unmarked throughout.. Paperback Original. Soft Cover. Very Good +.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971. Hardcover with dust jacket, 158 pages; gently used, clean and unmarked, DJ now in new mylar protector. PLEASE NOTE: that the "Stock Image" next to my listing is of a different edition and NOTof my book. See also our listing for Clark's The Best of Gregory Clark. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
Berlin, Germany: Deutsche Buch-Gemeinschaft, 1938. Oversized hardcover without dust jacket, 237 pages including many black-and-white photograph throughout (on every page);---text in German;---laid in is what appears to be an original 25x30 cm photograph of the author with two horses;---very gently used, only very light shelf and reading wear, tight in binding, tiny bookplate inside front cover designed by previous owner (Dutch-Canadian silhouette artist and graphic designer Hans-Detlev Voss who still lived and worked in The Netherlands during the 1930s/1940s; this is his personal copy acquired from his estate) and his tiny ink numeral inside back cover, some light foxing to covers and endpapers, interior otherwise very clean and unmarked, pages remarkably fresh and white. [this copy priced low, priced to go as bookseller is nearing retirement] Check all of our German language books by using the Keywords "text in German". . Hard Cover. Very Good ++.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Toronto Humane Society AS NEW hardcover without dust jacket, undated facsimile reprint of the 1888 original edition, xiii + 231 pages including "one hundred and twelve [black-and-white] illustrations".. Hard Cover. As New.
London: Collins, 1944. Hardcover without dust jacket, 48 pages "With 12 plates in colour and 22 illustrations in black & white"; shelf wear to all cover edges and corners, otherwise gently used, clean and unmarked throughout. See also our other Britain in Pictures titles, and Jane Brown's The Pursuit of Paradise: A Social History of Gardens and Gardening.. Hard Cover. Very Good -.
London: Collins, 1941. Hardcover without dust jacket, "Second impression 1944", 48 pages "With 8 plates in colour and 23 illustrations in black & white"; shelf wear to all cover edges and corners, otherwise gently used, clean and unmarked throughout. See also our other Britain in Pictures titles, and Joan Thirsk's England's Agricultural Regions and Agrarian History, 1500-1750.. Hard Cover. Very Good -.
London: Collins, 1941. Hardcover without dust jacket, "Fourth impression 1946", 48 pages "With 12 plates in colour and 22 illustrations in black & white"; shelf wear to all cover edges and corners, otherwise gently used, clean and unmarked throughout. See also our other Britain in Pictures titles, and Joan Thirsk's England's Agricultural Regions and Agrarian History, 1500-1750.. Hard Cover. Very Good -.
