Search Results: Natural History: Fauna from Page 1 Books

Santa Fe: Red Crane, 1990. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Jody King drawings, Murrae Haynes photos. 1st, softcover, vg (rubbed; creasing and bumping to top corner, bottom edge of rear cover). 118 pp. INSCRIBED on half-title by Belshaw and dated January 1991; also includes a short handwritten letter signed with the initial 'M'.

NY: Academic, 1980. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 1st, brown cloth/green cloth spine, vg (corners and spine ends bumped) in a vg- dj (worn at corners and spine ends; corners chipped and torn). 387 pp. incl. index.

Cleveland: Bird Research Foundation, 1951. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Edition, no additional printings; 4to, green textured boards; vg (shelfworn; spine ends bumped and worn; edges toned; white mark on very bottom edge of front board) in good dj (spine faded and waterstained; spine ends chipped and torn; top corner of front and rear panel chipped; front flap prev. detached, reattached using non-acidic Filmoplast P on inside; tears to top edge; tear to top edge of front flap repaired using Filmoplast P). 723pp incl. index + 18 color plates with glassine interleaves, eight of them by Roger Tory Peterson.

NY: Appleton, 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. First Edition, (1) on last page; INSCRIBED by Seton on half-title page with author's characteristic pawprint and dated 27 July 1945; 8vo, red cloth; vg (spine ends bumped and worn; owner's name stamped twice on ffep with a number stamp; eps and pages toned) in fair dj (about a fifth of the top right front panel missing; missing another very large piece from top of rear panel; spine chipped down to the 'g' in biography; spine tail chipped); 126pp.

Leipzig, Germany: E. Twietmeyer. Hardcover. Good+. Publication undated, no indication of volume, presume published circa 1890; German text only, old German script; 4to, rebacked with new burgundy leather spine with original boards and cloth from spine used as new spine's title piece; good+ (boards darkened, stained, soiled, and worn; original gilt on front board almost rubbed and worn away, esp. from dog; nick and scar to bottom corner of front board; heavy wear and staining to bottom edge of rear board; corners bumped and heavily worn; gilt edges worn and dulled; gilt on bottom edge heavily worn and scraped; thin waterstain to top edge that penetrates to several page edges; foxing to some illustrations and tissueguards; chips to side edge of original ffep; two small tears to side edge of half-title page; several tissueguards chipped, torn, and creased; long waterstain to top edge of p696); 696pp incl. index + twenty-eight chromolithograph plates. This German language edition of the Vero Shaw… Read More

Quito: Banco Central Del Ecuador, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Hardcover 1st, 4to, green boards, nf (light bumping to spine head) in vg+ dj. 433 pp. incl. index. Spanish text, many color photos

NY: Scribners, 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-. First Edition, 'A' on copyright page; 8vo, red cloth, no dj; vg- (water ring on front cover; stray pen marks on bottom half of spine; spine ends and corners bumped and worn; corners of several pages creased); 320pp.

Auckland, New Zealand: Waiatarua Publishing, 1990. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-. FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY AUTHOR. White and green boards, 4to, vg- (bumping and tiny chips in spine tail; spine head worn; corners bumped; several small dents to bottom edges of boards). A collection of poems and descriptions of common insects of New Zealand with beautiful full-page color illustrations.

Boulder, Col.: Round Table Press, 1996. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good-. Second Printing stated, #542 of an unspecified number, INSCRIBED on title page; 4to, green boards, vg+ (spine ends bumped) in vg- dj w/ 2 tears at top of front panel. 251 pp.

Office of the High Commissioner, TTPI, 1961. Soft cover. Good. A scarce little oblong 12mo pamphlet of 65 pp., incl. 49 color plates of poisonous fish and shellfish. Good (front cover creased; rear cover toned and scratched; edgeworn; top corners of pages waterstained from p12 to rear cover, including all plates; wear to paper at several top corners due to water adhering corners, all corners now separated with no loss of paper; water stains to bottom corners from plate 23 to rear cover; prev. owner's name and address stamped on inside front cover, title page and p2).

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973. First Edition . Soft cover. Good+. On Obtaining Factual Information on Usefulness of Various Methods of Controlling Predators, Sun Valley, Idaho, June 1, 1973 and Casper, Wyoming, June 4, 1973. 8vo, green paper covers; good+ (shaken and loose; spine sunned and heavily creased, ends worn and chipped; side edge and bottom corner of front cover heavily creased; bottom corner of rear cover scraped, black mark to middle); 620pp.

Rochester, NY: Edwards, 1946. Soft cover. Very Good. A 30-p. 4to pamphlet, apparently an advertisement for the Edwards Fur Company, though it is mostly a history of the fur trade and a natural history of fur-bearing animals, with photos. Vg; corners and spine ends a little worn.

Durban, South Africa: Oceanographic Research Institute, 1974. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good-. Softcover 1sts, lg. 8vo, original blue wraps; vg- (covers toned; tear to top half of spines, both vols; owner handwrote titles on spines; pages toning). 144pp + 96pp.

Suffolk, England: Farming Press, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good-. THIRD Edition, Third Impression 1975 stated; 8vo, pictorial hardcover, no dj; vg- (rubbed; spine toned, ends bumped and crimped; corners worn; bottom corner of half-title page clipped off); 176pp incl. index.