Search Results: Birds from Pages Past Used and Rare Books

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1954. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to. 490 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a black and orange dust jacket. The jacket is worn and has several edge tears and some curling at the edges. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. Text is unmarked but is musty. Thus, a reading or reference copy only. Illustrated with Photographs, Charts and Maps. First Edition with the Scribner's "A.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. Third Printing. . Hardcover. Good. James MacDonald. 8vo. 342 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in blue cloth. The binding shows moderate rubbing and wear. Inner hinges are cracking. SIGNED on the front flyleaf by the author.

New York: Crown Pub, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 48mo - over 3 - 4" tall. Quarto. 239 pages, indexed. Hardcover in colour illustrated dust jacket. DJ has light wear, including scuffs. Spine is sunned. Bumping at headcap. Endpapers are foxed. Text is clean. Illustrations throughout.

North Carolina: Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 1935. Soft cover. Fair. 8vo. Pages 313 to 340 and illustrated with one plate (#64 from the regular work). This is an offprint of a section of the Journal of Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, Vol 51, No. 2, Dec 1935. Softcover staple bound in green wrappers. Penciled notation on front cover. Binding is rubbed, has vertical bend in covers. Edges toned, general foxing. Text is foxed.

Ottawa: F. A. Acland, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1926. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 380 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in green cloth. The binding is worn and bumped and a bit shaken. Some wrinkling to the cloth on the spine. Front inner hinge is starting. A few gatherings is starting. Text is a little toned but generally clean. Illustrated with black and white drawings and color plates.

London: Kearsley, Wilkie and Robinson, 1812. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Mrs. Griffith. Octavo. 557 pages. EX-LIBRARY copy with full markings, including a Sondley Collection (Asheville, NC) bookplate on the front pastedown. Hardcover quarter bound in leather with marbled paper covered boards. Binding is heavily rubbed. Headcap has a .75 inch wide and .5 inch tall chip missing. Five raised spine bands. Gilt decorations on spine. White lettering at foot of spine. Edges of text block are marbled. Marbled endpapers. Sondley Reference Library bookplate on front pastedown. Writing on reverse of front flyleaf. A number stamped on the reverse of the title page. There is a Sondley Library blind stamp on some pages. Text is toned, has some foxing. Illustrations throughout. A 1932 notation on the verso of the front flyleaf notes that this volume has 39 plates. Another notation beneath this states that a prior owner paid $150 for this book in 1989. F. A. Sondley… Read More

Madison, WI: Rusty Rock Press, 1991. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hovel, Steve. Quarto. 171 pages. Hardcover in an illustrated white dust jacket. Minimal wear to the dust jacket. The text is clean and sound. Illustrated with charts, tables, photographs and original ink drawings. The edition is limited to 750 copies. This copy is not numbered.

Edinburgh, London and Dublin: W. H. Lizars, and Stirling andKenne / Lon gman, Rees, Ornme, Brown, Green / W. Curry Jun. and Col, 1833. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 12mos. 146; 166; 232; 175 pages. Small books measuring about 6 3/4 inches tall. Hardcovers bound in green 3/4 calf with burgundy marbled paper-covered boards. A married set. Volumes I & II are in slightly different bindings than Volumes II & IV. Volumes I & II show light wear with bright gilt tooling on the spines. Black labels on the spines. All edges marbled, and the endpapers are marbled. The bindings are sound and clean, and the text is generally clean. Both volumes have an early bookplate of "Viscount Gort." Volumes III & IV are dated 1834 and show heavier rubbing and some scuffing and have less gilt on the spines. No black leather labels (but as issued). Plain or faintly speckled edges and plain brown endpapers. The text is a little toned with occasional foxing, and some of… Read More

Atwater, Ohio: QB&Q, 1982. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to. 96 pages. Soft cover bound in tan wrappers and with a plastic ring spine. Light rubbing and wear to the binding. A sound copy with secure inner hinges. The title page has a prior owner's signature and embossed blind stamp. Clean within.

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 4to. 524 pages, indexed. Hardcover with a green dust jacket. Light wear to the jacket. The last 50 pages or so have some faint damping at the bottom corner. Otherwise a sound, clean copy. Illustrated with photos.