Search Results: Birds from SmarterRat Books

Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1965. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good ; Good Jacket. 1965 Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. Oversize hardcover has light beige-green cloth-covered boards with brown spine lettering and cover decorations. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Color plates. NOT ex-library. Drawings by Lou Schifferl. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Covers have very light surface and edge wear. Bookstore sticker on front endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked. 208 pages. Dust jacket has overall surface rubbing, chipped and nicked edges, small to 1 inch tears, and creases; missing about a 1 inch triagular piece from the bottom front edge. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Abbeville Press, 1991. Softcover. Very Good. Near Fine. 1991 Abbeville Press. Revised edition. Small softcover, 4 x 4.5 x 1 inches, with fold-in flaps. Color illustrations. High-quality glossy paper. 435 plates. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased; spine is very lightly sunned. Appears to be unread. Book is in excellent condition with only a hint of shelf wear. Pages clean and unmarked. The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio.

Dial Press, 1973. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1973 Dial Press. SIGNED by both author and illustrator on front free endpaper, with a personal inscription. First printing, stated. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Oblong hardcover, 9.25 x 8.75 inches, has pictorial paper-covered boards. Color illustrations by Donald Carrick. Unpaginated (32 pages). Binding tight. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. One-inch split in spine covering at top back edge of spine. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, next to and touching signatures. Pages clean and unmarked. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1980. Softcover. Good. Good. 1980 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Softcover. Black and white illustrations by Helen C. Strong. 207 pages. Binding tight. Covers have moderate edge and surface wear, with two staple holes in the front cover. Covers lightly curled at corners. Spine lightly sunned. Pages clean and unmarked. Biological Services Program, U. S. Department of the Interior. FWS / OBS-80 / 03

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good ; Good Jacket. 1965 McGraw-Hill Book Company. Book club edition. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with red and green spine lettering. Black and white illustrations by John Henry Dick. 441 pages. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rounded. Spine and edges are slightly faded. Name in ink on front free endpaper. Small smudge on rear endpaper. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has overall surface rubbing, chipped and nicked edges, small to 1 inch tears, and creases. Tears have been repaired on inside of jacket with archival document tape. Spine of jacket is sunned. Dust jacket is price clipped. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Keith Taylor, 1990. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good. 1990 Keith Taylor. Revised Second Edition. Softcover. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Black plastic comb binding. Maps. Binding undamaged. Cardstock covers have light edge and surface wear. Pages clean and unmarked. 167 pages plus index. Full title: A Birders Guide to Costa Rica: An Introduction to Bird Finding; A Self-Made Tour for the Independent Birder.

Sohio Alaska Petroleum Company, 1985. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good. 1985 Sohio Alaska Petroleum Company. Softcover, with stapled binding. Oversized, 8.5 a 10.75 inches. Color photographs and illustrations. Maps. High-quality glossy paper. 36 pages. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Small stress bends at spine edge. Light curl to bottom corner of the front cover. Pages clean and unmarked. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Doubleday, Page & Company, 1902. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good+ ; No jacket. 1902 Doubleday, Page & Company. Copyright 1898. NOT ex-library. Oversize hardcover, 7.5 x 10.25 inches, has beige buckram cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering on a brown leather spine panel. Top page edges are gilt. Color frontispiece with tissue guard. 48 glossy color plates. Spine title: "Game Birds". Introduction by G. O. Shields (Coquina). 359 pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped and rubbed. Front cover has a small light stain. Text pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. A few pages have light handling smudges in margins. The tissue guard for the frontispiece has a few light spots of foxing; some have carried over to the title page, but not the plate. One plate, the Bartramian Sandpiper, has three pencil lines tracing the foot of a bird. The plate of the Purple Gallinule has a small one-quarter by one-half inch area at the inner edge where the surface… Read More

The Industrial Publication Company, 1885. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. 1885 The Industrial Publication Company. First Edition. Hardcover has brown cloth-covered boards with blind-stamped plain border and gold spine lettering. Black & white illustrations. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Covers soiled with a few small stains. Page edges lightly foxed. Pages very lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Some pages have finger smudges, darkened with age, or other small stains. NO highlighting or other markings. Front free endpaper has a round color advertising sticker from The American Rural Home weekly newspaper. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Full title: Common Sense in the Poultry Yard: A story of Failures and Successes, Including a Full Account of 1000 Hens and What They Did, With a Complete Description of the Houses, Coops, Fences, Runs, Methods of Feeding, Breeding, Marketing, etc., etc., and Many New… Read More

Viking, 1999. Softcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good- ; Good- Jacket. 1999 Viking. Sixth edition. Green flexible vinyl covers with white lettering. Color illustrations throughout. High-quality glossy paper. Corners lightly bumped. Vinyl cover is wrinkled at bottom front edge. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. 440 pages. Glossy color illustrated dust jacket has light edge and surface wear and has surface crinkling at corners and edges. Simpson & Day Field Guide to the Birds of Australia.

Creative Educational Society, Inc., 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very Good ; No jacket. 1972 Creative Educational Society, Inc. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Oblong hardcover has pictorial textured paper-covered boards with black spine lettering. Color illustrations by Edwin Lee Huff. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Covers have very light surface and edge wear. Covers have a few small stains, including one from a price sticker at top corner of front cover. Pages clean and unmarked. Endpapers have very light foxing and some tanning at edges. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Indiana University Press, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good ; Very Good Jacket. 1979 Indiana University Press. First Edition. First printing. Full number line on verso. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with red spine lettering. Blind-stamped publisher's logo on front cover. Black and white illustrations. Color plates. 274 pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Page edges lightly foxed. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has very light edge and surface wear, with light wrinkling at the corners and spine ends; rear inside flap creased. Spine is lightly sun faded. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Prentice Hall Press, 1986. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good+. 1986 Prentice Hall Press - Phalarope books. First Edition, stated. First printing. Full number line on verso. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Softcover. Black and white illustrations by Susan Maffet Peterson. 185 pages. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased. Book is in excellent condition with only some mild sunning to the top one inch of the back cover. Pages clean and unmarked.

Cincinnati Museum of Natural History, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Near Fine; Very Good Jacket. 1994 Cincinnati Museum of Natural History. No additional printings listed. Oversize oblong hardcover. 12 x 11.2 inches, has beige cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering. Illustrated endpapers. Color illustrations. High-quality glossy paper. 196 pages. Binding tight. Book is in excellent condition with only a hint of shelf wear at the spine ends. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has light edge and surface wear, with light wrinkling at the corners and spine ends. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Pomegranate, 2017. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very Good. 2017 Pomegranate. Small hardcover, 5 x 7,75 inches, has thin pictorial paper-covered boards. 30 color illustrations by John James Audubon, and Audubon quotations. Includes over 100 pages for documenting sightings, Life List checklist of regularly occurring North American species, and birding information. Silver satin index ribbon. 144 pages. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Book is in excellent condition with only very light shelf wear. Back cover has a wrinkle in the paper surface. Pages clean and unmarked. No dust jacket, as issued. Published with the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Henry Holt & Company, 1994. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good. 1994 Henry Holt & Company. An Owl Book. Softcover. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Color plates. Black and white illustrations. 256 pages. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased. Covers have very light edge and surface wear. Covers lightly curled at corners. Pages clean and unmarked. "From the American Museum of Natural History".

Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 2010. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good. Spring 2010 Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Volume 29, Number 2, Spring 2010. Single Issue Magazine. Color photographs. 45 pages. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Feature articles on the death of the Passenger Pigeon, a trek across Peru, and kayak birding at Kodiak Island. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 2011. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good. Autumn 2011 Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Volume 30, Number 4, Autumn 2011. Single Issue Magazine. Color photographs. 45 pages. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Feature articles on the Imperial Woodpecker in Durango, Mexico, and the puffins of Eastern Egg Rock. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 2012. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good. 2012 Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Living Bird, Volume 31, Number 1, Winter, 2012. Single Issue Magazine. 50th Anniversary Issue. Color photographs. 46 pages. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Feature articles on 50th Anniversary of Living Bird, New Guinea's Foja Mountains, and the Spring Field Ornithology Class in Ithaca, New York. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 2012. Softcover. Very Good. Very Good. 2012 Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Living Bird, Volume 31, Number 2, Spring, 2012. Single Issue Magazine. Color photographs. 46 pages. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Feature articles on Penguins and albatrosses on Aotearoa, and the vanishing Philippine eagle. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.