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London, England: Virtue, Spalding, and Daldy, [1873]. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Good. Sold as a scarce edition despite condition: all pages are loose from the original glued binding. Quarto, 8 1/2" tall, 64 pages + 24 black and white plates; gilt titles, decorations, and fore-edge. Oherwise in good condition overall; exterior generally worn with fore-corner tips through to boards, back strip cloth chipping top and bottom, front cover gilt and cloth color bright but somewhat soiled at the margins, back cover stained; interior paper clean and lightly yellowed. This edition did not have a sewn binding but was glued to the interior crash. This glue has, in this case, hardened and powdered, thus releasing the text pages. This copy could be professionally rebound and restored and is priced accordingly

Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1905. Early printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket (if issued). Please note: this is a single volume from a three-volume set] Small quarto, 10 1/8" tall, 590 + vi + plate pages with inter-textual black and white and color plate illustration, gilt top fore-edge, gilt spine titles on blue cloth. A very good, generally clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear, rubbing at the corners, binding solid, paper clean light to moderately yellowed with a previous owner's penned signature on the front endpaper. Without dust jacket.A History of North American Birds: Land Birds; Volume II [volume two only] S.F. Baird, T.M. Brewer, and R. Ridgeway

Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1905. Early printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket (if issued). Please note: this is a single volume from a three volume set] Small quarto, 10 1/8" tall, 560 + xxviii + plate pages with intertextual black and white and color plate illustration, gilt top fore-edge, gilt spine titles on blue cloth. A very good, generally clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear, andrubbing at the corners, binding solid, paper clean light to moderately yellowed. Without dust jacket.

US Government printing office; Washington D.C, 1893. First edition thus. Paperback. Very Good minus. With ownership signature of astronomer Frank Washington Very on the cover and title pages. Text primarily in English. Quarto, 11 1/2" tall, vii + 529 pages (b&w illustrations) + 22 plates (including fold-out maps). A very good minus, generally clean, copy with moderate exterior wear and chipping at the spine cover (lightweight stiff wraps were not adequate for this thick and heavy volume), a few short edge tears, and previous owners' names inked on front cover; interior binding solid, paper light to moderately yellow with foxing the title page and fore-edges.

New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf; NY, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 324 pages, black quarter cloth. A fine, clean, neat, hard cover first edition with light shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine, dust jacket. Publisher's review slips laid in.

Norris Enterprises; Leeds Maine, 2007-01-01. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket (none issued. Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, x + 188 pages with intertextual illustration, color past-down photo on black cloth. A very good, generally clean, neat hard cover over all with minor shelf wear, minor cover edge soiling, binding tight, paper white. Without dust jacket as issued.

Century, 1913. Early printing. Very Good. 'Author's Definitive Edition,' Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 421 pages, green cloth, gilt top edge, black spine labels. With ten b&w illustrations. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear, slight color loss at the spine; hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed.

Century, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good minus/Without dust jacket. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 321 pages, gilt titles decorative orange cloth. A very good minus, sturdy hard cover with moderate shelf wear and rubbing at the corners, light exterior soiling, spine cloth darkened and starting to fray at top and bottom edges; interior very good hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed.

Century, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Without dust jacket. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 495 pages, decorative red cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover with minor shelf wear and rubbing at the corners; hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed, with a previous owner's name on the front endpaper.

Century, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Without dust jacket. Due to condition, sold as a good reading copy only. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 510 pages, gilt titles on green cloth. A good, sturdy hard cover with significant shelf wear and rubbing at the corners, and a damp stain to the top fore-edge and margin, fore-edges foxed; interior very good, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed and a previous owner's name on the front endpaper.

Century, 1913. Early printing. Hardcover. Very Good minus/without dust jacket. This is a single volume of the 'Author's Definitive Edition,' offered here as a nice reading copy only due to condition. Octavo, 8 3/4" tall, 384 pages, green cloth, gilt top edge black spine labels. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear, BUT color loss and foxing to about 1" of the front cover cloth fore-edge margin due to moisture which is reflected on the interior only by slight foxing to the endpaper; hinges and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed.

Simon & Schuster, 2000. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 9 1/2” tall, 496 pages, black and beige boards. A fine, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear, gently read, binding tight, paper white. In a fine, clean, slightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.

W. W. Norton & Company, 1985. First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very Good. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 216 pages, gilt titles on blue quarter-cloth. A very good+, clean, hard cover with minor shelf wear, binding solid, paper cream white BUT foxing along top fore-edge. In a very good, clean, lightly worn dust jacket, with the original price present.

New York, New York: Harper & Row, 1989. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 203 pages, white quarter-cloth with gilt title on spine. A fine, clean, hard cover first edition with minimal shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a fine dust jacket with some sunning along the back strip, with the original price

New York, New York: Fiction Collective, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo 8 3/4" tall, 125 pages, black cloth with silver title on spine. A fine, clean and sturdy copy with slight shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a fine dust jacket with the original price. Publisher's review slip laid in.

Paris, France: Chez Mmme Ve Lepetit, Paris, 1818. Third Edition. Vellum. Very Good. Text in French. Apparently issued in paper covers and afterward bound in vellum. Single volume. Octavo, 8" tall, xviii, 556 pages, bound with original green printed wraps, period vellum. A very good, clean, sturdy volume with minor shelf wear, light scattered foxing, primarily in the margins, vellum darkened

New York, New York: Academic Press / Harcourt Brace, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Octavo, 9" tall, xi + 620 pages, stiff wraps. A near fine, clean, neat soft cover with light shelf wear and some creasing to the backstrip; hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. This book is part of a larger group of several hundred science books from one collection, currently in the process of being cataloged.

Paris, France: Rombaldi; Paris, 1942 . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. #4193 of limited printing, octavo, 8" tall, 234 pages, frontispiece and color illustrations, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, 1/2 red leather with marbled paper covered boards, gilt title and banded spine. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with minor shelf wear and rubbing at the corners; hinges; binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. Please note: overseas postage rates are currently prohibitive.

Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1984. Hardcover--cloth. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 8" tall, 297 pages, green cloth. A fine, clean hard cover edition with minimal shelf wear, hinges and binding tight, paper white. In a very good, lightly edge worn dust jacket with some sunning along the back strip.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover--cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by the author on half-title page. Octavo, 7 1/4" tall, 183 pages, beige quarter-cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover first edition with light shelf wear and slight exterior edge soiling; binding tight, paper cream white, but with light foxing to fore-edges. In a very good, clean, lightly worn dust jacket, with sporadic light foxing to rear panel, with original price.