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No publication info. Quarto, paperbound, 38 pp. Near-Fine. The abbreviations of authors names in zoology and botany appear to have begun almost with the launching of scientific nomenclature about the middle of the eighteenth century. As the scientific treatment of the fauna and flora has broadened throughout the world and generations of biologists have succeeded generations, the number of abbreviations of the kind has also increased as now to constitute a formidable list, as the present compilation will attest...

Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1990). Octavo, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xii, 643 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.

Published by the Author, (1962). Octavo, stiff stapled wrappers, 93 pp. Very Good+. Contents: Pleistocene Era; Discovery; De Soto and Juan Ortiz; The Missionaries; The Empty Wilderness; The First Settler; The War for Southern Independence; Pioneer Travel; The Railroad and the Birth of St. Petersburg; The Pioneer Tourist; Growing Pains; The End of the Beginning. Illustrated.

London: Arthur Barker Limited, (1964). Second Impression. Octavo, black boards (hardcover), gilt letters, top edge blue, 207 pp. Very Good+, with bookplate and light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges; in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Few people, apart from those directly concerned, know much about the German and Italian soldiers, sailors and airmen captured in the Hitler war who were brought to Britain as prisoners. Fewer still know anything about the attempts, successful and oterwise, they made to escape. The reasons are simple. The wartime newspapers were thin, their staffs small, prisoners were usually confined in remote places and, perhaps most important, the authorities were reluctant to give out any scraps of news which they thought might have alarmed the public. In spite of this, author Robert Jackson tells in A Taste of Freedom the stories of a number of escapes which can be put to the credit of the prisoners. Some of the stories in this book… Read More

International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, n.d. Quarto, illustrated stapled wrappers (softbound), 36 pp. Maps, charts, tables, photos. Near-Fine, with light fading to covers. ‘This document presents the findings and recommendations of the African Elephant and Rhino Specialist groups of the Species Survival Commision of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), following extensive surveys and consultations with individuals involved with the management of elephants and rhinos in Africa.’

London: Souvenir Press, 1965. Octavo, red boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 231 pp. Near-Fine, with bookplate; in a Near-Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The most colourful legends of the air belong to the charter pilots -- high-flying gentlemen of fortune willing to take the controls of any type of aircraft, carry any kind of payload, go anywhere. They are men eager for uncertainty, afraid only of the safe routine, and their wandering paths cross in snatching refugees from the frenzy of civil war, smuggling guns to lost causes, delivering pilgrims to Mecca, hunting whales in the Antarctic, prospecting for oil in the jungles of South America, carrying gold out of Africa and opium from the East. They have led the progress of Britain’s independent airlines from ex-bombers to Boeing 707s and VC-10s from Tiger Moths to turbine helicopters. They have seen the first rough sky trails they blazed throughout the world turned into the sleek, swift airways of the jet age. And they have brought air… Read More

London: Putnam, 1974. Second Edition. Three volume set. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 567 pp + 560 pp + 636 pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner bookplate in each volume; in Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jackets. Illustrated with numerous photographs and three-view drawings. Photographs provided upon request. Additonal postage required: $2 for domestic orders; varying for expedited and overseas orders. From Volume I dust jacket: This is the first of three volumes forming a definitive work of reference to the entire output of Britain’s civil aircraft industry (and of its amateur constructors) since the commencement of civil flying in 1919, presenting full details of types, ranging from single seat ultra lights to heavy jet transports, alphabetically by manufacturers and then in logical order of designation. It is an encyclopaedia of British civil aviation which describes 186 major aircraft types, gives specifications and photographs of all main variants, outlines their… Read More

Fresno, CA: Pioneer Publishing Co., (1980). First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), 272 pp. Photos. Fine.

England: Airlife Publishing Ltd., (1994). First Edition. Royal octavo, green boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 154 pp. Neat bookplate; otherwise, Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Throughout the 1950s, the distinctive wail of the north American F-86 Sabre was as familiar a sound in the skies of the free world as the crackle of the Rolls-Royce Merlin had been a decade earlier. Most of all, the Sabre is remembered for its air superiority role in the Korean War, when, high over the Yalu River, it tangled with Russia’s MiG-15 in the world’s first jet-versus-jet combats close to the speed of sound. It was in the cut-and-thrust of high-speed air battle over Korea that the Sabre captured the imagination of the western world, but its contribution to halting the march of communism did not end there. It was the F-86 that gave the fighter pilots of the principal NATO air forces their first taste of high-speed jet flight, and enabled NATO’s air power to hold the line in Western Europe at… Read More

London: Putnam, (1965). First Edition. Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), xi, 555 pp. Photos, diagrams, charts. Fine, with bookplate, in dust jacket with mylar protector.

Merlin Unwin Books (2013). Signed And Inscribed By The Author. Octavo, black boards (hardcover), With Full Color Paper Jacket, 121 pp, black & white illustrations. Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket. Contents: William The Conqueror And Before, Slow And Steady Wins The Pace, The Hooroosh Of The Chase, Leading The Way In The 19th Century, Foxhunting In Words And Pictures, The Great Leap Forward, Masters Of Their Sport, Challenge Of The First World War, Foxhunting Gallops On Between The Wars, War Again And A Greater Challenge, Leading The Field After The War, How The Modern Foxhound Was Created, Foxhunting The North American Way, Huntsmen Who Led The Way, The Mysterious Reynard, Putting Foxhunting’s Case, The Challenge Of The Hunting Act, Foxhunting The Future.

England: Airlife Publishing Ltd., (1994). First Edition. Royal octavo, green boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 154 pp. Neat bookplate; otherwise, Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Throughout the 1950s, the distinctive wail of the north American F-86 Sabre was as familiar a sound in the skies of the free world as the crackle of the Rolls-Royce Merlin had been a decade earlier. Most of all, the Sabre is remembered for its air superiority role in the Korean War, when, high over the Yalu River, it tangled with Russia’s MiG-15 in the world’s first jet-versus-jet combats close to the speed of sound. It was in the cut-and-thrust of high-speed air battle over Korea that the Sabre captured the imagination of the western world, but its contribution to halting the march of communism did not end there. It was the F-86 that gave the fighter pilots of the principal NATO air forces their first taste of high-speed jet flight, and enabled NATO’s air power to hold the line in Western Europe at… Read More

Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1931. 1st edition. Octavo, printed wrappers, vii, 264 pp. Plates, illus. Ex-library copy, Good.

Guildford, Connecticut: The Lyons Press, (2004). First Edition. Octavo, blue boards (hardcover), map illus. endpapers, xx, 214 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: It’s the story no one would tell. On May 3, 1945, the Royal Air Force attacked a fleet of ships carrying more than seven thousand survivors of the Neuengamme concentration camp. The war was nearly over, and the survivors had endured one of history’s most hellish ordeals, only to die at the hands of their allies. The bodies, in the striped white-and black uniforms of camp prisoners, were soon washing ashore on the beach by the town of Timmendorf, near the Baltic port of Neustadt. Benjamin Jacobs, then twenty-five, survived by escaping the hold and clinging to wreckage. He was one of only 350 survivors, and one of the last of those. Days before, Jacobs had boarded the Cap Arcona, along with thousands of other prisoners. A commandeered luxury liner, the Cap Arcona was a dilapidated wreck. Nearby, the freighter… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., [1976]. Quarto, softbound, 143 pp. Very Good, with light foxing (age darkening) to covers. Full-color illustrations. Contents: Introduction; Discovery and Settlement; The Making of a Nation; The Making of a People; The Making of a Society; Index.

Cincinnati, Ohio: North Light Books, (2005). Quarto, paperbound (slick, full-color illus. stiff wrappers), 95 pp. Fine. Illustrated with numerous full-color photographs. From lower cover: Dazzle your friends and loved ones with the one-of-a-kind projects in Cards that Pop Up, Flip & Slide. A few simple cuts and folds are all it takes to create over twenty cards and envelopes with moveable parts. From pop-up trees to flipping leaves and sliding message panels, the mechanisms that make these cards spectacular are easy to re-create or adapt to whatever suits your fancy! Everything you need to get started is inside, including clear instruction, easy-to-follow patterns, and introductory information on tools, materials and techniques. And every card featured is designed to fit inside a standard A-2 or #10 envelope, so mailing is as easy as sealing, stamping, and addressing. Tips, tricks and ideas for personalization help you create unique cards that their recipients will remember for a long time to come.

New York: Crown Publishers, (2000). First Edition, stated. Octavo, softbound (slick, photo. illustrated stiff wrappers), 424 pp. Fine. From lower cover: In The Gilded Dinosaur, Mark Jaffe recounts the western adventures and scientific discoveries that made the near-forgotten fossil war between E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh one of the most curious chapters in the history of science. From the Gilded Dinosaur: When the weather cleared, Marsh was ready to start his expedition through the Dakota Badlands and he arrived at the Indian agency with his wagons, military escort, and fossil-hunting army officers. But the sight of the soldiers coupled with lingering bad feelings over the forced tribal census and inferior rations left the Ogalala restive and undermined Marsh’s agreement with them. A throng of Sioux braves carrying rifles and revolvers massed around the party and its wagons. One of the chiefs blocking Marsh’s path was Sitting Bull... Red Cloud, perhaps trying to save face, once again… Read More

Viktoria Verlag Bern und Munchen, 1964. Octavo, rose colored cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 298 pp. Very Good, with sunned spine.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1973). First Edition, stated. Octavo, orange illustrated cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, xxi, 408 pp. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear and sunned spine. From its idyllic source in the Green Swamp, the Hillsborough River winds past columns of cypress and matted shrubs to open into Tampa Bay, part of Florida’s urbanized, publicized western Suncoast. The river is not a long one, but its importance is not to be measured by its length because the size of its legend in contemporary America is immense. In a narrative that is as exciting to read as it is historically compelling, a gifted writer traces the river’s origin to prehistoric times, chronicles the arrivals of the conquistadores, the missionaries, and the marauders greedy for civilizing and for treasure, and points out how twentieth-century ambition threatens to destroy the land as surely as earlier encroachment eliminated the Indian. Today Tampa and St. Petersburg… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., American Association for State and Local History, 1976. Octavo, gray cloth (hardcover), burgundy spine label, gilt letters and emblem to upper cover, xi + 210 pp. Very Good, with light wear to head of spine. Gloria Jahoda unfolds the colorful story in this book, from the gold-seeking conquistadores of Spain, and the alleged search for a fountain of youth, to today’s vast influx of tourists and the retired in search of sun, health, and the delights of Disney World. Residents, as well as those who wish they were, will find this history as richly vivid as the state itself -- orange groves and “pork chop” politicians, Seminoles in the Everglades and Cubans in Ybor City and Miami, “The Four Hundred “ of Palm Beach and the elderly poor of South Beach, Andrew Jackson, Bras Coupe, and the moon shots from Caper Canaveral....