Literature / Animals and Pets

Boston, MA: Little Brown and Company, 1987. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Allard, Edith. A Wonderful, true story of a most extraordinary cat. It will capture your heart and make you laugh out loud. This kitty was a stray and ended up, bedraggled, in Armory Cleveland's home on Christmas Eve. Very independent, but also very loving, it squirmed it's way into Amory's primarily dog-loving heart. But this book is about other cats too, not just the one who came for Christmas. This is truly a lovely Christmas story that can be enjoyed in each rereading. Jacket has light wear along the vertical edges and the top has two very small tears. The spine ends have light wear. 240 pages, no marks or tears. Price not clipped; also has original price tag on the back. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Laurel Park, CA: Lane Book Company, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Maniscalco, Joe. The author of this book was the Director of San Francisco Zoological Gardens. "The stories in this book are the accumulation of many, many years' experience with animals, and they represent highlights rather than everyday occurrences. These things just don't happen every day. Remember, too, that a zoo is not merely a collection of lions and tigers and elephands and such, but is a fascinating accumulation of individuals. Every individual animal, like every individual human being, has his personality, his quirks - and his moments." From the Preface. This book contains anecdotes from San Simeon Zoo as well as the San Francisco Zoo and involve bears, lions, zoo babies, animals that are hotheads and malcontents, and many more. It also asks the question: Do Animals Reason? 255 pages, this book is well illustrated with drawings. The binding is tan and has a few tiny spots on top end of the pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Near Fine. Photographs. A narrative of the seven years the author spent, with her husband, sharing her home and her life with a female wolf, her mates and wolf-dog pups. After finishing their assignment photographing the wildlife of the Arctic, they decided to bring home the five orphaned tundra wolf cubs they had reared. To have left them would have meant their slow death by starvation. The DJ has a bit of wear on one corner. The cloth binding is lightened at the back about 2" from the bottom on down. The spine bottom is worn and the edges have a bit of wear. All corners are worn. Spine is tight, 238 pages including sixteen pages of photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Oxford, England: Oxford Univ Press, 2000. First Printing. Hard Cover. New/New. Wilczur, Jan. The Great Auk is one of the world's best known extinct birds. On land it was clumsy and awkward, but in the sea, where it spent a large part of the year, it was perfectly adapted for swift and efficient movement. By the beginning of the 19th century sightings of the bird had become rare and only a few decades later even the most assiduous explorers could not find it. What happened to the Great Auk? The author pieces together all of the important historical data and takes us on a tour of some of the wildest and most remote communities on earth. We travel to Labrador, the Scottish Island of St. Kilda, Newfoundland, and follow intrepid naturalists as they put to sea in search of the very last of the Great Auks. 227 pages with appendices, bibliography and index. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. Holmes, Lesley (illustrator). Between these covers, teller and tales finally meet in a warm and joyful new collection that will bring delight to the hearts of readers the world over. Hear are Buster, the kitten who arrived on Christmas; Alfred, the cat at the sweet shop; little Emily, who lived with the gentleman tramp; and Olly and Ginny, the kittens who charmed readers when they first appeared at the Herriots' house. Along with these come others, each story as memorable and heartwarming as the last, each told with that magic blend of gentle wit and human compassion that marks every work from James Herriot's pen. The bottom edge has some slight rubbing. The price is clipped. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1999. First Edition. Hard Bound. Fine/Fine. Birdwatching as we know it emerged some time in the late eighteenth century, and a lively literature about birds and bird behavior positively erupted in the decades that followed. In this volume, Hill has for the first time gathered together the most vital and engaging of these writings which, while historically specific, are timeless in the evocation of what the passion for birds is all about. The jacket is beautifully illustrated and has light scuffing vertically front and back. 252 pages, including index. No marks or tears. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Watermill Press. 1993; HB. Pictoral cover. Cover is fine, no bends or tears. Cover is a picture of Buck in the wilderness. 137 pages, 5.25" x 7.75" high. more information

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