London:: Library Association,, vd.. Hardcovers; Hamilton College (NY) bookplates--`Does Not Circulate'; no card pocket or spine marks/labels; condition of all 3 vols. rather good.. + indexes. COMPLETE 3-VOL. SET--6TH EDN.--(issued one vol. per year over 3 years) of these encyclopedic bibliographies. ||| 1--SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. Mullay & Schlicke; eds. 753pp. + indexes. (1993) ||| 2--SOCIAL & HISTORICAL SCIENCES, PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION. Day & Harvey; eds. 933pp. + indexes. (1... (more information)

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Baltimore:: Johns Hopkins Univ.,, 1984. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplates; no card pockets or spine marks/labels; rubberstamp on top/bottom edges of book blocks; otherwise, condition rather good.. + index. Very profusely illustrated with b&w photos & drawings. 2nd prtg. ||| For 30+ years Ernest P. Walker (1891-1969), Asst. Director of Washington D.C. National Zoo (1930-56), with 6 co-authors compiled `Mammals of the World.' (Fairfield Osborn called it `a unique, highly valuable contr... (more information)

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Charlottesville, Va.:: Univ. of Virginia,, 1982. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; photo endpapers; gilt-stamped spine; signs of card pocket removal; no spine marks/label; stamped head & foot of book block; front cover has .75x1.5-inch light abrasion; contents condition quite good.. index. With 4 b&w full-pg. photos of Reed. Biography of Army Dr. Walter Reed (1851-1902), & narrative history of his proving Cuban Dr. Carlos Finlay was correct that yellow fever was transmitted by mo... (more information)

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NY:: Scribner,, 1918.. Hardcover; fore edges of both covers repaired; two significant chips at bottom of pg. 163 & pg. 165 (no text loss) from careless opening; ink gift inscription inside front cover.. With 16 full-pg. b&w reproductions of war posters. WW-1 stories & verse, mostly `written by those actually engaged...in some capacity.' ||| With reproduced Allied war posters drawn by Chas. L. Bull; E. Friant, Jacques Carlu, & E. Lemielle (all 3 in French); James Montgomery Flagg; M... (more information)

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1945.. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise good.. Hayes, U.S. Ambassador to Spain 1942-45, was sent to counter Axis pressure on Franco's Spain, to persuade it to remain a neutral non-combatant, (important with coming operations in North Africa). Hayes--successful, was able to gradually negotiate significant facilities concessions. ||| Since 1910 Hayes taught modern European history at Columbia Univ.; was drafted against his objections by President Roosevelt. ||| During &am... (more information)

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Washington, D.C.:: U.S. Dept. of Interior,, 1964. Hardcover; gilt-stamped spine & front cover; name on half-title; otherwise rather good.. index. With b&w drawings. Better-than-usual Government publication; it offers thoughts of over 100 U.S. & Canadian writers on ducks, geese & swans--collectively called `waterfowl'; shows Atlantic, Mississippi, Central, & Pacific flyways; discusses natural & man-made helps & hindrances; conservation work, etc. ... (more information)

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NY:: Putnam,, 1910. Gilt-stamped pictorial hardcover; `A.M.N.H. Cancelled' (American Museum of Natural History) rubberstamp on front endpaper; otherwise good.. index. Photos + b&w illus. 1910 prtg. of 1908 first issue. ||| For hunters & fishermen almost a century ago; recommends clothing; tents; canoes; personal gear; guns; provisions; etc. ||| Many items quote then-current prices. ... (more information)

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1904. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends worn; otherwise, condition good.. bibliography + index. With in-text b&w charts. Lively recounting of weather proverbs, the `Skyey Influences,' animal weather lore, weather influences in literature, & light-handed presentation of studies suggesting correlations between certain kinds of weather conditions & their effects on children, crime, insanity, health, suicide, drunkenness, p... (more information)

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Des Moines:: Iowa Geological Survey,, 1926. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; college name rubberstamped on book block edges; spine ends lightly worn; front hinge reinforced; otherwise good.. + bibliography + glossary + index. Profuse in-text b&w drawings + photos. First 429pp. describe & illustrate `weeds [that] do an enormous damage to the crops of Iowa...annual injury $50,000,000.' ||| Then, pages discuss seed characters; morphology of weed leaves... (more information)

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Philadelphia:: Univ. of Pennsylvania,, 1945. Cloth over flexible boards; spine gilt; blank label on front endpaper; owner rubberstamp on title; otherwise good.. glossary + bibliography + index. Heavily illus. with b&w line drawings of named weeds. Over 150 named plants are illus. & described, one-on-a-page. ||| Some `weeds' in lawns or formal gardens are quite desirable as farm crops--e.g. oats, timothy, alfalfa, clovers. ||| Also covers geographic origin, elimination, & chemical control... (more information)

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NY:: Knopf,, 1966. Hardcover; book condition rather good.. bibliography + index. With 21 b&w chapter head drawings by John Groth. 2nd prtg. of 1965 first issue. ||| Gingrich, devoted light tackle fly-fisherman, describes techniques for taking prize trout & Atlantic salmon on a `Midge outfit,' super-light rod & fine terminal tackle. He tells of swapping yarns with other anglers--Hemingway, Wulff, McClone, et al., & outlines historic angling literature. ... (more information)

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Salt Lake City:: Westminster College of SLC,, 1991. Hardcover; both covers lightly bowed; otherwise quite good.. With b&w frontispiece portrait of Tomas G. Masaryk. Subtitled `Jesus, Not Caesar: The Religious World View of Thomas Garrigue Masaryk & the Spiritual Foundations of Czech & Slovak Culture.' ||| Masaryk (1850-1937), philosopher & Czech patriot; first President of Czechoslovakia, 1918-35. ||| Prof. Pelikan outlines Masaryk's philosophical, historical & political thought--m... (more information)

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1935. Hardcover; spine age-soiled, ends lightly worn; binding tight; contents clean; condition quite good.. index. With 16 b&w full-pg. photos of alpine plants. An American gardening classic, devoted to enjoyment of early tulips; `snowdrops'; celandine; little & taller irises; flaxflowers; rock garden daisies; evening primroses; hollyhocks; roses; thistles; funkias; honeysuckles; clematis; colchicums; etc. ... (more information)

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London:: Country Life,, 1906. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; waterstain in lower gutter between inside covers/blank endpapers; curiously, text pages not affected; head of spine worn; otherwise good.. 2pp. Press Notices. 32 essays by `Fiona Macleod,' pseudonym of William Sharp, (1855-1905), Scottish poet, critic, editor; leading figure in late 19th-cent. Celtic renaissance; wrote biographies of D.G. Rossetti, Heinrich Heine, & Robert Browning; edite... (more information)

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NY:: Da Capo,, [1983]. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/labels; issued as paperback, now professionally hard-bound; binding + contents condition quite good.. index. Later prtg. of 1969 Da Capo edn., (with discography references) of 1966 Pantheon first issue. ||| Commentaries on recording catalogue numbers / labels of jazz artists--from Bechet, King Oliver, Armstrong, Billie Holiday--through Basie, Ellington, Goodman, Hampton, Wilson--to Monk, Gillespie, Parker, ... (more information)

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Cleveland:: Morgan [printer],, nd.. Lightly worn card, prtd. front, blank back. Size 3x5 inches.. One child's clothes were torn while sledding on hillside. His friend says, `Dont cry Johny [sic]. We have a new White Sewing Machine, that will sew you all up so you will stay.' ... (more information)

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Newark, N.J.(?): Wallace & Tiernan Co.,, 1945. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise good.. + bibliography + author index. With occasional b&w charts + one photo. Since Graham's `Treatise on Bread & Bread-Making (1837) advocat[ed] home-made bread instead of the baker's adulterated product'--(DAB) the merits of whole wheat vs. white/enriched white bread have been argued. ||| `Northwestern Miller' (trade paper) lauds... (more information)

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NY:: Crown,, 1966. Dust jacket: disreputable--several inches-long tears, edgewear, etc. Book: lightly age-toned; otherwise good.. 4pp. index + illus. With 400 full-pg. color plates of paintings--380 by Mary V. Walcott (from Smithsonian's `Wild Flowers of N. America') + 20 by Dorothy F. Platt. Sixth prtg. of 1953 first issue. ||| First 71pp. of explanatory text; followed by 200 leaves--8x11.5 inches (total 400 pp.)--of wild flower paintings comprising almost a full page color reproduction of eac... (more information)

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Philadelphia:: Lippincott,, 1912. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn (gilt rubbed); front cover gilt & lettering bright; pages with light yellow spotting, (photo plates are clean).. + index + plates. With b&w frontispiece photo + 47 more b&w full-pg. photos. Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore (1870-?), English naturalist, Fellow of Royal Geographical Society; big-game painter who exhibited in England & U.S. ||| Here--48 superb b&w photos of birds, Newfoundland caribou, porcupines, possums, the... (more information)

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NY:: Scribner,, 1925. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends lightly worn; cover tips bumped; otherwise good.. index. With 32 plates of b&w photos. Hornaday (1854-1937), zoologist, first Director of Bronx Zoo 1896-1926. Earlier he had collected specimens in South America, Malaysia, Ceylon, India; & was chief taxidermist at U.S. National Museum. ||| Since 1885 his writings worried that buffalo herd extinction, decimated game bird population, &... (more information)

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