Guide to the Snakes of Uganda

THE DAWNSTONE by Gillian Bliss, Baroness Hemingford writing as Jill Paton Walsh. 1973 1st. Ed. Antelope Book by Hamish Hamilton RARE.
Used. VG/VG dust jacket. Illustrated by Mary Dinsdale. Summary: Adam finds an implement like a Stone Age axe which he carries everywhere but which appears to give him bad dreams. He gives his treasure to a terrified, caged gorilla, feeling it is not right to lock people up.' The gorilla escapes but Adam gets back his axe. " Quite the find! Will ship from United States.

Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.

1971; Charles Scribner's Sons, New York; FIRST Edition: A-2.71 (H) on copyright page. Very Good Hardcover w/ Very Good unclipped Dust Jacket. Original brownish cloth boards w/ silver and green gilt lettering to spine. "Archibald Stansfeld Belaney, aka Grey Owl, (1888-1938) born in Hastings, England, expressed an interest in nature and American Indians at an early age. He emigrated to Canada in 1906 where he learned to trap, canoe and survive in the wilderness. Written with simplicity and charm, first published in 1935, and long out of print, Pilgrims of the Wild has continued to be read and is even more timely today because Grey Owl's philosophy as a conservationist has become popular. Biographical introduction by Victor B. Scheffer. Sketches by the author." 282 pp. ISBN: 0684310457. SCARCE & COLLECTIBLE 1st Edition. Clean, tight, unmarked copy w/ little shelf wear, dj little tan with age. BOOKS IN TIME -- Hard to Find, Rare, Collectible & Out-of-Print Books for LESS!

YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.

London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., 1976. Good. Softbound limp edition. Cased edition also available Illustrations by Peter Stebbing 1976. Limp. Good. Peter Stebbing.

New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?

Lion: African Adventure With The King Of Beasts (1929. G.P. Putnam's Sons 1st Ed.) Used. Good Condition/ NO DJ included. Stated 1929 First Edition, G.P. Putnam's Sons. WITH 63 HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY THE JOHNSONS + MAP. All plates and fold-out map still present, in nice condition, and affixed to binding. TANZANYIKA.

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Leather Bound. Used: Good. 0x0x0. Half leather over cloth boards in good condition. Marbled endpapers. TEG. With 40 hand-colored engravings. Raised bands on the spine. A few words underlined pp. 115-116. Some foxing. Eight pages have a dark mark in the center of the page, but the text is still legible. A damp stain on the lower corner of many pages. With additions and Supplementary notes by William Jardine. Edited with further illustrations, a biographical sketch of the author and a complete index by Edward Jesse.

London: T. Curtis, 1806. Very good +. This is a hand colored copper plate engraving. The print measures 5.5 x 9.25 inches, with a plate mark of 4.5 x 7.75. It is a beautiful decorative antique print expertly colored and beautifully composed. This particular plate has been trimmed at the rough edge. Curtis' work was the first study of British flora, and artists contributing to the opus included James Sowerby, Sydenham Teak Edwards, Francis Sansom and William Kilburn. "The Botanical Magazine; or Flower-Garden Displayed, is an illustrated publication which began in 1787. The longest running botanical magazine, it is widely referred to by the subsequent name Curtis's Botanical Magazine. Each of the issues contains a description, in formal yet accessible language, and is renowned for featuring the work of two centuries of botanical illustrators. Many plants received their first publication on the pages, and the description given was enhanced by the keenly detailed illustrations. The first issue, in… Read More