NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM - MEMOIR #15: WILD FLOWERS OF NEW YORK IN TWO PARTS - (2 VOLUME SET) by House, Homer D - 1918

Univ. of the State of New York. Fair with no dust jacket. 1922. Hardcover. Exlibrary with usual library markings. Volume 2 of 2 volume set. Plates 144 to 264. Heavily worn and taped cover. Repaired hinges. ; 362 pages .

Albany: Univ. state of New York, 1918. corners bumped, good to very good condition (2 large volumes) . colour & black & White. Albany: corners bumped, good to very good condition (2 large volumes) 1918

Albany, NY: The University of the State of New York. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn.. 1918. Second Printing. Hardcover. Dark green cloth binding. 143 color plates and botanical descriptions of New York State wild flowers. Part I only of a two-part set. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 185 pages .

University of the State of New York / Albany, 1918. Oversized Hardback.. Light wear to extremities else very good condition./No dust jacket.. Color and B&W illustrations Bookplates.

University of the State of New York 1923. 2 vol set, Quarto, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 185pp (vol1), 177(vol2), illus, VG (light rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning & light foxing to page edges)

New York: University of the State of New York,. Very Good+. 1921. Hardcover. Foxing on initial and final endpapers - not present at all in the interiors of either book. ; Both volumes are in excellent condition. Tight binding and clean, unmarked interior. Numerous full-page color plates of flowers and plants. Fully indexed. Homer D. House was the State Botanist. An invaluable resource for identifying wild flowers in the northeast of the United States. Very heavy book set. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Albany: University of The State of New York, 1918. Heavy set: NO international orders. First printing. Two Volume Set. Full green cloth bindings, shelf rubbed along edges. Light foxing to page edges and endpapers. Compliments ink-stamped on front endpapers from Herbert A. Bartholomew, member of New York state assembly from Washington County, 1921-40. 362 pages of text, 264 color plates.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall.

The University of the State of New York, Albany: 1918., 1918 Two Parts: pp. 185; 187-362. Profusely illustrated with lovely full page color photographs. Two Hundred and Sixty-Four plates. Some age staining especially on fly leaves. Folio. Original full cloth bindings, worn with some loss at extremities. Stamped label "Compliments of James J. Walker, Senator 12th District". Penciled ownership of Richard Parsons. ** James J. Walker (1881-1946) was the New York City politician known as Jimmy Walker. He entered politics after graduating from New York Law School, becoming a member of the Assembly (1909) and then of the State Senate (1914). Backed by Gov. Alfred E. Smith and Tammany Hall, he was elected mayor of New York, and served from 1925 to 1932. A popular figure known for his charm and wit but particularly for his enthusiastic participation in the high life typical of the era, he made improvements in sanitation, hospitals, and subways. He resigned in 1932 after being charged with corruption.… Read More

University of the State of New York. Used - Very Good. 1918. First Edition. Two volume set. Cloth, quarto, 362 pp. + 264 plates. Some edge-wear to boards and spines, with a bit of fraying to heads and tails of spines. Corners slghtly bumped. Internally, quite sound. Overall, very good. (Subject: Botany.)

The University of the State of New York, Albany: 1923., 1923 Two Parts: pp. 185; 187-362. Profusely illustrated with lovely full page color photographs. Two Hundred and Sixty-Four plates. Folio. Original full cloth bindings, gold lettered spine. Hardbound. Excellent set. PLANTS. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W129 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good.

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.

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.

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?

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Leather Bound. Good. 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.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket and mylar cover. Signed by author on title page. Dust jacket has sticker residue over the price, otherwise no wear or soiling present. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pp; Signed by Author .

By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.

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

Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, [1979]. Softcover book with pictorial wraps. 160p. B&W photos throughout text. This is the original printing, later reprinted by the University of Minnesota Press. Book has been well read and is in very good - condition with wear to the cover image along the edge and reading crease to front cover, corners bumped and shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked with light staining on the edge of a few pages. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.

Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."