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ARCTIC DREAMS
by LOPEZ, Barry
- Condition
- Used - Foxing to bulked text edges, mostly at the top; otherwise Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1986)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$31.30
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1986). First Edition. hardcover. Foxing to bulked text edges, mostly at the top; otherwise Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Co-winner of the National Book Award.
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$31.30
THE BERMUDA ISLANDS. An account of their Scenery, Climate, Productions, Physiography, Natural History and Geology, with Sketches of their Discovery and Early History, and the changes in their Flora and Fauna due to Man
by [BERMUDA] VERRILL, Addison
- Condition
- Used - Front wrap and endpaper detached
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1902 [1903]
- Binding
- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$562.50
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New Haven, CT: Published by the author., 1902 [1903]. First Edition. Softcover. Front wrap and endpaper detached. Octavo (6-1/8" x 9-1/2") in original printed green wraps; x, 548 pages. Illustrated with 40 plates and over 250 cuts in the text. A detailed history of the island including detailed accounts of flora, fauna, and climate.
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$562.50
SEVEN RIVERS WEST
by HOAGLAND, Edward
- Condition
- Used - Light soiling to front cover. Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1986)
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$31.30
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New York: Summit Books, (1986). First Edition. Wraps. Light soiling to front cover. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof in tall light blue wraps of this novel by one of America's finest essayists.
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$31.30
ARCHIVE OF 4 AUTOGRAPHED LETTERS SIGNED
by BESTON, Henry
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Binding
- Letter
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$1,875.00
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Letter. Near Fine. A fine archive of 4 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED in Beston's neat hand consisting of 10 pages and 2 hand-addressed and SIGNED envelopes along with a small photograph of Beston and his wife, Elizabeth Coatsworth, annotated in another hand on the rear. Three of the letters are addressed to Wilmot Brewer and one to Brookes More,… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,875.00
THE SEA AROUND US
by CARSON, Rachel
- Condition
- Used - Fine in a close to Fine slipcase without the printed label on the backstrip
- Edition
- Revised Edition
- Published
- 1980
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$112.50
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1980. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase without the printed label on the backstrip. Alfred Eisenstaedt. Large octavo (6-3/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full blue buckram with an overall design stamped in blind and the spine titling in gold; 284 pages. Introduction by Maitland Edey. Copy #877 of 2000… Read more about this item Item Price
$112.50
EXCURSIONS
by THOREAU, Henry David
- Condition
- Used - One signature pulled, scattered foxing and staining. Covers lightly soiled with minor wear to the spine, gilt bright. Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1863
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$1,062.50
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Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. One signature pulled, scattered foxing and staining. Covers lightly soiled with minor wear to the spine, gilt bright. Very Good. Original blue-green Z cloth. Portrait frontispiece, the first book to include a portrait of Thoreau. BAL 20111: 1558 copies printed. Borst A3.1.a states that 1558 copies were printed but only… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,062.50
CAPE COD
by THOREAU, Henry David
- Condition
- Used - Light to moderate foxing. Spine gilt bright with some fraying to the tips and edges. Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1865
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$750.00
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Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Light to moderate foxing. Spine gilt bright with some fraying to the tips and edges. Very Good. Original purple cloth. Binding A, no priority. BAL 20115: 2,040 copies printed. Borst A5.1.a states that 2000 copies were printed. Catalogue dated December 1864.
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$750.00
ARCHIVE of 24 Christmas and New Year Greeting Cards
by BEEBE, William & THANE, Elswyth
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Binding
- Letter
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$812.50
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Letter. Near Fine. Mostly undated though a few are dated from 1933 to 1950. Size ranges from about 4" x 5" to 6" x 11" with some printed on stiff, heavy stock. All of the cards feature personal covers from photographs to drawings with subject matter including fish and birds, Beebe's famous bathysphere, home views, etc., many with… Read more about this item Item Price
$812.50
WILDLIFE IN AMERICA
by MATTHIESSEN, Peter
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine in a lightly soiled and rubbed Near Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1959
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$125.00
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New York: The Viking Press, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a lightly soiled and rubbed Near Fine dustwrapper. Bob Hines. Cloth-backed boards. Matthiessen's third book, his first book of nonfiction, and "the first history of man's effect on the fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals of the North American continent." Illustrated with drawings by Bob Hines.… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE
by WHITE, Gilbert (DAGLISH, Eric)
- Condition
- Used - Bookpate on front free endpaper. Wear to corners. Lacking the slipcase. Near Fine copy of this attractive book
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1929)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$375.00
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London: Thornton Butterworth, (1929). First Edition. Hardcover. Bookpate on front free endpaper. Wear to corners. Lacking the slipcase. Near Fine copy of this attractive book. Eric Daglish. First Edition thus of this classic first published in 1789. Quarto (9-1/4" x 11-3/4") bound in publisher's parchment-backed boards covered with batik paper. Illustrated with 2 portraits, 16 mounted wood engravings… Read more about this item Item Price
$375.00
UNDER THE MOUNTAIN WALL. A CHRONICLE OF TWO SEASONS IN THE STONE AGE
by MATTHIESSEN, Peter
- Condition
- Used - About Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1962)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$125.00
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New York: The Viking Press, (1962). First Edition. Hardcover. About Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. His third book of nonfiction, a chronicle of the 1961 Harvard-Peabody Expedition to New Guinea. Later issue with the photographs bound correctly at the beginning and the end of the book. SIGNED by the author on the title page.
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$125.00
INDIAN COUNTRY
by MATTHIESSEN, Peter
- Condition
- Used - Minor bumping to corners. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1984)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$187.50
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New York: The Viking Press, (1984). First Edition. Hardcover. Minor bumping to corners. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page.
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$187.50
AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD
by MATTHIESSEN, Peter
- Condition
- Used - Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with light soiling and minor wear
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1965)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$125.00
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New York: Random House, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with light soiling and minor wear. A novel about how a tribe of Stone Age natives in the Amazon are affected by various Americans.
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$125.00
CAPE COD
by THOREAU, Henry David
- Condition
- Used - Light to moderate foxing. Spine a touch rubbed but gilt still sharp. A bright, Near Fine copy
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1865
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$1,250.00
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Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865. First Edition. Hardcover. Light to moderate foxing. Spine a touch rubbed but gilt still sharp. A bright, Near Fine copy. Original brown cloth. Binding C, no priority. BAL 20115: 2,040 copies printed. Borst A5.1.a states that 2000 copies were printed. Catalogue dated December 1864.
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$1,250.00
WATERFALL (Signed Broadside)
by BASS, Rick
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2003
- Binding
- Broadside
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$62.50
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(Salt Lake City): Ken Sanders Rare Books, 2003. First Edition. Broadside. Fine. Issued on the occasion of the opening of the new Salt Lake City Public Library, this attractive 12" x 18" broadside was printed letterpress on heavy white paper and illustrated in color by R. P. Bissland. One of 100 copies SIGNED by the author.
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$62.50
SHOREBIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
by MATTHIESSEN, Peter
- Condition
- Used - Light rubbing to the leather, mostly the spine tips and corners. Very Good or better copy, lacking the slipcase
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1967)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$500.00
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New York: Viking Press, (1967). First Edition. Hardcover. Light rubbing to the leather, mostly the spine tips and corners. Very Good or better copy, lacking the slipcase. Robert Verity Clem. Folio (10" x 14") bound in full brown leather with marbled endpapers. The deluxe edition of this landmark book on shorebirds, beautifully illustrated with color plates. This is… Read more about this item Item Price
$500.00
OF WOLVES AND MEN
by LOPEZ, Barry
- Condition
- Used - Foxing to bulked edges of text; crease to the inner front flap of the dustwrapper. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1978)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$93.80
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1978). First Edition. Hardcover. Foxing to bulked edges of text; crease to the inner front flap of the dustwrapper. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Review copy with insert of author's third and perhaps best known book.
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$93.80
ARCTIC DREAMS
by LOPEZ, Barry
- Condition
- Used - About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1986)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$43.80
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1986). First Edition. hardcover. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Co-winner of the National Book Award.
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$43.80
NINE-HEADED DRAGON RIVER
by MATTHIESSEN, Peter
- Condition
- Used - Slight foxing to top bulked edge of text; tiny tear to outer margin of half-title page. Still about Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1986
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$43.80
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Boston: Shambhala, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to top bulked edge of text; tiny tear to outer margin of half-title page. Still about Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. In these journals Matthiessen intersperses his personal account of his recovery from his wife's death through the practice of Zen with a history of Buddhism in America.
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$43.80
OF WOLVES AND MEN
by LOPEZ, Barry
- Condition
- Used - Very slight sunning to spine tips, as usually the case; foxing to bulked text edges. Very Good in a Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1978)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$93.80
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1978). First Edition. Hardcover. Very slight sunning to spine tips, as usually the case; foxing to bulked text edges. Very Good in a Fine dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. His third book and the one for which he is perhaps best known.
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$93.80
