Search Results: Nature; Animals, Birds, Fish, and Other Wildlife from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. Later printing. Cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with frontispiece by Carl Rungius and photographs. Signed and dated Jan. 23, 1939 on titlepage by author, Dan McCowan. The portraits and habits of the fascinating animals of North America's great wilderness are informally presented for the nature lover. Dustjacket age soiled and badly chipped/torn, though essentially complete. Good or better copy in poor dustjacket.. Signed by Author. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1940. Coarse blue cloth stamped in red, no dustjacket. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece and 15 full color double page lithographic plates after Aud ubon's works. Light fading to spine cloth and mild spots to cover, else a good+ or better copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Golden Press, 1961. Pictorial cloth in original dustjacket. Illustrated with color photographs and drawings. Very good copy in lightly worn jacket.. Reprint. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good/Near Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1930. Hardcover sans dust-jacket. Illustrated. Cloth covers quite dusty from age and fore-edge is darkened from what appears to be black marker--pages themselves are unaffected. Illustrated title page, eight plates, endpapers by Kurt Wiese. The story of an American Buffalo told through an old hunter's story. Author was a famous naturalist and hunter. A scarce title, no name or book-plate, etc. Though cloth is soiled book itself is well bound and internally clean. A near good or better copy of the stated first edition.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. Black cloth sans dustjacket. Paper toned at margins and covers lightly age soiled. Ex-libris-small E on spine with evidence of label ha ving been removed from bottom of backstrip. No other markings. Good.. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Pocket Books, 1999. Hardcover in price-clipped dust-jacket. 253pp., Index. First edition, first printing with number line intact. No name, no book-plate, no remainder mark, etc. A clean, crisp copy. Fine in near fine dust-jacket which has been price clipped.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1951. Yellow cloth in yellow pictorial dustjacket. Drawing by Richard Taylor. Introductory chapter by Stanley Edgar Hyman. A droll examination of the extinction of species and the threats posed to others. Rear dustjacket panel and book cover show old dampstain. Dustjacket age soiled and moderately worn. Good in good jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1951. Yellow cloth in worn and torn dustjacket. With an introduction by Stanley Edgar Hyman. Illustrated by Richard Taylor. A study of the extinction of certain sp ecies. Near very good in poor jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Very Good/Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Coward, McCann, Inc., 1937. Hardcover in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. 291pp., Illustrated with woodcutt by Clifford Web. No previous ownership marks. Endpapers toned and dust-jacket torn and chipped at lower exremity of rear panel. The life story of Scottish gray hill fox and his demise in the fox-hunting county of Dorset, told by hunter cum naturalist, familiar with both worlds. A near very good copy in a near good dust-jacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Very Good/Near Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Washington, D.C.: United Sates Department of Agriculture, 1929. Technical Bulletin No. 86. Large octavo pamphlet in yellow wrappers. 147pp. Illustrated with photograhs and drawing, 6 full page plates 3 of which are in color. Wrappers are age soiled and toned, with some loss at top of backstrip. All pages and covers firmly attached and interior clean. A near good copy of a scarce government publication on the efforts to eradicate the gipsy moth through natural methods.. Soft Cover. Near Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1920. Hardcover, cloth sans dust-jacket. 172pp. Cloth age soiled and darkened. Contents tight and clean. No name, no book-palte, etc.. New and Revised Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1965. First American edition. Translated from the German by J.R. Foster. Blue cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with drawings and photogrtaphs, several of which are color. An account of the strange planet earth and the stranger creatures that live on it. Very good in good dustjacket.. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Doubleday & Company 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, green cloth in non price-clipped dustjacket. Circa 1970. Illustrated with 124 photographs, 68 in color. Fine in fine dustjacket.. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Chicago: Thomas S. Rockwell Company, 1930 No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. Cloth sans dustjacket. Illustrated with small vignette drawings and photographs. Very good.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The American Garden Guild and Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. Cloth, sans dustjacket. Extensively illustrated with drawings by Don Eckelberry. Endpapers lightly toned, else a clean solid copy. Good+. Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Later printing in pictorial cloth, stamped with white lettering and showing two mallards descending on cover and one on spine. Cloth finger soiled and sp ine moderatley darkened. Illustrated with eight full-page shooting scenes in color and one hundred and thirty-five bird portraits. Near very good.. Hardcover. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Londion: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd. , 1949. Dark blue cloth in price-clipped dustjacket. Illustrated with photographs. This volume actually contains two separate narratives of bird life, the first on sw ans, the scond on the Marsh Harrier. A delight for the wild fowler, bird watcher and nature lover. Very good in quite worn and torn, fair dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1961. Red cloth spine over boards, in original dustjacket. Illustrated with drawings. Pictorial endpapers. A posthumus collection of the author's essays and working notes on Natural History and man's inter-relationship with his envirnment. Very fine in very good dustjacket, which is toned at backstrip.. First Edition. Cloth Spine Over Boards. Very Fine/Very Good. Illus. by J. Schaldach. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: B.W. Huebsch, Inc. 1924 Pictorial Cloth. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. Yellow cloth stamped in black, sans dustjacket. Signed by author on front free endpaper. Moderate age soiling to covers, else a very good copy.. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: Stein & Day Publishers, 1980. Large trade paperback. 274pp., Bibliography, Index. First Scarborough Book edition, first printing. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, tight copy. Very good+.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.