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Andover, MA: Andover Village Improvement Society, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. light wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, more to the jacket which is also sunned on the spine, significant spotting to the page edges and endpapers. Inscribed by the author on the title page. First printing, no others noted. The Andover Village Improvement Society (AVIS) is a land preservation society in Andover, Massachusetts. Founded in 1894, AVIS is the second oldest land preservation society in the United States. (following The Trustees of Reservations, 1891, alos of Massachusetts). Its goal is to acquire land within Andover and preserve it in its natural state.Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Light shelf wear to the book; jacket has two closed tears to the front panel. First printing, full number line. "Superb book by a first-class writer with an unsurpassed feel for ants.”--Library Journal. “Adventures Among Ants may reach a broader audience than other recent publications and therefore stimulate interest in ants among a new generation.”--Philip Newey Bioscience. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1920. Hardcover. Good/good. edge wear, corners bumped, staining to spine and covers,, previous owner's name to front endpaper; jacket spine sunned, tips, corners and eedges worn, soiling to covers. Top edge gilt, deckled edges. Solon Justus Buck (1884 – 1962) was the Second Archivist of the United States. His varied academic career, mainly at the Universities of Minnesota and Pittsburgh, never strayed very far from his interest in the history of agricultural communities. When the U. S. National Archives were established in 1935 he was tapped to be Assistant Director, then in 1941 the second Archivist of the United States. In 1948, he joined the Library of Congress as chief of the Manuscript Division, then as Assistant Librarian until his retirement in 1954. He also served as the seventh president of the Society of American Archivists, from 1949-1951. An earlier book on the subject, The Granger Movement, Travel and Description 1765-1865, Harvard, 1911),… Read More

New York: New York University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good-. wear to tips, corners and edges of book; no jacket. Not an ex-library edition. First edition. First printing, no others noted. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Funk & Wagnalls , 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Later printing. Very light shelf wear to the book and jacket. Fourth printing. Brown, black and pink priced jacket. Alex W. Bealer (1921 – 1980), was an old-time craftsman of wood working and blacksmithing from Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to this title he also authored Old Ways of Working Wood, The Tools That Built America, and The Successful Craftsman. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket, as issued. Shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book, soiling of covers, gift inscription to front endpaper; no jacket as issued. First printing, no others noted. An essential ornithological reference to the birds of Vermont. A set of four transparencies, eight maps in total in envelope, laid in. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. VG. light wear to covers, clean and unmarked 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Soft cover.

LaSalle, CO: Pixyjack Press, Llc, 1997. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Very light shelf wear to corners of front cover, else just about as new. "An easy-to-read, common sense handbook for all horse owners, from greenhorns to old hands ...Handy charts and tables put the information at your fingertips, and helpful formulas for calculating feed rations make this the one book on equine nutrition you’ll read and refer to again and again." First printing, no others noted. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Buffalo: Herman C. De Groat, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/new. wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, stain to front cover at the gutter, offsetting through out, slight lean; no jacket. All illustrations present. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility!

Harrisburg: The Stackpole Co, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. Book shows some shelf wear to tips, corners and edges, clean and unmarked; much more wear top the jacket which is edgeworn, chipped, rubbed, spine sunned. In the first half of the 20th century the collaborators, young men of the American West, worked for the Bureau of Biological Survey (the precursor of the US Fish and Wildlife Service). All became noteworthy in their fields. Their knowledge and experiences inform this ornithological survey of pre-statehood Alaska. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Amherst, MA: Carpenter & Morehouse , 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Ex-library Bound in three quarter leather with marbled paper covers, five raised bands, titles and call numbers stamped in gilt. The front cover is tender at gutter. Ownership and withdrawn stamps and labels of the Bowdoin College Library, else clean and unmarked. First printing, no others noted. In gilt at base of spine is stated "ex-libris A. S. Packard." This would be Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr. (1839-1905), Bowdoin class of 1861, Civil War surgeon, Entomologist who corresponded with Darwin and a Professor at Brown University with 25 publications. He was the son of Alpheus Spring Packard, Sr. (1798 – 1884) an American who may be the longest serving faculty member to any American college through his 65 years of dedication to Bowdoin College, "in this particular I acknowledge, without reserve, my allegiance to Brunswick, Maine." The Coccidae are a family of scale insects belonging to the… Read More

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, covers rubbed. Special report (United States. Department of Agriculture), no. 22. Color plates (showing diseased organs), maps, fold-outs. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

New York: Schocken Books, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Later printing (2). Shelf wear to the book, more to the jacket; which has one closed tear, is soiled, spotted, else clean and unmarked. First published stated, second printing by number line. Helen and Scott Nearing started a relationship in 1928 and married nearly 20 years later, on December 12, 1947. The couple lived in rural Vermont where they grew much of their food and erected nine stone buildings over the course of two decades. They earned money by producing maple syrup and sugar from the trees on their land and from Scott Nearing's occasional paid lectures. In 1952 the Nearings moved to a homestead in Maine near Cape Rosier where they continued growing much of their own food. They cultivated blueberries as a cash crop. The couple were counter-culture exemplars. As a young woman Helen (1904 – 1995) had a romantic relationship with Krishnamurti while Scott Nearing (1883 –1983) was an American radical… Read More

New York: Wilfred Funk, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. Shelf wear to tips, corners and edges of book and jacket which is rubbed, price-clipped; previous owner's stamp to endpapers. Captain Gray and Fred D. Coppock founded the Miami Seaquarium on Virginia Key in Biscayne Bay. When it opened in 1955 it was the largest marine-life attraction in the world. From 1963 through 1967, eighty-eight episodes of the 1960s TV show "Flipper" and two movies starring Flipper were filmed at the Miami Seaquarium. First printing, full number line. no others noted. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Signed. Both book and jacket show some dampstaining to edges, wear to tips, corners and edges of book and jacket. Signed by the author. First printing, full number line. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

Boston: Dr. Earl S. Sloan, 1897. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. light wear to the book. 56 staple-bound pages. Clean and unmarked. First printing, no others noted. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.

Harrisburg: Stackpole Books, 1975. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. light wear to the book, page edges spotted else clean and unmarked; wear to tips, corners and edges of jacket which has a few short closed tears. First printing of the 2nd edition, no others noted. "Totally new maps and illustrations 9except for the color plates by Shortt) a complete glossary, a discussion, of scientific nomenclature and duck topography, tables of weights and measures, and the family tree of the ducks, geese and swans.." from the flaps. Most items ship with free delivery confirmation, electronic tracking and jacket protectors (generally over $10.00) if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. 9780811705356

Washington DC: Island Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. The spine of the jacket is lightly sunned else As New. First printing, full number line. "The first - and no doubt final - Thoreau book of the century. Little more needs to be said (and, from the extensive press coverage, most Kirkus readers are probably aware that the material was sifted out by Thoreau scholar Bradley P. Dean from among hundreds of pages of field notes that the Concord sage left behind). But we'll add that, in addition to its keystone, The Dispersion of Seeds - one of the author's last projects, a manuscript of luminous natural-history writing about the genesis, life, and fate of seeds, as well as about conservation - the volume also contains two shorter, reclaimed Thoreau pieces, plus copious notes by Dean and a lengthy, engaging introduction by Thoreau scholar Robert D. Richardson, Jr. Compared to Walden, this may be minor Thoreau - but its publication is still a major, and happy,… Read More

New York: Macmillan, 1941. Seventh Printing. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; no jacket; page edges and endpapers spotted, else clean and unmarked. Sections on selection, slaughtering, and cutting up beef, pork and sheep; preservation, uses of by-products. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been a member of the Vermont Antiquarian Bookseller's Association since 1997. An online bookseller with a bookshop sensibility! 

London: Collins, 1966. Revised and Enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Light shelf wear to the book, more to the jacket which has several tears and chips, clean and unmarked. Peterson was assisted by two notable Brttish ornithologists. Guy Mountfort OBE (for ornithology) (1905 – 2003) was an English amateur ornithologist and conservationist. He was a founder of the World Wide Fund for Nature. Philip Arthur Dominic "Phil" Hollom (1912 – 2014) was a British ornithologist twice honored by the British Trust for Ornithology. Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.