Search Results: Titles starting with P from Z & Z Books

Monterey, CA: Sea Challengers, Inc., 1987. 112pp. Color photo plates. Describes and illustrates 161 common marine invertebrates which may be encountered by divers on the Pacific coast; identification, notes, size and range. Slightly scuffed, errata slip taped inside front cover. Glossary, bibliography, index, maps.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo..

W.W. Norton & Co, 1944. Color plates, illustrations, maps, index, 218 pages. Nice, tight copy.. Hardcover. Very Good.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1991. Very nice copy in a perfect dust jacket.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Watson-Guptill Pubns, 1984. 225 color plates, index, 144 pages.. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

Winston Salem: John F Blair Pub, 1995. Maps, ills., 238 pp. Still in publishers shrink-wrap. Published at $13.95.. Paperback. As New.

Biological Society of Washington, 1972. Bulletin #2, Symposium with papers covering all forms of life. Photos, ills., 270pp. Inscribed by editor.. Original Wraps, Softbound. Very Good.

Academy Chicago Publishers, 1985. Some illustrations, index, 329 pages. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. Many photos, 226 pages. Occasional scattered foxing/browning, otherwise a nice tight copy. Expedition in search of Birds of Paradise in New Guinea.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. 1 halftone, 60 line ills., 384 pp. List price $57.50.. Paperback. New.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Tiny rub spot on dust jacket, now in a removable, protective mylar jacket. Photos, 239 pages. Fascinating story of the discovery of a new bird species in the Peruvian rainforest.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/Fine.

London: Blandford Press, 1986. Second edition, revised and enlarged, 400pp. ills., color and b&w photos. Comprehensive volume on parrot care in captivity by one of the foremost experts in the field: aviary design, feeding, breeding, hand-rearing, health and illness, conservation issues. Part two describes all species normally kept in captivity as well as avicultural rarities, with details specific to each species.. 2nd Edition. Cloth. As New/Very Good. 4to..

Yale University Press, 1998. Color plates, maps, bibliography, index, 584 pages... Hardcover. New/New.

Cambridge: Privately Printed, Harvard University Printing Office, 1951. Photos, fold-out graph, 66 pages. An informal account of the Belmont, Massachusetts author's hunting adventures in New Hampshire and New York. Green cloth cover, in original blank paper wrapper. Nice old sporting bookplate on front end sheet. Clean, tightly-bound copy.. Cloth. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

University of Oklahoma Press, 1972. Dust jacket is price-clipped, has a few scuffs but no rips or chips. Small remainder mark. Nice, tight copy.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: The Outing Publishing Company, 1907. Clean, bright spine. Red cloth with gold-stamped title. Previous owners' names in ink on front flyleaf, plates and title page blind-stamped. Color frontis by L. A. Fuertes, 2 color and 6 b&w plates. A history of the passenger pigeon and its extinction, the pigeon industry and old-time hunters, and the last efforts at its conservation, with essays from the works of Wilson, Audubon, William Brewster, Ruthven Deane, Robert Ridgeway, etc. 240 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No DJ. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1979. Foreword by Roger Tory Peterson. 224 pp. Color and b&w photos. Fifty years of the work of this celebrated photographer. Appendix with technical information. Still in original publisher's shrink-wrap.. Cloth. New/New. 4to..

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. Uncipped dust jacket, original price $8.95, photos, 280 pages. Three pages trimmed with extra paper during binding. Not a Book Club edition. Small inscription on blank flyleaf.. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good.

Houghton Mifflin, 1974. Dust jacket with very light edge wear, book like new.. Hardcover. As New/Very Good.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Dust jacket with a tear, light wear but all there. Inscription on blank flyleaf.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

Stanford: Stanford Univ Press, 1989. Color and b&w photos, illustrations, glossary, systemic and subject indexes, 276 pages.. Examines five groups of gastropods (Janthinid snails, Heteropods, Thecosomes, Gymnosomes, Planktonic Nudibranchs) specialized for life in the ocean. Anatomy, swimming/float formation, food and feeding, reproduction, development, parisites, evolution, list of recognized species, references. . Hardcover. New/New.