New York: The Devin-Adair company, 1962. Photos by Alexander B. Adams. First Edition. Cloth. Small 4to (9 1/4" x 7"), beige cloth with pale blue-green lettering on spine, illustrated with 32 glossy B&W photos and "Points of Interest," map endpapers of Cape Cod, x + [xi-xii] + 148 pages. An..... More
New York, N.Y. HarperCollinsPublishers, 2011. Color / B&W photos. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Thick & tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over off-white boards, illustrated with 26 glossy pages of photos (mainly color), archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped: US $29.99) with photo of Alaskan..... More
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984. Keith Brockie. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Cloth. 4to, light gray cloth, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with color illustration of a nesting bird by Keith Brokie, 150 pages of illustrations (sketches in pencil & crayon, watercolor; also photos, & a hand-drawn map..... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1`988. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Thick 8vo, Navy blue cloth over violet boards, Mylar-protected dust jacket, xvii + 550 pages. An excellent and detailed survey of the forces pro and con that enabled the Sierra Club to become one of the most influential environmental..... More
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1991. Paul Landacre. First Easton Press Collector's Edition / The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written. Full Leather with 22k gold-stamping. Quarto (10 1/2" x 7 1/2" x 1 3/4"); genuine black leather with gold title and rules on spine with four raised hubs plus two..... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007. Sketches, diagrams. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over light green boards, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with frontal image of a Guinea Pig, illustrated with several B&W full-page sketches and diagrams used as..... More
London Paris New York Melbourne: Cassell & Co. Ltd, N.D. [1870s - 80s]. Limited Luxury New Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. 8vo (7 3/4" x 5 5/8"), original decorative pictorial green cloth with elaborate gilded and embossed covers, profusely illustrated with 538 B&W woodcuts, 538 pages. Louis Figuier (1819 -..... More
Boston Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, 1987. Leslie Morrill & B&W photos. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Small quarto (6 1/4" x 10 1/4"), brown quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over parchment-like boards with facsimile signature of Loren Eiseley on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped)..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press. John Janovy, Jr. First Edition. Cloth and boards. 8vo, brown cloth over tan boards, profusely illustrated by the author-naturalist in monochrome sketches and watercolors, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket of curlews painted by the author, [xiii] + 210 pages. This natural science classic was written by..... More
Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 1989. Jonathan Kingdon. First Edition. Cloth. 4to, red cloth, arvchival mylar-protected dust jacket illustrated by the Author-Artist-Naturalist, Signed twice in FACSIMILE, profusely illustrated with color plates, maps, schematics, and sketches by Kingdon, 287 pages. SUPERB illiustrated book by this multi-talented and brilliant evolutionary biologist, artist..... More
Princeton University Press, 1995. Photos, drawings by Roland Hausheer. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo, green cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with circular colored photo of a Hamadrayas Baboon, drawings by Roland Hausheer, illustrated with many B&W and 8pp. of glossy color photos..... More
New York: Paragon House, 1994. First U.S. Edition. Cloth. 8vo, green cloth with dayglow tourquoise lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Howard R. Roberts, xiii, [xiv] + 513 pages. Peter Hugh Marshall (born 1946) is an English philosopher, historian, biographer, travel writer and poet. He has..... More
New York: The Viking Press, 1959. Bob Hines. First Edition. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author, 4to, white quarter buckram with green and gold label & lettering over forest green cloth decorated with flying bird-bison-carribou-and swimming duck motives over boards, profusely illustrated with 8 full-color plates of works by--among..... More
New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2021. B&W sketches. First Signed Edition, First Printing [specially bound by publisher]. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on a special tipped in page, tall 8vo (9 1/2" x 6 3/4"), white quarter cloth with..... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1981. Galen Rowell. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Quarto (11 7/8" x 9 1/4"), red cloth with gold lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with color photo of flowers before ice flows by Galen Rowell, the photographer who has illustrated the volume..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. Constellations. First Edition. Cloth. Square tall 8vo, black cloth with silver lettering on spine with a blind-stamped sperm whiale & calf on front cover, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting constellations; several blue-white whale decorations as chapter headings by Leonard Everett Fisher, olive..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Ernest Thompson Seton. Later Edition. Decorative cloth. 8vo (8 1/4" x 6"), green pictorial cloth with gold lettering on spine with wolf head & paws plus cover with gilt lettering and more animal motifs (hawk, paw prints, rabbit, three canine heads); illustrated with 38..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Dana Gardner. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 8vo, yellow buckram with crimson lettering on spine, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) reproducing details from a painting by Dana Gardner, who also created 18 finely executed B&W drawings of birds for the volume, xii + 216..... More
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1950. A. M. Hughes. First UK Edition. Cloth. 8vo, green cloth with gold lettering on spine, illustrated with B&W plates and in-text images of marsh birds and related subjects, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with B&W picture of an Avocet bird, map endpapers of..... More
New York London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Small 4to, brown quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over tourquoise boards, frontispiece and numerous B&W drawings as vignettes in-text by Abigail Rorer, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) illustrated by Rorer, map endpapers..... More
Ouley, VA: William H. Turner / Turner Press, 1998. William H. Turner. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. SIGNED Presentation Copy by the Author with an original ink sketch of a bird, green cloth with gold spine lettering and gold silhouettes of soaring birds on cover, Introduction by Tom Horton..... More
Madeira Park, BC, Canada: Harbour Publishing, 2002. Alison Watt. First Edition. Cloth. INSCRIBED by the author-illustrator Alison Watt on the decorative half title, tall 8vo, green textured cloth with gold lettering on spine, profusely illustrated with watercolors by author-artist Watt, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with painting by Watt..... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1881. White & Jesse. Bohn's Illustrated Library Edition. Embossed cloth. 8vo, green elaborately blind-stamped decorated green publisher's cloth, illustrated with 40 engravings, supplemented with sundry additions including a biographical sketch by Sir William Jardine & Edward Jesse,16 pp. for Standard Works of George Bell &..... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1995. First Edition. Cloth. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, small 8vo, green cloth with silver spine lettering & device on cover, map frontispiece, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting two line drawings by Tom Lucas of bluefin tuna, circular "Autographed Copy" seal..... More
Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Christopher Wills. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Tall 8vo, green cloth with silver lettering on spine, illustrated with 141 glossy color photographs (and a couple of sketches) by the author, green endpapers, xiii, [xiv] + 345 glossy pages. In this magnificently illustrated book..... More