New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], xi-xiv, [2], 1-269, [3] pp. Brown cloth with white and brown lettering on the spine. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Dust jacket design and in-text drawings by Peter Parnall. Ahearn APG 004b..... More
Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], vii-xii, 1-159, [1], [5] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [1] pp. Green cloth with gold and black decorations and gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $1 on the front flap of the dust jacket..... More
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1861. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xxi, [4], 2-364, [2] pp. Half contemporary calf over marbled boards with the spine in six compartments, gold decorations and a red morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound without the..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 1-250 pp. Green cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With a color frontispiece and with 142 additional illustrations, on several plates throughout the book..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xvi, [4] 3-190 pp. Quarter pink cloth over purple paper boards with gold lettering on the front board. Beige endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $21.95 on the front flap. Most of the gold lettering on the spine rubbed away, else..... More
n.p. Published exclusively for The Interstate Company, n.d. Wraps. Oblong 8vo. 29.5 c.m. x 23.5 c.m. [3], a full-page map, [25] plates. Tan wrappers printed in black and gold with a color illustration inset on the front, decorations in gold and black. Staple-bound with ties. Price of $1.50 on the..... More
New York: Published by Hurd and Houghton, 1869. Second edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. [3], iv-viii, [1], 2-192, [2] pp. Pebbled brown leather with two gilt rules on each board and a device stamped in gilt on each board, spine is in six compartments with gold lettering; all edges gilt. Marbled..... More
New York: Hastings House Publishers (1946), 1946. Second printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], vii-xxiii, [3], 3-429, [13] pp. Orange cloth with gold lettering on the front board and gold lettering on the spine. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with several in-text and full-page black and white photographs, with a folding map..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press (1992), 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 1-342 pp. Quarter grey cloth over blue paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Teal endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $22.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. The British veterinarian's memoirs of his work with..... More
New York: Random House [1973], 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], 3-340, [2] pp. Quarter green cloth over green paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $7.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Hoagland's essays on living in New York City versus living in the..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1908. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine with a gold medallion decorating the front board; green topstain. With pictorial endpapers and pastedowns, a color frontispiece, and eleven additional color plates by Ruth Dollman. A reprint of Jeffries' collection..... More
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1931. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-ix, [4], 2-172 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, publisher's device stamped in blind on the front board; blue topstain. With several full-page illustrations by B.F. Dolbin. A book devoted to..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, ca. 1953. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xiii, [3], 3-226 pp. Blue paper boards with black lettering and decorations on the front board, black lettering on the spine. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With several full-page illustrations by Charles W...... More
New York: The Viking Press (1981), 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 3-213, [3] pp. White cloth with blue and red lettering on the spine. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns.Price of $19.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several beautiful colored photographs taken by Hugo Van Lawick. A...... More
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux (1979), 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-261, [1] pp. Brown cloth with red lettering on the spine. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $9.95 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 016b. A Near Fine book with a tiny spot of foxing on..... More
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux (1979), 1979. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], 3-261, [1] pp. Brown cloth with red lettering on the spine. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $9.95 on front flap of jacket. Ahearn APG 016b. A Near Fine book with a name on the free front..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton (1978), 1978. First UK edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [15], 6-438 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of £6.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with a few full-page maps. First printing of the first UK edition. Ahearn APG 015c. A small bump to the..... More
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [7], viii-xii, [1], 2-304, [2], 305-576, [2], 577-832, [2], 833-1088 pp. 4 parts bound in one volume, with the four title pages of each part of the dictionary bound in. Assisted by Hans Gadow. With contributions from Richard Lydekker..... More
London: Printed and Published by M.A. Pittman, 1831. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-vii, [2], 2-503, [5] pp. Half bound in red morocco over red cloth, spine has fived raised bands, with lettering and decorations in gilt. All edges gilt. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf. With notes and a copious index..... More
Milton Junction, Wis. Frantz Printing Company [1945], 1945. Hardcover. 8vo. [2], 3-34 pp. 21.75 c.m. x 14.5 c.m. Staple-bound pamphlet bound in yellow wrappers printed in black. Price of 30 cents on the front wrapper. Illustrated with several in-text and full-page photographs and a few charts. A charming guide book..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 9-286, [2] pp. Quarter dark green cloth over light green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $5.95 printed on front flap of dust jacket. Second issue (with credits on the tipped..... More
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press [1981], 1981. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-335, [1] pp. Bound in black leather with gilt decorations on the boards and the spine; all edges gilt. Copper decorative silk pastedowns and endpapers. Illustrated with a frontispiece and in-text wood engravings by Thomas W. Nason. Three tiny..... More
London: Collins, 1946. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-324 pp. Beige cloth with gold lettering and a gold decoration on the spine. Price of 21/- net on the front flap of the dust jacket. With 48 colour illustrations (full-page although the book calls them plates) and 132 illustrations in black and..... More
Philadelphia: Geo. P. Pilling & Son Co., ca. 1915. Early printing. Pamphlet. 16mo. 8.5 cm x 15 cm. [1], 2-48 pp. Green and white wrappers printed in white, green, and black. With a cow printed on the front wrapper. Price of ten cents on the front wrapper. Illustrated with several..... More
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-260, [2], ii-iv, [1] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Green cloth lettered in gold on the front board and spine, top edge gilt. Illustrated by a coloured frontispiece. A nice collection of fiction centered around the rivers and..... More