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: The Candlelight Press [1970], 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], xi-xiv, [4], 3-233, [3] pp. Wilson 557. Black cloth with gold and green lettering on the front board and spine. Illustrated with wood engravings by Frank Utpatel. Derleth's writings on nature and his home town, the village of..... 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: 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
London: George Virtue, 1840. First trade edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 4to. [3], iv, [1], iv, [1], 2-140, [2]; [3], iv, [1], 2-106, [2] pp. Full publisher's brown leather with gold decorations and lettering on the spines and boards; all edges gilt. Each volume illustrated with an engraved title page, volume..... More