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A picture book for discussion and activity. Black and white and packed full of graphics gleaned from commercial art and pop culture on the theme of Superstition: apples, astrology, birds, sharks, fish, ships, houses, horses, crows, clothing, Christmas trees, and more. 98 pages. Staple-bound.
A picture book for discussion and activity. Black and white and packed full of graphics gleaned from commercial art and pop culture on the theme of Superstition: apples, astrology, birds, sharks, fish, ships, houses, horses, crows, clothing, Christmas trees, and more. 98 pages. Staple-bound.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very faint indenting to front and no bumping to corners. 207pp. A study of what is happening with our environment from the aspect of birds and their biology and what we can do about it.
H. Dupuy 1948, fort In-8 broché, couverture rempliée, 523 pages. Ouvrage orné de 125 gravures d'après nature par Emile THIVIER, Maurice MOISAND, et par l'auteur.
Paris, H. Dupuy et Cie, fac-similé d'après la première édition de Firmin-Didot & Cie, édition établie pour la Librairie Thiébaud, 1948. In - 8° broché, XV-123 pages, nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc, 3° édition, " le livre de chevet de tous les chasseurs de gibiers d'eau ". Petite tâche claire sur la couverture. Tirage limité à 1500 exemplaires.
Paris, Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique, S. d. (vers 1900). In-12 (19 x 12 cm), reliure à la bradel en demi-percaline verte, dos à pièce de titre rouge. 2 ff. n. ch., 208 p. Bel exemplaire. Historique - Ornithologie - Elevage - Repeuplement - Maladies - Destruction des animaux nuisibles (renard, faucon, autour, blaireau...) - Chasse, etc. Edition originale. Thiébaud, 885.
Pages 262-320. Printed upon glossy stock. Nice reproductions of black and white photos. Features: The Nashaway Woman's Club; Early Life of rev. Thomas Baldwin; The Vegetable Food of Birds; The Christian Science Home School; The Baptist Church in Hopkinton; Poems. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 247 pages. Previous owner's name inside. This book provides the classification names (Latin, English and Maori), a brief statement on status and distribution, and references to relevant literature for nearly 400 living and extinct species of New Zealand birds.
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked covers. 25pp. Early volume of the RSPB magazine. Scarce.
Oblong 8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs, illustrations, pland and diagrams; coloured p[ictorial wrappers, a near fine copy.
8vo., Second Impression, with title-vignette, and very numerous illustrations and maps in the text; maroon cloth, gilt back, maroon endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Dustwrapper artwork by Donald Watson. First published in 1983.
Hachette 1962, In-4 toile grége de l'éditeur, 399 pages. Bibliographie. 1500 espéces décrites, 400 illustrations, 217 documents en couleurs. Trés bon état.
Ex-library copy with usual library stamps, call numbers and pocket. Light foxing to endpapers. Top of spine is chipped. Tear along one side of spine cover but holding. Spine is discolored. Former owner's name on ffep. Slight wear to corners. Slight rubbing to boards. ; Scarce. Birds in Greek literature and folklore identified (where possible). English and Greek text, plus some Latin and French descriptions. ; 205 pages
Very faint bump to head of spine. Former owner's name to ffep in ink. ; St. Andrews University Publications. No. XLV; 302 pages
4to., Second Impression, with very numerous plates and illustrations in the text, small neat personal book-label on front free endpaper; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Second impression of the standard reference first published in the previous year.
4 vols., 8vo., with coloured frontispieces (original tissue guards present), and 188 coloured plates after drawings by the author; original red cloth, gilt backs, backstrips a little faded as often else a remarkably bright, clean set in unclipped dustwrappers, each wrapper with mounted coloured illustration (repeated from text). The octavo edition of the author's classic survey, first published in larger format 1915-1918. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Tate, p.199. See Mullens & Swann p.581.
331 p. Front flyleaf and half-title excised. Large 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket. Great reading. NH8
Excellent copy with straight spine, text unmarked in any way, sharp corners to the covers, lightly shelfworn dust jacket with no tears. 240 pages with large, vibrant color photos throughout, very colorful.
Straight spine, text unmarked in any way, sharp corners to the clean, bright covers. 148 pages, many color photos.
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. Faint crease to lower corner of front cover, none to rear or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 55pp. Australian language and birds and animals.
As-new with straight spine, text unmarked in any way, sharp corners to the clean, bright covers. 656 pages, maps, color photos. Buy from a book seller that actually inspects and grades their stock!
140 pages. Short Stories: Hard-Luck Girl; The Words of Love; Dangerous Bluff; His Sister's Keeper. Articles: Why do they Hate us in Panama? - photo-illustrated article about anti-American riots; The Birds' Last Stand - 6,000 exotic birds may be evicted from their Stone Harbor, New Jersey haven; Pilots Aren't Obsolete Yet - the recently-cancelled B-70 Valkyrie bomber may be necessary for our survival; Los Angeles' Cure for Drunks - California desert rehabilitation farm; The Movies' Modern Marco Polo - Stanley Goldsmith is Twentieth Century Fox's chief trouble shooter for pictures filmed overseas; They Call Me Madam (part 2 of 4) - Washington's legendary hostess Perle Mesta; Fabulous Mine in the Sea - The Grand Isle Sulphur Mine in the Gulf of Mexico; Touring Russia Made Easy. Serials: If Hitler Had Invaded England (part 2 of 3); The Tewksbury Feud. Ads: Dogde Trucks (inside front cover); Employers Mutuals of Wausau - with photos of John M. Fox of the Minute Maid Corporation and company driver Eddie Mew plus Ed Waters; GE Appliances; Spring cigarettes; Fantastic two-page color-photo (red) Corvair ad features gents in black suits and hats checking out the car; Old Crow Whisky, with one-page color illustration of James Crow with his neighbors; Two-pages of the Ford Galaxie; Lowry organs; Quaker State Oil; The BMC 850 (Mini) (2 pages in color); Canadian Pacific Dome Cars (1 color page); Nice color photo ad for the (red) Chrysler Imperial in a horse-racing setting; Hotpoint fridges; Cadillac Guide-Matic; Scott Paper; ScottTowel multi-color towels; Schlitz beer - flying a kite; Kem-Tone and Kem-Glo Paint; Johnson V-75 outboard motor; Toro lawn and garden products; Admiral TVs; Cracker Barrel Cheese; Caterpillar; Smith-Corona typewriters; Hertz rental cars; Boeing 720; Samsonite luggge with Queen's guards in background; The Denver Hilton Hotel; Karpen furniture (very funky); Nabisco Veri-Thin Pretzels; American Seating Company; Lucky Strike cigarettes (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
'A simple, concise and fully illustrated guide" Illustrated by Robin Reckitt. viii, 86p.color plates [5 copies of a later edition found in Worldcat] Book
According to Tsimshian legend, when an old man' sight was restored by Loon, he gave the bird his precious shell nechlace as a reward. A Canadian Indian tale. Winner of the IODE Book Award and the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon medal for illustration. Illustrated boards. Undated. Unpaginated. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Nice working copy. Book
Large octavo in an orange DJ ; vii, 248 p, sources, index : illus (some col.) ; 25 cm Ornithologists -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Birds