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8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, plates and numerous illustrations and maps in the text; green tweed cloth, gilt back, green endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A standard species monograph. Effectively a significantly enlarged and updated version of the original edition ['The Greenshank'] of 1951. Tate, p.236.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. A children's sex education book from the fifties - sperm, eggs, mother, father, pregnancy, babies. Full blue cloth boards. 5"w x 7 1/2"h. 73 pages. Small tears to dust jacket. Black and white photos.
Hatier 1990, In-12 relié cartonnage éditeur illustré. 287 pages et 541 illustrations photographiques. Très bon état
Delachaux et Niestle 1981, In-8 reliure éditeur pleine toile grège sous jaquette illustrée. 451 pages. Avec plus de 1200 reproductions dont 670 en couleurs, 380 cartes de distribution géographique et nombreux dessins. Très bon état
Duculot, 1983. In-8 broché, couverture illustrée de 191 pages. Photos. Bon état
Solar 1992, In-8 relié cartonnage éditeur illustré. 256 pages. Très nombreuses photos. Très bon état
Delachaux et Niestlé 1985, In-12 relié cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette illustrée. 310 pages avec 48 planches en couleurs pour 781 oiseaux illustrès (291 espèces), 138 dessins et 287 cartes de répartition. Bon état
Delachaux et Niestlé 1983, In-12 broché, 264 pages. Plus de 250 espèces décrites, 24 planches en couleurs. Très bon état
ISBN : 2711413071. VIGOT.. 1996. In-12 Carré. Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Bon état. Couv. fraîche. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur frais. 117 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en couleurs dans le texte et hors texte.
Nathan 1998, grand et très fort In-8 relié cartonnage éditeur sous jaquette illustrée. 871 pages. Plus de 360 planches en couleurs et plus de 600 cartes de répartition. Bon état
128 p. Illustrated. Large 12mo. Original printed wraps. Large ownership stamps of I.G.F. Kinard, Inc. Red Lion (York County), PA. A very handy guide to waterfowl. NH9
Book shows light wear to covers only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 193 pages with a great many b&w photos of owls from around the country, descriptions of habitat, pellets, etc.
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, plates and very numerous detailed illustrations in the text; grey cloth, gilt back, grey endpapers, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A classic guide by a seabird master.
74 pages. Features: Political candidates and the pro-gun issue; Winchester's new hot-shot, the .225!; Savage Guns Score! - their new line of rifles is a winner; Wads & Patterns; Taking the Kick out of Shooting - reducing the kick of a youngster's shotgun; Bear Rifles and Cartridges; Hunting the Hun - bag more of these game birds by learning their habits; No more 6 O'Clock Holds! - the new and unique air force aiming technique breaks many traditions; The Army's Duplex Load - two bullets from one shot is the army's answer to poor combat marksmen; Nice color photo Remington and Winchester ads on back cover; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Magazine
Large octavo in illus black and beige jacket; 300 pages ; 22 cm Includes bibliographical references. "An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator as part of her personal recovery. "As a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk. She buys Mabel ... on a Scottish quayside and takes her home to Cambridge. Then she fills the freezer with hawk food and unplugs the phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals." || Contents: Patience -- Lost -- Small worlds -- Mr White -- Holding tight -- The box of stars -- Invisibility -- The Rembrandt interior -- The rite of passage -- Darkness -- Leaving home -- Outlaws -- Alice, falling -- The line -- For whom the bell -- Rain -- Heat -- Flying free -- Extinction -- Hiding -- Fear -- Apple day -- Memorial -- Drugs -- Magical places -- The flight of time -- The new world -- Winter histories -- Enter spring -- The moving earth. || Hawks. Grief. Spirituality. Grief. Hawks. Spirituality. Hawks. Falconry. Goshawks. Grief. Spiritual life. Macdonald, Helen, 1970- White, T. H. (Terence Hanbury), 1906-1964. Nature. Ornithology. Spirituality. Autobiography. Autobiographies. Note(s): Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2014./ Includes bibliographical references.
"... the saga of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. Now she digs deeper into the world of these Raptors by following a family in the wild and raising a goshawk of her own." Winner of the Costa Award and the This book won both the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction in 2014. 200p. bibliography Book
Index. 328 pages. Prize label on front pastedown. Front free endpaper almost loose and missing top corner. 30mm split to top of joint of spine and front cover. Top page edges dusty and greyed. Spine worn and bumped top/base.
Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. 234 pages. Index. Extensive footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. Laing "was a long lived, widely published, notable Canadian naturalist. His love was birds but his writing and his collecting expeditions ranged further... After living around North America he settled in the bird paradise of Comox, BC. This biography explores a man and a philosophy of conservation that insisted the naturalist be a good man with a gun." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. An excellent copy. Book
144 pages. Explains how to hand-tame the chickadee, the nuthatch, the pine grosbeak, the purple finch, the redpoll, the catbird, and the wary woodpecker. Filled with lovable bird characters who become people for the reader, as they have for the author. Average wear to book which is clean and unmarked. Average wear and some tears to dust jacket which is missing a chip from bottom edge of back panel. Solid copy. Book
521 pages. Index. Line drawings. Average wear. Few markings. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
9 vols., 4to., First Edition, with titles in red and black, and many hundreds and coloured plates, illustrations and maps, small neat signature on front free endpaper versos; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in dustwrapper. The standard reference, compiled and published over nearly two decades. The set comprises: Vol. I: Ostrich to Ducks (1977); Vol. II: Hawks to Bustards (1980); Vol. III: Waders to Gulls (1983); Vol. IV: Terns to Woodpeckers (1985); Vol. V: Tyrant Flycatchers to Thrushes (1988); Vol. VI: Warblers (1992); Vol. VII: Flycatchers to Shrikes (1993); Vol. VIII: Crows to Finches (1994): Vol. IX: Buntings and New World Warblers (1994). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE
16 pages. Contents: Ascot Toilettes - cover illustrations; Between Husband and Wife; Women and Men - who shall fix the value?; Family Living on $500 a Year - XXXIV; New York Fashions - autumn dress goods, pin-striped woollens, braid stripes, pomponettes, beaded corded and velvet stripes, plain wools and black stuffs, silk velvets, plaids and cross-bars, cloakings, dress trimmings; Personal; British Water Birds - illustration; British Land Birds - illustration; Open-air preaching by the sea-side - article and super centerfold illustration; The Woodlanders - continued; Paston Carew, Millionaire and Miserj - continued; Summer Beverages; A Lover of Flowers, by Mary Wilkins; Decorative hints from Mount Desert and the Adirondacks; Unwritten Laws; Quiet Obsequies; Watering-place Toilettes; Table Mat - canvas embroidery and plush; a bit of ancient court gossip; chair back with embroidered band; summer toilettes; corsages; some German sweetmeats; humor. Average wear and soiling Book
16 pages. Contents: Ball and Evening Coiffures - cover illustrations; Shabby Gentility; Blot-Ting Papers - No. VIII; New York Fashions - style of making, ball dress materials, trimmings; coiffures; Personal; Infant's bib with crochet edging; trimmings for ball and evening dresses; Pelerine with hood; Britta's Christmas Gift; Sayings and Doings; Centerfold illustrations of Ball and Evening Dresses as well as seven gorgeous opera wrappings; Debenham's Vow - continued; Paris Fashions; Lovely full-page image of birds eating grain from "The Christmas Sheaf"; Two coiffures of ribbon and flowers; Low Blouse waist with peplum; blouse waist with sqauare neck; Management of plants in rooms; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
86 pages, illustrated, index, foxing to page edges, browning to prelims. eng
36 pages. Features: Armorial Bearings of the Royal Military College (RMC); Arms for the Town of Goderich; Heraldry - For the Birds?; Canadian Academic Heraldry; Book Review; The Heraldic Bookplate; Arms of the "Royal City" (Guelph); Scottish Heraldic Bookplates; New Zealand Herald of Arms. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
