Malaher, GeraldMareMagnum
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176 pages including index and an abundance of black and white illustrations. A collection of stories about the Canadian North. These stories chronicle the real-life adventures of Gerald Malaher, pioneer conservationist, who following Ernest Thompson Seton, influenced the course of northern wildlife preservation and development in Manitoba in this century. Prior owner's details neatly atop front free endpaper else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
112 pages. Features: The Hodding Carters - Working for decades in the intransigent heartland of the South, they dedicated themselves and their newspaper to exposing the cruelties and injustice around them and reaffirming the basic goodness of the South they loved - article with photos (including cover); New Battles Over School Budgets - landmark California decisioin affecting John Serrano; Ten Days That Shook Me Up in Russia - the tormented world of Soviet dissidents; "Dewar's Profiles" features David O. Hill, Wildlife Conservationist of New York City; Swept Away - people continue to build along coastal areas despite terrible storms and the damage they cause; Poirot's First Case - Agatha Christie describes how she created her first detective story, and her grandest sleuth, while surrounded by poisons; Fantastic two-page centerfold ad for Jovan fragrances; Photos of Nubby Knits; Throwing a Curve - John Saladino designed this curved apartment; Sexy color-photo ad for luxurious silk bikini panties by Macy's; A Mess of Mopeds; Toyota Celica ad on back cover. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Beautiful color fashion ads; Nice ad for Sony Cassette-Corder inside front cover; Great one-page ad for Harness House features photo of gent with belts slung over his bare shoulder; The 'Black Mayonnaise' at the Bottom of Jamaica Bay - photo-illustrated article; Yale Faculty Makes the Scene - article with photos of Charles Reich, Kenneth Keniston, Erich Segal, Robert Lifton, Robert Penn Warren and Robert Brustein; Was Eisenhower a Political Genius? A Brilliant Man?; The Four Big Fears About Nuclear Power; Save the Children Federation ad features photo of young Glen Conway; 'Valentino' fashion photos; Interior design photos of Harrison Cultra's small city duplex. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
xiv + 368pp.+ 48 plates out-of-texte & some plans, green cloth, 22cm., ("(all known british butterflies shown lifesize in colour and 56 colourphotographs of living specimens by S.Beaufoy, 24 plates in balck and white, 32 distribution maps and 9 other diagrams")
132 pages including index. "An authoritative natural history and a visual celebration of this playful creature. Together, text and photographs combine to capture the beauty and power of the coastal seas and to emphasize that we must take part to help ensure the continued prosperity of this fascinating creature." - from dust jacket. Negligible wear to clean, bright and unmarked book. Light wear to dust jacket. Very nice copy. Book
8vo, ix-359 pp, maps, drawings, full-page plates on superior paper, index. HB + DW VG++/G [P-20]
4°. 30,7 x 23,6 cm. 176 p. Original boards (hard cover) with title to spine. Illustrated dust jacket with title to spine and to front cover. Good condition. Many coloured illustrations.
298 pages including index. Compiles all available references relevant to the environmental aspect of the Nanaimo River Estuary. Summarizes pertinent information and provides lists on plant and animal life, to provide readers with some idea of the ecological characteristics. Contents include topics such as: Geology; Economic Geology; Surficial Geology; Climatology; Hydrology; Oceanography; Invertebrate Biology; Invertebrate Fisheries Resource; Flora; Wildlife; Land and Water Use; Pollution; plus an extensive Bibliography. Includes a variety of maps. Report of the Estuary Working Group, Department of the Environment, Regional Pacific Region. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A wonderful reference. Book
"A pictorial history of the changes occurring to the natural landscape of the town of Markham during a 20 year period between 1965 and 1985, The pictures show how both man-made involvement...and natural erosion ..created the significant changes in the town.. that took away large sections of its peace and serenity" A peronal narrative of the changers the author experience. The production quality of the photographs make the images difficult yo interpret. 95p,. illus [B & W] [No copies found in WorldCat] Book
Two Volumes. pp. 283; 288. No ads inserted. Front flyleaf excised. 12mo. 190 mm. Original publisher's cloth bindings. Boards decorated in blind. Extremities slightly worn. Hardbound. Very good. First American Edition, second issue. Also published in 1860 at London, in three volumes, by Smith, Elder, and Company, under title: Transformation; or, The romance of Monte Beni. "The MS. of 'The Marble faun' is in a private collection in England, and, in fact, was never in this country, as the American edition was set up from proof-sheets of the English edition." -- Cathcart, Bibliography of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cleveland, 1905. "Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing" - Hawthorne in the Marble Faun, Chap. 14. This second issue is identified by having 'the Conclusion' first published here. W147; AI BX 7
Appears unread but comment inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 298pp. Adventures of the cameraman, climber and wildlife film maker.
638 pages. Index. "Undoubtedly the classic work on the flora and fauna and peoples of the area which is now called Indonesia." - from back cover. Above-average wear. Front hinge taped. Front flyleaf removed. Usual library markings. Five-panel black and white fold-out map. A worthy reading copy. Book
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece and plates; brown tweed buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front free endpaper.
VG no dj. prior owner appears to have cut out the dj description panel and pasted it onto the ffep, and pasted the title panel sideways down the spine! neat job - but why! no inscriptions. lovely good clean copy. The Marine Fauna of the British Isles "found between the tide marks.
Features: Two-page illustration describes the British share in "the magnificent Italian Victory" - artillery counter-preparation near Asiago; Article by G.K. Chesterton on Mr. Robert Dell who was expelled from France; Photos of Sir Gilbert F. Garnsey, K.B.E., General Guillaumat, Governor of France, and General Diaz of Italy; One-page illustration of British Aeroplane over the recaptured Montello - an air view of the Piave; Potsdam's Disappointment (article); The War Game of the Japanese (article); "The Beef Trip"; Two half-page photos show the raised Piave River; Article about air bombing and bombers; One-page illustration of the Montello, "Entirely retaken with elan from the Austrians by the Italians"; From Virgin Soil to Complete Shipyard in 165 Days - Three pages with fourteen photos marvelously document the rapid construction of the world's largest shipyard on Hog Island, in the Delaware River, just outside Philadelphia; Centrefold illustration of "The Beef Trip", the British Navy's way of securing the nation's food supply; The Conservation of Wild Life in War-Time (article); Detailed diagrams and text describe the Madsen Gun; Full-page illustration compares Britain's liberal rations compared to those of Germany; Roll of Honour - photos of 18 officers including Lieut.-Col. Bertrand D. Gibson; Photos of U.S. Army nurses under gas-mask instruction at Cape Kearney, California; Illustrated ad for the "Kooksjoie" Range warns of imminent coal restrictions; Nice car ads; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Beecham's Pills features reflection of lady in mirror; Back cover ad for Edwards' Harlene hair treatments; and more. 36 pages including several pages of marvelous vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine
Pages 659-702. Features: Cover photo of the Victor of Ashangi, Marshall Badoglio, commander-in-chief of the Italian forces in Abyssinia; Photo of Gen. Smuts appealing for peace in Europe; Photo of the Kadir Cup "pig sticking"event in India, with photo of winner, Capt. P. H. J. Tuck with his horse Manifest; Two-page pictorial map of the Franco-German and Belgo-German frontiers - of world interest since the Rhineland was reoccupied; Two pages of photo of massive Burmese Leogriff (Cinthe) under construction as the funeral pyre for the cremation of a dead priest; Photo illustrated article on Brazil nuts - a minor mystery; Six photos from filming of "Kliou", the first Technicolor film to be photographed entirely in the jungle; Two pages of photos of the "Alps" of South Africa; Page of fascinating photos illustrating the world's greatest telescopic "eye", this great 200 inch telescope disc is twice the diameter of the disc in the Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory, the biggest at present in use; Page of photos of medieval ship carvings in a Devonshire church - sculpted 16th-century three-masters; Page of photos illustrate the coldest Easter of the century; Page of photos of the king personally bestowing the Royal Maundy to aged men and women; Magnificent centrefold aerial photo of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia - before construction of the Lion's Gate Bridge - as she celebrates her Golden Jubilee; Two pages of text and photos present a mysterious 12th Dynasty hoard - Treasures of Asiatic origin found at Toud, near Luxor; Photos of personalities of the week include Herr Leopold von Hoesch, Señor Alcala Zamora, Dr. Constantine Demerjis, Señor Martinez Barrio, and the king inspecting the Grenadier guards; Photo illustrated article on Galapagos wildlife; One-page photo illustrated Harrods ad presents pocket watches; One-page Johnnie Walker ad shows him inspecting barrels by flashlight; Interesting photo shows crowd gathered around an Imperial Airways airmail service plane at Kai Tak aerodrome, Hong Kong, after it arrived from Penang for the first time; Photos of Lt. Col. F. J. Popham, and Mr. Francis A. L. Would; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Humber Twelve car; Back cover two-colour ad promotes The Sphere, The Tatler, The Sketch, Sporting and Dramatic News, and the Illustrated London News. Please note: pages 685-686 missing. Several interior pages loose but present. Faint store ink stamp to front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy vintage issue. Magazine
Features: Fears over the barricades/where will the violence end - Norther Ireland; UN attempts at arms limitation; Aims of young Israelis; Crime fascinates television audiences; Germany decides - general election; A Swedish naturalist (Sigvard Berggren) has a new plan to save wildlife; spotlight on the little theatres; The House of Augustus - Archaeology 2319; Scimitar 3-litre; Rembrandt in Amsterdam; What Rembrandt taught; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
142 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Introduction mentions how increased hunting has led to increased posting of lands which will likely result in more private shooting preserves. Prior owner's name and date atop first blank leaf. Short tape repairs to spine ends. Binding intact. Contents moderately tanned with age. A sound vintage copy. Book
Bound, red cloth, gilt title on spine and boards, 13x18,5cm, 168pp, illustrated b/w. An introduction to anatomy, histology and embryology. Eigth edition, revised and illustrated.
167pp.with ills., 26cm., in the series "Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België. Klasse der Wetenschappen" year 29 no.100, original softcover, dustwrapper (some wear), good condition, [met Nederlandse samenvatting], C73126
518 pages. Report of the estuary working group, Department of the Environment, Regional Board Pacific Region. Summarizes existing knowledge pertinent to potential ecological changes rising from estuarine modification. Contents include: Geology; Climatology, Hydrology and Water Quality; Oceanography; Invertebrate Biology; Fish; Bacteria; Flora; Wildlife; Land Use; Waste Disposal and Pollution Problems; Food Chains; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. Nice copy. Book
Vintage advertisements. Features: Pathological deterioration in wind-thrown Balsam Fir in Newfoundland; Planning for sustained yield operations; a note on the bud count method of forecasting cone crops; a use of site in forest management; group seed tree method and mechanical skidding in the U.S.S.R.; Hail damage in forest stands; some concepts of industrial forestry; wildlife management in the Yukon; The role of forest ranger schools in Canada and the U.S.; The B.C. Forest Service in the field of recreation in Provincial parks and forests; and more. Prior owner's name atop front cover else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
122 pages plus index and vintage advertisements. Features: Trends in North American Forestry, North American Forestry - a Summation; Good Logging Practices increase Forest Yield; Effect of Recent Pulp and Paper Developments in B.C.; Interpreting Forestry to the Layman; The Correlation of Silvicultural Systems and Wildlife Management; a Technique for Determining the Year of the Outside Ring of Dead Trees; and more. Prior owner's name atop front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
169 pages. Index. Twenty-three black and white illustrations. Tissue protected frontispiece illustration of a stomias boa. Chapters include: A Short History of the Investigations; The Physical Conditions of the Abyss; The Relations of the Abysmal Zone and the Origin of its Fauna; The Characters of the Deep-Sea Fauna; The Protozoa, Coelentera, and Echinoderma of the Deep Sea; The vermes and Mollusca of the Deep Sea; The Arthropoda of the Deep Sea; The Fish of the Deep Sea. Gilt lettering upon backstrip remains clearly legible. Binding tight. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling to dark green boards. Slight lean to spine. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: On Wildlife - Talking to the animals; Mount Wilson Reborn - a new era dawns for "America's Observatory"; Nomads of the High Plateau; The Case of the Caverna da Pedra Pintada - Rewriting South America's Ancient History; Roof of the Americas Expedition - Challenging Britain's Best. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
