Straughan, Robert P.L.MareMagnum
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A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear and small tears to dust jacket. 228 pages. Many b&w photos.
Wear to extremities. Front hinge well started. Bookplate to front endpaper ; Flora and fauna in the wild that make a sort of sound ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 429 pages
22x14. 187p. Ilstr. D. Rook. Enc. Cart. Ed.
Red paper covered boards with pasted-down textured fuzzy dog illustration on front cover. Edge wear to cover and spine; rubbed. Previous owner's inscription inside. Foxing to pages. 6 3/4"w x 9 1/8"h. Stories and illustrations of dogs and their friends.
Previous owner's name inside. Picture boards. Over 300 action pictures.
Paperback. Very light wear to covers. Pages are clean and sound; very good condition. TS Used
318p. + Plus color frontis and full page plates. Also photographs. Small 4to. Original full gold stamped leather binding. NH 4
Very good large format paperback. Slight wear to fore-edge of front cover. Pages clean. xx + 392p. Used
56 pages. Features: Rex Woods cover illustration features WWII sailor dancing with attractive blonde; Drying Eggs - a new war industry - article with photo of egg drying room in Trenton plant of the Canadian Doughnut Co.; Are Farmers Indifferent? - article with photos of the homesteads of Orley Shaw near Forest, ON, and K.M. Betzner of R.R.2 Waterloo, ON; Farmers of the Lower Saint John - article with photos of the Fox and Dingee homesteads of Gagetown, N.B.; Treasure of a Derelict (fiction); Storm Tide (fiction); Fascinating half-page ad by the Department of Munitions and Supply says "Drastic New Regulations Are Now In Effect" restricting sales of new and used tires, tubes and retreading services; Half-page ad for Findlay Ranges of Carleton Place, ON shows military scene and housewife saying she can wait for her range in order to provide metal to the military; An Army Without Banners - article explains how women are producing food at home to supply the military, with photos of Beth Kellington and Mrs. Will Hewlett of the Stouffville district in York County; Photo-illustrated article on the 1942 Kemptville Conference of the Women's Institutes; Aunt Helen's Boys and Girls; Illustrated half-page ad by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario says WWII is "A War of Steel and Electricity"; Nice photo of horse-drawn hay wagon in action on the Cotton farm near Orillia; Photo of Wallace Knapp of Galt, Ontario on horse-drawn potato planter; Photo of young John McTaggart feeding lamb at the Don Head Farm in Richmond, Hill; Photos of prize animals owned by Featherstone Bros. of Oakville, Haas Bros. of Paris, Byron Rath of Mossley, J.R. Beattie of Aurora, R. Norman Hogg of Uxbridge, and Alfred Bagg of Edgeley; Poultry section includes photo of chicken 'apartment building' of Dr. D.F. McKinley of Unionville, ON; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label remnant on front cover. Five-inch diameter hole neatly cut from back cover, otherwise a sound vintage copy of this fascinating wartime issue. Book
pp. xxvii, 578. Illustrated. Damp staining on bottom margins. 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding. Front board decorated with two cows. Bottom edge damp stained. Hardbound. Good. A remarkable review of the dairy industry and techniques in post-WWI America. AG BX 1
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, trace of label removal to front and no bumping to corners. 170pp. One of Britain's leading wildlife experts takes up the cause of these handsome mysterious creatures with anecdotes, illustrations, intriguing facts about foxes and their habits and history and with practical hints on how to help casualties and rear orphan fox cubs.
256 pages. Black and white frontis portrait of author plus dozens of wonderful black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Topics include: Origin and History of Wild Animal Training, Housekeeping for Wild Animals, The Feeding of Snakes and Elephants, Characteristics of Different Animals, Animal Instinct, How to Capture Whild Animals, How to Teach Wild Animals, The Principles of Training, The Animal Trainer, Guarding against Accidents. School stamps and a variety of pencil jottings upon front endpaper else unmarked. Above-average external wear. 3"x3" ink stain upon front board. Binding and hinges intact. A worthy reading copy of this most interesting work. Book
pp. xxii, 48. Title page printed in red and black. Uncut and unopened. Printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Slight age stain. Penciled notation in gutter "The Rosenbach Co." Small 8vo. Original blue floral pattern paper binding. Original spine label. Limited Edition of only 950 copies. Nice copy. PRESS/W39
96 p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding.
Payot 1952, In-8 broché, 344 pages. Avec sa bande de parution. Parfait état.
in-8°, XIII-313 pages, 59 figures en noir, broche, couv. Bel exemplaire.- Fine copy [CA32-6][MI-29]
Hardcover (no dust jacket; printed boards). Very good condition. Remainder mark on page block foot. Pages are sound and clear. TA Used
Book shows light wear to covers, foxing at half title page, at page ends, clean otherwise. Binding is solid and square, tan 1/4 cloth, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 502 pages with map endpapers, b&w illustrations throughout: photos, maps and drawings. Previous owner's name or sticker in front section of the book. Sections include: Cabin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lilian Emerson, Emerson House, Village, Ponds, Baker Farm, Brute Neighbors, Winter Animals, Writing of Walden, Publishing of Walden, etc.
Hardcover in good condition. Fourth edition, 1969. The New Naturalist; 25. With 10 colour photos, 28 b/w photos and 57 maps and diagrams. Jacket is lightly marked and edgeworn with some tanning and scuff to the front. A couple of small tears to edges of jacket. Minor bumps to the jacket and hardcover spine ends. Some foxing on the page block. Boards are slightly bowed; all content is clear. AD Used
Hardcover in good condition. Fourth edition, 1969. The New Naturalist; 25. With 10 colour photos, 28 b/w photos and 57 maps and diagrams. Jacket is lightly marked and edgeworn with some tanning. Minor bumps to the jacket and hardcover spine ends. Some foxing on the page block. The binding is sound; all content is clear. CM Used
Hardcover has lightly sun faded spine and bumped spine ends. Minor water damage to rear board. Two inches-long and three inches-long tears on front of dust jacket. Dust jacket has nicked and chipped upper and lower edges. Spotting and a few light stains on rear dust jacket. Age spotting to page block. Dust tanning to head of page block. Age stains on FEP and BEP. Pages are lightly tanned. Text remains clear and binding is tight throughout. Errata slip inside book. With 10 colour photographs, 24 photographs in black and white and 52 maps and diagrams. T Used
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 126 pages.
Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Policing the Great White North - A photo-illustrated account of the manifold perils and hardships that are the daily portion of the gallant handful of men who represent law and order in the Vast Canadian Arctic; Pathetic fate of two missing WWI Sheffield soldiers revealed - William Thompson and George Walter Howard; Bill's Bear-Cub - An American trapper adopts a bear cub and his partner foretells disaster; Three Months on an Island Inferno - J.K. Wilson explains his 'holiday' on White Island, near Tauranga, New Zealand - with photos; Further Adventures of a Tenderfoot in Canada - Part I - What happened after H.P. Musson, a transplanted London paper-pusher, lost his job as a hired hand in Western Canada and began looking for his own homestead; Trapping Wild Animals in Northern Siam - The ingenious methods by which the jungle folk trap fierce whild beasts, with great photos; Cycling Round the World - Part III of III of Kai Thorenfeldt's amazing 20,000 mile journey which took over two years - with map and nice photos; Forgotten Fortunes - Frances Dickie describes the remarkable circumstances in which two of the most amazing 'finds' in the history of European art have lately come to light in France - with photo of Mrs. M.L. Westmoreland, who discovered a valuable Goya in a Paris second-hand shop; In Quest of the Dragon Lizards - Part II - Seeking the prehistoric Komodo dragon on a remote Dutch East Indies (Indonesian) island; A Terrible Journey - Joseph Metcalf fell into an underground conduit conveying water from a dam to Port Elizabeth - forty-five miles away!; The Greatest of All Thrills - A wonderfully photo-illustrated article on the new sport of parachuting from aircraft; "Heir Number Six" - A Winnipeg real estate agent goes to the North-West territory in search of an obscure half-breed regarding a dispute over land ownership. 84 pages plus 12 pages of nice vintage ads. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
Hardcover (no jacket); a Puffin Picture Book. Undated - not published in 1900; post-1944 due to reference in introduction. Edges are worn; corners are bent (affecting pages within); spine is worn and scuffed, with minor wear to ends. With colour and B&W illustrations. TS Used
