BRITISH MAMMALS by THORBURN ARCHIBALD:

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1920-1921. vi, 84; vi, 108, 50 fine colour plates, pen and ink sketches in the text. . HB. 2 vols, 4to, orig. cloth, gt, teg; spines a little scuffed and faded, old stain to outer margin of rear board of Vol. I. Endpapers heavily foxed, some foxing to top edge of pages, or verso of plates, paper lightly browned. Good set.. First edition..

Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1920 (First Edition). 32.5 x 27.0cms, two volumes, fully illustrated with many plates in colour, red canvas over boards, gilt-tooled single-fillet border along edges of front cover; title, volume number, & name of author & publisher in gilt to spines, with gilt-stamped flower, small worn patches on covers, spine ends worn, foxing on front & end pages. Very good copy. Containing information on all sorts of animals that can be found in different areas of Great Britain, including land mammals (shrews, moles, rats, bats, etc.) and water mammals (seals, dolphins, whales, etc.). Written and illustrated by Scottish artist Archibald Thorburn, who specialised in illustrating wildlife.

LONDON, LONGMANS, GREEN, 1920. FIRST EDITION, TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE, ORIGINAL RED CLOTH, LARGE QUARTO, WITH 50 COLOUR PLATES AND PEN AND INK SKETCHES IN THE TEXT. T.E.G. EX. LIB COPY BUT THE ONLY EVIDENCE OF THIS ARE TWO STAMPS IN VOL. 1. AND AN ACCESSION NUMBER TO THE FOOT OF THE SPINES. SLIGHT WEAR TO THE SPINES BUT VERY GOOD. POSTAGE AT COST.

LONDON, LONGMANS, GREEN, 1920. FIRST EDITION, TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE, LARGE QUARTO, VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND IN HALF RED MOROCCO OVER RED CLOTH, RAISED BANDS, GILT TITLES AND DECORATIONS TO SPINE, T.E.G. WITH 50 COLOUR PLATES AND PEN AND INK SKETCHES IN THE TEXT. SMART BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. A VERY GOOD AND HANDSOME SET. POSTAGE AT COST.

Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.

YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., 1976. Good. Softbound limp edition. Cased edition also available Illustrations by Peter Stebbing 1976. Limp. Good. Peter Stebbing.

New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Leather Bound. Good. Half leather over cloth boards in good condition. Marbled endpapers. TEG. With 40 hand-colored engravings. Raised bands on the spine. A few words underlined pp. 115-116. Some foxing. Eight pages have a dark mark in the center of the page, but the text is still legible. A damp stain on the lower corner of many pages. With additions and Supplementary notes by William Jardine. Edited with further illustrations, a biographical sketch of the author and a complete index by Edward Jesse.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket and mylar cover. Signed by author on title page. Dust jacket has sticker residue over the price, otherwise no wear or soiling present. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pp; Signed by Author .

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.

By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.

Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, [1979]. Softcover book with pictorial wraps. 160p. B&W photos throughout text. This is the original printing, later reprinted by the University of Minnesota Press. Book has been well read and is in very good - condition with wear to the cover image along the edge and reading crease to front cover, corners bumped and shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked with light staining on the edge of a few pages. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.

Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. Unabridged. Please see our stock photo. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY.