Search Results: Natural History from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 302pp. Near fine/very good. Bookplate signed by Helga Sandburg. First edition of this title in "The American Wilderness Series," with Carl Sandburg inspired bookplate signed by Helga Sandburg (Carl's youngest daughter) tipped to front flyleaf.

Urbana: Illinois Department of Conservation, 1971. Paperback. Small 4to.Stiff brown and black wrappers. 76pp. Maps (some color), charts. Very good. First edition.

Cleveland: Pennington Press, 1959. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green and cream cloth with blue pictorial inkstamping, pictorial dust jacket. 179pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Near fine/very good. Quite mild jacket wear. First edition, tight and clean and nice.

New York: Random House, 1965. Hardcover. 4to. Orange cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 298pp. Numerous illustrations (some color), maps, color map endpapers. Near fine/very good. Slight jacket edgewear, with single chip on rear panel. Tight, handsome early (not first) printing of this volume in "The Continents We Live On" series.

Detroit: Harlo Press, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown and tan leatherette, pictorial dust jacket. 266pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A handsome first edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies (this #796) -- this copy inscribed and signed large and bold in black ballpoint by the book's subject, the author's husband, on an inner flyleaf: "7-16-83 / May Wakantonka / Smile on my brother D.O. / Stephen Montes / with kindness / Dwain Cummings." Story of this buffalo-raising osteopathic surgeon.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1970. Hardcover. Illustrations by Robert Candy. Small 4to. Black and brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 244pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear; conservation officer's inkstamped name/address on front flyleaf and half-title page. Tight and attractive second printing. "The alligator, buffalo, sea lion, caribou, grizzly bear, and golden eagle," notes the front jacket panel: "the life stories of these and many other fascinating animals, as told by 35 outstanding North American naturalists."

Garden City: The American Garden Guild and Doubleday & Company, 1946. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 328pp. Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations (some color), line drawings. Very good/very good. Jacket somewhat edgeworn. Later printing of "The amateur's guide to the successful indoor culture of flowers, foliage plants, shrubs, bulbs and vines" (according to the jacket front panel), tight and decent.

New York: Random House, 1957. Hardcover. Illustrations by the author. Small 4to. Tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 146pp. Numerous line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Ownership signature on front flyleaf. Book club edition of #20 in the "allabout books" series, a tight and handsome copy.

New York: Avenel Books, 1966. Hardcover. Illustrations by Eva Melady. 8vo. Yellow cloth, dust jacket. 385pp. Numerous illustrations and line drawings. Near fine/very good. First edition, tight and clean.

[Harrisburg]: Stackpole Books, 1965. Hardcover. Illustrations by Dick Pargeter and Luis M. Henderson. Small 8vo. Green cloth. xiv, 399pp. Frontispiece, line drawings. Very good. Slight edgewear; small ownership signature on front pastedown. Second, revised edition, tight and clean.

London: Thorsons Publishers Ltd, 1958. Hardcover. Translation by Oscar Konstandt and Jean Thow. Grey cloth spine and glossy pictorial paper over boards. 55pp. Color frontispiece, color illustrations. Very good. Title inked on blank spine. Nifty little pocket guide to Alpine flowers.

Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske & Company, 1883. Hardcover. 4to. Brown cloth over bevelled boards with gilt and black lettering and pictorial stamping. 121pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece, numerous small and full-page steel engravings. Very good. Mild edgewear, with endpapers a tad age toned. A tight and attractive second printing of this 1877 words and images celebration of America's natural wonders -- much attention to Yellowstone -- that capitalized on the popularity of William Cullen Bryant's extraordinarily popular 1872 two-volume "Picturesque America." While many copies are worn and weak-hinged, this nice example is tight and fairly nice.

New York: Wise & Co, 1940. Hardcover. 8vo. Blind-embossed green leatherette. xiv, 749pp. Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations, 5 full-page color plates, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Small ownership name/address inkstamped on front flyleaf, inner flyleaf and rear inner flyleaf. Tight, attractive first edition of this WPA product.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 132pp. Extensive full-page illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A superb, tight and handsome first edition of this far-ranging gathering of the renowned Chicago photojournalist's black and white images from across the globe and across many decades. Inscribed and signed quite large and bold in black fineline on the front flyleaf: "For ERNIE -- / A craftsman of the / old school, an intellectual / & a man at home in / many worlds -- a brain -- / with love -- / Art Shay / May 21 02."

Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, 1971. Hardcover. Edited by Evelyn Antal and John Harthan. 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxviii, 580pp. Extensive illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Superb, bright first edition of this thick study.

Cambridge: University Press, 1940. Hardcover. Decorations by J.G. Macdonald. Small 8vo. Blue cloth, dust jacket. xii, 164pp. Illustrations. Very good/good plus. Mild foxing to both endpapers; jacket a bit edgeworn. First edition of this collection of animal-related fiction and poetry, arranged into "Friends of Man," "Birds," "Beasts," "Insects and Vermin," "Strange Creatures" and "Animals and Man." Numerous well-known contributors. Tight and clean.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 132pp. Extensive full-page illustrations. Fine/very good. A Tight and quite attractive first edition of this far-ranging gathering of the renowned Chicago photojournalist's black and white images from across the globe and across many decades. Inscribed and signed quite large and bold in black fineline on the front flyleaf: "For Austin -- / When you're old enough / to enjoy these pictures / Grandpa ERNIE will / sit you on his lap & / tell you about them. / He loves you very much -- / with love / Art Shay / May 21 02."

Kansas City, MO: Kansas City Star Books, 1996. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 217pp. Near fine/fine. A handsome and tight second printing, nicely signed by Gusewelle in black fineline on the half-title page. A journalist's chronicle of the beloved family dog -- and you thought "Old Yeller" made you cry.

Boston: The Stratford Company, 1926. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth. xxv, 312pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. Spine very slightly age toned, else a quite nice and extremely lovely first of this edition (first published 1917).

New York: Arcade Publishing, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue and black paper over boards, dust jacket. 179pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. First U.S. edition. Entertaining history of the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust, written by its founder and published for the Trust's silver anniversary.