Unseen Life Of New York

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953. Hardcover. Good/Fair. First edition. Illustrated by Donald T. Carlisle. 165pp. Bookplate, underlining and marginalia in pen and blue pencil throughout, good only in a fair only dust jacket with moderate chipping, a sunned spine, and pen and pencil notations and underlining on the panels and flaps.

NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Inscribed on the blank following the title page in a blue pen: "To Dr. Raymond Hockey [sp?], from Will Beebe, with warm regards." Uncommon signed. Beebe was a preeminent and fascinating naturalist-writer, known especially for the far-flung ocean expeditions he conducted for the New York Zoological Society and his… Read more about this item

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce/Little Brown, 1953. NF/NF; 165 pages; First edition stated; Near Fine in pale olive cloth decorated and titled in dark green, illustrated endpapers, owner's name impressed on the front free endpaper; in a Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket, minor wear at spine ends. The author surveys an invisible New York, invisible because the creatures are too… Read more about this item

Duell, Sloan and Pearce. DJ in archival cover chips. Stated first edition. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1953.