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By: Aksakov, Sergei Timofeevich
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press: 1998
Seller ID: 16877
Octavo (23 cm), pp. 304. Later printing. Green cloth boards, pictorial jacket. Translated from the Russian, with introduction and annotations by Australian National University professor of Modern European Languages Kevin Windle. Includes black and white line drawings of waterfowl. Black remainder dot on bottom and top edges. A contemporary of Gogol and Turgenev, Aksakov writes here about the water birds of the Russian steppe. Dust jacket present. View more info
By: Albus, Anita
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Guilford, CT, The Lyons Press: 2001
Seller ID: 17481
Octavo (24 cm), pp. 276. First edition thus (translated from German). Orange boards, pictorial jacket. Richly illustrated with color and black and white plates, includes bibliography, endnotes and index. Boards have very slight wear at extremities. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Kent, OH, Volair Limited: 1977
Seller ID: 12074
Quarto (26 cm), pp. 319 (quadrapeds), 287 (birds). Limited, numbered edition 2,683 of 5,000. In slipcase, leather binding with deocrative gilt and raised bands, ribbon bookmarks and silk endpapers.All edges gilt. Color plates by Audubon are direct one-to-one reproductions from the original, first editions of Birds of Amerca (a seven-volume text published between 1840 and 1844) and Quadrapeds of America (three volumes published between 1850 and 1854), with the text also ... View more info
By: Beard, Peter
Price: $400.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Chronicle Books: 1988
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 20794
Reprint (first thus). Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Quarto (27 cm), pp. 286. Brown boards with blind-stamped titling, pictorial jacket. Richly illustrated, with Beard's commentary on African elephant conservation. Includes bibliography and a new afterword by Beard for this edition. Jacket has slight edge wear and is clipped; corners slightly bumped, and a sliver of sunning to tail of spine. Unique gift inscription on title page. Dust jacket present. View more info
By: Burk, Dale (ed)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Boone and Crocket Club: 1979
Seller ID: 13709
Octavo (23 cm), pp. 299. Pictorial wraps. From the Proceedings of the Workshop on the Management Biology of North American Black Bear in Kalispell, MT, Feb 17-19, 1977. Cover has light edge wear. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott: 1939
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 9159
Octavo (24 cm), pp. 151. Green cloth boards with black text. Signed and inscribed by author on front free endpaper, facing title page. Bookplate on front pastedown, dampstains to endpapers, spine is cocked. Jacket has moderate wear. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos. Dust jacket present. View more info
By: Halfpenny, James C. and Diann Thompson
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Gardiner, MT, A Naturalist's World: 1996
Edition: First edition
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 14805
Octavo (21.5 cm), pp. 60. Signed by Halfpenny on half-title page. Numerous illustrations, charts and color photos. Very light rubbing to wraps. First Edition. View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1991
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 13582
Quarto (28 cm.), pp. 276. Black boards with gilt spine text. Light blue endpapers. Includes 51 color plates, 53 black and white illustrations and 39 maps. Appears unread. Jacket shows very light rubbing and indentations on back. The first monograph concerning all extant species of these three, Old World arid land dwelling families of birds. Lavishly illustrated and covering taxonomic history, zoogeography, evolutionary trends, behavior, breeding, conservation and full sp... View more info
By: Knight, Richard, Bonnie Blanchard and David Mattson
Price: $20.00
Publisher: National Park Service: 1988
Seller ID: 23274
Quarto (28 cm), pp. 80. Beige paper wrappers. Includes data collected by the federal government to aid in the recovery of endangered grizzly bears in the Yellowstone ecosystem. Full of tables, graphs and charts. Two tables from other years' reports laid in. Wrappers have light edge wear. From the library of David Mattson, a grizzly bear biologist who was famously forced out of his job after becoming a whistleblower. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Minocqua, WI, NorthWood Press: 1990
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 12416
Quarto (29.5cm), pp. 144. Grey cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Beautiful full-color photographs throughout. Dust jacket is price clipped. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Minocqua, WI, NorthWord Press: 1989
Seller ID: 12419
Quarto (29.5cm), pp. 144. Maroon boards with silver lettering on spine. Jacket is price clipped, small closed tear at bottom edge, some light rubbing on rear dust jacket. Dust jacket present. View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Minocqua, WI, NorthWood Press: 1988
Seller ID: 12417
Quarto (29.5cm), pp. 144. Green boards with silver lettering on spine. Some light scratching to dust jacket, jacket is price clipped. Dust jacket present. View more info
By: Maglio, Vincent J. and H.B.S. Cooke
Price: $120.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass; London, England, Harvard University Press: 1978
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 8437
Quarto (28 cm), pp. [10], 641, [1]. Taupe cloth boards with maroon lettering on spine. Map of Africa on both pastedowns, black and white illustrations throughout. Light wear at tail of spine; jacket has moderate wear along edges. Paleontologists Maglio and Cooke note in their preface that to date, only the evolution of Hominidae had received broad academic analysis, a gap they fill in this groundbreaking work describing the evolution of 15 mammalian orders including taxo... View more info
By: Martinka, Clifford and Katherine McArthur (eds)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Bear Biology Association: 1980
Seller ID: 23276
Quarto (26 cm), pp. 375. Pink paper wrappers. Includes papers from the Fourth International Conference on Bear Research and Management in Kalispell, Montana, 1977. Cover has moderate wear plus several tears, former owner's name and red smudge; paper label is peeling off spine. Covers issues relating to bear biology and management from polar bears to black bears in Japan, Eurasian brown bears to Yellowstone grizzlies. With articles authored by legendary bear biologists Jo... View more info
By: Merz, Anna
Price: $20.00
Publisher: London, Harper Collins: 1991
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 13157
Octavo (22.5cm), pp. 220. Signed and inscribed by author on half title page, "For Carol, best wishes." Orange boards with gilt lettering on spine. Includes color and black & white photographs throughout. A hand-written card is laid in from the author to Montana attorney Joe Swindlehurst (husband of Carol), thanking him for his support of her rhino work. Light bumping at head of spine. Foreword by Desmond Morris. Dust jacket present. View more info
By: Miller, Sterling and Harry Reynolds (eds.)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: International Association for Bear Research and Management: 1998
Seller ID: 23275
Quarto (26 cm), pp. 623. Beige paper wrappers with drawings of grizzly bear on front and badger on back. A selection of papers from the 10th international conference on bear research and management. Full of maps, charts, figures and graphs. Light edge wear, text block has some smudging, spine is sunned. This publication was previously published as Bears--Their Biology and Management. This is the first issue as Ursus. View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Berkeley, CA, University of California Press: 2003
Edition: First Printing
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 9918
Octavo (21 x 18 cm), pp. xviii, 317, [1]. Navy quarter cloth over cream boards with gilt lettering on spine. Signed by author on title page. Foreword by Harry W. Greene. With index, b/w and color photos. Nabhan collaborates with the Seri Tribal Governors and Traditional Council of Elders to illustrate the role of reptiles in the cultural life of the Comcaac people. "In this fine book [Nabhan] eloquently documents the rich, complicated ties between the Comcáac (Seri)... View more info
By: Peacock, Doug
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Paris, Editions Albin: 1997
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 23860
Signed and inscribed by author to actor Margot Kidder: "To Margie K- A beautiful friend in any language. Love, Doug Peacock Deep Creek 1997." Octavo (22.5), pp. 357. French language edition. Pictorial wrappers, top edge has been singed. Fellow residents of Livingston, Montana, Peacock and Kidder became close friends after she called on him for help following her well-publicized mental breakdown 1996. Very good but for blackened corner. View more info
Price: $17.00
Publisher: The Lyons Press: 2009
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 3
Octavo, pp. 239. Signed by both authors. Brand new. First thus (originally published as "The Essential Grizzly," presented in this format with minor revisions and additions). View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Guilford, CT, Globe Pequot Press: 2006
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 4795
Octavo (23 cm), pp. 238. Second printing. Signed by both authors on title page. Quarter brown paper over cream-colored boards. With index, color photos. Winner of the Foreword Magazine 2006 Gold Award for Nature Book of the Year. Dust jacket present. View more info
