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LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD, 1910 Green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and front with gilt blocked illustration. 260 x 190 mm approx. xvi + 416 pp. Frontis with tissue guard + 31 other plates on china clay paper- mainly monochrome photos + 146 illustrations in text all as called for. First Edition 1910.Sequel to Wild Spain on which the two authors also collaborated, Walter J. Buck being the then British Vice-Consul at Jerez. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Contains much on game hunting and wild fowl shooting. Good no d/j (Book- Moderate to heavy shelf wear to cloth - especially to bottom edge of boards as a very heavy tome, gilt titles to spine a little dulled and some general fading to cloth but no notable soiling. Pencil previous owner name and place to front free end paper. Some leaves to top edge a little ragged where not guillotined in course of book production and roughly opened, no cracks to end papers and binding sound. No other…
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Unexplored Spain
by CHAPMAN, Abel and BUCK, Walter J
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London: Edward Arnold, 1910 pp xvi + 416 + ii + 22. Over 200 b & w illustrations. A survey of wild-life. Internally in near fine condition subject to moderate browning to endpapers.Binding sound subject to a little cracking between inside covers and endpapers.Cover quite bright with some markings and a little sunning to the spine.Corners a little bumped and slight wear to extremities of spine.
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UNEXPLORED SPAIN
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London: Edward Arnold, 1910. FIRST EDITION. With frontispiece, 31 full-page plates, many with multiple photographic illustrations, and numerous text illustrations. Half morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine; an excellent copy from the library of James M. Dolan Jr., former head curator and director of collections at the Zoological Society of San Diego, with his small blind stamp on title. First edition of an important work on Spain and its wildlife, intended as the sequel to the authors' Wild Spain (1893). Chapman and Buck spent two years in Spain marching through mountains and desolate marshes watching and inventorying fauna. Among many other sites, they describe the historic hunting places of Coto Dañana, Andalusia's big game, wild geese, the Spanish bull fight, flamingoes, and wild camels. The work is enriched by stunning photographs that show the progress made in capturing animal images at that time.Chapman (1851-1929) was a British naturalist and hunter who made regular visits…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) G&D Hardcover w/DJ 1945
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Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale
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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.
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