Search Results: unseen life of new york as by beebe william

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce/Little, Brown & Co., 1953. (1953), 165pp, illus., slight soiling & shelfwear to cover, contents clean.. Cloth. Very Good -/Good +.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (c1953). Few very small cover spots, else Very Good Plus in an edgeworn, smudged DJ. . Very Good. Light Green Cloth. First Edition. 1953.

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce/Little, Brown & Co., 1953. (1953), 165pp, illus., illus. eps, light shelfwear to cover, slight soiling to top pg edges, some edgewear to dj, contents clean & unmarked.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good -. Illus. by Donald T. Carlisle.

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.

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce. Hardcover. 1953. 1st Edition. 8vo 165pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations .

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 old (i.e., prehistoric), too small, too clear, too high, too familiar, too dark or too deep. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Donald T. Carlisle. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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

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 pioneering descents in a submersible "bathosphere." In this book, as the jacket describes, "the famous naturalist returns to discover, among the familiar sights of the teeming metropolis, a world hidden from the eight million people who call it home." An early book of urban environmental writing. A fine book in a very good or better jacket with rubbing and touch of wear to spine ends..