Physical Sciences & Natural History from Hedgehog's Whimsey Books
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This is Biology
by Ernst Mayr
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd printing of 1997 1st.
- Published
- 1997
- Binding
- Hardcover: black cloth and green paper over boards, gold spine titles.
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- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$19.40
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Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, emeritus at Harvard, and author of many books, Ernst Mayr also has received many awards and honorary degrees including the National Medal of Science, the Balzan Prize, the Japan Prize. He describes biology as "the neglected stepchild of science". He writes for the diverse audience: professionals and the general audience. His perspective restores the primacy… Read more about this item Item Price
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Monoamine Oxidase and its Inhibition
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Elsevier / Excerpta Medica.
- Published
- 1976
- Binding
- HB, blue cloth over boards. Orange jacket.
- ISBN
- 9789021940441
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$67.89
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Withdrawn from library. Jacket art: "Old Man Grieving, Vincent Van Gogh 1882. Listing participants. Index. Item Price
CA$67.89
Wasps and their Ways
by Margaret Morley, text and artwork by.
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Missing Jacket
- Edition
- University Press / John Wilson and Son.
- Published
- 1901
- Binding
- Hardcover.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$51.26
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Olive green cloth over boards. Black front graphic; gold stamped front and spine titles. Wonderful line art drawings, Pen&Ink;, by author. Author describes the structure, foods, body parts, division of labor of wasp communities. Lower front cover corner with several interior pages is chipped, perhaps by rodent invader. Missing half-inch diagonal board edge, with diminishing paper damage, 12 leaves. No… Read more about this item Item Price
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Birds of the Mayas
by Anne LaBastille Bowes (Written and illustrated by), and Perez, Ramon Castillo (Folklore as told by)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as issued.
- Edition
- Presumed 1st edition, no print line.
- Published
- 1964
- Binding
- Color Illustrated paper covers; Stapled binding.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$30.48
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Natural History / Mayan Folktales / Bird Identification. Is that a Toucan on the cover? Inscribed inside cover by author Anne LaBastille Bowes: "To my dear friends, the Ottos, Merry Christmas and a Good New Year 1967 -- Anne L Bowes." Moderate scuffing and soiling to covers. Intact binding. Clean interior. B&W map of Mayanland inside, p.30, in Central America,… Read more about this item Item Price
CA$30.48
How to Clean Seashells
by Eugene Bergeron
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket issued.
- Edition
- Likely 1st edition; no print line. Original $1.00 cover price.
- Published
- 1971
- Binding
- Illustrated paper covers; Stapled binding.
- ISBN
- 9780820002064
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$19.40
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Cover art, color: cornucopia of seashells on beach; blues, multicolor shells symbolically coming from sea. Black Ink drawings: shells, tools, procedural. Clean interior. Cover lightly scuffed. Cover artist name in painting, not legible. Cleaning methods by category, including cautionary materials. Author a native Canadian who emigrated to U.S. in 1910. Trained Marconi wireless operator took him to sea on tramp… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Omni Book of Space
by Davies, Owen (Edited by), and Kendig, Frank (Foreword by).
- Condition
- Used - Very good. Near fine; nice covers and spine. Top page block lightly foxed. Clean pages.
- Published
- 1980
- Binding
- Mass-market paperback
- ISBN
- 9780821712757
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$12.47
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New York.: Zebra Books / Kensington Publishing., 1980. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Near fine; nice covers and spine. Top page block lightly foxed. Clean pages.. 1 Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Non-fiction and fiction, 11 parts: a collection of 34 articles from Omni Magazine, exploring Space. Themes: developing a strategy for Space and engineering solutions.… Read more about this item Item Price
CA$12.47
Kildee House
by Montgomery, Rutherford
- Condition
- Used - Fine. Signed by previous owner. Light shelf wear.
- Edition
- 5th printing.
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Mass-market paperback
- ISBN
- 9780671295189
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$66.50
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New York.: Archway / Pocket Books., 1973. 5th printing.. Mass-market paperback. Fine. Signed by previous owner. Light shelf wear.. Cooney, Barbara (Illustrated by).. 1 195 p. Mass-market paperback. 18 cm. Cover art: multiple raccoons, man in rocking chair near kitchen stove, young woman. Yellow page blocks. Subtitle: "Housekeeping with a delightful and flourishing family of raccoons". Jerome Kildee… Read more about this item Item Price
CA$66.50
The Coast of Coral
by Clarke, Arthur Charles (Text and some photos by)
- Condition
- Used - Fine. No dust jacket.
- Edition
- First edition. First Edition D-F.
- Published
- 1956
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$29.10
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New York.: Harper & Brothers / Curtis Publishing., 1956. First edition. First Edition D-F.. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket.. Wilson, Mike (Photos by).. 1 Green cloth over boards. dyes stripes on paper. 208 p. 24 cm. Photograph: 2 sections B&W plates, one color section. The habitat of the Coral Sea and the Great Barrier Reef off the… Read more about this item Item Price
CA$29.10
Chernobyl: The End of the Nuclear Dream
by Hawkes, Nigel, and Hawkes, Nigel, and Lean, Geoffrey, Robin, and Leigh, David, and McKie, Robin, and 2 others.
- Condition
- Used - Very good. Near fine; Light page block soiling.
- Edition
- Vintage Books edition. 2nd printing.
- Published
- 1986
- Binding
- Mass-market paperback
- ISBN
- 9780394751078
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$47.11
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New York.: A Vintage Special / Random House., 1986. Vintage Books edition. 2nd printing.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Near fine; Light page block soiling.. Mil, Duncan (Illustrations by).. 1 Mass-market paperback. Glued binding. 246 p. Audience: General/trade. The nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine, about 600 km or 375 miles distant from Moscow, and 80 miles from the… Read more about this item Item Price
CA$47.11
Bird Guide: Land Birds East of the Rockies (New Revised Edition)
by Reed, Chester A. (Text and color art bird portraits by)
- Condition
- Used - Very good. No dust jacket. Slight corner bumps. Minor page block soil.
- Edition
- Original author copyrights 1906. 1909. 7th printing.
- Published
- 1951
- Binding
- Hard cover
- ISBN
- 9780385048095
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$72.05
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Garden City NY.: Doubleday & Company., 1951. Original author copyrights 1906. 1909. 7th printing.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Slight corner bumps. Minor page block soil.. Kimball, Sabra Mallett (Color bird portrait restoration where recommended supervised by).. 1 Forest green pseudo-leather over boards. Horizontal format: 5.5x3.5 in. Gold titles: spine, front. Pen&Ink regional U.S. map plus… Read more about this item Item Price
CA$72.05
Lily Pond: Four Years with a Family of Beavers
by Ryden, Hope (Text and photos by), Goodall, Dr. Jane (Preface by)
- Condition
- Used - Good. Vertical crease, front cover, plus spine. Clean text pages.
- Edition
- First edition. 1st printing HarperPerenial.
- Published
- 1990
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- ISBN
- 9780060973445
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$8.31
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New York.: HarperCollins Publishers by arr. w/ Wm Morrow & Co., 1990. First edition. 1st printing HarperPerenial.. Trade paperback. Good. Vertical crease, front cover, plus spine. Clean text pages.. Henderson, Garnet (Cover illustration by).. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. Color illustrate cover; titles in green and copper. B&W photos. Audience: General/trade. Naturalist Hope Ryden had previously written 13… Read more about this item Item Price
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Thomas A. Edison, Benefactor of Mankind; The Romantic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor
by Miller, Francis Trevelyan
- Condition
- Used - Very good. No dust jacket. Minor cover blemishing. Clean pages and blocks.
- Edition
- First edition. Presumed 1st, not stated.
- Published
- 1931
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$58.19
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Philadelphia: Chicago.: The John C. Winston Company., 1931. First edition. Presumed 1st, not stated.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Minor cover blemishing. Clean pages and blocks.. Bachrach (Frontispiece Edison B&W photo portrait by).. 1 Black cloth over boards. Gold titles w/ electric bulb graphic, front and spine. 320 p. 22 cm. Illustrations, Portraits, Plates, Facsimiles, Pen&Ink… Read more about this item Item Price
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The National Parks: What They Mean to You and Me
by Tilden, Freeman, and Wirth, Conrad L, Director NPS 1952-(Preface by), and Drury, Newton B, Director NPS 1940-51 (Intro by)
- Condition
- Used - Very good. Minor reading wear; darkening to spine. Top page block soiling. Slight waviness to pages; no specific prior dampness.
- Edition
- 1951 1st. This edition reset 1954.
- Published
- 1955
- Binding
- Mass-market paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$9.70
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New York.: Alfred A Knopf / Borzoi Book., 1955. 1951 1st. This edition reset 1954.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. Minor reading wear; darkening to spine. Top page block soiling. Slight waviness to pages; no specific prior dampness.. 1 Mass-market paperback. Yellow covers. brown National Park Service shield facsimile: brown, green, white. x. p. 326 pages 9.6 x 6.5… Read more about this item Item Price
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Elementary Particles; A short history of some discoveries in atomic physics. The Vanuxem Lectures 1959
by Yang, Chen Ning
- Condition
- Used - Very good in fine dust jacket. Near fine, light top page block shelf soiling.
- Edition
- 2nd printing. ©1962.
- Published
- 1963
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$19.40
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Princeton NJ.: Princeton University Press., 1963. 2nd printing. ©1962.. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket. Near fine, light top page block shelf soiling.. 1 Dark grey cloth over boards, decorated w/ silver and black graphic. Silver spine titles. 68 p. 23 cm. Includes Illustrations. Author was co-winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize; also corecipient of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mountain in the Clouds: A Search for the Wild Salmon
by Brown, Bruce
- Condition
- Used - Very good. Random light cover soiling.
- Edition
- First edition. Touchstone paperback edition. 1st printing.
- Published
- 1983
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- ISBN
- 9780671492649
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$9.01
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New York.: Touchstone / Simon & Schuster., 1983. First edition. Touchstone paperback edition. 1st printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Random light cover soiling.. Marcellino, Fred (Cover design by).. 1 Trade paperback. Leaping river salmon cover art. 249 p. Pen&Ink map, Olympic Peninsula. Audience: General/trade. Nature / wildlife conservation / Pacific salmon fisheries / Washington State / Environmental crisis.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Snow Tracks (Weekly Reader Children's Book Club)
by George, Jean Craighead (Story and Pictures by)
- Condition
- Used - Very good. No dust jacket. Light bumps, spine ends, corners.
- Edition
- 1958 original copyright; this, 9th printing.
- Published
- 1970
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$8.31
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New York.: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1970. 1958 original copyright; this, 9th printing.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Light bumps, spine ends, corners.. 1 Light green, white footprints Dark titles. paper over boards. 61 p. 23 cm. Charcoal style Illustrations. Audience: Children/juvenile. Youth nature studies, wonderfully illustrated, as various animals and a few children explore the… Read more about this item Item Price
CA$8.31
Mushrooms of North America (D 482)
by Miller, Orson K, Dr., Jr.
- Condition
- Used - Very good in fine dust jacket. Near fine. Durable glossy paper. Light thumbing soil, lower right corner.
- Edition
- First edition. 1st paperback edition. Chanticleer Press Edition.
- Published
- 1977
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- ISBN
- 9780525474821
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$24.94
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New York.: A Dutton Paperback / E P Dutton., 1977. First edition. 1st paperback edition. Chanticleer Press Edition.. Trade paperback. Very good in fine dust jacket. Near fine. Durable glossy paper. Light thumbing soil, lower right corner.. 1 Trade paperback. Glued binding. Brown vinyl faux leather flexible covers. Pen&Ink drawings. Color photos. 368 p. 21 cm. Audience: General/trade.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Two Little Savages; Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned (with over 200 drawings
by Seton, Ernest Thompson (Written and illustrated by)
- Condition
- Used - Good. Foxing to top page block, lighter to lower. Clean side block. First section is a bit off track from binding, but not separ
- Edition
- "Unabridged republication" of original 1903 edition.
- Published
- 1962
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- ISBN
- 9780486209852
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$9.70
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New York.: Dover Publications., 1962. "Unabridged republication" of original 1903 edition.. Trade paperback. Good. Foxing to top page block, lighter to lower. Clean side block. First section is a bit off track from binding, but not separated.. 1 Trade paperback. Sewn and glued binding, sections. Colorized cover artwork. Sealed sturdy paper covers, brown. 286 p. 21 cm. All… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Story of My Boyhood and Youth with Illustrations from Sketches by the Author
by Muir, John (Autobiography and illustrations by)
- Condition
- Used - Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Random interior spotting.
- Edition
- Possible 1st book copyright. Earlier: Atlantic Monthly.
- Published
- 1913
- Binding
- Hard cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$34.64
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Boston: New York / Cambridge.: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press., 1913. Possible 1st book copyright. Earlier: Atlantic Monthly.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Random interior spotting.. 1 First edition. Hardcover. Rebound in sturdy blue textured cloth over boards. 294 p, 21 cm. B&W Portraits, Plates, Drawings. Index. Scotland boyhood; emigrating to America; Wisconsin farm life;… Read more about this item Item Price
CA$34.64
Birds of the Northeast: Washington, D.C. through New England
by Williams, Winston
- Condition
- Used - Fine. Slight cover surface blemishing.
- Edition
- First edition. Stated 1st edition.
- Published
- 1989
- Binding
- Trade paperback
- ISBN
- 9780911977080
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Newport, New Hampshire, USA
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CA$13.86
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Tampa FL.: World Publications DBA National Art Service., 1989. First edition. Stated 1st edition.. Trade paperback. Fine. Slight cover surface blemishing.. Numerous contributing photographers, credits inside back cover.. 1 Trade paperback, folio. 23x31 cm. Color photo cover. Glued binding. 128 p. Color photos by category. Common names. Audience: General/trade. Large format w/ sturdy illustrated paper covers, well-bound. Loaded… Read more about this item Item Price
CA$13.86
