CMI. Descriptions of Pathogenic Fungi and Bacteria, Sets 1 - 80 by Commonwealth Mycological Institute

Michael Joseph, London, 1981, first edtion. 206 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0718120396 Charming b&w illustrations. "There is a growing need for the 'quiet fields' in this noisy, restless world. Mercifully, they can still be found by the country-lover and naturalist. This book tells of a year spent deep in the countryside, beginning when the year is young, when trees and hedges are bare to the winter winds, and on through the spring, summer and autumn, to winter once again. Whatever the season of the year there is always something to see in the countryside, even when the 'quiet fields' are sheeted with snow. There are the winter migrants - the wildfowl of the wet places, the delicate fieldfares and redwings - who come to Britain to escape the bitter temperatures of their native lands. 'BB' also describes the advent of the spring migrants, which bring such intense joy to the naturalist that he even had to surrender his studio to a swallow… Read More

Kirstenbosch: Trustees of the National Botanic Gardens of South Africa 1976. (4to) 684pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Green cloth. Index. Publisher series: Journal of South African Botany Supplementary Volume No. 11. Locale: South Africa; Swaziland. (Natural History, Botanical Journals--South Africa, Botany--South Africa).

Albany NY: Luther Tucker & Son, 1872. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Cover with some dampstaining and edgewear, notably to spine ends. Spine cloth faded. Binding sound. Front cover with bright gold design of fruit filled basket. Interior clean and intact with some light dampstainig to top gutter area of some front pages. Otherwise a very nice copy. 326 pages.

New York, William Morrow and Company, 1950, hardcover, x-260 pp, First U.S. Edition, First Printing, Signed by the Author on the title page, Good in Fair dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, dampstain to fore-edge of boards affecting no other area, small bookstore sticker to front pastedown, text block top edge darkened. Dustjacket price-clipped, edge nicks, spine faded, faint dampstains to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The well-known author of Return to the River, A River Never Sleeps, and The Western Angler traces the development of the seasons and their effect upon his world, the habits of fish and game, the details of family and community life, and, more broadly, the position of mankind amidst the wonder and beauty of the world of nature.

The Day Of The Triffids Michael Joseph Fourteenth Impression Thus. March, 1984 Wyndham, John: The Day of the Triffids, Michael Joseph, London. Original copyright 1951. Science Fiction, Horror. Original source material for the film of the same name. One of the creepiest stories you will ever read. Good/Good Price-clipped DJ. Dust jacket is black with large green and white titling and ornamentation. EX-LIB.

Michael Joseph, London, 1981, first edtion. 206 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0718120396 Charming b&w illustrations. "There is a growing need for the 'quiet fields' in this noisy, restless world. Mercifully, they can still be found by the country-lover and naturalist. This book tells of a year spent deep in the countryside, beginning when the year is young, when trees and hedges are bare to the winter winds, and on through the spring, summer and autumn, to winter once again. Whatever the season of the year there is always something to see in the countryside, even when the 'quiet fields' are sheeted with snow. There are the winter migrants - the wildfowl of the wet places, the delicate fieldfares and redwings - who come to Britain to escape the bitter temperatures of their native lands. 'BB' also describes the advent of the spring migrants, which bring such intense joy to the naturalist that he even had to surrender his studio to a swallow… Read More

Kirstenbosch: Trustees of the National Botanic Gardens of South Africa 1976. (4to) 684pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Green cloth. Index. Publisher series: Journal of South African Botany Supplementary Volume No. 11. Locale: South Africa; Swaziland. (Natural History, Botanical Journals--South Africa, Botany--South Africa).

Albany NY: Luther Tucker & Son, 1872. 1st. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Cover with some dampstaining and edgewear, notably to spine ends. Spine cloth faded. Binding sound. Front cover with bright gold design of fruit filled basket. Interior clean and intact with some light dampstainig to top gutter area of some front pages. Otherwise a very nice copy. 326 pages.

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co, 1974. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. 8vo. Pp. xxii; 263. Abridged and Edited by Frederick Ungar, with a several-page introduction by him. With a critical analysis by Franz H. Mautner. Bound in red cloth with lettering stamped in black and yellow on spine. Price-clipped dust jacket with a dime-size chip to front panel and slight edge-wear. Else Fine. This edition, in hardcover with jacket, is somewhat scarce. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

New York: Harmony Books, 1996. Signed by Stephen Jay Gould. First edition / First printing. Black cloth spine, black paper-covered boards. Fine in a fine dust jacket.