Wild Life of the South by Archibald Rutledge - 1935

Paris: Flammarion, Éditeur, 1938. First edition. Paperback. H. (Helene) Guertik. Very slim square octavo. Stapled pictorial wraps. Each uncolored page faces an example of the same design, only completed with color. Very good. The wraps and pages are moderately age-toned. This copy once belonged to the Girard Foundation Library, and has a bookplate on the verso of the first page (obscuring a little bit of the uncolored illustration). With charming illustrations by Russian artist, Hélène Guertik. After fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution, Guertik began her career in France by painting scarves for Chanel, and went on to illustrate eleven works for Le Père Castor.

London, The Adventurers Club, 1960, hardcover, 192 pp, Very Good in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, tidy name and date to front endpaper, spine-end and corner bumps, foxing to top and fore-edge of textblock. Dustjacket, light edge nicks to spine-ends and corners, spine slightly darkened, in new Brodart sleeve, the best example of this dustjacket I've ever seen. The British-born soldier, administrative officer, and professional hunter's first book about his adventures in northern Africa beginning in 1941 when he was just 22 years old. Illustrated with 16 full-page drawings by Bruno De Sopra.

Hardcover board book, no dust jacket. Very Good condition, cover has some rubbing, previous owner gift inscription on ffep. Describes how various baby animals are nurtured after birth, when they gain their independence, why play is important to their development, other aspects of their daily lives. 95 pages, indexed. from a nonsmoking home

Hand-colored lithograph from John James Audubon's first octavo edition of Birds of America published from 1840 to 1844.Sheet size: 6.5 x 10.25 inches.

St. Cloud, MN: Land's Edge Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Edges foxed.. 1999. Hardcover. 096758910X . One of 750 signed and numbered copies. Illustrations, references cited. Detailed bibliography of books about big game hunting in Africa compiled by the antiquarian bookseller and professor. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 181 pages .

Paris: Flammarion, Éditeur, 1938. First edition. Paperback. H. (Helene) Guertik. Very slim square octavo. Stapled pictorial wraps. Each uncolored page faces an example of the same design, only completed with color. Very good. The wraps and pages are moderately age-toned. This copy once belonged to the Girard Foundation Library, and has a bookplate on the verso of the first page (obscuring a little bit of the uncolored illustration). With charming illustrations by Russian artist, Hélène Guertik. After fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution, Guertik began her career in France by painting scarves for Chanel, and went on to illustrate eleven works for Le Père Castor.

London, The Adventurers Club, 1960, hardcover, 192 pp, Very Good in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, tidy name and date to front endpaper, spine-end and corner bumps, foxing to top and fore-edge of textblock. Dustjacket, light edge nicks to spine-ends and corners, spine slightly darkened, in new Brodart sleeve, the best example of this dustjacket I've ever seen. The British-born soldier, administrative officer, and professional hunter's first book about his adventures in northern Africa beginning in 1941 when he was just 22 years old. Illustrated with 16 full-page drawings by Bruno De Sopra.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Large octavo (215 x 140 mm). Contemporary tan calf prize binding, spine elaborately gilt in compartments, black morocco label, double lines rules to boards and Hanley Castle Grammar School Crest to upper board gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, turn-overs ruled in blind. Colour frontispiece and 20 engraved plates, engravings throughout the text. Contemporary presentation inscription to the front blank. Boards a little rubbed and scuffed, small gouge from top edge of lower board, blank piece of paper pasted over an inscription on the verso of the front free endpaper, light spotting to contents. A very good copy. An attractively bound and copiously illustrated work on British insects by the naturalist John George Wood (1827-1889), originally published in 1872. Wood began his career in the Church of England, but from the early 1850s "was developing a career as a natural historian; his first book, The Illustrated… Read More

United States of America: Seton Village Press, 1940. Green cover, black and brown lettering, 150 pages. Signed by author/illustrator (with his customary drawing of a paw print) on page opposite title page. Contains 53 drawings by the author. Cover faded along spine and joint, lightly rubbed on corners, top corners bowed, smudge on bottom edge, outline of original binding tape showing through on front and rear paste-downs. Pages darkened, series of faint lines across top and along hinge on page 103 where texture of paper has picked up color from opposite page, letter "W" in ink on top right of ffep, else very good plus. . Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No DJ. Illus. by Seton, Ernest Thompson. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover board book, no dust jacket. Very Good condition, cover has some rubbing, previous owner gift inscription on ffep. Describes how various baby animals are nurtured after birth, when they gain their independence, why play is important to their development, other aspects of their daily lives. 95 pages, indexed. from a nonsmoking home