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London: SIR Isaac Pitman & Sons. Very Good. 1943. Reprint. Hardcover. Small blue cloth, toned ends and spine, book plate and neatly written former owner's name, scattered foxing and light smudges. Black line illustrations at each chapter, "with 25 of the authors own photographs." BBC cast DSS as The Zoo Man for their Childrens Hour broadcast, his show increased in popularity as he introduced various animals from the British Zoological Gardens. He was an author, broadcaster, bird artist and British zoologist. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages .

London: Octopus. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). 0706401921 . Full color photo end pages, two small spots of sticker damage on back end page. 104 beautiful full color photos of all types of mushrooms and fungi, those which you may eat, and those which you should steer clear of. Interesting, fun book, NOT for use by the novice for collecting edible mushrooms, information only please. ; 4to up to 12" tall. aka Quarto" .

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. 0674037502 . figures, tables. Extensive Bibliography. Index. Green cloth w/rubbed edges. Dust jacket, unclipped, toned and heavily worn edges, now in archival cover. "This is the soundest, most complete, and best documented study ever published on genetical characteristics and evolutionary processes in animal populations around the crucial level of the species." (George Gaylord Simpson Harvard University)"A work of extraordinary comprehensiveness. . . I have no doubt that it is destined to be an abiding landmark in the study of evolution." (I. Michael Lerner University of California) ; 8vo.; xiv, 797 pp., pages .

Broadway. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0767931750 . First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in blue boards w white spine in Very Good unmarked in Very Good jacket. Edge wear ; 9.30 X 6.10 X 1.20 inches; 304 pp pages .

Glendale, California: La Siesta Press. Near Fine. 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Sepia pictorial cover, saddle binding. 40 pp. Illustrated by Vivian and Valerie Mendenhall and black and white photographs. About near fine with spine tone and light scuff and soil on the back cover. A practicle guide from packing to camp cookery and clean-up. Mendenhall was an active member of the Sierra club and in 1978 she and her husband John, the Sierra Club honored them with the Farquhar Award for achievement and leadership in mountaineering. They were also interviewed by the club’s Oral History Project and received honorary memberships in the Rock Climbing Section. In 1983, the American Alpine Club presented them with the Angelo Heilprin Citation for service to the Club and to mountaineering. ; 8vo .

Boston & New York: Houghton and Mifflin / Riverside Press. Very Good. 1895. Hardcover. vi, 269, [1] pp. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering and Burroghs signature on the cover. Frontispiece is a photograph of the author "A bird song". Ex-library with back pocket and the attractive book plate inside the cover (back/front) for the "School of the Holy Child Library, Suffern, New York," as well as bookseller ticket inside back cover. Ends and corners worn, light foxing and some spots (ink?) on the front edge. "John Burroughs [1837-1921] was the most important writer after Thoreau of the nature essay, according to the Library of Congress American Memory Project. A pioneer of the American conservation movement, he is often referred to as the Grand Old Man of Nature." ; 8vo .

Manizales, Columbia: Universidad de Caldas. Near Fine. 2003. First Edition. Softcover. Illustrated throughout with b&w photographs, maps and tables. Collection of papers relating to the birds, insects and small animals of Colombia; text is in Spanish w/ additional English abstracts. Bright soft cover with a small crease on the bottom edge. A publication of the Universidad de Caldas, it is a specialized journal in charge of making public the research results on Natural History and related biological sciences. The journal publishes original articles on the conservation of biological collections or on different aspects of Museology in Natural History. ; 8vo.; 326 pp. pages .

Manizales, Columbia: Universidad de Caldas. Near Fine. 1996. First Edition. Softcover. About fine with very light scuff. Published simi-annually this is the first year of the journal, "Ano 1, Vol. 1, Agosto, 1996. Text in Spanish, summaries in English and Spanish. A publication of the Universidad de Caldas, it is a specialized journal in charge of making public the research results on Natural History and related biological sciences. The journal publishes original articles on the conservation of biological collections or on different aspects of Museology in Natural History. ; 8vo.; 30, [4] pp. pages .

Boston: Doubleday. Good with no dust jacket. 1958. Hardcover. xii, 243 pages. Index. Drawings by Shirlea Hatcher. Color and black and white photographs credited in Acknowledgments. There is a 1" split in the front gutter, and a publishers flaw on the front board (cloth wrinkle). Otherwise a very bright clean copy. ; 8vo .

Boston: The Boston Society of Natural History. Very Good-. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation plate inside cover. Brown paper over board with green cloth spine strip. Lettering and top edge gilt, now not quite bright. Xii, 117- [120]. Illustratrations include portraits and some architectual elements. Scattered foxing, edges rubbed, corners bare. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Stanford University Press. Very Good. 1965. Softcover. 0804712239 . Trade paperback edition. 208 pp. "A perennial standard work... The best of all modern books on the California deserts." Westways. ; 8.47 X 5.33 X 0.53 inches .

Entomological Society of America. Very Good-. 1951. Reprint. Softcover. This is an article reprinted from Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Vol. 44, No. 3, Sept., 1951. Pages 327-361. Illustrated with 126 fig. Published without cover wraps, the front & back cover pages are split at the spine but remain intact. Some light soil else a clean copy. ; 8vo .

San Francisco: W. H. Freeman. Very Good. 1979. Softcover. Pictorial cover. 197 pages. Edges and corners worn. In 1979, Dr. Roberts and Henry Lansfor published the Climate Mandate which discussed the climatic variation and its implication. ; 8vo .

Prentice-Hall. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0131660098 . First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover in black boards, in VG unmarked in G jacket with Protective cover, 1 inch tear at bottom front of cover ; Concepts of Modern Biology Series; 8.90 X 5.70 X 0.40 inches; 209 pp pages .

University of Florida Press. Good. 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Illustrated w/line drawings, maps & graphs. There are 11 plates, 5 are anatomical line drawings, 7 are b&w photographs of lakes and ponds oriented to Gainesville, Wewahitchka, Newmans Lake, and Alachua Co., FL. Original brown stiff paper wrap. Line drawn frontispiece. Final endleaf assumed to be missing, as there is nothing after Plate XI. One inch separation of the spine from the back wrap, edges are moderately worn. Original price $1.00. Originally written as Dr. Byers' Thesis, and subsequently published into this softwrap and also hardback book form. ; 8vo.; 327 pp., pages .

New York: Penguin Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author; 1594204217 . 468 pp. Author signed on the title page. Fine/Fine. In protective clear cover. This is the book that the Netflix streaming show "Cooked" was based on. A review from The Economist, May 2, 2013: (Mr Pollan recognizes that) Real cooking (not just heating up) allows people to create, to put their own values into food, to escape the industrialized eating that has created health crises all over the world. Cooking is part of being human. The alternative is to evolve into passive consumers of standardized commodities that promise more than they deliver. Best of all, argues Mr Pollan, cooking makes people happy. ; 8vo .

Penguin. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Softcover. 0140213988 . A Pelican Book, edge rubs and a few short creases. Bright cover of polychrome figure from the cemetery of Jaina, (compeche; in the National Museum of anthropology, Mexico City. Twenty-six plates. Introduction by T. S. Elliot. .

Cambrdge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 424pp. Illustrated. Index. Bibliography. Light edgewear to the jacket. There are two marks in the text block, one 1" red line in the margin and one minute mark. Otherwise a clean, tight copy in the orignal uncliped jacket. "The central message of Edward O. Wilson's Diversity of Life is that Homo sapiens is in imminent danger of precipitating a biological disaster to rival anything in evolutionary history. Two decades ago he popularized the term 'sociobiology, ' and generated a small industry of speculation about the biological basis of human nature. (David Papineau New York Times Book Review). “[Wilson’s] passion for the beauty and mystery of nature, coupled with his adherence to scientific method and his unsurpassed professional standing, give the work the possibility of being the most important environmental book since Rachel… Read More

New York: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. Third printing. Black w/gold spine lettering, stamped in blind on the front board. viii, 328 pp. Index. Maps. Drawings by Olga Ley, the author's wife (except for one cave drawing). Ley was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and space flight in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor. A clean, straight copy. The dust jacket is price clipped, edge worn with small chips and tears; tape applied to the spine to hold library mark. From the library of Stevenson House Library and so stamped on the ffep. Now in a new archival cover. A nice copy. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 328 pages .

New York: Viking. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Two toned, orange & green cloth cover. Pp. viii, 328. Index. Maps. Drawings by Olga Ley, the author's wife (except for one cave drawing). Ley was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and space flight in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor. A clean, straight copy with faded and dust soiled blue publishers stain. The dust jacket is bright black w rust-brown design and spine, edge worn with small chips and tears; cover with some scuff marks, back cover toned. Now in a new archival cover. A nice copy. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 328 pages .