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Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1928. ix, 201 pages, plus 123 full-page plates. Original brick-red cloth. 28 x 20 cm. Heavy speckling to the spine (insect nibbling) and a little to the covers; both hinges cracked and the front just holding; brief ink note on f.f.e.p. Moderate foxing to some plates, mostly marginal but with a slight impact on the images in a few cases; foxing to the margins of text pages facing the glossy plates; mild toning to the matte plates. Good only, but a serviceable reference copy. FIRST EDITION. A significant study of a group of fungi including puffballs, stinkhorns, birds' nest fungi, and false truffles, describing over 150 species in great detail. A concise artificial key is provided. William Chambers Coker (1872-1953) was a widely esteemed authority on mycology and, like his co-author, John N. Couch, a professor of botany at the University of North Carolina. "This is a comprehensive treatment of Gasteromycetes . . . The plates include reproductions… Read More

Philadelphia: Dorrance and Co., [1967]. 77 pages. Original cloth. [19.5 cm - approx. 7.5 in.] Light stain to base of spine, else very good in near very good dust jacket with light edgewear, short closed tear to front panel, and faint stain to rear panel. Third printing, following the first of 1963. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on front free endpaper, recipient not named. Illustrated. The author was a North Carolina school teacher.

Philadelphia: Entomological Society of Philadelphia, [later the] American Entomological Society, Oct. 1865 - Sept. 1867. Vol. I, nos. 1-12; Vol. II, nos. 1-12. All published. Comprised of 23 issues, the final two numbers having been combined in the final issue. [4], 128, 121 pages, plus one or two leaves of ads at the end of each of the last six issues (for a total of [15] pages of ads.) Additional ads included in the pagination. Illustrated with occasional engravings in the text. [The preliminary matter consists of a series title page and index for vol. II. The subtitle of the periodical varies: Vol. I, nos. 1-5: “A Monthly Bulletin, Published by the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, for Gratuitous Distribution among Farmers and Agriculturalists." Vol. I, no. 6 – vol. II, no. 5: "A Monthly Bulletin, Published by the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, for the Dissemination of Valuable Knowledge among Agriculturalists and Horticulturists." (This change came… Read More