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Globe, Ariz.: Southwestern Monuments Association, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good-. 8vo, stapled paper covers; vg- (covers rubbed and worn; edgeworn; nick to top edge of front cover; stapled ends worn; tiny chip to rear cover at bottom stapled end; pages toning).

Gottingen: Ioann. Christ. Dieterich, 1793. Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. 1 only of this important Latin herbal, probably the best of its time. Very extensive descriptions, with references to many other volumes of the time. Edition unknown. This copy is vg, having been rebound in new cloth and endpapers. There is a New York Library Academy of Medicine stamp on the verso of the title page; no other library marks. No foxing, and pages not stiff, but there is a light waterstain on the foreedge from p. 850 to the end. 964 pp. + index and errata.

Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1993. Limited Edition . Hardcover. As New. Audubon. The Royal Octavo Edition of the Birds of America. Austin:Taylor, 1993. Limited to 225 copies of this deluxe edition. Illustrated by thirty-two color plates and including original plates from the first and second editions. 8 x 11 inches in dark green cloth and marbled boards with matching clamshell box. As new. Laid in the back of the box are matching first-and second-edition plates of the marsh wren in sewn green wrappers. Also, a letter signed by Tom Taylor, the editor.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. Soft cover. Good+. Third Printing, 1972 stated; 8vo, blue paper covers; good+ (edgeworn; scratch to front cover; scratching and soiling to rear cover; spine ends worn and rubbed; top edge soiled; owner's name on inside rear cover; covers and pages toned); 122pp incl. index.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. Soft cover. Good+. Third Printing, 1972 stated; 8vo, purple paper covers; good+ (dents to bottom corners of covers, half-title, title, contents, and p107-22; corners creased; spine sunned; edgeworn; top edge soiled; inside covers and pages toning; creasing to top corners of pp117-22); 122pp incl. index.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972. Soft cover. Good+. Fourth Printing, 1972 stated; 8vo, green paper covers; good+ (edges of covers along spine and spine sunned and faded; stain to front cover; creasing to top corners of rear cover; rear cover dustsoiled; waterstain to top corner, caused wrinkling and staining to top corners from front to rear covers; top edge soiled; inside covers and pages toned); 122pp incl. index.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good. Second printing, 1966 stated; author and historian John Kessell's ownership signature on ffep; 4to, turquoise cloth, no dj; vg (cocked; boards rubbed; black spots on front board, puckering to cloth on top edge of front board; shelfworn; bottom edge stained; owner's name on ffep; eps and pages toning); 317pp incl. index + copy of article Interior Erosion of Desert Mountains by Ronald L. Ives from The Journal of Geography laid in.

St. Bedford, Indiana: Elephant's Eye, 1978. Soft cover. Very Good. Edition unknown, a 47-p. booklet on brown recycled paper (an afterword points out that the words are recycled as well). Vg (price-sticker ghost on front cover; covers soiled and creased; stain on front cover; edgeworn).

Washington, D.C.: American Geophysical Union, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 28 of the Geodynamic Series. Hardcover 1st, vg (boards lightly bowed; spine ends bumped; boards rubbed), no dj. 334 pgs.

Tuscon: Sunracer Publications, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Expanded edition from 1998 with 'more in-depth and extensive coverage of the canyonlands of Greece, Tibet, Bolivia, and China'; INSCRIBED on blank page before title by Fisher. 4to, blue cloth; vg+ (spine ends lightly bumped) in vg dj (edges bumped and worn; tiny tear to top rear corner, nick to bottom rear corner); 151pp incl. bibliography and color photographs.

NY: Pantheon, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good+. Foreword by Barry Lopez; contributors include Terry Tempest Williams, Rick Bass, Thomas McGuane, Carl Hiaasen, Gary Paul Nabhan, Linda Hogan, James Welch, Jim Harrison, Louise Erdrich, Ann Zwinger, William Least Heat Moon, Paul Theroux, Barbara Kingsolver, Peter Matthiessen. 1st, tan boards/brown cloth spine, vg (boards slt. bowed) in vg+ dj w/ $24.00 price. 296 pp. This copy SIGNED by Peter Matthiessen on the half-title.

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton U, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Second printing, 1990 stated, green cloth, vg+ (lightly bumped spine ends) in vg+ dj (crease to spine head). 800 pp. incl. index.

New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing, complete number line starting at 1; SIGNED by Nichols on title page; 8vo, white cloth; vg (lightly cocked; spine ends bumped; spine tail and bottom edges of boards lightly dustsoiled) in vg dj (edges bumped, panels lightly scratched).

Washington DC: International Nature Farming Research Center, USDA, USAID et al.. Soft cover. Very Good+. The proceedings of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd International Conferences, 1989, 1991 and 1993 respectively; the books were published in 1991, 1994 and 1996. All are 4to softcovers. Vol. 1 is vg+, with a stain on the rear cover; vols. 2 & 3 are nf. Please be aware that shipping this item will require extra charges above our standard rate.

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1978. Soft cover. Good+. Museum of Anthropology, the University of Michigan Technical Reports Number 8, Research Reports in Archaeology Contribution 4; 4to, sherbert paper covers; good+ (large section of top corner of front cover and title page creased and bowed; bump to bottom edge of rear cover; joints and spine sunned and toned; edgeworn; weak front hinge; owner's name on title page; pages toning); 139pp.

Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good-. Museum of Anthropology, the University of Michigan Technical Reports Number 12, Research Reports in Archaeology Contribution 7; 4to, sherbert paper covers; vg- (front cover soiled with scrape and scar to top corner and bottom edge; corners of front cover creased and worn; spine sunned and toned; spine head crimped and worn; edges and pages toning); 369pp.

Paris: Philippe-Denys Pierres, 1782. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+. Hardcover 1st, a very nice copy in contemporary leather. Mottled leather with triple-rule border, dentelles, marbled endpapers, edges gilted over red stain, giving a coppery effect. All text pages are bright, straight and clean. The gilted edges are a bit dulled, as is the gilt-stamped spine. Corners bumped and worn; there is a gilt rule on the very edge of the boards, and it is rubbed or broken in numerous places. Overall vg+ despite the wear on the binding. Engraved frontis and title vignette; different from the vignette in the Valade-Cazin edition published later the same year. A poem outlining the author's philosophy of outdoor design, this book was terribly popular and went through many printings and translations very quickly. It was a major influence on British garden design which can still be detected today. 143 pp. French text.

Tucson: Dale Stuart King, 1964. Soft cover. Good+. Marvin H. Frost, Sr.. Revised Second Edition stated; 8vo, paper covers; good+ (front cover bowed with scar and erased pencil to top corner; top corner of front cover and bottom corner of rear cover creased; rear cover toned and dustsoiled; spine toned and stained; spine ends bumped and worn; edgeworn; pages toning; top corners of pages from title to p19 bumped and creased); 84pp.

NY: Wiley-Liss, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover 1st, pictorial boards, vg, no dj. Boards a little rubbed. 367 pp.

London: George Bell and Sons, 1881. Hardcover. Good. Edward Jesse. Bohn's Library printing with Bohn's Libraries catalogue ad in rear and ad for George Bell and Sons in front; FORTY hand-colored plates, all accounted; 12mo, unattractively rebound in green cloth with new eps; good (boards soiled; bump to to edge and tear to joint of front board; spine ends bumped and worn; corners worn; edges of eps roughly cut; front hinge repaired with same paper as eps; front hinge starting again; scar to bottom edge of rfep where bottom edge of pastedown was adhered; chip and tears to first ad page; brittle and toned tissueguard for frontis has chipped and torn side edge; tear and large chip to side edge of title page; foxing to frontis and title; edges of pages worn and rough; side edges of several plates are trimmed shorter than pages, plates at pp35, 80, 84, 158, 160, 198, 222, 243, and 309, does not affect engravings; side edges of pages from p153-161 trimmed shorter than fellow pages, no loss of… Read More