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Saskatoon, SK, Canada: Modern Press, Prairie Book Service, 1967. First Canadian Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good +. Gilroy, Doug (photography). 71pp printed verso only. Thirty-three colour photo plates by the author. Colour photo illustrated wrapper. Black plastic coil binding. Creasing at tabs but none torn. Surface scuff and soiling commensurate w age and handling. Octavo: 232 x 223mm. First edition, first printing, 1967, stated.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Wm. H. Wise & Co. Inc., 1965. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [xi], 625pp w pronouncing index. Illustrated throughout w 313 bw photographs and 20 indexed colour plates. Illustrated endpapers. Goldenrod boards w crisp gold lettering on spine. Light bumping to tail, no edgewear. Illustrated DJ clean, not clipped, showing mild shelf wear, now preserved in archival cover. Prepared with the cooperation of fifty famous sportsmen, naturalists and skilled wildlife photographers, this is five books in one covering virtually every American mammal, fish, reptile, amphibian and bird.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada: University of Calgary Press, 1993. First Canadian Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lynch, Wayne (photography); McKinnon, Irene (illustrations). x, 264pp w bibliography, glossary and index. bw and colour photos, maps, figures and drawings. School stamp to endpapers. Adhesive residue to rear pastedown. Colour photo illustrated boards are clean showing bumping to corners. Binding square and sound. Octavo. First edition with colour photos by Wayne Lynch and illustrations by Irene McKinnon.

New York, NY, USA: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963. First U.S. Edition . Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Kalmenoff, Matthew. x, 388pp. Illustrations by Matthew Kalmenoff, many full-page. Deckle fore-edge. Prev owner name blacked out to ffep. Red cloth w black and gold lettering to spine. Light bumping to bottom corners. Binding square and sound. Illustrated DJ is clean, showing light bumping to head, preserved in archival cover. Octavo. First edition in this format, 1963, stated. Portions of this book were published previously under the titles, Animal Facts and Fallacies (1948), and, Animal Friends and Foes (1957).

Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Princeton University Press, 1993. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 206pp w index. Photo illustrated wrap is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Book appears unread. Reprint of the 1954 Hutchinson's University Library edition with a new afterword by the author. "Long before Charles Darwin understood his first voyage, animal taxonomists had begun the scientific classification of animals, plants and minerals. In the mid-1950s, taxonomist A.J. Cain summarized the state of knowledge about the structure of the living world in his major book Animal Species and Their Evolution. His work remains current today. Here Cain explains each of the terms by which scientists now classify all animals - from species through genus, family, order, class and phylum.

Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963. Booklet. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Earle, Olive; Berry, William. 36pp. Colour illustrations throughout. Colour illustrated wrap is clean and without wear. Stapled binding sound. A Basic Science UniText - Primary. Reduced shipping may apply.

Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Shortt, T.M.. [x], 310pp w appendix, glossary, bibliography and index. Illustrated w fine drawings and maps. Standard library markings. Pocket remnant, soiling on ffep. Binding is sound but no longer tight. Green cloth w gold lettering on spine. Heavy shelf wear to bottom edges. Illustrated DJ clean, showing wear to head, tail and corners, in laminate library cover.

Don Mills, Ontario, Canada: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Audubon, John James. xiii, 674pp. Illustrated throughout w colour plates. Prev owner name inked to ffep. Red boards, brown cloth quarterwrap spine w fine red lettering. Bumping to corners and tail. Binding square and sound. No DJ. Quarto. With an introduction by Roger Tory Peterson, this edition is the first to include 500 engravings of birds from Octavo edition (published in seven volumes in the 1840s) together with his 150 engravings of Quadrupeds.

Cambridge, MS, USA: The MIT Press, 1999. 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. xxix, 350pp w notes and index. Illust. Colour illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and not creased. Quarto: 27.5 x 20cm.

Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 1997. First Canadian Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 352pp w appendix and index. Illustrated throughout w maps, figures and colour photographs. Navy blue endpapers. Navy blue cloth w crisp gilt lettering to cover and spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Colour photo illustrated DJ is clean, showing light bumping to head, preserved in archival cover. Quarto: 307 x 248mm Using state of the art cartography, the atlas combines many different approaches to understanding the immense ecological, educational, aesthetic and economic significance of the Irish rural landscape as in important element of national heritage

Regina, SK, Canada: Saskatchewan Natural History Society, 1996. First Canadian Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Smith, Alan R.. 456pp w appendices, bibliography and index. Three translucent overlays intact. Colour illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Black plastic coil binding. No tears to page perforations. Saskatchewan Natural History Society Special Publication No. 22 and No. 4 in the Manley Callin Series. Quarto: 283 x 235mm.

Regina, SK, Canada: Nature Saskatchewan, 2021. First Canadian Edition . Soft cover. New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. iv, 104pp w appendix and index. Illustrated w colour photographs of bird species and instructional drawings. Colour photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight. Quarto. A complete guide to year-round bird feeding in Saskatchewan.

Alberta Environmental Protection, 1994. Booklet. Near Fine. 16pp. Illustrated w 8 colour photo plates. Photo illustrate wrap is clean and without wear. Stapled binding sound. Reduced shipping will apply for this item.

London, England: Blandford Press. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Stuurman, Rein. 287pp w index. Colour and blackline illustrations for each species. Red cloth w goldstamp illustration and gold lettering on cover, gold lettering on spine. Slight shelf wear, binding square and sound. No DJ. No date; circa 1963. Reduced shipping may apply. An omnibus edition of the six volume Bird Spotting series, recommended by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds as a general introduction to bird identification. Book One - Divers to Game Birds Book Two - Ducks to Hawks Book Three - Plovers to the Auk Family Book Four - Doves to Crows Book Five - Tits and Thrushes to Warblers Book Six - Wagtails to Finches

Ottawa, ON, Canada: Lee Valley Tools, 1999. Cloth. As New. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 539pp. Marker ribbon intact. Decorative endpapers. Burgundy cloth w gold lettering. Colour illustration tipped on to front board, as published. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Quarto - 29 x 24cm. From the series, Whiting's Reference of Birds. This birding journal is clean and unmarked.

Parks and People, Jasper, 1988. 1st Edition . Booklet. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. LeMessurier, Andrew A.. 73pp w index. Illustrated w maps and drawings. Prev owner stamp. Illustrated wrap clean and without wear. Stapled binding sound.

Regina, SK, Canada: Saskatchewan Natural History Society, 1996. First Canadian Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 325pp w bibliography, appendices and index. Range maps, drawings in text. One section colour photographs. Title page clipped horizontally to 4cm. Colour photo illustrated wrapper is clean, showing light edge and surface wear commensurate w age and handling. Binding square and not creased. Quarto: 28 x 21.5cm. Manley Callin Series, No. 3. Saskatchewan Natural History Society Special Publication No. 21.

Saskatoon, SK, Canada: Nature Saskatchewan / Saskatoon Nature Society, 2002. Soft cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 345pp w appendix, bibliography and indices. Illustrated w colour photos, maps and ornithological drawings. Colour photo illustrated wrapper w French flaps is clean and without wear. External plastic coil binding. No tears to page perforations. No. 23 in the series Special Publications of the Saskatchewan Natural History Society (Nature Saskatchewan). Additional shipping required - 28 x 24cm

Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada: Keyline Graphic Design, 1994. First Canadian Edition . Soft cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Sinclair, Pamela. v, 137pp w bibliography and index. Bird count tables. Photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without wear. Binding square and tight, not creased. Octavo.

Don Mills, Ontario, Canada: General Publishing Co. Limited, 1973. Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 68pp w appendix and index. Illustrated throughout w bw and colour photographs. Photo illustrated endpapers. Adhesive residue on ffep. Colour photo illustrated cloth binding shows moderate edgewear, scuff to corners, head and tail. Binding square and sound. Octavo.