Search Results: Titles starting with T from Shawn Donnille

Title: Tarka The Otter: His Joyful Water-Life & Death in the Country of the Two Rivers
Author: Williamson, Henry
Place Published: London & New York
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Date Published: 1927
Description: Title page in brown & black. Duotone cloth, brown morocco spine label lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. One of 1000 large paper copies printed at the Chiswick Press.
A classic naturalist text which helped save the Eurasian otter from the predation of the British sporting culture. "As a nocturnal and solitary animal it is rarely seen during the day, generally retiring in a sheltered hollow beside the water...In Britain, the mystery which shrouded the animal also saw it transform into a much-valued source of sport. Otter hunting was a popular pastime in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Few people actually see the Eurasian otter in the wild, yet it has become one of the most popular species. Henry Williamson's famous book Tarka the Otter (1927) helped transform the… Read More

A Textbook of Botany by Dr. Eduard Strasburger and others
Macmillan and Co 1912- First Edition 767 pages
Book is solid and tight which is rare for historic textbooks. Corners are bumped, some of the interior pages show wear and wrinkling, wear to edges and corners, some light soiling throughout. Still a solid VERY GOOD copy. Filled with copious engravings and color plates. A beautiful book and difficult to find in its original condition.
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Thinking Like a Mountain: Aldo Leopold and the Evolution of an Ecological Attitude Toward Deer, Wolves, and Forests by Susan L. Flader
University of Missouri Press 1974
First hardcover edition with rare jacket
Book and jacket are exceptionally tight and crisp with a gift inscription to the front interior board. Jacket is superb with no loss or soiling. A solid copy
A FINE copy
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Title: Travels in Alaska Author: Muir, John Place
Published: Boston and New York
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1915
Description: ix, [4], 327, [1] pp. Illustrated with 16 plates from photographs mostly by Herbert W. Gleason; color photogravure frontispiece from a painting by Thomas Hill, with printed tissue-guard. (8vo) original green cloth-backed boards, leather spine label. No. 230 of 450 copies. First Edition, Large Paper Edition.
Large paper limited edition containing material edited from articles Muir had written on his Alaska trips in 1879 & 1880 for the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin. Muir began working on the text in earnest in 1912, but his efforts to save the Hetch-Hetchy valley interrupted his work and final touches to the manuscript had to be completed after his death in 1914, primarily through the efforts of Mrs. Marion Parsons. Kimes 333
Condition: Some rubbing to morocco lettering piece on spine, some soiling to spine cloth, light wear, else fine.
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