Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1872. Revised Edition. Ten large octavo volumes. Frontispiece, maps, plates, and numerous small illustrations throughout each volume, including "Annual Revolution of the Earth Round the Sun" to volume three. Three-quarter contemporary sheep over marbled boards; gilt lettering to spine; five raised bands. Marbled endpapers and..... More
New York: Viking Press, 1975. First American Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket; xi,[3],432pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket extremities rather chipped and worn with some subsequent creasing, upper flap quite wrinkled, light wear and toning to board extremities, spine gilt a shade dulled, else Very Good in..... More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1900. First Edition. Quarto. 350 pages.49 full-color plates and three fold-out maps tucked in rear pocket. Black cloth boards, recased with new endpapers. Gently worn at edges, tight in binding, and pages clean and unmarked. Light foxing in spots. Some light chipping and..... More
![An Introduction to the Global Circulation of the Atmosphere [Signed]. David Randall](/pictures/thumb/003884.jpg?v=1594152579)
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. First Edition. Signed by author on front free endpaper to Piers Sellers, former NASA astronaut and space shuttle veteran with inscription: "To Piers, Please write a book. I promise to read it. --DR." Tall Octavo. 442 pages. Glossy black boards. Rubbed at..... More
Ugo Mochi. First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. First Edition with full numberline. SIGNED by the author with brief inscription on front free endpaper and lengthy accompanying letter. Illustrated dustjacket with original $7.95 price; book in white paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and zebra illustration. 134p;..... More
London: Chapman & Hall, LD., 1925. Fifth Impression. Oblong Quarto. 264 pages. Black and white photographs throughout. No dust jacket. Red cloth blind stamped to front and stamped in gilt at spine. Light wear to boards with heavier wear and fraying to bottom front corner of rear board..... More
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1903. First Edition. Large octavo (23cm.); publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth; 162pp.; photographic frontispiece, full-page photographic illus. throughout taken by the author. Light wear to cloth extremities, spine slightly sunned, endpapers a bit toned, hinges very slightly loose, brief childish ink writing on one page, else a...... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. First U.S. Edition with full numberline. Octavo. 219 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown and blue boards stamped in gilt. Third volume in the Corfu Trilogy, published in the UK as The Garden of the Gods. Unclipped dust jacket is creased and a...... More
Menston: The Scolar Press Limited, 1973. Second Printing. Octavo; v + 468pp + Index, List of Plates, and Errata [all unpaginated, 13pp]. Fold-out frontispiece engraving of Selborne + second title engraved allegory + reproductions of six natural history images, for all of which the original 18th-century engravings were very fine..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1930. First Edition with (1) on last page of text. Signed by the author to Captain R. S. Patton. Octavo (8" x 5.5"); x, 312p. Charts and illustrations throughout. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spine a bit cocked, with boards showing light..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. First Edition. Octavo. 200 pages. Black and white illustrations from Jackson Lee Nesbit, W.R. Locke, and Doris Lee among others. Illustrated dust jacket with original "$3.50" price present. Gray boards stamped in green and maroon. Maroon topstain. Dust jacket is worn and chipped..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1961. Stated First Edition. Octavo. 192 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original "$3.75" price present. Brown and green boards stamped in white. Dust jacket is worn with some light chipping and creasing to edges. One strip of tape repair to top of spine verso..... More
![Wapiti Pete: The Story of an Elk [Signed]. Hal Borland, John Austin Taylor](/pictures/thumb/8378.jpeg?v=1610988091)
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. First Edition. Signed on front free endpaper by Borland with inscription, "For Bob Van Gelder Sincerely Hal Borland." Octavo. 176 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket with original "$1.75" price present. Bright green boards stamped in black. Dust jacket is..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First Edition. Octavo. 315 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket with original "$5.00" price present. Red and beige boards stamped in green and gilt. Dust jacket is worn along edges and joints with some general smudging. Neat tape repair to..... More
New York: Villard, 1996. First Edition, stated and with number line ending in "2" per the publisher's practice at the time. Octavo. 207 pages. Photographic dust jacket. Grey and black boards stamped in silver. Map endpapers showing the journey of Chris McCandless 1990-1992. Unclipped dust jacket shows just light..... More
Stockton, KS: Leonard Erle Muir, 1981. Stockton, KS: Self-published, 1981. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on half title. Octavo (8.5" x 5.5"); [viii], 85p. Maps and photos throughout. Printed paper wraps. Light bumping to top front corner with some creasing along bottom edge and a small ink..... More
Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1993. First Thus with full numberline. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's glossy teal pictorial paper-covered boards; xlviii, 288pp.; illus. throughout, including photographs, pictorial endpapers. Minor wear to extremities with brief exposure, corners very gently bumped, distributor's sticker to upper cover, else Very Good or better, internally..... More
New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. 265 pages. Decorations by Ward. Eight full-page color plates (not by Ward) to rear. Illustrated dust jacket. Green boards stamped in silver. Charcoal topstain. Price-clipped dust jacket is chipped along edges with a couple larger chips adjacent to spine ends. General..... More
New York: Phillips & Hunt, 1887. First Edition. Small, slim octavo (19cm.); publisher's green pictorial cloth embossed in black and gilt; 132pp.; illus. throughout text. Boards a bit rubbed at margins, corners bumped with brief exposure, light soil, else Very Good and sound. Despite the title, not a polemical..... More
![Waters of Potowmack [Signed]. Paul Metcalf](/pictures/thumb/8120.jpg?v=1607635278)
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982. First Edition. Signed by Metcalf without inscription on title page. Octavo. 246 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Maroon boards stamped in gilt. A documentary history of the Potomac River and its basin from the 16th century to the middle the of the 20th, with..... More
![The Winooski: Heartway of Vermont [Richard Spong's copy]. Ralph Nading Hill, George Daly](/pictures/thumb/001827.jpg?v=1599251151)
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1949. First Edition with encircled R on copyright. Ownership signature of journalist and author Richard Spong on front free endpaper (acquired from his estate). Octavo; xii, 304 pp. Two-color illustrated title page spread, with map and black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket..... More
![Great American Deserts [Signed by Edwards + Signed Bookplate]. Rowe Findley, Walter Meayers...](/pictures/thumb/002884.jpg?v=1584563006)
Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1972. First Edition. Signed by Edwards on front free endpaper with inscription "To my old friend Katherine Needham, with affectionate regards adn good wishes. from Toppy Edwards, August 1972." Edwards's nautical bookplate signed "Walter M. Edwards" laid in. Tall octavo; 207 pp. Illustrated dust..... More
Chadds Ford: Brandywine Conservancy, 1991. First Edition. Photograph of author as frontispiece; decorative vignette sketches by Jane Scott throughout. Octavo; xv + 139pp. Sage jacket with black lettering. Dark pine-green cloth with silver lettering on spine and front panel. Textblock of flecked heavy cream paper. Near fine: a few..... More
Rockville: ABS Consulting / Government Institutes, 2003. First Edition with full numberline. Quarto; 697pp. Blue faux leather with gilt lettering and illustration. Covers lightly bumped at bottom front corner and nudged at head of spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Hillerman loosely laid in at title page. Quarto. 240 pages. Color photographs throughout. Photographic dust jacket. Red boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket has some general smudging, light shelfwear, and moderate creasing at top of spine. Amateur tape..... More