Bombay: The Bombay Natural History Society [1948]. Octavo (9.75" x 6.5"); ix, 306pp. Four color plates, with black and white plates and illustrations throughout. Green cloth-covered limp boards with white lettering and illustration. Boards rubbed and scuffed along edges and joints, with bumping to corners and spine ends, patches of..... More

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's two-toned boards in pictorial dust jacket; [12],192pp.; map endpapers. Light shelf wear, a hint of cockling to dust jacket, brief water spot to rear jacket panel, else Very Good or better. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author on..... 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

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

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

New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1945. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); 233pp.; illus. by the author throughout. Some general shelf wear to jacket and board extremities including tiny chips at spine ends, corners a bit bumped, contemporary bookseller ticket..... More

Waikiki: Fong Inn's Limited, 1944. First Edition. Folio; cloth-backed pictorial string-bound chemise, printed paper element mounted to upper cover, containing staple bound pamphlet ([8pp.]) and 40 black and white photographic plates (31.5x24.5cm or the inverse), collated and complete. Chemise boards brittle and cloth splitting rather extensively along spine edges, margins..... More

Washington, DC: Joseph L. Pearson, Printer, 1892. First Edition. Inscribed in ink across the head of the title, "Hon. M.T. Stevens, compliments of the author," likely the Massachusetts congressman Moses Tyler Stevens, a member of the Ways and Means Committee. Octavo. 46 pp. 8 black and white illustrations. Green pebbled..... More

Santa Barbara, CA: Travelers Rest Farm / The Arabian Stud / T R Ranch, 1947. Octavo. Unpaginated. Black and white photographs. Illustrated wraps. Spine repaired with crude yet functional tape repair by previous owner. Staining and creasing to covers with curling to corners and page edges throughout. Binding..... More

London: Aurum Press, 1979. First UK Edition, stated, and with "Magus" misspelled "Magnus" at rear flap. Bookplate signed by Fowles loosely laid in at front. Oblong quarto. Unpaginated. Color photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Glossy brown boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket edgeworn with some general rubbing..... 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

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

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. Twelfth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 16mo (6.5" x 4.25"); xiv, (ii), 439pp +10 ads. Four fold-out maps and six panoramas, all present. Publisher's limp red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and advert endpapers. Ex- St. Elizabeth's Hospital (D.C.) Circulating Library, with..... More