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Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780139625725ISBN:0139625720
Description: Very Good. 1984 Prentice Hall. Trade paperback. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Black and white illustrations. 203 pages. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Spine NOT creased. Front cover has a light vertical crease near spine. Pages clean and unmarked. A Spectrum Book-Phalarope Books. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company
Date published: 1965
Description: Good; Good Jacket. 1965 McGraw-Hill Book Company. Book club edition. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with red and green spine lettering. Black and white illustrations by John Henry Dick. 441 pages. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rounded. Spine and edges are slightly faded. Name in ink on front free endpaper. Small smudge on rear endpaper. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has ... Read More
Edition: Mini edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Date published: 1991
ISBN-13:9781558592254ISBN:1558592253
Description: Near Fine. 1991 Abbeville Press. Revised edition. Small softcover, 4 x 4.5 x 1 inches, with fold-in flaps. Color illustrations. High-quality glossy paper. 435 plates. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased; spine is very lightly sunned. Appears to be unread. Book is in excellent condition with only a hint of shelf wear. Pages clean and unmarked. The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Young Scott Books
Date published: 1965
Description: Very Good; No jacket. 1965 Young Scott Books. Hardcover has cream and blue textured paper-covered boards with a scene of birds flying in the sky on the cover. Color illustrations by Clement Hurd. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rounded. Covers have moderate edge wear and surface rubbing. Covers lightly cupped. Endpapers have light foxing. Pages clean and unmarked. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Date published: 2012
Description: Very Good. 2012 Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Living Bird, Volume 31, Number 1, Winter, 2012. Single Issue Magazine. 50th Anniversary Issue. Color photographs. 46 pages. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Feature articles on 50th Anniversary of Living Bird, New Guinea's Foja Mountains, and the Spring Field Ornithology Class in Ithaca, New York. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Date published: 2010
Description: Very Good. Spring 2010 Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Volume 29, Number 2, Spring 2010. Single Issue Magazine. Color photographs. 45 pages. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Feature articles on the death of the Passenger Pigeon, a trek across Peru, and kayak birding at Kodiak Island. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Date published: 2011
Description: Very Good. Autumn 2011 Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Volume 30, Number 4, Autumn 2011. Single Issue Magazine. Color photographs. 45 pages. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Feature articles on the Imperial Woodpecker in Durango, Mexico, and the puffins of Eastern Egg Rock. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Date published: 2012
Description: Very Good. 2012 Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Living Bird, Volume 31, Number 2, Spring, 2012. Single Issue Magazine. Color photographs. 46 pages. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Feature articles on Penguins and albatrosses on Aotearoa, and the vanishing Philippine eagle. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780253127891ISBN:0253127890
Description: Very Good; Very Good Jacket. 1979 Indiana University Press. First Edition. First printing. Full number line on verso. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with red spine lettering. Blind-stamped publisher's logo on front cover. Black and white illustrations. Color plates. 274 pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Page edges lightly foxed. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has very light edge and surface wear, with light ... Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University
Date published: 1967
Description: Good. 1967 Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Softcover. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Color plates. 249 pages. Binding tight. Covers have very light edge and surface wear. Covers and page edges, and first and last page have some light foxing. Color plates have very light foxing in margins. Pages clean and unmarked. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pomegranate
Date published: 2017
ISBN-13:9780764933165ISBN:0764933167
Description: Very Good. 2017 Pomegranate. Small hardcover, 5 x 7, 75 inches, has thin pictorial paper-covered boards. 30 color illustrations by John James Audubon, and Audubon quotations. Includes over 100 pages for documenting sightings, Life List checklist of regularly occurring North American species, and birding information. Silver satin index ribbon. 144 pages. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Book is in excellent condition with only very light shelf wear. Back cover ... Read More
Edition: Illustrated
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
Date published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780668063012ISBN:0668063017
Description: Very Good+. 1986 Prentice Hall Press-Phalarope books. First Edition, stated. First printing. Full number line on verso. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Softcover. Black and white illustrations by Susan Maffet Peterson. 185 pages. Binding tight. Spine NOT creased. Book is in excellent condition with only some mild sunning to the top one inch of the back cover. Pages clean and unmarked. First Edition. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
Date published: 1902
Description: Good+; No jacket. 1902 Doubleday, Page & Company. Copyright 1898. NOT ex-library. Oversize hardcover, 7.5 x 10.25 inches, has beige buckram cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering on a brown leather spine panel. Top page edges are gilt. Color frontispiece with tissue guard. 48 glossy color plates. Spine title: "Game Birds". Introduction by G. O. Shields (Coquina). 359 pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped and rubbed. Front cover has a small ... Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: All-Pets Books
Date published: 1957
Description: Good. 1957 All-Pets Books. Softcover. Third edition. NOT ex-library. Color illustrations of parrots on front cover. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Spine creased. Covers lightly curled at corners. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. 80 pages. Personality and Training by Cessa Feyerabend; Maintaining Health by Irving E. Altman. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Arthur Barker
Date published: 1968
ISBN-13:9780213760373ISBN:0213760371
Description: Good; Good Jacket. 1968 Arthur Barker-Golden Press. The World of Animals series. NOT ex-library. Hardcover, 8 x 8.5 inches, has blue textured paper-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Color and black and white photographs. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Front cover slightly curved so it does not lie quite flat. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked. 96 pages. Dust jacket has overall ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc
Date published: 1965
Description: Very Good; Good Jacket. 1965 Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. Oversize hardcover has light beige-green cloth-covered boards with brown spine lettering and cover decorations. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Color plates. NOT ex-library. Drawings by Lou Schifferl. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Covers have very light surface and edge wear. Bookstore sticker on front endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked. 208 pages. Dust jacket has overall surface rubbing, ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc
Date published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780136237693ISBN:013623769X
Description: Very Good+; Very Good Jacket. 1969 Prentice-Hall, Inc. NOT ex-library. Oversize hardcover, 9.3 x 12.25 inches, has green cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering. Color illustrations by Marie Nonnast Bohlen. High-quality glossy paper. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Book is in excellent condition with only a hint of shelf wear at the spine ends. Pages lightly tanned at edges. A few pages have a very light sift crease from handling. Pages clean and unmarked. 340 pages. Glossy ... Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dial Press
Date published: 1973
Description: Good; No jacket. 1973 Dial Press. SIGNED by both author and illustrator on front free endpaper, with a personal inscription. First printing, stated. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Oblong hardcover, 9.25 x 8.75 inches, has pictorial paper-covered boards. Color illustrations by Donald Carrick. Unpaginated (32 pages). Binding tight. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. One-inch split in spine covering at top back edge of spine. Gift inscription on front free ... Read More
Description: Very Good; No jacket. 1972 Creative Educational Society, Inc. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Oblong hardcover has pictorial textured paper-covered boards with black spine lettering. Color illustrations by Edwin Lee Huff. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Covers have very light surface and edge wear. Covers have a few small stains, including one from a price sticker at top corner of front cover. Pages clean and unmarked. Endpapers have very light foxing and some tanning at edges. Unpaginated ... Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Date published: 1980
Description: Good. 1980 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Softcover. Black and white illustrations by Helen C. Strong. 207 pages. Binding tight. Covers have moderate edge and surface wear, with two staple holes in the front cover. Covers lightly curled at corners. Spine lightly sunned. Pages clean and unmarked. Biological Services Program, U. S. Department of the Interior. FWS / OBS-80 / 03. Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Viking
Date published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780670879182ISBN:0670879185
Description: Very Good-; Good-Jacket. 1999 Viking. Sixth edition. Green flexible vinyl covers with white lettering. Color illustrations throughout. High-quality glossy paper. Corners lightly bumped. Vinyl cover is wrinkled at bottom front edge. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. 440 pages. Glossy color illustrated dust jacket has light edge and surface wear and has surface crinkling at corners and edges. Simpson & Day Field Guide to the Birds of Australia. Includes dust jacket. Read More
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Industrial Publication Company
Date published: 1885
Description: Good; No jacket. 1885 The Industrial Publication Company. First Edition. Hardcover has brown cloth-covered boards with blind-stamped plain border and gold spine lettering. Black & white illustrations. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Covers soiled with a few small stains. Page edges lightly foxed. Pages very lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Some pages have finger smudges, darkened with age, or other small ... Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Storybook Publications
Date published: 1974
Description: Very Good. 1974 Storybook Publications, Norfolk, Virginia. SIGNED by author on title page, not personalized. NOT ex-library. Softcover, with stapled binding. Yellow glossy cardstock covers with brown photographic illustrations and brown lettering. Black and white photographs. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Pages clean and unmarked. 81 pages. Signed by Author. Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Sohio Alaska Petroleum Company
Date published: 1985
Description: Very Good. 1985 Sohio Alaska Petroleum Company. Softcover, with stapled binding. Oversized, 8.5 a 10.75 inches. Color photographs and illustrations. Maps. High-quality glossy paper. 36 pages. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Covers have light edge and surface wear. Small stress bends at spine edge. Light curl to bottom corner of the front cover. Pages clean and unmarked. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Keith Taylor
Date published: 1990
Description: Very Good. 1990 Keith Taylor. Revised Second Edition. Softcover. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Black plastic comb binding. Maps. Binding undamaged. Cardstock covers have light edge and surface wear. Pages clean and unmarked. 167 pages plus index. Full title: A Birders Guide to Costa Rica: An Introduction to Bird Finding; A Self-Made Tour for the Independent Birder. Read More
