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Little Brown And Co. Boston, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Solid Copy, Book Plate With Name At Fep. Octavo. 1948 B & W Illustrations, Map Octavo, 1948, PP.338, D16b

Boston: Little,Brown and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1948. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full grey cloth, gilt lettering on blue panel on spine,blue decoration on spine,blue embossed medallion on cover. Illustrated with B&W photographs and maps. . Head and tail slightly worn, old dampstain and light soiling on covers, front hinge starting, otherwise unmarked, tight and square. VERY GOOD. . B&W Photographs and maps. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 338 pp .

Atlantic, Little Brown. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. First Edition :. Hardcover. Octovo hardcover, faint sunning on lower edge, else NFINE in bright colorful DJ, now in clear mylar. Fascinating life of one in search of biological specimens, from youthful age to adult, wild places over the earth, ants ants and much more. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

little, brown, 1948. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Two bookplates..

Boston:: Little, Brown,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. Hardcover. First edition. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (moderate edge wear with a few small chips) dust jacket. .

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press. Hardcover. 1948. 1st Edition. 8vo 338pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations Reminiscences of the Director of the National Zoo .

LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, 1948. Hardcover. Good. 1948. 338 pages. No dust jacket. Beige pictorial cloth. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Pages are clean and bright with a firm binding. Endpapers and page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. Boards are a little rub worn with slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are a mildly crushed, with small splits and chips. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Little, Brown. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Acceptable dust jacket. (nature writing, travel , exploration, zoologists)

Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1948. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover with dust jacket and inscribed and signed by the author on the front end page. The original price of $3.50 is still present on the front flap. DJ shows scuffing and soiling along with edge wear and tear. The reason for the low condition grade is because the underside of the jacket was neatly reinforced by three strips of masking tape. Over the decades the tape is become dry and brittle and the glue has darkened the outside of the jacket. Baby blue-gray cloth boards underneath are not affected by the tape and are clean. The only issues being there is fading along the edges and some light scuffing. The interior binding is good, no hinge issues. There is also small pen scribble on the jacket's front flap. No other handwriting or signatures noted. No bookplates, no library markings, no remainder marks etc. Stated first… Leer más

Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1950. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Later Printing. 8vo. 338 pp. This book was re-bound in red leather and red cloth and decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; brown endpapers; gilt upper edge; illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. It was used as a Harvard Prize Book and was presented by the Harvard Club of Miami to Clark Sutcliffe Reed by the Fort Lauderdale High School in May, 1950. Light edge and corner wear with some minor fading on the spine; aside from the presentation plate, no interior markings. William M. Mann was the fifth director of the National Zoo in Washington, DC. With his wife, he promoted the zoo and went on expeditions to collect live animals for display. The Chapters are: Runaway; Military School; Ranching; Special Agent and Expert; Armies of Ants; Presidential Passport; Dates for Bait; The Holy Man's Donkey; Bug Doctor; Human Meat Is Sweeter; Whales' Teeth; Beche-la-mer; Tree Ants; Lace-trimmed Frogs; and… Leer más

Little, Brown 1948. Stated first edition with a gift inscription signed by the author. Book is in good condition. Text is clean and unmarked. Boards and binding are sturdy. Light blue cloth covers are lightly faded around edges and show light shelf wear. Spine lettering is good. DJ worn with chips and tears, light soiling.

Paperback / softback. New.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1948. Gift inscripted and signed by the author. Blue cloth boards with small decoration on cover, blue title box with gold lettering on spine. Author's travels from his teenage years in a Military School in Virginia at the turn of the century to zoological collecting in Brazil, Haiti, the Near East, Fiji and Solomon Islands. the cloth is fading some otherwise the book would be fine. . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 338pp. Illustrated. Bookplate of collector and scion of the Chrysler family Walter P. Chrysler a bit zealously overglued and come loose, now neatly reattached to front pastedown. Binding lightly foxed, some offsetting on the endpapers, and a bit of the aforementioned glue offset onto the Inscription on the front fly, very good. Dustwrapper is just about very good with edgewear, a lightly sunned spine, price whited out, and a couple of tears. Briefly Inscribed to Walter P. Chrysler and his second wife Jean on the front free endpaper. Autobiography of the entomologist and director of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1948., 1948. First edition. 8vo. 6 illustrations; 5 maps. Original gilt and dark blue stamped gray cloth. Color pictorial dust jacket (unclipped). Very good-fine. No signatures or bookplates.. F. Hardcover.

Atlantic Monthly Press. Hardcover. Good. Good condition with light wear to DJ. Light markings and underlining to a few pages.

Hardback. New.

New.

Paperback / softback. New.

New.