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New York: Avon Books, 1995. First Edition Thus with full numberline 8vo size trade paperback; 131 pages with several full page black and white illustrations. From back cover: "This is the chronicle of one woman's evolution from reluctant fly-fishing student to devout angler. But is is more more than her experiences as a woman in a male-dominated sport. (This volume) describes the careful composition of a life devoted to family as well as to the stream... and on understanding the passion she shares with her grandmother for hours spent at one with the natural world." Edgewear, toned pages with tanned margins, tanned inside covers. . First Thus. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1998. First Edition with full numberline. This is a First Thus edition. 8vo size trade paperback; 246 pages From back: "(This book) reveals a beach that is not merely a place, but a process that embodies the paradox of change and stability. With our understanding of that process grows the knowledge that our relationship with the beach, and with all of nature, with be partnership." Edgewear; slight curl to corners of covers; shelf soil to bottom fore-edge. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Quito, Ecuador: Imprenta Mariscal, 2009. 73 pages with color photographs and maps throughout Text is in Spanish Contents include: La improtancia de los bosques montanos en las Andes Tropicales Metodos Area de estudio Caracterizacion y distribucion de los bosques Construccion de un indice de presion Vulnerabilidad al cambio climatico Prioizacion Resultados Caracterizacion de los bosques montanos de los Andes Tropicales Diversidad, remanencia y representatividad en areas protegidas Factores de presion Sensibilidad potencial de los bosques montanos a procesos de cambio climatico Identification de areas prioritarias para conservacion de los bosques montanos Bumped corners and head of spine and small bump to top of back cover. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Pictorial Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Maine: Nature Conservancy, 1989. 127 bright, white pages with glossy color photographs and color cover. Second Edition. Published by the Maine Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. Tiny spot on title page. Edgewear. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. 2nd. Spiral. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co. Inc., 1935. Massachusetts Beautiful - written, illustrated and photographed by Wallace Nutting Flat Signed by author on fep. Second edition. One of the States Beautiful Series. 4to size clothbound hardcover with dust jacket. Two color jacket has black and white photo illustration. The author's photograph and brief biography appear on the back of the dust jacket. 250 pages with illustrations and photographs by the author covering all of the counties in Massachusetts. Many photographs and drawings illustrate a snapshot in time of a bygone landscape, now "re-developed" away. After his early retirement as a Congregational minister due to ill health, Wallace Nutting began taking landscape photographs. His photography business was incredibly successful, selling more than 10 million prints. Nutting was also an artist (you can see his work within this volume) who authored several books about beautiful landscapes in New England and… Leer más

New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. From jacket: "(the author) gives us his own experiences on the Matterhorn interlacing them with extracts from the diaries and recollections of man like Whymper, de Sassure, Mummery, Bonatti and Guido Rey." Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out; jacket covered with mylar. 221 heavy, glossy pages, profusely illustrated. No extra shipping charges if sent via US Media Mail. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Revised. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

New York: David White Company, 1970. 8vo sized hardcover with dust jacket; 186 pages with black and white illustrations. From jacket: "The unique value of My Backyard lies in its wonderfully concrete approach to the understanding of nature. Its observations, explanations and illuminations, are set in the framework of the author's personal experiences with the plant and animal life abounding on his own modest plot of land..." Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out; jacked covered with mylar. Pocket has been roughly torn from fep; tape transfer marks on endpapers. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/Good. Illus. by Victor, Joan Berg. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1965. From jacket: "Flies are the most formidable of man's insect enemies..." Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out; jacket covered with mylar. 324 pages with black and white photographs and illustrations. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. First American. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Pownal, Vermont: Storey Communications, Inc., 1992. 4to size trade paperback with color photo illustrated cover; 158 pages with black and white how-to illustrations by Brigita Fuhrmann plus a section of color photographs on glossy stock of finished items From back: "In the ancient tradition of using indigenous materials to create basket of beauty and practicality, seven contemporary basketmakers share their designs and techniques for making over 20 unique baskets from materials collected along roadsides and fields, in woods and your own garden. (This book) features baskets and garden ornaments of barks such as birch and red pine; grasses and leaves such as cattails, cornhusks, yucca, iris, and pine needles; vines such as red-twig dogwood, willow, and honeysuckle and horsehair." Materials include: Birch Bark Cattail Cornhusk Honeysuckle Vine Horsehair Pine Needle Red-Osier Dogwood Rye Straw Willow Edgewear, small crease across spine, bumped bottom left corner of cover and inside edge of… Leer más

1982. 4to size pictorial hardcover with matching dust jacket; 147 heavy weight, glossy pages with full color photography throughout. There are many full page photos. From jacket: "(This) is a book for those who love flowers, birds, the forest floor, and the seashore. It is for those who love walking a woodland trail, or canoeing a wilderness pond. IT will show you what to look for on these excursions and how to appreciate even the smallest of nature's creations. While not a textbook, it contains a large selection of wild flowers, including orchids, with descriptions, some botanical information, and the type of habitat in which they may be found... Wading and water birds are including, with a description of bird migration by Rachel Carson. Jacket has edgewear and a one inch tear on top of front. Book is edgeworn with lightly bumped bottom corners. . Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Calvert, Mary. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Flat signed on tile page. First Edition with full numberline 4to size pictorial hardcover with matching dust jacket; 32 pages with color illustrations throughout. Green endpapers. From dust jacket: "A nighthawk swoops though the sky catching insects, a family of rabbits peeks from between spikey thistle leaves, and nearby caterpillars await the moment they will emerge from their chrysalises as beautiful Monarch butterflies... You don't have to go far to enjoy nature. It's right in your own neighborhood." Light wear to jacket. . First. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Grove Press, 2001. In very good condition; appears to have never been opened, but does have some light soil to edges. 345 pages with section of black and white photographs. From back cover: "Neutral Buoyancy tells the history of undersea exploration and the emergence of diving culture, beginning with the sponge divers who Aristotle witnessed using iron cauldrons to hold air underwater in the fourth century BC through the development of today's sophisticated scuba gear. Along the way, journalist and diver Tim Ecott intersperses the stories of his own thrilling adventures, taking you from the waters of the South Pacific to the remote islands of the Seychelles, while recounting divers in the clear flowing tides of Sardinia and a near-death experience in the cold gray depths of the English Channel.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1878. 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with gilt titles; 548 deckled edge pages. Profusely illustrated with black and with engravings and drawings. Ex-library with typical treatments. Split inside front hinge exposes webbing, board is firmly attached. Booksellers pencilled prices on fep. Dewey decimal number on title page along with small spot (this and sticker on spine are only indications of ex-library.) Blue cloth covers are darkened with wear, soil and some blistering. Gilt titles still bright. Quarter inch section missing from bottom of spine, sticker on spine, tear across spine (unmended) about an inch down from top; chips at top of spine; bumped corners; some light tanning on first few and last few pages. Pages are remarkably bright for a book aged 130 years. Small chip off top back. We noted a couple of words underlined in pencil on page 143. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.… Leer más

New York: Atheneum, 1966. 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 423 pages with red topstain and black and white illustrations; endpapers are maps. From jacket: "... (includes) the works of 14 great writer-naturalists of whom some are as well known as Gilbert White of Selborne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Gerard Manley Hopkins, and some as (undeservedly) little known as John Leonard Knapp, Philip Henry Gosse and Charles George William St. John. Each set of selections has a preface by Professor Johnson, who also provides a fascinating general introduction which comprehends the writers and their time." Ex-library with typical treatments; jacket is covered with mylar. There is a small area of shelf soil at bottom fore edge and tanned marks on inside covers and endpapers caused by cello tape used to hold on the dust jacket. Endpaper maps are obscured by library treatments; red topstain is faded. . Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

New York: Atheneum, 1984. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 113 pages with blue topstain. There are some black and white illustration and drawings within the text. From dust jacket: "A field guide to the perils of the natural world, including relentless ants, falling stars, disgusting mold, the neighbor's dog, calving glaciers, poisonous toads from South America, mysterious lawn ornaments, total strangers who ask, 'Is it hot enough for you?' - and everything else under the son." Jacket is sunned and chipped at head and heel of spine. We note taped repairs and light foxing on the blank reverse of the jacket. Penciled notations on fep, abrasion on the bottom, back inside fold of jacket and creased bottom corner of inside front fold of jacket. There is a light spot to blank rep and some light soil to dust jacket. . Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Canada: Footprint Publishing, 1984. 143 glossy pages loaded with color photographs. Inscription on fep. Light edgewear at top. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 2015. Nature's Year in a Downeast Village Winner of the Editor's Book Award 8vo size trade paperback; 261 pages with some black and white woodcuts by Jonathan Fisher. Fep is black and white map. From back: "Certain places, particularly mountains, make us more vulnerable to the holy. This vulnerability is a real phenomenon, not some flighty romantic notion. And it is a spiritual resource fully as valuable as a so-called 'natural resource.' Some places are sacred places, not poetically or figuratively speaking, but actually, concretely sacred." Edgewear, curled corners of front cover and first few pages. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Fisher, Jonathan. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1968. From flap: "Until a short time ago, the tiny inhabitants of the soil beneath your feet remained a relatively unknown chapter in the study of biology. Knowledge of the life and behavior of these light-shy creatures is now being made available to us through controlled breeding and new methods of observation." 144 bright, white pages with black and white photographs. Ex-library with typical treatments, many blacked out; jacket covered with mylar. Small chip to mylar in front and larger chip to mylar on back. Fep has rough areas where pocket was removed, penciled initials and some tape transfer from mylar cover. Quotes are for illustrative purposes and remain the property of their respective copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Grondahl, 1975. Foreword by Trygve Bratteli, Prime Minister of Norway 8vo size trade paperback with color photo illustrated covers; 85 pages illustrated throughout with black and white photographs and several full page black and white maps Contents include: Geography and climate Flora and fauna History The Treaty of Svalbard Environment protection Svalbard community Exploration and research Overall wear to covers, edgewear, quarter inch tear in the right margin of front cover, creases on front and back cover, bump to bottom corner of back cover and inside bottom corner of pages, penciled price on front cover. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2001. First Edition, 2nd printing 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 273 pages including index From dust jacket: "(The author) brings the heart of a pioneer to the suburbs in New York. Consider this: It costs 435 fossil fuel calories to fly a 5 calorie strawberry from California to New York It takes 3 pounds of wild caught fish to raise 1 pound of farmed salmon Apple juice labeled as 100% natural may be reconstituted from concentrates originating in China, India and the Philippines You can eat a full, rich diet of locally grown, organic foods - all year round!" In great condition, we note only some teeny spots, which may be foxing, on top of book. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.