Dr. Tanaka's Japanese Fishes in Life Colours by Tanaka, Shigeho - 1930

Wellington, NZ: NZ Dept of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1965. Cream heavy card wraps with Red cloth spine (initials to front) pp 283 with 21 tables and 43 figural illus including many maps. Very tight and clean with presentation slip tipped in to ffep. Overweight #New Zealand History#. First Edition. Quarto Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Frederick A. Stokes. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers have some rubbing to edges w/tiny bit of fraying, top edge of rear cover has small bump, owner's name erased on FFEP, little bit of light soiling, page ends lightly toning, front interior hinge just starting to crack; 1 fold-out map in rear has small taped tear; green decorative cloth covers; The Story of Exploration; 341 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Pulitzer Prize winning novel from the author of "Goodbye Columbus." A tight very near fine copy in creme colored printed wrappers that are very lightly soiled. The trade edition had a first printing of 100,000 copies and the proof would have been done in a tiny fraction of that.

New York: Harper & Row. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Book is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges, bumping to spine ends, mild soiling to end papers, covers and spine else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in VG condition - price clipped with light rubbing to edges, bumping to spine ends else bright and intact. Book is housed in publisher's slipcase. Slipcase is in VG condition with light rubbing and soiling to edges & extremities else bright and sturdy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall .

Bowers Museum. Near Fine in Fine dustjacket. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Book is in NF condition with light rubbing to edges, 2 small dings to top edge else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in FINE condition - bright, intact and whole.; Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall .

Text is clean & tight & unmarked. Multiple creases of all four cover corners—front & back, ranging from tiny to four inches long. Bumping & creasing of page corners—lower corners more than upper corners. Creasing along free edge of pp 31, 47, 53, 63, 69, 127, 133, 147, & 237. Some sun-toning along spine.

Barcelona, Spain: Institut de Ciencies del Mar, CMIMA-CSIC, 1995. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. As New/Near Fine. Book is without flaw. Dust jacket has light handling wear to the top edge. Illustrated with charts and graphs. 11.5 inches tall. 659 pages with author and subject index plus other materials.. Text is in English. A series of articles presented at the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

DENSLOW, W[illiam] W[allace]. Scarecrow and Tin-Man. Illustrated by Mary and Wallace Stover after Denslow. Slovenly Peter. NY: Perks Publishing [1946]. 8vo, [24]pp. Color pictorial paper wrappers. Two-color illustrations on every page. Sheets aged, as always, else an unusually fine copy with crease to lower front corner and minute edge wear.
First edition thus. Eight vintage children's tales illustrated by the Stovers. The title story for this collection was originally published in 1904 by G.W. Dillingham, telling the story of the two titular characters as they escape from the Broadway theater where they are appearing. Denslow created this work, which makes no reference to Baum's story – just the Broadway show – as part of their on-going dispute due to their sharing the copyright on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This 1946 edition features new artwork modeled after Denslow to accompany the story, as well as seven other stories of the "cautionary tale" genre including Slovenly Peter and Slovenly… Read More

BRADLEY, Kimberly Brubaker. Fighting Words. [NY]: Dial [2020]. 8vo, 271pp. Blue boards with spine stamped in light blue. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Signed by two-time Newbery Honor author Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.
First edition. 2021 Newbery Honor Book! Ten-year-old Della has always had her older sister, Suki: When their mom went to prison, Della had Suki. When their mom's boyfriend took them in, Della had Suki. When that same boyfriend did something so awful they had to run fast, Della had Suki. Suki is Della's own wolf – her protector. But who has been protecting Suki? Della might get told off for swearing at school, but she has always known how to keep quiet when it counts. Then Suki tries to kill herself, and Della's world turns so far upside down, it feels like it's shaking her by the ankles. Maybe she's been quiet about the wrong things. Maybe it's time to be loud.

Pretoria: Transvaal museum [0 620 02081 4] 1976. (Folio hardcover) 33, [61]pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Plain white boards. Illustrated endpapers, portrait on title page, family photograph, 61 pagees of samples of work by Finch-Davies including 16 full-page color illustrations, list of known paintings by the artist. Minor edgewear to the top of the jacket and the front cover is slightly splayed. Biography of Claude Gibney Finch-Davies. Locale: South Africa. (Natural History, Artists--South Africa, Birds, Wildlife Art--South Africa).