Tertiary History of the Grand Canon [Canyon]; with Atlas by Dutton, Clarence E - 1977

Peregrine Smith, 1977-01-01. hardcover. Good. 9x6x1.

Peregrine Smith. Good+. 1977. Hardcover. 0879050314 . 1977 facsimile edition. This is the text volume only. Ex-library sticker at the bottom of the spine. The spine was spilt at the front joint and I reglued it with archival glue. The binding is tight. Sold as it. Still a good reading and reference copy, just aesthetically looks rough on the spine. ; 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches; 264 pages .

In overall good condition, no pages missing. Shipping can take between 2-6weeks for international deliveries. Hardback copies may or may not have dust jackets, please get in contact for more information.

Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith. TWO volume set. ATLAS: Fine half brown leather over linen boards. Poor slipcase. Volume II: Fine hardcover with very good slipcase. . Fine. Half-Leather Slipcase. First Thus. 1977.

U.S.A.: Peregrine Smith, 1977. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. BC16H Two fine volumes in fine slipcases in open shrinkwrap. Number 633 in an edition of 1500.

Peregrine Smith, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Association copy, inscribed as a gift on the front free endpaper by David Brower, the first and longtime executive director of the Sierra Club: "For Karen Gosling, with every best wish, presumptively, David R. Brower (who likes the grand canyon, too), January 31, 1986." Gosling was the original office manager for the Earth Island Institute, the environmental project incubator which Brower founded in 1982 and which is still going strong. Gosling joined in 1986 (which perhaps explains that "presumptively," if Brower was recruiting her), and went on to be its longtime membership director. An unlikely signature in this volume, on the one hand, and yet Brower was instrumental in protecting the Grand Canyon from dams (after losing Glen Canyon), and famously was profiled by John McPhee in *Encounters with the Archdruid* rafting through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado with Bureau of Reclamation Director Floyd Dominy (the arch dam-builder). Thus a… Read More

Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.

YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., 1976. Good. Softbound limp edition. Cased edition also available Illustrations by Peter Stebbing 1976. Limp. Good. Peter Stebbing.

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.

By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.

New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket and mylar cover. Signed by author on title page. Dust jacket has sticker residue over the price, otherwise no wear or soiling present. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pp; Signed by Author .

Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. Unabridged. Please see our stock photo. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY.

Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."

Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, [1979]. Softcover book with pictorial wraps. 160p. B&W photos throughout text. This is the original printing, later reprinted by the University of Minnesota Press. Book has been well read and is in very good - condition with wear to the cover image along the edge and reading crease to front cover, corners bumped and shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked with light staining on the edge of a few pages. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.