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Seattle, Washington: The Mountaineers, 1995. 5.25" wide by 8.25" tall. Clean, tight, square copy. Flat spine. Not price clipped (12.95). No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated throughout with photos and maps. From the rear cover: "An easy-to-use, comprehensive guide for first-time visitors or resident explorers." Index. Second printing. Softcover. Very Good condition. 240pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Arlington, Virginia: National Defense Industrial Association, 1998. 8.5" wide by 11" tall. Bright, clean, square, tight copy. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Flat, uncreased spine. Contains the proceedings/papers presented at the 24th Environmental Symposium and Exhibition, held April 6-9, 1998 at the Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, Florida. Contains nearly 100 papers including: SMART GIS MAPS PRODUCE BASEWIDE BENEFITS by Gary Bury; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACTIVITIES DURING OPERATIONS JOINT ENDEAVOR AND GUARD: A USAREUR / USACE PARTNERSHIP by Debra A. Dale and Garry C. Zettersten; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACTIVITIES DURING OPERATIONS JOINT ENDEAVOR/JOINT GUARD: THE EXPERIENCE IN HUNGARY by Garry Zettersten, Debra Dale, and LTC Eva Matrai; etc.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good condition.. 660pp..

New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1949. Fine condition. Flat spine. NO creases. NO chips. NO tears. NO rubbing. NO fading. Sharp corners. Clean, square and tight. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked -- apparently never read. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume 93: Article 1. Figures. Tables. Bibliography. Complete with 15 plates and 15 unnumbered pages of descriptive text facing the plates. Bound in the original blue wraps, stamped in black. 7.75" wide by 10.5" tall. . First Edition. Oversize Softcover. Fine condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 39pp. + 15 plates. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1961. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. Stamped "WITHDRAWN" on the endpapers. 6.75" wide by 10" tall. Inner hinges are perfect. Text pages are clean and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with line drawings and numerous photo micrographs. Tables. Bibliographical references. Index of Organisms. General Index. Bound in the original purplish-brown cloth, lettered in shiny gold over a black spine panel. The author, American microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman (1888-1973) was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in medicine for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No jacket. ix, 363pp.

New York: The New York Botanical Garden, (Addison Brown Fund), 1959. 7.5" wide by 10.75" tall. Illustrated with 8 full-color plates of flowers (#761-768). Laid-in is the title-page, table of contents, and index for Addisonia, Volume 23, 1954-1959. Original printed wraps. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. pp. (47)-64 .

Gabriels, New York: Adirondack Mountain Club, 1958. Appears unread. Fine condition. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp and clean - probably never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Contains 7539 entries, most briefly annotated, on the Adirondacks - their natural, social and economic history, geography, conservation, general and local history, archaeology, aborigines, mining, forestry, railroads, canals, folklore, hunting and fishing, Olympic games, and the Adirondacks in art and literature. Illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece map. Map. Index. Bound in the original gilt-stamped green cloth.. First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. 8vo. xviii, 354pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010. INSCRIBED: "For David Wake, With Highest Regards and fond memories of our tropical adventures together." Dated 12 April 2010 and SIGNED by the AUTHOR. From his New York Times obituary (May 19, 2021): "David Wake, an evolutionary biologist and a pre-eminent authority on salamanders who raised an alarm in the 1980s about the loss of amphibians to climate change… A longtime professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Wake used salamanders as vehicles to study how animals diversify and develop new species over millions of years. His focus was a family of species of lungless salamander called plethodontids… Dr. Wake named 144 salamander species, some of which he discovered, on his own or with colleagues. One, Nototriton wakei, was named for him. Two lizards and a frog also bear his name… Dr. Wake's research expeditions took him to the Appalachians, the Pacific Northwest,… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1959. Near Fine condition in a Near Very Good dust jacket (small chips and closed tears have been reinforced with clear tape on the blank side). NOT price clipped ($4.00). Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Drawing by Walter W. Ferguson illustrate all 31 chapters. Bound in the original green cloth, stamped in bright gold over a black panel on the spine. Complete with dust jacket.. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Ferguson, Walter W. 8vo. xv, 304pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Johannesburg, South Africa: Ad. Donner, 1976. A beautiful, pristine copy in perfect condition. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Eight chapters: Photographs in South African History; South African Pictures by Churchmen of the Nineteenth Century; Reprints of Africana Books; Botanical Illustration of South African Flowers; Johannesburg Newspapers and Periodicals, 1887 to 1899; Book-plates of South Africa; The Arts and Crafts of the Transvaal Ndebele; and Early South African Cartoons. With over 30 illustrations. Index. Bound in the original green boards, stamped in bright white. Complete with dust jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo. 189pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Waimanalo, Hawaii: Nitrogen Fixing Tree Association, 1990. Near Fine condition. Spine and top of rear cover are very slightly sun faded. Bright, square and tight. Flat, uncreased spine. Previous owner's name on title page. All other pages are clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Subtitle: "Proceedings of a Special Session on Agroforestry Land-Use Systems, American Society of Agronomy Annual Meeting, International Agronomy Section, November 28-29, 1988, Anaheim, California." Illustrated with b/w photographs. Tables. Bibliographical references. 6.5" wide by 10" tall. Bound in the original green pictorial wraps, stamped in black. From the intro: "Nitrogen fixing trees that are coppiced regularly to small hedges provide an 'alley cropping' farm system in which tropical corn yields can be markedly increased.". First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine condition. v, 112pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Franklin Watts, 1991. This is NOT a library discard. Fine condition in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Bright, clean, tight, and unmarked. Fresh and crisp, probably never read. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with charts, diagrams, and photographs. Glossary. Source Notes. Bibliography. Index. Summary: "Examines the growing problem of air pollution, its effect on the ozone and stratosphere and what we can do to improve air quality." Keywords: Air Pollution. Environmental Aspects--Juvenile Literature. Acid Rain. Smog Ozone. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's black cloth/Jacket not priced or clipped. 8vo. 144pp.

New York / London: Chapman and Hall, 1992. Near Fine condition. NOT a library discard. Bright, shiny, clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Hardcover. Bound in the original greenish-blue glossy laminated boards. Bibliographical references. Taxonomic Index. Author Index. Subject Index. From the rear cover: "Algae exhibit the greatest variety of cell motility phenomena in the living world. These range from gliding of filaments in the prokaryotic blue-green algae to the chloroplast movements and cytoplasmic streaming most common in higher plants. In addition cell movement by eukaryotic flagella is the characteristic motile behavior of algal flagellates and most reproductive cells of algae. These motility responses are regulated by light and have attracted much attention from cell biologists and photobiologists interested in the interactions between light,… Read More

Berkeley, California: Ten Speed Press, 1987. Fine condition. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Flat spine. 6" wide by 9" tall. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with 18 full-page photos. Although not stated as such, this is a facsimile reprint of the uncommon 1935 original [Boston, Massachusetts: The Christopher Publishing House]. . First Ten Speed Press Edition. Softcover. Original pictorial wraps/No dust jacket. 117pp. + 18 plates.

San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987. 6" wide by 9" tall. Appears unread. Clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. Pictorial cover is bright and shiny. Flat spine. No creases. Not price clipped (9.95). No remainder mark No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Environmental studies. "In ALTARS OF UNHEWN STONE, Wes Jackson issues an urgent call for a new view of contemporary agricultural problems. He combines findings from scientific and practical research conducted at the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, with a keen interpretation of pertinent literature to demonstrate the wisdom of traditional attitudes to farming, land and resource use, and the interrelations of cultural and biological communities… Calling for an agriculture that will not destroy human or biological communities, that will minimize soil erosion and reliance on chemicals and fossil fuels, that will preserve the information contained in the… Read More

Edinburgh, Scotland: Dunedin Academic Press, 2010. Cover is in Good condition with moderate shelfwear. Very Good inside. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. Profusely illustrated -- most in beautiful full color. From the rear cover: "Once a treasure more valuable than gold, amber has had a fascinating and turbulent history, a history that shaped the economies of the Baltic States. The mysterious qualities of Amber have caused it to be collected, treasured and admired since ancient times. Over thousands of years, many interesting theories have been advanced as to amber's origin and nature but, for all its varieties, colours and forms, every piece of amber originated as tree resin, fossilised over millions of years. AMBER - TEARS OF THE GODS is an extremely enjoyable introduction to this extraordinary substance, explaining exactly what amber is and where it came from. Neil Clark delves into the myths and legends which have contributed to the… Read More

Washington D.C.: National Wildlife Federation, 1984. Fine condition in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Sharp corners. No chips or tears. Not a remainder. No owner's name or bookplate. Photographs throughout in full-color. Oversize Hardcover. Oblong format. 10.75" wide by 9.25" tall. A captivating look at nature's mysteries, with details on the haunts and habits of the eagle, mountain goat, cougar, lynx, raccoon, deer, elk, otter, beaver, moose, prairie dogs, coyote, bison, fox, peregrine falcon, jackrabbit, desert tortoise, peccary, alligator, sea lion, elephant seal, tree-frog, swan, mink, mallard, heron, red-tail hawk, etc. Has chapters entitled: Land among the Clouds: The Mountains; Land of Endless Grass: The Prairies; Land of Little Rain: The Deserts; Land of Compromise: The Wetlands; At the Edge of the Land: The Coasts. Index. From the Dust Jacket: "A veritable showcase of the finest nature photography being done today...… Read More

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The American Rose Society, 1942. Very Good condition. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with many full-page photographic plates, including several fold-outs in beautiful full-color. Index. Bound in the original decorated tan cloth, stamped in green.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. 230pp. + 12 ages of ads.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The American Rose Society, 1941. Very Good condition. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with many full-page photographic plates, including several fold-outs in beautiful full-color. Index. Bound in the original decorated tan cloth, stamped in brown and shiny silver.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. 255pp. + 10 pages of ads.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910. Near Fine condition. Bright, clean, tight, unmarked copy. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Flat spine. No creases. No statement of edition or additional printings. Softcover. 5.75" wide by 9" tall. Bound in green wraps. See Bruns' Angling Books of the Americas (p.254).. 1910 edition. Softcover. Near Fine condition. 39pp + 10 plates.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The American Rose Society, 1943. Very Good condition. Moderate cover soil. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with many full-page photographic plates, including several fold-outs in beautiful full-color. Index. Bound in the original decorated pale yellow cloth, stamped in red and green.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. 238pp. + 7 pages of ads.