Clayton, Ontario: Artists for Conservation, 2015. Large Hardcover.
No jacket. A very nice copy.
228 pp. Published as a companion to Artists for Conservation's annual exhibit, this book features artworks by members of the AFC. In addition, the book includes a tribute to the 2015 Artists for Conservation Festival and.....
New York: The Rural Publishing Company, 1893. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Bottom corner bumped, edges faintly foxed, otherwise an excellent copy.
387 pp. By the co-founder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. One of a series of volumes intended to catalog the development of American horticultural practices.....
New York: Orange Judd Company, 1894. Hard Cover.
Front free endpaper loose but included, ink name and ink stamp on title page and on rear free endpaper, a few pages toned.
vii, 179, 4 pp. By the co-founder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. The plan of these volumes.....
Washington D.C. Bituminous Coal Institute / National Coal Association, 1949. First Edition. Soft Cover.
First edition. Spine creased, wrapper edges rubbed.
192 pp. CONTENTS: Energy; Reserves; Panorama; Production; Labor and Safety; Transportation; Markets; Technology; Combustion; Chemistry; Finance; NCA; Glossary; Appendix; Index.
New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Former library copy - usual marks. Spine leans to the right.
204 pp. The exciting biography of the successful inventor-genius who is now nearing a major breakthrough in fighting air pollution with his Lear Vapor Turbine Engine
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Pleasantville, New York: Reader's Digest, 1998. 2nd Printing. Large Hardcover.
Second printing. No dust jacket.
160 pp. Exploring some of the world's most unusual ecosystems, hundreds of full-color photographs and illustrations capture the unique flora and fauna that exist in remote and isolated habitats, explore the interdependence of all living.....
New York: Boy Scouts of America, 1952. Stapled Binding.
Front wrapper rubbed, ink marks on requirements pages.
93 pp. A Boy Scouts of American Merit Badge pamphlet on soil and water conservation. "Get the dirt on soil and water! Using this pamphlet to earn the Soil and Water Conservation Merit.....
Sydney: Reed Books, 1982. 1st Printing. Soft Cover.
1st printing. Faint edge wear.
125 pp. Traces the history of the development of the natural resources of Antarctica and discusses the importance of the preservation of the continent's wilderness areas.
Cambridge: Nuttall Ornithological Club, 1886. First Edition. Half-Leather.
First edition. Bookplate of John E. Thayer on front endpaper. Thayer was an industrialist active in western railroad development, and also an amateur naturalist, collector, and author. He sponsored several scientific expeditions.
22, [22] pp. 4to. Leather spine and corners, marbled boards.....
New York: The John Day Company, 1930. Butler, Eva L. Small Hard Cover.
Includes paper jacket and onion skin jacket. Some chips and tears to onion skin jacket and paper jacket.
103 pp. On the beach, in the sea shallows, the tidepools, the wharf piles and eddies, live hundreds of.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1955. Howe, Katherine L. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1955 reprint. No jacket. Board edges rubbed.
vii, [1], 230 pp. 8vo. Illustrated endpapers. Author's second book. Carson would go on to write Silent Spring, which started the modern environmental movement as we know it, resulting in the.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1951. Howe, Katherine L. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition, second state (glossy boards). Very good in good jacket. Jacket foxed on reverse with faint ring stain on front panel, jacket toned, owner bookplate on front endpaper.
vii, [1], 230 pp. 8vo. Illustrated endpapers. Author's.....
New York: The Danbury Press, 1975. Revised Edition. Large Hardcover.
1975 revised edition. 20 volumes. Faint foxing to top ridges, light edge wear to some volumes.
20 volumes. An encyclopedia of the oceans, famed marine biologist and explorer Jacques Cousteau assembles an overview of everything there is to know about.....
Albany, New York: The University of the State of New York, 1916. Soft Cover.
One inch tear to spine head, wrappers lightly toned.
64 pp. Includes map. CONTENTS: Introduction; Location and Character; General Topography: Glacial Deposits; General Geology; Descriptive Geology: Precambrian Rocks - Igneous Rocks: Structures of the Precambrian Rocks.....
New York: Rodale, 2011. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
A candid and scientific look at the state of our oceans in the 21st century, and what we can do to keep them as a viable habitat.
. Smithsonian, 1994. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First Edition. Very light rubbing to rear jacket. Very Good.
Photographs and other information on natural disasters.
New York: Thomas Dunne / St. Martin's Press, 2008. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Bottom edge of front jacket panel bumped. Page ridges lightly foxed.
vi, 362 pp. "Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, pandemics, cosmic radiation, gamma bursts from space, colliding comets, and asteroids—these things used to worry us from.....
New York: Pantheon Books, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A fine copy.
xv, 200 pp. This book is written out of Gretel Ehrlich’s love for winter—for remote and cold places, and the ways in which winter frees our imagination and invigorates our feet.....
New York: North Atlantic Books, 2018. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Edges lightly worn.
303 pp. With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world leads to a lack of integration and our “fight” mentality. With an entire chapter unpacking the climate change denier's.....
Waltham, Mass. Chronica Botanica Company, 1943. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First American edition. A couple minor smudges on rear board, pages lightly toned, ink name on half-title page and title page.
xv, [1], 239, [1] pp. The first English translation of the work that took what was previously a subject.....
Boca Raton, Florida: CRC PRess, 2015. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A fine copy.
x, 418 pp. Insects represent the most abundant and diverse animal group on Earth. The number of described species is more than one million and up to ten million are estimated. Insects have one of.....
England: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. Trade Paperback.
Lightly rubbed, sticker on back cover.
238 pp. Explores links between environmental scarcities of key renewable resources_such as cropland, fresh water, and forests_and violent rebellions, insurgencies, and ethnic clashes in developing countries. Detailed contemporary studies of civil violence in Chiapas, Gaza, South Africa.....
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, pencil name on second blank and last page.
viii, 344, iv, [4] pp. "The front panel shows the interesting design of ever-smaller rectangles of black lines shrinking to outline the handsome small gilt picture of.....
London: Century, 1987. Large Hardcover.
Dust jacket clipped and taped to panels.
224 pp. The first and only English guide to the natural history of the USSR written by a Soviet naturalist, covering the whole panorama of wildlife, from the enigmatic Blakiston's Fish Owl to the elegant Goitred Gazelle. This.....
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1976. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Binding a bit shaken, 1 inch closed tear on front jacket edge, jacket faintly toned.
vi, 277 pages. Numerous photographs. "The ecologist author recounts the circumstances, conditions, and rewards of her life in an isolated log cabin in New.....