Structure, Verses, Agency Books

A Field Guide to the Birds of Australia

Pizzey, Graham · 1980

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Gift inscription at title page, previous owner's embossed owl sticker and ink-stamp prior, else, a clean, bright, tightly bound octavo hardcover copy. Green cloth, gilt ...

A Treatise on the Science of Muscular Action

Pugh, John · 1794

$156.00 (€141.54 | £118.08 | ¥24,911)

London, England, The Curwen Press, for the Editions Medicina Rara Ltd., . Facsimile Reprint. Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. If you don't normally purchase facsimile reprints, well, neither do I, but if you must, this is the one to purchase. Special Limited Editio...

Some Edible Mushrooms and How to Cook Them

Faubion, Nina Lane; L.K. Phillips, ed. · 1964

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Portland, Oregon , Binfords & Mort, 1964. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Meet the Morels, Chanterelles, Puffballs, Corals, Inky Caps and field mushrooms, the Boletes and smokey Puffballs. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover of the stated Second Edition,...

The World Begins Here: An Anthology of Oregon Short Fiction; Talking on Paper: An Anthology of Oregon Letters and Diaries

Love, Glen A.; Shannon Applegate and Terence O'Donnell · 1994

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Corvallis, Oregon, Oregon State University Press, . First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Two perfectly sound reference copies that made fine additions to the Oregon Literature Series; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Tall trade paperback format, both front...

Why Birds Sing: One Man's Quest to Solve an Everyday Mystery

Rothenberg, David · 2005

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2005. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked but for previous owner's ink-stamp at first free endpaper. Burgundy ...

Gulls: A Guide to Identification

Grant, P.J. · 1989

$18.40 (€16.69 | £13.93 | ¥2,938)

Calton, T & A.D. Poyser, 1989. Reprint of the Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated reprint of the Second Edition of this fabulously influential work, an extensively revised work and augmented with coverage of another eight gull species on the west coasts ...

A Ship Made of Paper

Spencer, Scott · 2003

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Ecco, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Third Printing of the First Edition, being a Finalist for the National Book Award. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket. Accordin...

The Cave

Saramago, Jose · 2002

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Harcourt, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First U.S. Edition, translated from the original Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998, the Portuguese author, born in 1922. Fine-looking, structur...

Everybody's Fool

Russo, Richard · 2016

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, though surely a later printing thereof, with no number line present. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, lightly sunned along edges, minimal rubbing to ext...

A New History of Jazz

Shipton, Alyn · 2001

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

London, Continuum , 2001. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A range of sharp and distinct black-and-white photographs augment this fine social history of music and jazz, a fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interi...

Pacific Destiny: The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon Country

Walker, Dale L. · 2000

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Tom L. Doherty Associates, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound in white cloth, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Fully intact, illustrated...

Population Ecology of the Cooperatively Breeding Acorn Woodpecker

Koenig, Walter D.; Mumme, Ronald L. · 1987

$10.40 (€9.44 | £7.87 | ¥1,661)

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Volume 24 in the Monographs in Population Biology series. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor green stain to fore-edge, small, little wear of covers and te...

Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese

Kessler, Brad · 2009

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Scribner, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The novelist Brad Kessler moved away from New York City with his wife the photograph Dona McAdams to a farm and learned how to live with and on herds of goats. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardco...

Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

Gould, Stephen Jay · 1998

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Harmony Books, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another in a long series of assembled essays from the pages of Natural History magazine by the acknowledged master of popular science essays, one of the longest-running series of such in academic...

The Island of the Day Before

Eco, Umberto · 1995

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, by Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1995. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First U.S. Edition, the true edition having been published the year prior in Italy. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if...

City of Girls

Gilbert, Elizabeth · 2019

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Riverhead Books, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear but for the diagonal crease to the purple pap...

Slowness

Kundera, Milan · 1996

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, HarperCollins, 1996. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First English Edition, being translated from the original French by Linda Asher. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jack...

Burning Down George Orwell's House

Ervin, Andrew · 2015

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Soho Press, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn. Illustrated endpapers front and rear. From the...

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Smith, Zadie · 2012

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Penguin Press, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A stated First Printing, First Edition, of yet another fine novel by an acknowledged master of literature. But for a fetching gift inscription, a fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, littl...

Empire

Vidal, Gore · 1987

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Random House, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, a bit worn, crinkled to front cover, two short, closed tear...