The Giant Panda [Pictorial China brochure no. 64]
Beijing: China Pictorial, [1985]. 12-panel pictorial brochure, with color photos of pandas and text describing efforts to save them. More
Cat.No: 216176
Beijing: China Pictorial, [1985]. 12-panel pictorial brochure, with color photos of pandas and text describing efforts to save them. More
Cat.No: 216176
Chicago: A Century of Progress International Exposition, 1933. 64p., softbound pamphlet or magazine, b&w illustrations with 11x8.5 inch cover in colors. Spinefold is split 2 inches at the tail with other shorter splits, somewhat edgeworn with a bit of external grubbiness, mild crimpings within, a good-only copy. More
Cat.No: 208276
San Francisco: San Francisco Zoo, 1964. 52p., staplebound booklet, lower left corner has a stain.. Black and white photos of anumals and attractions. More
Cat.No: 251958
Gainesvill: University Press of Florida, 1997. Hardcover. xix, 162p., foreword, preface, introduction, conclusion, notes, bibliography, index, illustrated with figures and plates, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 226813
New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xxi, 330p., illustrated with many tables, line maps, and site & animal photos; hardbound, first edition red boards with red cloth backstrip and glossy dust jacket. Item is from A. Starker Leopold's personal collection with handwritten note to that effect (looks like his hand)..... More
Cat.No: 240206
Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, The Natural History - Geographical Subject Group, 1972. 439p., in-text illustrations from photography, diagrammatic sketches, and maps; softbound in 9.2x6.7 inch wraps, cover shows slight edgewear and handling soil, a clean, sound, very good copy. More
Cat.No: 190014
Orissa, India: Smt. Shantilata Das, undated, circa 1980. 126p., sewn signatures in 8.5x5.5 inch decorated wraps; somewhat worn, with wrinkled lamination and a small snag at the heel, some offset color inside front cover but essentially sound and clean. Cover illustration shows mother and child. More
Cat.No: 170152
Logan UT / Starkville MS: Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, and Jack H. Berryman Institute, 2003. Paperback. 240p., illustrated with numerous animal and site photographs, in both color and b&w, a line map in colors, and tables; printed on high-gloss alkaline paperstock throughout. Softbound in 10x8 inch colorphoto..... More
Cat.No: 240210
Belen NM: Buckethead Enterprises of Oz, 1997. Paperback. 130p., illustrated with amateur sketches and cover collage in color; softbound, 8.5x5.5 inch glossy wraps, entirely sound and clean, a fine copy that is autographed by author Evans on the terminal leaf with hand-penned contact information. The Cowardly Lion "beheads" a large..... More
Cat.No: 193895
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965. 108p., first edition 10x6.8 inch plain printed grey wraps, a very good copy. The chapter on comparative phalloi and vaginae is my favorite, so far. Pubs in zoology volume 77. More
Cat.No: 166946
Beijing: China Forestry Publishing House, 1991. Hardcover. 121p., coated paperstock throughout with profuse captioned color photography and a line map. Hardbound in 11.5x9 inch textured boards gilt and color dust jacket, jacket shows a little edgewear, entirely sound and clean, a very good copy. Pandabears are not neglected, but find..... More
Cat.No: 184480
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948. Paperback. viii, 141, viii, 143-301p., sewn signatures, illustrated with numerous diagrams, line-drawn maps and a few plates, text reproduced from double-column typed ms. Softbound in plain printed cardstock covers with black binder's-tape backstrip; v:II bears a small ding to its backstrip, otherwise both items..... More
Cat.No: 239489
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1906. 126p., folded map and plates as called for, hardbound first edition 7x5 inch red cloth boards titled gilt and panelled blind. Spine fabric is quite sunned and fragile, with tears and fraying along top and tail. Cover a little dirty. Threads are weak and..... More
Cat.No: 209164
Washington DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1936. vi, 159p., illustrated from b&w photography (mostly site photos), softbound in plain printed 10x6.5 inch grey wraps. A little toned and edgeworn, two ownership names in ink, a clean sound copy. Publication no. 481. More
Cat.No: 240363
Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1969. Pamphlet. 29p. (text & tables) + XIX (plates both diagrammatic and photographic), large sewn pamphlet in plain printed 10.5x7 inch wraps. Cover bears an ownership signature and a few mild smudges, inside find booksellers' marks on first blank, a very good..... More
Cat.No: 229672
Mendocino: Published by the Author, 1970. Hardcover. 158p., profuse specimen-drawings are integrated with detailed text, with some nature scenes and one color plate (of Native American basketry). Seeing as how he was in charge, Helfer also printed a few of his odes to Nature, in haiku form. Hardcover, 11.25 x...... More
Cat.No: 82236
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 2000. Unpaginated, about 32p., profuse color illustrations with texts inset, a hardbound kids' book meant for grownups. Glossy color-image boards in ditto dust jacket, 9.5x10 inches, bravura illustrations showing weird undersea creatures and shipwrecks, a very good clean copy all round that is signed by..... More
Cat.No: 107502
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980. Magazine. 48p., magazine-format journal in 11x8.5 inch glossy wraps, coated paperstock with mostly b&w and some color exhibit photography; this issue devoted to netsuke. Has a bad small ding to back cover margin, is generally a little edgeworn and rubbed with a...... More
Cat.No: 229686
Denver CO: Sage Books, 1960. Paperback. 205p., illustrated with b&w photography, softbound in 8.5x5.5 inch wraps. A worn copy with small chip and tear at the heel, dots of foxing to terminal blanks, a hint of foodstain to back cover (Goldilocks' copy?) but text is unmarked, clean and sound, a...... More
Cat.No: 240721
Pacific Grove: The Boxwood Press, 1981. Paperback. xi, 425p., preface, species lists, index, illustrated with b&w photographs, figures and maps, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. The area studied and reported here is in terms of distance close to the Bay Area; coastal and inland geography render..... More
Cat.No: 159955
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1946. xi, 475p., semi-coated paperstock throughout with numerous site photos in the text, also diagrams and tables; a very good clean copy of the first edition, hardbound in green cloth boards gilt-titled. From the private library of A. Starker Leopold, Berkeley prof and conservationist, with..... More
Cat.No: 219600
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953. Hardcover. xiii, 567p., illustrated with b&w site and subject photos, diagrams, and plenty of tables. Hardbound in green cloth boards with titling and decoration in dark red, a bit worn with handling by previous owner (A. Starker Leopold, Berkeley prof and conservationist, his stamp..... More
Cat.No: 219088
Girard: Haldeman-Julius Publications, nd. Pamphlet. 64p., staplebound 8.5 x 5.5 inch pamphlet in decorated [series] wraps, somewhat browned and edgeworn, pages toned, small stain on rear wrap else good condition. Key to culture no. 7. More
Cat.No: 243514
Tokyo: Riverside Press 早川書房, 1996. 143p., very good in wraps. Text in Japanese. The focus of this richly illustrated book is on the dolphins of the Bahamas; it includes text narrating the author’s interaction with them in the course of fieldwork from 1985 to 1996. The author describes himself as..... More
Cat.No: 202260
San Francisco: Junior Academy, California Academy of Sciences, August, 1968. 20p., + two-page bibliography, 8.5x11 inches, very good mimeographed report in stapled wraps. Lists amphibian and reptile species found in the city, with discussion of their adaptation to the relatively urbanized environment. More
Cat.No: 198573