Toronto: Stoddart, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full blue cloth. 208 pp. [32] pp. colour photos. Light toning to interior. Fine. Ten years ago Douglas Adams wrote a story about the world being unexpectedly demolished by hideous creature from another planet. It was meant as a joke. Now, animal by..... More
London: Allen Lane, 1977. Wainwright, A. 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full brown cloth. xii, 461 pp. B&W illustrations. Some light bumping and age toning to edges of dust jacket, else a fine copy. The third novel from the author of Watership Down. Set..... More
Secaucus, N.J. Wellfleet Press, 1989. Hardcover. 4to. Full black cloth boards, gold lettering to spine. 440 p.p. Copiously illustrated in colour. Foxing to top edge, scuffing to tail edge, one very small spot of wear to spine foot. Dust jacket has sticker ghost to upper front cover in the corner..... More
London: Printed for T. Boosey, 1817. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter navy leather, red spine label, marbled paper boards. Deckled edges. l, 184 pp. Professionally rebound, new endpapers. Interior is foxed and lightly stained commensurate with age. Else fine. Article about hydrophobia (rabies) laid in. More
London & Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis. MacGoun, H.C. Preston. Hardcover. 3.5" x 7.25" N.d., [ca. 1905? No later than 1912 per ownership inscription]. Orig. grey cloth, colour pictorial onlay to front board, gilt titles. 47 pp., [6] colour illustrated plates. Foxing to cloth, wear to corners, rubbing to extremities, spine tilted..... More
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Signed copy. 115 p.p. Green leather binding with gilt titling on spine. Minor rubbing to spine ends. Illustrated dust jacket has minor wear at edges and spine ends, price clipped. B&W illustrations throughout. Text bright and clean. More
New York: D. Appelton and Company, 1864. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 324 p.p., [6]. Quarter bound in black cloth with grey cloth boards, guilt lettering to spine. With 24 plates, and numerous engravings on wood, comprising in all above two hundred figures. Pencil inscription to flyleaf. Advertisements to endpapers. Tipped-in..... More
Kenilworth, Warwickshire: The British Horse Society, 1958. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 16mo. Orig. card wraps. 55 pp. B&W illustrations. Damp stained throughout. Covers are creased. Stamp of The Villager Tack, Leather and Gifts, Pickering, Ontario to rear. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1986. Bentley, Nicolas. Soft cover. 12mo. Paperback, 59 p.p. Light wear to extremities, stain to fore edge of front cover, sticker ghost to rear. damp stain to foot at inner margin. These loveable cat poems were written by T.S. Eliot for his godchildren and friends in..... More
Wilmette, Illinois: Chiron Publications, 1992. Soft cover. Paperback. xi, 141 p.p. A seminar given by Barbara Hannah, associate of C.G. Jung and analyst Barbara Hanna, at the Psychological Club in 1954 about the images of cats, dogs, and horses in psychology and culture. Light rubbing to covers. Slight bruising to..... More
Scranton: International Textbook Company, 1910. Hardcover. 8vo. Half black leather, aubergine pebbled cloth boards. Speckled edges. Illustrated endpapers. viii, 45, 40, 38, 34, 35, 54, 46, 42, 40, 41, 35, 38, 40, 40, 49, xxxiv. B&W illustrations. Includes test questions and index. Leather is rubbed. Some light staining to rear..... More
[El Paso?]: Cichlid Press, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). SIGNED by author to title page. Pictorial glossy paper boards. Pictorial endpapers. 272 pp. Fully illustrated with more than 900 photos in colour. Front board slightly bowed. Fine overall. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1919. Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [xi] 472 p.p. Original green cloth with gilt titling on spine and bline tooled panel and device to boards. Scuffs to boards, bumping to cornes, rubbing to spine ends. Bookplate and ink ownership inscription of Paul W. Gregory, Bussey..... More
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full green cloth. Very minor rubbing to spine ends and corners. "Sale" stamp to tail edge of text block. Ink ownership inscription and previous price stamp to ffep. Else fine. More
Toronto: The Ryerson Press. Copeland, Charles. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. N.d., [ca. 1935]. Full green cloth, black stamped lettering and animal vignettes to spine and front board. 256 pp. Colour frontis + B&W illustrations in text. A few bruises to extremities, white scuff marks to rear..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901. Hardcover. 12mo. 147 p.p. B&W illustrations + four unnumbered plates. Burgundy cloth pictorial stamped boards. Bumping to spine ends and corners, a few patches of rubbing to front board and some scuffs to rear board. These stories, selected from those published in "Wild Animals..... More
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2000. Hardcover. 16mo. SIGNED by author to half-title. Brown cloth boards. 188 p.p. Crease to front flap of dust jacket, else near fine overall. A wild and wacky adventure along the road of man and beast in cohabitation. More
Oshawa, Ontario: The Alger Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Limited First Edition SIGNED by both authors to FFEP, copy #425. vii, 384 p.p. B&W photos throughout. Green cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Light bumping and rubbing to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket sunned to spine, bumped..... More
Whitehorse, Yukon: Wolf Creek Classics. Soft cover. 8vo. [2001]. Soft cover. xvii, 289 pp., [11] B&W photo plates, plus B&W frontis. Reprint of the 1928 tale of a dog-musher durking the Klondike and Nome Gold Rushes. More
Detroit: F.B. Dickerson Company, 1904. Hardcover. 8vo. SALESMAN'S COPY. A collection of sample pages and plates from the full volume of The Practical Stock Doctor. Irregular pagination. [88 sample pages of text] Samples of eight colour plates + 19 B&W plates. Includes a general index for the full volume. Teal..... More