Technical Bulletin No. 86. Pages 455-529, illustrations, tables, bibliography. Everything you would want to know about wood rats and the problems they cause to grazing stock in Arizona. Fine clean copy. View More...
'US Department of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 1091'. 40 pages; illustrations, maps; bibliography; tan paper wrapper. Joseph Grinnell's former copy, signed on the top of the front cover in ink. History of the Kangaroo Rat, its habitat, burrow systems, enemies, abundance and summary. Evidence of a slight fold along the lower right side of the pamphlet. View More...
New Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. ix, 172 pages; illustrations; rebound in 3/4 leather binding (minor wear along the edges). Original leather spine laid down on front flyleaf, former owner's bookplate on inside cover. Contents include general introduction on dogs and hounds; kennels - design and construction; types of food for hounds; illness and disease; treatment of young hounds; information on foxes and best way to hunt for them with dogs. Very good clean copy. View More...
Original trade card with a color illustration of a dog peeking at a box of bon bons with the caption, "It's not so much what he stands for as what he falls for.." No date, circa 1910s-1940s. 6" x 3 1/2." Printer's information in lower-left corner on illustration: "The Gerlach-Barklow Co., Joliet, IL." Trade card is very clean and intact except for edge wear, slightly bumped corners, and slight rubbing to front and back. A Very Good copy. Trade card for Warburton, Florist in Fall River, Massachusetts. The printer, Gerlach-Barklow Company, was founded in 1907 as a printing and advertising... View More...
New and enlarged (3d) edition. Illustrations. Gilt lettering and decoration on front cover and spine. 368 pages. Lacks front end paper. Tear to bottom edge of page15 and side edge of 281. Chapters include: Fine Wool Breeds; Mutton Breeds; Selection and Management; Care of the Ewe and Young Lamb; Summer Care and Management; Washing, Shearing and Marking; Flock Husbandry in the Western States; Western Lamb Feeding; Diseases of Sheep; Angora and Milking Goats; etc. View More...
Original publisher's brown cloth binding with multicolored dust wrapper that shows an illustration of a cat and a collaged scene with a horse, a building, and a group of people. Dust wrapper illustrated by Norman Green. Gilt lettering on spine of book. 5 3/4" x 8 1/4." 190 pages, complete. A couple pages in front list other books by P. G. Wodehouse. Back panel of dust wrapper shows a reprinted black and white portrait photograph of P. G. Wodehouse with his pet dog. Pages and covers of book are very clean and intact. Book has no wear but there is erasure on front free endpaper. Binding... View More...
Original trade card with a color illustration of a chick hatching out of an egg with a rabbit watching it nearby. Flowers surround the scene. Parts of the illustration are done in light relief. No date, circa 1890s-1910s. 6" x 4 1/2." The printer's name, "Bufford," is printed on front and may refer to the printing and publishing establishment of John Henry Bufford (1810-1870). Trade card is very clean and intact except for a few faint marks on front near the edges and a few small bits of paper stuck to the back. A Very Good copy. Trade card for the Woolson Spice Company. Printed on th... View More...
Publisher's green cloth binding with illustration of wolf stalking a deer on front in white, silver and brown. Rubbing, top corner bumped. Some splitting of spine. Inscription on front fly leaf, "W. M. Babcock Jr. July 27ty, 1899 From Grandma Babcock". 432 pages with 71 illustrations. Mabel Osgood Wright (1859-1934) was an American nature writer who was best known for her works on birds. This volume is an overview of North American mammals. View More...
