Original publisher's orange cloth binding in a white paper dust wrapper. Black lettering on spine of dust wrapper. Black-and-white illustration of a fox terrier on front panel of dust wrapper. 4 1/2" x 7." Eighty-eight pages, complete. One black-and-white, photographic frontispiece showing two pedigree fox terriers, complete. Back flap and back panel advertise other books about dogs. Pages are very clean and intact overall except for light age toning and offsetting on front and back pastedowns and toward inner hinges of front and back front and back free endpapers that is likely from th... View More...
Agricultural Extension Service, Circular 125. 47 pages; illustrations, tables. Paper wrapper. Deals with mixtures, land preperation, pasture management, legume and grass species, control of livestock parasites on irrigated pasture. View More...
Four volumes (parts), complete. Signed in black ink by Oliver Peebles Jenkins on front free endpaper and title page of Vols. I and IV as "O. P. Jenkins." Hubert Oliver Jenkins's bookplate tipped in on front pastedown of each volume: "A Memorial Gift, From the Library of Hubert Oliver Jenkins." Each bookplate has a black-and-white printed portrait photograph of Hubert. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Vols. 1-4 published 1896, 1898, 1898, and 1900, respectively. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4." All pages of all volumes, complete. Vol. I: lx, 1-1240. Vol. II: xxx, ... View More...
Original publisher's brown cloth binding. Gilt lettering on the spine. All edges stained red. 5 1/2" x 7." 230 pages, complete. One color frontispiece and many black and white illustrations, complete. Index in the back. Former owner's signature in pencil on the front free endpaper: "Josiah Keep, Sacramento, Cal." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Slight rubbing to the corners, edges, head and tail of spine, and front and back outer joints. A Fine copy. A shell identification guide replete with black and white illustrations interspersed among the text. On the title page is... View More...
Limited Edition, one of 225 copies printed. Original publisher's light brown paper-covered boards backed with medium brown cloth. Text and illustrations of different shells on front cover. 8 1/4" x 10 3/4." Twenty-five pages, complete. Small, black-and-white, decorative illustrations, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact. Covers are very clean and intact except for a few small marks to front and back. Binding is tight. A Fine copy. A lecture by Professor Josiah Keep in book form. Keep merges scientific study, descriptive prose, and lyrical poetry in this homage to shell... View More...
Original Walt Kelly's Pogo Mobile. Lacks original envelope and thread, else complete. Includes all twenty-two cardboard pieces and original metal bar that centers the mobile. No date, circa 1954. Various sizes ranging from about 1" x 1 1/2" (blackbird or Cowbird) to 9 1/2" x 6 1/4" (cow). Cardboard pieces are very clean and intact overall but show slight age toning and cracking in some spots. All of the pieces appear intact but some may need to be reglued or repaired in the future. Each cardboard cutout, the metal bar, and the entire set are Very Good. A unique item, Walt Kelly's Pogo ... View More...
Agricultural Experiment Station, Circular No. 257. 23 pages; illustrations, tables; paper wrapper. Circular is to introduce farmers to the small-seeded horse bean as a winter green manure crop and as a ration crosp for stock. View More...
Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Original tipped-in color plate on front cover of one of the titular "water-babies." 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 270 pages, complete. Eight full-page color plates, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Pages have the occasional small pencil annotation and a tear affecting Pages 111-112 (a portion appears to have been punched through; text is still complete and readable). Covers have slight wear to the extremities. A Very Good copy. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) was an English author, prof... View More...
Limited Edition. No. 231 of 300 copies. Missing dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on a front flyleaf in blue ink. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine and decorative texturing. Black-and-white printed photograph of a beautiful sunroom on front and back endpapers. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2." 222 pages, complete. Twenty-three full-page plates, including an extra plate facing Page 58, complete (except for a listed illustration on dust jacket, not included). All plates are in black-and-white except for the color frontispiece which shows one of the autho... View More...
Illustrated cloth. Illustrations. White stains to bottom of spine and partial bottom edge of back cover. Small brown stains to pages 44-49. As stated in the Preface the contents of this book are based upon "the experiences of men who have contribute d articles on the different branches of fur farming to the Hunter-Trader-Trapper for publication". Chapters describe feeding, breeding, enclosures, dens, diseases and remedies for fur animals such as silver fox, skunk, mink, marten and fisher, muskr at, raccoon and opossum with a few hints on the otter. View More...
111 pages; appendix, index; unbound (5 1/4 x 8 1/2 inch) with title on the cover. Concerned with animal chemistry and an early study of the chemistry involved. Very good clean copy. View More...
Original green cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine. 6 1/2 X 9 1/2 inches. 307 pages. Copy has 8 color plates. All plates are present and fully intact. Copy also has numerous smaller black and white illustrations throughout. William J. Long (1866-1952) was an American writer, naturalist and minister. The bottom of page 103 is slightly torn. Text and / or illustrations are not affected. Some chipping, creases and worn spots on dust jacket. Dust jacket is in mylar. Pages are very clean and complete. Binding is tight. View More...
Original publisher's green boards backed with green cloth and blue and white dust wrapper. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4." 145 pages, complete. Gilt lettering on spine. Front endpaper has a black and white illustrated map of the Compton Course. Pages and covers of book are very clean and intact. Book is a fine copy. Dust wrapper is Very Good and clean and intact overall. Dust wrapper is not price-clipped and has no remainder marks but has some chipping along the extremities. Right Royal is a narrative poem and is about a steeplechase and the relationship between man and nature. John Masefield (1878... View More...
68 pages; paper wrapper with title on the cover (5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inch). Auction catalogue of 65 lots of short horn cattle. Handwritten in pencil of the purchase price with name of person who bought the animal. Evidence of having been folded before. Prices brought are from $75 to $430, though most are in the $150 range. View More...
Original publisher's gray wrapper. 6" x 9." Forty-seven pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, reprinted photographs, and fold-out maps. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Faint vertical fold line on the front cover. Descriptions, data, and statistics of different quail species in California. Maps also include various information such as the range of the Painted and Mountain Quail, the movements of the different quail species in California, and quail population numbers. View More...
'Publications - Bulletin of the Department of Geology, 7, No. 23' (December 22, 1913): pp. 435-441, 4 figures. Paper wrappers (6 3/4 x 9 1/4 inch) with title on the cover. Results from investigations near Barstow of Tertiary mammal-bearing beds in the Mojave Desert relating to horses. Very good clean copy. View More...
xvi, 540 pages; [4] pages ads in back; illustrations; appendix; publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering. former owner's signature on the front flyleaf. A history of the sport of Polo, rules, horses used, breeding. Foundational study of the sport of Polo in England, Europe, and the Americas. Very good clean copy. View More...
Two volumes in one. x, 295 pages; figures; index. xii, 348 pages; drawings, figures, maps; index. Quarter velum binding with leather spine label. The first part is a study of mineralogy and the second part is about natural history in all fields. Fine clean copy. View More...
Reprinted, February 1924, from FARMER'S BULLETIN, 666 (April 22, 1915). 10 pages pamphlet with former owner's signature at the top of front "Harold E. Thomas". Deals with losses, symptoms, diagnosis, prevention and eradication in animals, and its effects on man. View More...
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series, Vol. XXIII, No. 39, pp. 587-590, 1 text fig. August 22, 1944. Inked stamp imprint front cover. "This strange little characin forms one of the most distinctive genera of Tetragonopterinae, and one of the most easily recognized. Only three other genera of the subfamily have a projecting snout and inferior mouth." The author writes of: Rhinobrycon Myers, new genus and Rhinobrycon negrensis Myers, new species. View More...
