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Mother Earth - Original 32 Page softcover booklet (Published 1945) detailing establishment of The Soil Association of GB. The activity of this association was the catalyst for the organic production of crops. Includes articles on how the Association came into being (including the concept that the soil is a living entity) also articles on organic preparation and cropping, office holders etc. Important booklet. Rare. Size 21 x 14cm. Please note: Due to International mail delivery problems, we currently supply items only to Australian or GB addresses.
Geology of the Shenandoah National Park, VA by Thomas M. Gathright - 1976: Bulletin 86 - Division of Mineral Resources
by Thomas M. Gathright
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Geology of the Shenandoah National Park, VA: Bulletin 86 - Division of Mineral Resources
by Thomas M. Gathright
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Softcover edition in Very Good condition. Illustrated with b/w photos, illustrations and 3 folded charts (Like New) of mineral resources. The cover has a small blank sticker in the upper right corner. The charts are contained in a "pocket" attached to the inside rear cover. Charts are in New condition.
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- Keywords geology, mountains, minerals, Virginia
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Mother Earth - Introduction to the Soil Association: Concept & Formation
by E.B.Balfour - Soil Association Suffolk GB
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Reid Masselink, Twelve Paintings
by Alice Goldet
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Monograph of Reid's early inspirations translated in English on the verso and French on recto, followed by 12 pages of his landscape paintings focusing on trees. These are oil on canvas, painted en plein air. The cover has a minor sticker scar in top right corner and the covers are saddle stitched.
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
by Verne, Jules
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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Listening Point
by Olson, Sigurd F.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. Francis Lee Jaques. 242pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Bright green cloth over boards stamped in gilt and silver, with light wear to the extremities. In the illustrated price-clipped dust jacket, with darkening to the spine, and several closed and open tears to the edges. The most prominent tear is closed, measuring 2 1/2" deep. With 28 black-and-white drawings by Francis Lee Jaques. A first edition of the author's second book. "The book has prose that is close to poetry. The discerning eye of the naturalist is in every page. The color, breath, and sounds of the North Country are here in vivid form. Sigurd Olson is our modern Muir and Thoreau. He writes with depth and with feeling. This book of quiet adventure is hard to put down." - Justice William O. Douglas.
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Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale
by Peter Oikarinen
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Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, [1979]. Softcover book with pictorial wraps. 160p. B&W photos throughout text. This is the original printing, later reprinted by the University of Minnesota Press. Book has been well read and is in very good - condition with wear to the cover image along the edge and reading crease to front cover, corners bumped and shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked with light staining on the edge of a few pages. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation
by Peter L. Berger
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Palm Desert, California, United States
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This used paperback book is in very good condition. The pages are clean and neat. The binding is tight. The boards are clean inside and out.
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On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Reprinted from the sixth London edition with all additions and corrections
by Charles Darwin
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Salida, Colorado, United States
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New York: A.L. Burt, n.d.. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The covers are quarter bound leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering on the spine. The covers show rubbing which enhances the period appearance. Endpapers are marbled, gilt top edge, clean contents and a tight binding. This edition was part of the "Burt's Library of the World's Best Books" series and, unlike the typical A.L. Burt reprint, is bound in a high quality binding.
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The Polynesian Triangle
by Berry, Erick & Best, Herbert
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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A Guide to the Rudolph Zallinger Mural The Age of Reptiles in the Peabody Museum, Yale University. Discovery Supplement Number 1.
by (Zallinger, Rudolph) Ostrom, John H. & Theodore Delevoryas
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New Haven, CT: Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, 1966. 38-page pamphlet, wire-stitched. Original green wrappers printed in black. Folding plate depicting the mural and "Earth Clock". Pencilled number to the edge of the upper wrapper. A fine copy. Reissue of this illustrated visitor's guide to the magisterial Age of Reptiles mural in the Great Hall of Yale's Peabody Museum, written by John Ostrom, one of the most important palaeontologists of the 20th century. Originally published in 1966 in the same pamphlet form. A beautiful copy in unusually nice condition. "The Age of Reptiles mural is an artistic masterpiece and was, for its time, perhaps the most scientifically accurate representation of the Mesozoic world ever created" (Black, "Creating the Age of Reptiles", Smithsonian Magazine, January 3, 2012). The 110-foot-long, 16-foot-high mural was completed between 1943 and 1947 by art student Rudolph Zallinger (1919-1995), who had previously been employed at the museum painting…
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Reid Masselink, Twelve Paintings
by Alice Goldet
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Orange, Virginia, United States
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Monograph of Reid's early inspirations translated in English on the verso and French on recto, followed by 12 pages of his landscape paintings focusing on trees. These are oil on canvas, painted en plein air. The cover has a minor sticker scar in top right corner and the covers are saddle stitched.
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Geology of the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
by Gathright, Thomas M. II
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Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Purchases and Supply. Used - Good. Good condition. 2003 reprint. Folded plates 1-3 in rear pocket. (Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, Geology) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
by Engle, Joanna
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
by John B. Wyeth
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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Key to the Fishes of Northern Europe
by Alwyne Wheeler
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London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., London 1978: Frederick Warne & Co.Ltd., 1976. Good. Softbound limp edition. Cased edition also available Illustrations by Peter Stebbing 1976. Limp. Good. Peter Stebbing.
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ICEBERGS AND GLACIERS
by Simon Seymour
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New York: William Morrow and Company, inc., 1987. First Edition. Extensively illustrated with large and beautiful photographs. Square 4to, publisher’s original pictorial boards in the original decorated dustjacket. (30). A fine, bright copy. In clear, concise text and exceptional, full color photographs, noted science author Seymour Simon explains how different types of glaciers and icebergs are formed, how they move, and how they affect life on Earth. He also explores some of their mysteries: Can icebergs be used as a source of fresh water for dry lands? And will the ice ages return, covering the continents with glaciers as they did twenty thousand years ago?
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The Natural History of Selborne; With Observations on Various Parts of Nature; and The Naturalist's Calendar
by WHITE, Rev. Gilbert
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Arrington, Virginia, United States
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London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851. Leather Bound. Good. Half leather over cloth boards in good condition. Marbled endpapers. TEG. With 40 hand-colored engravings. Raised bands on the spine. A few words underlined pp. 115-116. Some foxing. Eight pages have a dark mark in the center of the page, but the text is still legible. A damp stain on the lower corner of many pages. With additions and Supplementary notes by William Jardine. Edited with further illustrations, a biographical sketch of the author and a complete index by Edward Jesse.
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Winter - Notes from Montana
by Bass, Rick
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Moab, Utah, United States
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket and mylar cover. Signed by author on title page. Dust jacket has sticker residue over the price, otherwise no wear or soiling present. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 162 pp; Signed by Author .
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The Polynesian Triangle
by Berry, Erick & Best, Herbert
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Island Folk: The People of Isle Royale
by Peter Oikarinen
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Houghton, Michigan: Isle Royale Natural History Association, [1979]. Softcover book with pictorial wraps. 160p. B&W photos throughout text. This is the original printing, later reprinted by the University of Minnesota Press. Book has been well read and is in very good - condition with wear to the cover image along the edge and reading crease to front cover, corners bumped and shelf wear. Pages are clean and unmarked with light staining on the edge of a few pages. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) G&D Hardcover w/DJ 1945
by Christie, Agatha
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Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. Unabridged. Please see our stock photo. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY.
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