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Animals in Art and Thought to the end of the Middle Ages
by KLINGENDER, Francis
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- 1971
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- Hardcover
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- 9780262110402
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 103.10
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Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, 1971. Hardcover. Edited by Evelyn Antal and John Harthan. 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxviii, 580pp. Extensive illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Superb, bright first edition of this thick study. Item Price
SGD 103.10
Never a Dull Day: An Autobiography
by WALGREEN, Myrtle E.
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- 1963
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 34.36
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Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1963. Hardcover. As told to Marguerite Harmon Bro. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 334pp. Illustrations (some color). Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn. First edition. Illinoisan Walgreen (1887-1964), widow of the drugstore magnate, was herself a noted gardener. She inscribes the front flyleaf large and bold in blue… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 34.36
Seabirds: an identification guide
by HARRISON, Peter
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- Used
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- 1988
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- Hardcover
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- 9780395332535
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 75.60
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Hardcover. Foreword by Roger Tory Peterson. Small 4to. Ivory cloth with grey spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 448pp. Extensive illustrations (many color), numerous maps, map/text endpapers. Fine/very good. Faint jacket wear only, with spine lightly sunned. Handsome and tight reprint edition of what the jacket front panel describes as "A Complete Guide to the… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 75.60
The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado
by BASS, Rick
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- Used
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- 1995
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- Hardcover
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- 9780395717592
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 68.73
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and tan paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 239pp. Fine/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn. Bright, tight and pristine first edition, signed hugely by Bass in black fineline on title page. Item Price
SGD 68.73
Montana Wilderness: Discovering the Heritage
by WOODRUFF, Steve, and SCHWENNESEN, Don
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- 1984
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- Paperback
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- 9780913504895
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 61.86
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Kansas City, MO: The Missoulian, 1984. Paperback. Photographs by Carl Davaz. Wide 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. xi, 112pp. Extensive illustrations, maps. Near fine. A bright and superb first softbound edition, signed boldly in black fineline on title by both Schwennesen and Davaz. Item Price
SGD 61.86
H.S. Pepoon: Pioneer Conservationist of Northwest Illinois -- Essays on Ecology 1904-33
by RITTERBUSCH, Cory (compiler)
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- 2011
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- Paperback
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- 9780615431239
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 34.36
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Galena, IL: Prairieworks, 2011. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. viii, 191pp. Frontispiece, maps, illustrations. Fine. Pristine second printing of the first-ever gathering of essays by this groundbreaking conservationist (1860-1941) -- boldly if sloppily signed by the compiler in black ballpoint on front flyleaf. Item Price
SGD 34.36
Lobo, Rag, and Vixen and Pictures
by SETON-THOMPSON, Ernest
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- Used
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- 1900
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 34.36
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. Hardcover. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with elaborate black and tan lettering and pictorial stamping. 147pp. 3 (out of 4) called-for full-page plates, numerous small line drawings. Good plus. Tight and handleable, though binding somewhat edgeworn and corner-bumped, with school name inked on front pastedown and occasional random text page smudges. Decent reading copy of… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 34.36
Design Innovation Concepts for Veterinary Care Facilities
by HAFEN, Mark R., and GATES, Lawrence A.
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- 1990
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- Spiral_bound
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 103.10
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Boulder: Gates Hafen Architects, 1990. Spiral_bound. Wide 8vo. Heavy stock pictorial card covers with wire spiral binding. 124pp, (3pp). Numerous line drawings, floor plans. Near fine. Tight and pristine first edition of this animal hospital architectural study -- unusual and uncommon. Item Price
SGD 103.10
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In God's Out-of-Doors
by QUAYLE, William A.
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- 1904
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 68.73
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New York: The Abingdon Press, 1904. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pale green cloth with gilt lettering and ivory, dark green and burgundy pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. 230pp, (2pp). Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Near fine/good plus. Jacket clean and bright but edgeworn, with large chip at top of front panel and smaller chip at rear of rear panel.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 68.73
Texas Doc: More Critter Stories in the Life of a Town 'n Country Vet
by CARLTON, David
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- Used
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- 2003
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- Paperback
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- 9781888843019
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- 1
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 34.36
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San Rafael, CA: Bridgeline Books, 2003. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 169pp. Very good. Faintest of edgewear only. Tight and attractive first edition of these stories from the Southwest's answer to James Herriot, and nicely inscribed and signed by him in blue fineline on title page: "Alesha -- / Enjoy the Stories / David 'Doc' Carlton. Item Price
SGD 34.36
Flora of Illinois: Containing keys for identification of the flowering plants and ferns
by JONES, George Neville
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- 1950
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 103.10
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Notre Dame, IN: The University of Notre Dame Press, 1950. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black buckram with yellow spine lettering. 368pp. Map. Very good. Faintest of binding edgewear; faint floral mustiness. A tight and nice second edition of the well-known opus of this British-born botanist (1903-70) who spent much of his notable career at the University of Illinois (1939-70). He… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 103.10
Man and His Earth
by SCARSETH, George D.
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- 1962
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 75.60
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Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1962. Hardcover. Illustrations by John Huseby. Small 8vo. Light green cloth with dark green lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 199pp. Woodblock engravings. Near fine/very good. Speckling of top page edges; jacket ever-so-faintly rubbed only. Superb, tight first edition of this noted soil chemist and agronomist's thoughts on tending to the land and the soil.… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 75.60
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A Treatise on Milch Cows, Whereby the Quality and Quantity of Milk Which Any Cow Will Give May Be Accurately Determined by Observing Natural Marks or External Indications Alone; The Length of Time She Will Continue to Give Milk, &c
by GUENON, M. Francis
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- 1856
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 137.46
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New York: A.O. Moore, 1856. Hardcover. Translation by N.P. Trist. 8vo. Calf spine with gilt lettering and brown pebble-grain cloth. 88pp. Illustrations, marbled page edges. Very good overall. Chip at head of spine, else tight and decent, with text pages mainly bright and nice and occasional light foxing; endpapers rather age toned and early "Illinois School Library" bookplate on… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 137.46
Breeds of Live Stock in America
by VAUGHAN, Henry W.
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- 1948
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 34.36
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Columbus, OH: Long's College Book Company, 1948. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt and green lettering. 780pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Near fine. Faintest of mild binding edgewear only; front flyleaf ownership signature. Tight and attractive later printing of this hefty, well-illustrated, ofte-reprinted 1931 classic, which divides livestock into four categories: cattle; sheep and goats; swine; and horses, ponies… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 34.36
Little Sketches of Famous Beef Cattle
by PLUMB, Charles S.
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- 1904
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 680.43
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Columbus, OH: By the Author, 1904. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth with brown lettering. 99pp. Near fine. Superb and tight first edition of this quite scarce "Who's Who" among cows -- 25 thumbnail biographies of beef cattle first published in the pages of "The Chicago Daily Drovers Journal" and here published in book form for the first time. Included are… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 680.43
Notes Upon the Ethnography of Southern Mexico
by STARR, Frederick
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- 1900
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- Paperback
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 137.46
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Davenport, IA: Putnam Memorial Publication Fund, 1900. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff light grey wrappers. 88pp. Illustrations, foldout chart. Very good. Faint wear to outer wrappers (only), else tight and internally fine. First separate printing of this study that first appeared in Volume VIII of the "Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences." Interesting autograph addition: Tipped before the… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 137.46
The Song of the Cardinal
by STRATTON-PORTER, Gene
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- 1915
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 27.49
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1915. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering. 141pp, (4pp ads). Color frontispiece, full-page pllates (many color). Very good. Mild binding edgewear only, else tight and internally near fine. Attractive reprint edition, the "New and Revised Edition" of this nature classic. Item Price
SGD 27.49
America Illustrated
by WILLIAMS, J. David (editor)
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- 1883
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 75.60
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Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske & Company, 1883. Hardcover. 4to. Brown cloth over bevelled boards with gilt and black lettering and pictorial stamping. 121pp. All edges gilt. Frontispiece, numerous small and full-page steel engravings. Very good. Mild edgewear, with endpapers a tad age toned. A tight and attractive second printing of this 1877 words and images celebration of America's natural wonders… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 75.60
The Winter Beach
by OGBURN, Charlton, Jr.
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- Used
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- 1966
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 75.60
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New York: William Morrow & Company, 1966. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth spine with ivory lettering and brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 321pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map endpapers. Very good/very good. Faint foxing to page edges and occasional text pages, else near fine; jacket mildly age toned and lightly edgeworn. A tight and attractive first edition of this… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 75.60
Hill-Top Tales
by McCOWAN, Dan
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- Used
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- 1948
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- Hardcover
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Galena, Illinois, USA
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SGD 68.73
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Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1948. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 266pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Handsome and tight first edition of these fiction-llike tales of the Canadian Rockies, accompanied by photographs largely take by McCowan (1882-1956), a Scottish-born Canadian writer and naturalist. On the front flyleaf, he… Read more about this item Item Price
SGD 68.73