Nature, Animals & Farming from The Book Shed

New York: Macmillan, 1941. Seventh Printing. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; no jacket; page edges and endpapers spotted, else clean and unmarked. Sections on selection, slaughtering, and cutting up beef, pork and sheep; preservation, uses of by-products. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. Later printing. vinyl bound. Near Fine/no jacket. About As New; no jacket. Clean and unmarked. Seventeenth printing of 2008. 427 color photographs. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book Shed has a been… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First edition. vinyl_bound. Very Good. Later printing. Vinyl bound.Seventh printing of 1989. Lightest wear to the book. A spot to the front page edges else clean and unmarked. 529 species are described in detailed written accounts-with information on measurements; body shape and color; scales, fins, and gills; habitat; range; and behavior-and 400… Read more about this item

New York: Orange Judd, 1911. reprint. Hardcover. Good. First published in 1909. Much wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, covers rubbed, spine illegible; no jacket; previous owner's name and address to the front endpaper. Charles A. Publow wrote several dairy related educational books on milk and milk products particularly butter and cheese making. Every effort… Read more about this item

Claremont, NH: Claremont Manufacturing Co., 1878. Hardcover. Good. 1878 printing of the first edition. Much shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; covers rubbed, small loss of cloth to the spine, page edges soiled. 248 pages with illustrations and portrait ; 12mo, 7 x 4.5 in. (18 cm) C.H.C. Williams was a 19th century… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, covers rubbed. Special report (United States. Department of Agriculture), no. 22. Color plates (showing diseased organs), maps, fold-outs. Every effort is made to ship all books and other items within 24 hours. Clean recycled packing material will be… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. The jacket is priced clipped, esle about As New in all respects. First printing, full number line. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hard Cover. Roger Swain, host of the PBS television series The Victory Garden, said North Hill Garden “is of such quality… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Moderate shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, ding to the spine, soiling of the white and green pictorial covers which depict a garden gate. Top edge gilt, deckled edges, 414 pages plus one page of ads. Laid in are 3 pages of unsigned… Read more about this item

Norwalk, Ct: The Easton Press, 1994. Collector's Lifetime Edition. Leather_bound. Near Fine. About As New in all respects. One of the scarce and highly collectable Peterson Feild Guides in a special leather bound edition by The Easton Press. Full tan and gilt decorated leather, all edges gilt, sewn in marker ribbon. Illustrations by Amy Eisenberg (plants) and Norman… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Island Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. The spine of the jacket is lightly sunned else As New. First printing, full number line. "The first - and no doubt final - Thoreau book of the century. Little more needs to be said (and, from the extensive press coverage, most Kirkus readers are probably aware… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. Fourteenth Edition Revised. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. Shelf wear to tips and corners of the book; no jacket, likely as issued. Hornaday was perhaps the principal naturalist of the late 19th and early 20th century. He was the first director of both the National Zoological Park in Washington and the New York… Read more about this item

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Light shelf wear to the book; jacket has two closed tears to the front panel. First printing, full number line. "Superb book by a first-class writer with an unsurpassed feel for ants.”--Library Journal. “Adventures Among Ants may reach a broader audience than other recent publications and… Read more about this item

New York: Funk & Wagnalls , 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Later printing. Very light shelf wear to the book and jacket. Fourth printing. Brown, black and pink priced jacket. Alex W. Bealer (1921 – 1980), was an old-time craftsman of wood working and blacksmithing from Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to this title he also authored… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/no jacket. Light shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, no jacket. Clean and unmarked. First printing, full number line. Edward Abbey (1927 – 1989) was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political… Read more about this item

Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown Co, 1966. Spiral_bound. Good. Printing of 1966. Shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, school stamps front and back else cean and unmarked. Spiral bound. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when… Read more about this item

New York: Rinehart & Co, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Much shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book and jacket which is rubbed; pages 171-174 dog-eared. First printing, logo and no others noted. The story of Marineland, "the world's first oceanarium." The park which preceeded SeaWorld was the first to capture and present dolphins and… Read more about this item

Buffalo: Herman C. De Groat, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/new. wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book, stain to front cover at the gutter, offsetting through out, slight lean; no jacket. All illustrations present. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First Edition. fexible vinyl. Very Good/no jacket. light shelf wear to tips, corners, and edges of the book; no jacket. Clean and unmarked. Second printing. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.… Read more about this item

Post Mills: Chelsea Green, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Signed. Just about As New in all respects. Inscribed by Helen Nearing on the title page. Later printing. "To have partaken of and to have given love is the greatest of life's rewards. There seems never an end to the loving that goes on forever and ever.… Read more about this item

Charlotte, Vermont: Williamson Publishing, 1986. Paperback. Good. slight cover curl, staining to page edges not affectiing the text. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade paperback. Later printing. Books and other items ship promptly with a tracking number and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible. The Book… Read more about this item