Collection: The Natural World

London: Collins, 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. 159pp. First edition. Blue textured paper boards with gilt spine titles. Light bumping at spine heel, three tiny spots of soiling to textblock top, else very near fine. In an unclipped very good (+) jacket with three 1/3" closed tears along... More

 First edition of this entry in the New Naturalist series, a work about the natural history of Antrobus, a parish in Cheshire, England. London: Collins, 1951. Octavo, 8 3/4 x 6 1/8. xvi, 278pp., indexed. Green cloth, gold spine lettering; in dust jacket. "With 34... More

Old Greenwich, CT: Devin-Adair Company, 1981. Hardcover. 8vo. xiv+108pp. Presumed first (no statement of printing). Full tan cloth with orange spine titles. Fine in a fine, price-clipped jacket. A sharp, collectible copy of the uncommon seventh book by the noted entomologist, ornithologist, and natural philosopher.... More

NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. First American edition. Signed on the title page by both Chatwin and Theroux. A collaborative text, written in the form of an alternating dialogue, by two writers who both penned influential travelogues about Patagonia in the late 1970s: Chatwin's "In... More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. xi+224pp, indexed. First edition, first printing (1976 on title and copyright pages; no subsequent printings noted on copyright page) in the unpriced jacket variant used for export copies. Dark green papered boards show light shelfwear and minor bumping.... More

Hughes, Ted, and Peter Keen, photographs. River. London: Faber and Faber, 1983. First edition. Oblong octavo (9.75" x 10.5"); 128pp.; blue textured-paper boards, in dust jacket. Signed by both Hughes and Keen on the title page. edges of boards faintly dust soiled, else about fine... More

First UK edition of McPhee's third book, an investigation of the orange industry. London: Heinemann, 1967. Octavo, 8 x 5-1/2 in. Orange textured-paper boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. 149pp. Light bumping base of spine. Else near fine in a very good "30s Net" jacket... More

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. vii + 245pp. Black boards, yellow titles and front panel design. Near fine, with light shelf wear at spine ends and tips, light toning/flecking to textblock. In an unclipped, very good jacket showing moderate edgewear, with... More