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Natural History and Related Titles      
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      This page is a continuation of the natural history and related titles in our estate sale. Please see the first page for an introduction. Additional subjects can be accessed via the books index page.
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1st ed tr First trade edition
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1st ed US First US edition
1st pr First printing
8vo Std sized book
BC Book club edition
DJ Dust jacket
Ex-lib Library copy
HB Hard back (cloth)
ND No date
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QP Trade paper back
RM Remainder mark
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  Ref #   Author   Title   Publisher/Description Price  
 
  1754   Maslow, Jonathan Evan   The Owl Papers Vintage 1988, QP, 183pp, vy fine 4.50  
      A wonderful collection of recollections of an owl watcher. Jonathan Maslow pursues the nightbird in its favorite haunts throughout the seasons, and examines the owl as an idea in science, history, myth and art.
 
  1755   Matthiessen, Peter   Blue Meridian:
    The Search for the Great White Shark (Illus)
Random House 1971, 3rd pr, ep maps, 204pp, spine sl sun faded top/btm edges, dj worn top/btm spine edges w/sl wrinkling of acetate coating, else vy good 6.50  
  1756   Matthiessen, Peter   The Cloud Forest:
    A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness (Illus)
Penguin 1987, QP, 4th pr, 5 x 7¾", index, 280pp, vy fine 4.50  
      Peter Matthiessen's incisive, wry report of his expedition into some of the last and most exotic wild terrains in the world... the reader sees, hears, feels and smells the details of his experience... he is bound for places intrinsically fascinating: the rain forest and the Andean sierra, Tierra del Fuego and the Matto Grosso and, as a perilous climax, a sortie into the jungle on the wild mountain rivers of Peru, its object the discovery of a great fossil reptile from pre-history.
  1759   Matthiessen, Peter   The Tree Where Man Was Born Dutton 1983, QP, 2nd pr, 5¼ x 7¾", notes, bibliog, index, 430pp, vy fine 3.50  
      Peter Matthiessen exquisitely combines both nature and travel writing to bring East Africa to vivid life. He skillfully portrays the daily lives of herdsmen and hunter-gatherers; the drama of the predator kills; the hundreds of exotic animals; the breathtaking landscapes; and the area's turbulent natural, political, and social histories.
      Fiction and other titles by this author
 
  1775   Maxwell, Gavin   Ring of Bright Water (Illus) Dutton 1960, 3rd pr (1961), no dj, 211pp, binding just sl cocked, else vy good 4.50  
      "Gavin Maxwell returns to his Scottish homeland, and takes the reader into his world of nature and wildlife, and to Camusfearna, the cottage where he lives in a remote area in the West Highlands with not even a road to complicate the natural beauty surrounding him. The hero of the book is Mijbil, his pet otter who shared his cottage with him after the death of his dog."
 
  1776   McNamee, Thomas   Nature First: Keeping Our Wild Places And Wild Creatures Wild Roberts Rinehart 1987, 2nd pr, no dj, 54pp, vy fine 7.50  
      Thomas McNamee's essay on conservation and preservation of natural resources, with an eye to the Yellowstone National Park ecosystem.
 
  1777   McPhee, John   Basin and Range Farrar Straus Giroux 1981, ed nt stated, in mylar cvr, 216pp, dj spine sl faded, else vy good 7.50  
      John McPhee's book of journeys through ancient terrains always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world - a history of vanished landscapes enchanced by histories of people who brought them to light. Covers the area from eastern Utah to eastern California.
  1778   McPhee, John   Coming Into the Country Farrar Straus Giroux 1978, 5th pr, 438pp, no dj, spine sun faded, owner's name neatly inked top LH fr paste dwn, else good 4.50  
      John McPhee, one of America's notable literary craftsmen, tells the story of Alaska and Alaskans, contemporary for the most part, with expeditions into Alaska's past. Part of the book describes a canoe and kayak trip down a river in the western Brooks Range. "This is America's ultimate wilderness".
  1779   McPhee, John   The Control of Nature Farrar Straus Giroux 1989, 1st ed, 272pp, vy fine 8.50  
      "Taking us deep into... contested territories, John McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature." Includes accounts of three struggles against the forces of nature: the Atchafalaya and the Mississippi River, a volcanic eruption and lava flow in Iceland, and the constant mud slides in Los Angeles.
  1780   McPhee, John   Encounters With the Archdruid Farrar Straus Giroux 1984, QP, 11th pr, 5½" x 8¼", 245pp, spine sl sun faded, else fine 4.00  
      Narratives about a conservationist and three of his natural enemies along the Western mountain range, on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, and on a coastal island.
  1781   McPhee, John   Giving Good Weight Farrar Straus Giroux 1979, stated 1st ed , though appears to be BC, in mylar cover, 261pp, nr fine 6.50  
      A collection of five essays, the first of which appeared in The New Yorker magazine. The essays reflect the the author's typical wide-ranging interests. Included are "Giving Good Weight," "The Atlantic Generating Station," "The Pinball Philosophy," "The Keel Of Lake Dickey," and "Brigade de Cuisine."
  1782   McPhee, John   In Suspect Terrain Farrar Straus Giroux 1983, 1st ed, 210pp, vy fine 11.50  
      A composite of journeys through ancient American geological terrains: John McPhee examines the topography and geology of the northeast on and off Route 80 from New Jersey to Indiana.
  1783   McPhee, John   Rising From the Plains Farrar Straus Giroux 1986, 1st ed, 214pp, vy fine 11.50  
      John McPhee's third book on geology, following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain.
  1784   McPhee, John   Table of Contents Farrar Straus Giroux 1985, 1st ed, 293pp, sl sun toning on dj cover, else fine 9.50  
      A collection of eight pieces written for The New Yorker magazine by John McPhee between 1981 and 1984, ranging geographically from Alaska to New Jersey, and in subject matter from descriptions of the arrival of telephones in a small village in the Artic to the arrival of bears in New Jersey.
 
  1731   Meyers, Steven J.   Lime Creek Odyssey (Illus) Fulcrum 1989, 1st ed, 116pp, vy fine 7.50  
      Steven Meyers explores "the beauty and personal significance" of a small stream in the San Juan Mtns (Colorado). Illustrated with b&w photographs by the author.
  1732   Meyers, Steven J.   On Seeing Nature (Illus) Fulcrum 1987, appears as 1st ed, 141pp, dj spine vy sl sun faded, else vy fine 7.50  
      Steven Meyers' text and photographs explores man's visual relationship with nature.
 
  1785   Michelet, Jules   The Bird
    (Tr. by W.H.D. Adams)
Wildwood House (U.K.) 1981, QP, 5¼" x 8½", 350pp, index, cover sl sun faded, sm book seller sticker on back cover, else vy fine 6.50  
      A classic natural history of the bird, from renowned 19th century French historian, Jules Michelet. Originally published in 1856.
 
  1786   Milne, Lorus &
    Milne, Margery
  A Time to be Born:
    An Almanac of Animal Courtship and Parenting. (Illus)
Sierra Club 1982, 1st ed, in mylar cover, index, 218pp, dj spine sl faded, else fine 7.50  
      Lorus Milne and Margery Milne discuss the reproductive and rearing habits of more than 100 species of mammals on six continents.
 
  1787   Montgomery, Rutherford G.   The Living Wilderness Caxton Press 1969, 1st ed thus, index, 294pp, vy fine 8.50  
      Award winning naturalist Rutherford Montgomery retells the life stories of his many animal friends.
 
  1788   Mowat, Farley   Never Cry Wolf Little, Brown (Atlantic Monthly) 1963, 5th pr, in mylar cover, 247pp, dj price clipped, several minor dj edge tears, else vy good 6.50  
      "Somewhere to the eastward a wolf howled; lightly, questioningly. I knew the voice, for I had heard it many times before. It was George, sounding the wasteland for an echo from the missing members of his family. But for me it was a voice which spoke of the lost world which once was ours before we chose the alien role; a world which I had glimpsed and almost entered... only to be excluded at the end, by my own self." Farley Mowat "is a biologist who spent many years of service with the Canadian government. He is the author of numerous books about wildlife..."
  1789   Mowat, Farley   People of the Deer Little, Brown (Atlantic Monthly) 1952, BC, in mylar cover, EP maps, 320pp, numerous sm edge tears with tiny chips, else good 5.00  
      Travels among the eskimos (Ilalmiut) of northern Canada; a few dozen remaining survivors of an inland Inuit people that numbered around 2000 at the turn of the century. Farley Mowat's first book.
  1790   Mowat, Farley   Sea of Slaughter Atlantic Monthly Press 1984, 2nd pr, index, 438pp, minor rubbing at top dj spine, else vy fine 8.50  
      Considered among his most import works, Farley Mowat details the exploitation and destruction by European man of the once rich animal and aquatic life of the north east American continent.
  1791   Mowat, Farley   The Serpent's Coil:
    The Story of Three Hurricanes and the Men and Ships That Endured Them.
Little, Brown (Atlantic Monthly) 1961, 2nd pr, in mylar cover, 189pp, dj price clipped, else vy good 8.50  
      Farley Mowat writes about the sea, about the savage and implacable fury of the hurricane, about the men and ships that do battle with them. His story is based on fact.
  1792   Mowat, Farley   A Whale for the Killing Little, Brown (Atlantic Monthly) 1972, 1st ed US, in mylar cover, EP maps, 239pp, dj price clipped, else vy good 7.50  
      The story of Farley Mowat's unsuccessful attempt to save a large fin whale trapped in a tidal pond near his home in Newfoundland. "Although this is the specific story of one whale, it symbolizes the plight not only of all whales, but of all species of animal hunted by man and slaughtered to the point of extinction.."
 
  1811   Murray, John A.   Wildlife in Peril: The Endangered Mammals of Colorado (Illus) Roberts Rinehart 1987, appears as 1st ed, appendix, bibliog, index, 226pp, vy fine 27.50  
      More completely subtitled, "The Endangered Mammals of Colorado. River Otter, Black-Footed Ferret, Wolverine, Lynx, Grizzly Bear, Gray Wolf." "John Murray has done a fine job of summarizing the history, condition, needs, and the arguments surrounding each of these species in Colorado... and then comes down clearly on the animal's side."
 
  1714   Muir, John &
   Kaufmann, Richard
  Gentle Wilderness
    (Photo essay of the Sierra Nevada, illus w/photos by Kaufmann & text drawn from Muir's My First Summer in the Sierra)
Castle 1981, reprint of rev 1967 Sierra Club ed, folio (10½" x 13½"), 167pp, corners sl bumpd, 10x20mm dj chip btm spine, else fine+ 12.50  
  1713   Muir, John   The Yosemite
    (John Muir's orig text, illus w/222 color photographs by Galen Rowell)
Yolla Bolly Press/Sierra Club 1989, 1st ed, sm folio (10¼" x 12¼"), 223pp, lwr corners vy sl bumpd, else vy fine 27.50  
 
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  1722   Nabhan, Gary   The Desert Smells Like Rain:
    A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country (Illus)
North Point 1982, appears as 1st ed, 148pp, top/btm bindg edges sl faded, minor wear dj spine edges, else nr fine 9.50  
      "The Papago Indians - indeed all native American Indians - are not well remembered or understood by most of us. Gary Nabhan shows us a noble people living and working in the mysterious ways of the Sonoran Desert that I have known and loved all my life. His sensitive and compassionate portrayal of the Papagos is a real contri-bution and well worth reading." Author's first book.
 
  1812   Nichols, John   On the Mesa (Illus) Gibbs Smith/Peregrine Smith 1986, 1st ed, 193pp, vy fine 11.50  
      Noted writer and author of The Milagro Beanfield War, John Nichols, does one of his finest pieces of writing here, following the life cycle of a pond on the Taos Mesa.
 
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  Ref #   Author   Title   Publisher/Description Price  
 
  1723   O'Brien, Dan   The Rites of Autumn:
    A Falconer's Journey across the American West
Atlantic Monthly Press 1988, 1st ed, ep maps, 192pp, vy fine 9.50  
      Dan O'Brien's beautifully written account of his 2000 mi. journey to imitate the natural migratory movements of wild falcons to teach a young Peregrine Falcon to survive on her own.
 
  1855   Olson, Sigurd F.   Runes of the North Knopf 1963, 19th pr (1988), RM, in mylar cover, 256pp, dj wrinkled along top edge w/several sm tears + one 30mm tear at spine fold, else vy good 3.50  
      Subtitled, "A Book of Legends, Reflections, and Adventures, Set in the Vast Wilderness of the North That Sweeps from the Quetifo-Superior and Hudson Bay to the Yukon and Alaska."
 
  1724   Orr, Robert T.   Animals in Migration (Illus) Macmillan 1970, 1st ed, index, bibliog, 303pp, vy minor staing (<3mm) on a few pgs (top/rear), else vy good 8.50  
      Robert Orr's brilliant account of the movements-great and small and often tragic-that stir the populations of the Animal Kingdom.
 
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  Ref #   Author   Title   Publisher/Description Price  
 
  1866   Peden, Rachel   The Land, The People Knopf 1966, 1st ed, 332pp, several minor dj tears, else good+ 3.50  
      "A testament by the author of Rural Free to the family farm and to her own people, whose daily lives reflect man's eternal kinship with the land. Once used by Indians, later a seat of a trading village, the orchard farm the author grew up on in Indiana later became part of a forest reserve."
 
  1813   Perrin, Noel   First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer (Illus) Penguin 1984, QP, later printing, RM, 5 x 7¾", 124pp, spine sl sun faded, else fine 3.00  
      Wry series of essays about a New Yorker transplanted to rural Vermont.
  1814   Perrin, Noel   Third Person Rural: Further Essays of a Sometime Farmer (Illus) David Godine 1984, 2nd pr, 188pp, vy fine 6.50  
      A book of gentle reflections by a sometime farmer, sometime teacher in rural Vermont. Noel Perrin's writing has been compared to Scott Nearing, E. B. White & James Herriot.
      Additional titles by this author
 
  1725   Perry, Richard   Mountain Wildlife (Illus) Stackpole 1981, appears as 1st ed, index, bibliog, in mylar cvr, 179pp, dj price-clipped btm cornr w/sevrl rough spots top edge, else fine 7.50  
      A discussion that ranges from the Scottish Highlands to the cloud forests of South America, taking in everything from Himalayan birds to snow leopards and other threatened wildlife. Richard Perry, a British naturalist noted for his powers of description, doesn't go in for sensationalism and his discussion of the yeti is a model of restraint.
 
  1815   Peterson, Roger Tory & Fisher, James   Wild America (Illus) Houghton Mifflin 1955, 8th pr, in mylar cover, appendix, index, 434pp, dj price clipped, several sm chips along top dj edge, else vy good 7.50  
      Subtitled, "A distinguished naturalist takes his British Colleage on a 30,000 mile tour of the continent," Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher travel across North America.
 
  1867   Pyle, Robert Michael   The Audubon Society Hankbook for Butterfly Watchers (Illus) Scribners 1984, 1st ed, appendix, index, 274pp, fine 10.00  
      A guide to observing, locating, identifying, studying, and photographing butterflies. Illustratins by Sarah Anne Hughes.
 
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  Ref #   Author   Title   Publisher/Description Price  
 
  1816   Quammen, David   The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View Of Science And Nature Delacorte Press 1988, 1st ed, 302pp, dj sl faded w/10mm tear top spine fold, else fine+ 9.50  
      "Author David Quammen offers perspectives on nature and the world around us. Wise, witty, and insightful, the collection is an original, with nature and humankind, participating in, to quote Time, 'one grand Zen joke.' "
 
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  Ref #   Author   Title   Publisher/Description Price  
 
  1817   Reader's Digest (eds)   Marvels and Mysteries of the World Around Us (Illus) Reader's Digest 1972, 3rd pr, 9¼ x 12¼", index, credits, 320pp, numerous sm tears + several chips along dj edges, else good-vy good 4.50  
      One hundred outstanding articles on the marvels of nature. The entire field of natural history is covered, including the mysterious beginnings of the Earth; the incredible "inner space" of living cells, the winged wonder of a bird, the small miracles of green things growing at your doorstep, those awesome explosions called earthquakes and the splendor of the night sky.
 
  1818   Roads, Michael J.   Talking With Nature (Illus) H J Kramer 1987, QP, 1st pr US, 5½ x 8½", 151pp, bookseller's sticker inside fr cover, spine sl sun faded, else vy fine 4.50  
      Subtitled, "Sharing the Energies and Spirit of Trees, Plants, Birds and Earth," After reading this book, you will never again wonder if nature can speak. It can and it does, and this unique book may well expand your awareness of the special bond between humanity and the environment. Originally publ as "Communicating With Nature" (Australia).
 
  1819   Rudloe, Jack   The Living Dock (Illus) Fulcrum 1988, appears as 1st ed thus, 273pp, vy fine 9.50  
      "Jack Rudloe is a passionate self-taught naturalist who collects exotic specimens of marine life to ship to laboratories all over the country for study. His home base is his dock at Panacea, Florida, jutting three hundred feet out into the Dickerson Bay and teeming with sea creatures - a 'living' dock. From here Rudloe watches the tide sweeping into the bay, the huge stretches of soft mud flats, grassbeds, and marshlands, and from here he follows the seasonal ebb and flow on its pilings: the feathery hydroids in winter, the brilliant sponges in summer. This is Jack Rudloe's account of his tiny enterprise, the Gulf Specimen Company."
  1820   Rudloe, Jack   The Wilderness Coast:
    Adventures of a Gulf Coast Naturalist (Illus)
E P Dutton 1988, 1st ed, index, 262pp, top corners sl bumped, else fine+ 6.50  
      "The true adventures of a marine naturalist stalking the shorelines and shallows of northwest Florida - a vast tidal and marsh world that time forgot."
 
  1726   Russell, Andy   Grizzly Country (Illus) Knopf 1988, 15th pr of orig 1967 ed, 302pp, sl rubbg on dj front, else vy fine 8.50  
      "A many-sided view of the grizzly bear and the world in which he lives, by a noted guide, hunter-naturalist, and photographer." With forty years experience as a rancher and guide in the Canadian Rockies, Andy Russell writes of what he has learned first-hand in a forthright and engaging manner.
 
  1856   Russo, Monica
    & Dewire, Robert
  The Complete Book of Birdhouses and Feeders (Illus) Sterling Publishing 1976, QP, 8½ x 11", 127pp, fine 3.50  
      Monica Russo teaches you how to design a successful birdhouse or feeder, how to select materials, and how to "tailor make" a birdhouse that will attract the kind of birds you want. Perches, size of the entrancehole, nesting material, feeds and where to hang/place your feeder are all discussed in detail. Beautifully illustrated with fine line drawings, this book will benefit the buyer as well and the builder of all types of birdhouses and feeders. Uniquely published in a hand printed-like type face, with "pencil" illustrations of common U.S. birds, birdhouses and feeders.
 
  1727   Ryden, Hope   Lily Pond:
   Four Years with a Family of Beavers (Illus)
Morrow 1989, 1st ed, appndx, bibliog, index, 256pp, vy fine 5.00  
      Hope Ryden's four year experience observing the lives and habitats of two beavers and their offspring.
 
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  Ref #   Author   Title   Publisher/Description Price  
 
  1728   Schwartz, Susan   Nature in the Northwest (Illus) Prentice-Hall 1983, 1st ed, RM, bibliog, index, 256pp, vy fine 7.50  
      Subtitled, "An Introduction to the Natural History and Ecology of the Northwestern United States from the Rockies to the Pacific."
 
  1729   Service, William   Owl (Illus) Carroll & Graff 1985, QP, 1st pr of orig 1969 ed, 5½ x 8", 92pp, vy fine 2.75  
      "Gently, wryly, with full awareness of the essential absurdity between man and a creature he doesn't ordinarily get to know much about, William Service tells us how it was to live with this comic, dignified creature flopping, hopping, and winging about the house. What one likes most about bird and protectors is the the way Owl's essential integrity as a wild thing was preserved."
 
  1874   Smith, Dwight   Above Timberline (Illus)
    Anderson, Alan (ed)
Knopf 1981, 1st ed, index of plants & animals, 246pp, taped dj chip top rear, else vy good 6.50  
      Dwight Smith, a wildlife biologist reflects upon life in Colorado's Rocky Mountains.
 
  1858   Smith, Gary   Windsinger (Illus) Sierra Club 1976, 2nd pr, no DJ, 175pp, spine & upr front board sun faded, prev owner name neatly inked top fep, else vy good 2.50  
      "Gary Smith is looked upon in the mountain West as a kind of Renaissance man: mountaineer, folksinger, writer and photogrpaher, advocate and champion of the Canyonlands of Utah where he makes his home... Windsinger is Smith's memoir, and something more. Accompanied by his photographs and lyrics..."
 
  1859   Smith, Robert   My Life in the North Woods Atlantic Monthly Press 1986, 1st ed, 328pp, vy fine 6.50  
      Robert Smith's memoir about what he saw, felt, and heard along the Kennebago and in the virgin forest of Maine more than half a century ago.
 
  1730   St John, Charles   A Scottish Naturalist:
   The Sketches and Notes of Charles St John 1809-1856 (Illus)
Andre Deutsch 1982, 1st ed UK, 192pp, boards sl bowed, dj spine & top frnt sun faded, else fine+ 12.50  
      Taken from the three published books of Charles St John, one of the greatest natural history and sporting writers of the Victorian age, and traces the changes of nature throughout the year. Full-color plates and black & white illustrations, drawings and maps.
 
  1860   Stevens, Montague   Meet Mr. Grizzly (Illus) High-Lonesome Books 1987, QP, reprint of 1943 Univ NM ed, 6x9", 281pp, vy fine 9.50  
      Subtitled, "A Saga on the Passing of the Grizzly Bear," this volume is the memoir of a one-armed Englishman who ranched, fought Apaches, and mostly hunted bears with hounds in New Mexico, ca. 1882-1900. A great Old West memoir, and superb hound training book by Montague Stevens.
 
  1861   Sullivan, William L.   Listening for Coyote (Illus) Morrow 1988, 1st ed, ep maps, 239pp, vy fine 7.50  
      Subtitled, "A Walk Across Oregon's Wilderness," naturalist and conservationist William Sullivan maps 1,360 miles of a new Oregon Trail recounts his wilderness expedition and offers vivid descriptions of the unspoiled beauty of the land and the untamed majesty of the wildlife.
 
  1862   Swain, Roger B.   Earthly Pleasures:
    Tales from a Biologist's Garden
Penguin 1985, QP, index, 198pp, 5x7¾", spine sl faded, else vy fine 3.50  
      Essays by Roger Swain, former host of PBS's "Victory Garden," on science and nature as observed in the garden and the landscape.
  1863   Swain, Roger B.   Field Days:
    Journal of an Itinerant Biologist
Penguin 1985, QP, index, 217pp, 5x7¾", spine sl faded, else vy fine 3.50  
      Essays by Roger Swain, former host of PBS's "Victory Garden." An entertaining and informative collection that will intrigue amateur naturalists, professional conservationists and people who simply like to stroll in the park.
 
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