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Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. John James Audubon (illustrator). Book Club (BCE/BOMC). First printing stated. Tight and square. No markings other than owners blind stamp and signature on front free endpaper. Nicely illustrated. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by Many AUDUBON Color Ilust (illustrator). POPULAR EDITION. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN GOOD UNCLIPT(BOOK CLUB EDITION) DUST JACKET.NICE CLEAN, SOLID BOOK in DJ showing many ears along spine & flap folds.; . BOOK HAS VERY ATTRACTIVE TAN COLORED FEATHER COVER DESIGN PATTERNS, WITH GOLD TITLES ON DARK GREEN CLOTH SPINE STRIP. DJ has similar design, but large 5x6" art drawing of AMERICAN WILD TURKEY as cover art ; 320ps pages; Brief Captions by Griscom.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1945. Beige cloth boards with black line art illustration on front cover. Heavy soiling, staining, and surface wear to boards; no dust jacket. Binding solid. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout with 137 plates, including the iconic "The Man Without a Gun" by Lawrence Beall Smith. Text by DeWitt Mackenzie, with descriptive captions by Major Clarence Worden and a foreword by Major General Norman T. Kirk, Surgeon General of the United States Army. A striking and poignant tribute to the World War II medical corps and non-combat personnel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Printing. A lovel;y first printing, in excellent condition. . Previous owner's name on ffep[ otherwise unmarked. Some binding glue bleed on end papers but not detrimental to the book. Text is unmarked. Hardcover boards with 'feather' pattern and quarterbind green linen on spine. , Gilt on black title still bright. Very little bumping to head and tail of spine. Stated first printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Popular edition. Handsome hardcover; clean, unmarked, solid; jacket is complete, but with light wear and age-toning.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine Like New. John James Audubon (illustrator). Tenth Printing. Nice bright clean copy. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Forest green buckram cover on this huge folio (12.5 x 9.25 inch) size book. Dust jacket is in pieces in the back of the book. The lithographs throughout this book are magnificent and could be harvested and sold as Audubon prints as some print dealers will do. Most lithographs are full page. Interior is clean all the way. Silver pheasant emblem on front cover; silver titling on spine. Book overall is in VERY GOOD condition. (PM) "A"udubon.

Presumed first edition (no direct statement as is usual University of Alabama Press practice). xx, 244 pages. Hardcover: H 28.5cm x L 28.5cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Black cloth. Seven-line non-authorial ink gift inscription on front free endpaper verso; interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a fine dust jacket. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 5.25 pounds (2.38 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 9780817318796.

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Gray cloth illustrated and stamped in light blue, brown and gilt. Oblong folio. 509 pp. Black and white photos throughout. A primarily visual look at sites, cities, landscapes and people around the world, compiled in light of the Columbian Exposition, or 1893 World's Fair held in Chicago. Photographs with descriptive commentary. This includes places and sites such as: The Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Garden of the Gods in Colorado, Alaska, San Francisco and its Chinatown, Nicaragua Canal in Central America, opium smokers in China, Hawaii (Sandwich Islands), Japan, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and the Sphinx, Cairo, and many cities in Europe. GOOD condition. Heavy fading, scuffing and edgewear to the covers, with the cloth scuffed, frayed and worn along the extremities and spine. Mostly minor soiling, with moderate staining and discoloration to the rear cover. Interior hinges weak but holding. Text block solid. Paper browned. Faint dampstain along the upper edge and fore edge.