Foreword by William Beebe (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Ex-library (Fair). No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ex-library; top edge and fore edge have foxing; binding has soil and edgewear; many pages have smudges and other soil; one page has short closed tear at bottom of gutter; reading copy. 127 p., well illustrated. [M2 :1:5]. Keith Ward (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Showing only the 1920 Henry Holt copyright, but most likely actually published 1932 or 1933, with 246 Modern Library titles listed to jacket verso. Good book in a good-plus original jacket, missing bottom quarter-inch of jacket spine and with said jacket showing some narrow chips to top of front panel. 297 pp. including index, followed by a 6 pp. "Complete List of Titles in the Modern Library." Reduced from $225.…

Quarter Cloth, Printed Sides. Condition: Very Good. Good+ (in mylar). Fourth Printing. Text block clean and tight in lightly edge worn binding; Jacket spine-sunned, rubbed, and lightly edge-worn, character-soiled, and scuffed; 185p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.

127pp. Illustrated in black and white by Keith Ward 1st edition (no other printings) Spine ends lightly rubbed, else clean tight copy: VG/no dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Spine tips are bumped and lightly worn. Spine lettering is very dull. Cover corners are lightly rubbed. 295 pages with index and 119 illustrations.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Light creasing to lower corners of some leaves. 4mm loss along lower margin of dust-jacket. A couple of vertical creases to dust-jacket.; No date [1926]. 1926 printing of a title first published in the Modern Library in 1925 (first published by Henry Holt in 1918). xi, [3], 297, [1 (blank)], [6 (advertisements)] pages. Green leatherette limp boards with gilt on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 162 x 103mm. Bernhard style endpapers. Typographic dust-jacket design. Modern Library torchbearer logo on dust-jacket spine, no Modern Library torchbearer logo on front panel of dust-jacket. Reverse of dust-jacket lists titles up to #125. Natural history of the jungles of Guiana. Contents: Jungle Peace; Sea-wrack; Islands; The Pomeroon Trail; A Hunt for Hoatzins; Hoatzins at Home; A Wilderness Laboratory; The Convict Trail; With Army Ants 'Somewhere' in the Jungle; A Yard of Jungle; Jungle Night; Index. [Reference: Toledano, "The Modern Library Price Guide 1917-2000" 2nd revised edition, 1999.].…