Chicago Illustrated: Signed (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed by "David and Rachel". I don't know if the David is the author or not.; 288 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Binding tight, content clean and straight. No dust jacket. Ships within 1-2 business days. If purchasing internationally, please inquire about shipping charges before purchase. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fair. Signed Copy . Signed by author on bookplate on pastedown. Front hinge cracked, binding shaken. (South America, Panama).

Unknown binding. Condition: Fair. String-bound Paperback. INSCRIBED TO PREVIOUS OWNER AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Text unmarked. Illustrations faded. Covers show edge wear with corner crease on front.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dustjacket as issued. First Edition. First printing flat-signed by the author on the title page. Minor shelf wear to binding. Text and images unmarked. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First American Edition. Black hardcover shows no wear and is clean, tight and unmarked. Inscription on title page by Sharon Darling. Krutz, Walter W. (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Published by Rand McNally & Company, Chicago, IL. 1914. Xvi, 638 page. Endpaper maps. Illustrated with black and white plates. Signed by William Boyce with a presentation bookplate present to the front pastedown. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Presentation bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Covers the newly won territories of: Alaska (bought from Russia during US Civil War) ; The Hawaiian islands (overthrew the monarchy) ; The Philippine islands (betrayed; won through the Phillipine-American War) ; Porto Rico (Won through the Spanish American War) ; The Panama Canal Zone and Republic of Panama (Colombian Seperatist Movement funded by the US) ; Cuba (won throught the Spanish American War see Porto Rico) ; The Dominican Republic (Marine invasion due to unpaid debts) ; The republic of Haiti (Marine invasion due to unpaid debts); 9.2 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 670 pages; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Very Good hardcover. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Some shelf wear to cover Inside is in excellent condition, no noticeable markings or underlining. ; 6" x 8 3/4"; 638 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. First Edition; Second Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Very small closed tear on rear panel bottom corner.; Title page signed by Ronald D. Cohen and Stephen G. McShane.; 160 pages; Signed by Author. Signed.

The Beginning of Organized Theoretical Principles for Animal Ecology, Inscribed to William Morton Wheeler Shelford, Victor Ernest (1877-1968). Animal communities in temperate America as illustrated in the Chicago region: A study in animal ecology. xiii, 362pp. Frontispiece, folding map, text illustrations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1913. 243 x 168 mm. Original cloth, gilt-lettered spine, hinges repaired. Light finger-soiling in lower corner of book block, but very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed by Shelford to William Morton Wheeler (1865-1937) on the front endpaper: "Compliments of the author Victor E. Shelford." Wheeler's signature on the title. First Edition of one of the landmark works in ecology, representing "the first systematic attempt to codify terrestrial animal communities" (Elton, The Pattern of Animal Communities, p. 32). Trained as a zoologist, Shelford created the field of animal ecology with this work and later publications such as Bio-Ecology (1939, with F. E. Clements). Shelford helped found the Ecological Society of America and headed the ESA's Committee for the Preservation of Natural Conditions, which later became the Nature Conservancy. He presented this copy of Animal Communities to William Morton Wheeler, professor of applied biology at Harvard's Bussey Institute and one of the foremost experts on ants. Allaby, Ecology: Plants, Animals and the Environment, pp. 152-153. . $450.…