Know Birds, Signed (9 results)

Condition: As New. Signed Copy . Inscribed by author on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: GD++/ACC/ACC. y 1st. Edn. Thus, HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1967* Publisher: * Binding and cover condition: Mid green cloth, gilt title to spine. Considerable damp damage and staining. ACC* Jacket condition: Colour-illustrated dust wrapper showing a pair of perched Kakas, now in protective jacket. PRICE CLIPPED showing no shelf price. Serious damage to lower spine & front cover. Considerable age darkening to spine and edges. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Neat signed & dated dedication to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: 16 Colour plates (from Buller?s Birds of New Zealand) 75 black and white photographs and 3 text figures.* Pages: 128 pp. text. xvi pp. bibliography & index at rear.* Description: The more we know about New Zealand birds the more rewarding becomes the pleasure of watching ? and recognising ? the many striking species that make New Zealand an interesting country for bird life. A number of species are unique to New Zealand, amongst them the famous, but unfortunately rare, Takahe and Kakapo and the extinct Huia and Moa. This volume contains a detailed personal checklist for recording sightings.* A GOOD text copy suitable for reference with some slight age but in distressed boards and jacket. Now in protected dust jacket.* 1967-01-01. y.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . Hardback. Fifth printing. No dustjacket; bound in dark blue textured boards with gold gilt lettering. Personalized inscription by author's daughter to previous owner on front endpaper. Ex-Library with paper lift due to card pocket, ink stamps, etc. Tight sound copy with average wear. Inscribed by Authors.

Signed First Edition: Ex - Library : Green bds., gold titles, 160 x 235 mm., 600 grms., 176pp., illustrated throughout with photographic plates, pictorial eps., thinning of paper on frep., weak rear joint, library stamps on margins of some pages, handwritten inscription on ffep. reads - To Mrs. Davidson Let sunshine and cheer banish sadness and fear and everlasting life start right here, yours truly and signed Jack Miner May 21st 1929, no dw., Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition; Third Printing. Autographed and dated ("Dec.1927) on the front fly-leaf. This is the third printing of the first edition. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and a map. Lacking the dust jacket if it was issued with one. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation in a heavy cardboard box. Age-staining in the gutters of the front cover and to a lighter (but broader area) of the rear inside cover. A previous owner's child has marked the contents page and a small portion of page 37 with pencil lines which I have endeavored to erase but the shadows are still present. Good condition. Selling Used and Rare books online since April 1998 and from our bookstore in the heart of the Bluegrass since 1984.; Black-and-white photographs ; 8vo.; xii, 176 pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Original green textured cloth hard covers, with gilt titles to spine and front. Inscribed and signed by Miner on the front free endpaper, "For Mr. J. M. Lash a member of St. Ann's Club / Jack Miner." Cloth to boards is bubbling on front and rear. Some staining to bottom edge of text, with a little loss to some bottom corners. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and bright copy. Pictorial endpapers. Portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard; illustrated throughout. xvi,178pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Signed and Inscribed by Author. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine copy, this one Signed, dated & with a small drawing of a tree on title page. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo, forest green cloth lettered in gilt; with the slightest rubbing to extremities. First edition, profusely illustrated. A presentation copy, inscribed: "To my tried and true friend F. C. Walcott. Don't work all your life to make a living, but work to life all your life, Jack Miner, Xmas 1926," on the front endpaper; accompanied by an autograph letter from Manly Forest Miner to Walcott regarding the death of his father, Jack ---- In addition to representing Connecticut in the US Senate between 1929 and 1935, the recipient Frederic C. Walcott served as commissioner of welfare of Connecticut, a member of the advisory committee of the Human Welfare Group of Yale University, and regent of the Smithsonian Institution. A handsome copy with a distinguished provenance. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. First Edition. First Edition. Soft cover. First Edition. A very good or better copy in navy cloth, gilt titles to the spine with light fade to the back panel. Small quarto. 178 pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. With a small archive of letters from the Jack Minor Foundation and other documents laid-in. Ownership signature of Mr. E.H. Bickford of Kingston, Ontario who had contacted the Jack Minor Foundation for information concerning Crows and the Crow trap developed by Jack Minor and information regarding the feeding of young Robins. The archive [dated 1926-32] contains three ALS's on foundation Letterhead from Manly F. Minor, Jack's son and acting Secretary-Treasurer, a form letter signed, W.C. Henderson from the United States Department Of Agriculture, Bureau Of Biological Surveys, addressed to Bickford, concerning the Minor developed Crow Trap, a copy of the Farmer's Bulletin and relevant newspaper and magazine clippings. Signed.