San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. 10 x 13 1/2, 144 pgs, color photos throughout. Patricia Caulfield's photographs are perfectly complemented, in mood and spirit, by passages she has chosen from the published and unpublished writings of Peter Matthiessen. More
El Paso, TX: Published/Printed by the author, 1973. Spiral Bound. 6 x 9, 77 pgs, b&w photos. All about the cacti of the Franklin Mountains near El Paso, TX. Plastic spiral binding brittle and only partially still there. More
St. Cloud, MN: North Star Press, 1998. Paperback. 7 x 10, 122 pgs, b&w and color photos. Celebrates the prairie and parkland resource in the Red River region connecting threads between ecology, economy and community. More
Washington DC: Smithsonian Series, Volume 11, 1949. Hardcover. 6 x 8 1/2, 399 pgs, index, b&w photos and color illustrations. Neat old natural history book. More
New York: Random House, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 8, 270 pgs, index, appendices. Biography of Ernest O. Thompson, known as the father of petroleum conservation. Front fly torn and missing a chunk. More
Australia: Sorrett Publishing, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. 10 x 10 1/2, 208 pgs, index, b&w and color photos and illustrations. An interesting look at the vast minerals of Australia. More
New York: Harper & Bros. 1959. Hardcover. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2, 683 pgs, index, b&w illustrations. Covers all species of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, food & game fishes, seashells, and the principal marine invertebrates occurring annually in North America east of the Rockies and north of the 37th parallel..... More
Baltimore, MD: Waverly Press, 1938. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 244 pgs, b&w photos and charts. The author and her husband were avid bird watchers and banders. This is the record of their activities from 1923-1925. Ex-library. More
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991. First printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 290 pgs. "Jack Connor gives us an intimate view of the currents, counter-currents and passions of the naturalists whose lives revolve around Cape May's annual drama of migration."--Roger Tory Peterson. More
Dallas: University of Texas Press, 1979. Second printing. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 1881 pgs. A systematic account of the ferns and flowering plants of Texas. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963. Reprint. Paperback. 4 1/2 x 7, 275 pgs, b&w illustrations and a section of color photos. All about how to identify the most common flower species in the Rocky Mountain region, plus interesting facts about each. More
New York: Norton, 2001. Second edition. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8, 442 pgs, index, notes. In this scientific meditation on and spiritual exploration of one of our least appreciated natural resources - the Atlantic Ocean - the author weaves the details of the history and science of the Atlantic into..... More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1985. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 199 pgs, index, color plates throughout. From Vancouver Island to Baja California, around the Gulf of Mexico and from Florida to Maine, the shore life, the human visitors and the environment. More
Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 1986. Hardcover. 7 x 10, 200 pgs, index, color photos throughout. From disaster areas to high-tech laboratories, from ancient times to the present, a gripping, sometimes terrifying journey. More
Tucson, AZ: Southwest Parks and Monuments Assn. 1990. Paperback. 6 x 9, 60 pgs, color photos. An easy reference to fifty of themore commonly seen species in the Southwest. More
St. Louis, MO: Missouri Botanical Garden, 1985. Paperback. 8 1/2 x 11, 455 pgs, in Spanish and English. Papers presented at the Symposium on the Botany and Natural History of Panama, held April 14-17, 1980, organized by the Missouri Botanical Garden and the University of Panama. Includes bibliographical references. More
New York: Macmillan, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 7 x 10 1/2, 140 pgs, index, notes, color photos throughout. The result of a five year stint in the Arctic, studying the Polar Bear, rearing orphaned cubs, and recording the Eskimo lore concerning these noble animals. More
San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1993. First printing. Hardcover. 9 x 12, 198 pgs, color photos throughout. A continent-by-continent guide to threatened indigenous ways of living. More
Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2006. First edition. Paperback. 6 x 9, 198 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. Ever since Louis Pasteur published his theories on the origin of germs, scientists the world over have focused their attention on smaller and smaller organisms. This book brings together some of..... More
Washington DC: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1931. Hardcover. 5 1/2 x 9, 214 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. Softcover bound into hardcover for library book at Cornel University, Ithaca, NY. More
Washington DC: US Department of Agriculture, 1960. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 254 pgs, b&w illustsrations throughout. Agriculture Handbook No. 161. The genera and species annotated for the various families of range weeds included here were selected on the basis of importance (for grazing, as poisonous plants, etc.); interest (peculiarities, miscellaneous..... More
New York: Walker & Company, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. 6 x 9, 326 pgs, index, bibliography, notes, b&w photos. Describes the Sahara desert in all its remarkable complexity. Ex-library with the usual markings. More
New York: Random House, 1985. Hardcover. 12 x 11, 180 pgs, beautiful color art reproductions. A beautiful coffee-table style book celebrates the life and talent of this well-known naturalist/artist. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. Paperback. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 330 pgs, b&w photos. In the early 1960s, R. M. W. (Bob) Dixon was one of the first linguists to study the Aboriginal languages of northeast Queensland, Australia. He found that some languages of the coastal rainforest were..... More
Santa Fe, NM: Southwest Monuments Assoc. 1953. Fifth Printing. Paperback. 6 x 9, 48 pgs, b&w photos and illustrations. A nice little natural history guide book to centipedes, scorpions, black widow spiders, brown recluse spiders, tarantulas, wasps, bees, snakes, the Gila monster, geckos, etc. Missing back cover. More