Foreword by William Beebe (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Ex-library (Fair). No Jacket. Keith Ward (illustrator). 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].

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. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Large sq 8vo Illustrated in black and white by Keith Ward Brown cloth 1st edition (no other printings) Spine ends lightly rubbed, else clean tight copy: VG/no dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 1st ed. f/piece+xl+295, 118 ills inc.19 further plates, uncut fore-edge, red-tinted top edge; prev.owner's small gilt label top front pastedown, occ., mostly marginal, brown flecking throughout otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked. Red cloth covers minimally worn - slight spine end rubbing - but numerous small spots and patches of pigment loss to top and lower front, strip of same across top back and few spots to bottom, spine a little faded and dull with a couple of pigment loss spots. A fairly scarce tour de force of the topic by the Columbia-based palaeontologist. F/p shows ascending sequence of faces ending with modern Europeans, with African face preceding this. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.

Hardcover. First Modern Library Edition. 16mo. 4.375 x 6.625 in. xi, [iii], 297, [1] pp. Toledano Binding Style No. 4 in chocolate brown 'limpcroft leather' with Bernhard torchbearer device in gilt on upper cover; Brodzky endpapers. Stated First Modern Library Edition. Dedicated to Beebe's close friend Theodore Roosevelt ( 'to Colonel and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt I offer this volume with deepest friendship'), with ROOSEVELT's foreword. A fresh, crisp copy. Andes 30.2.1F. Toledano 30.2. Near fine. A trace of edgewear. Previous owner's bookplate to verso of half-title.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Printed at the Knickerbocker Press. Octavo, 362pp, black and white photographic illustrations, publisher's blue cloth ruled in blind, lettered in gilt at front panel and spine (separation at gutter after first leaf, but all present and holding, not quite tight overall, bumps and rubbing mostly to extremities but also to boards, mild soiling, gilt slightly dull, a solid but only good to very good copy).

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.].