Making Scientist by Ditmars Raymond (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. B & W photos; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 258 pages; 1937 Macmillan. HC First Edition, Stated. Soundly bound in original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine and front cover. Cloth slightly pulled at the spine ends with minor fraying, and trace rub-through at the corner tips. Typical offset toning to the endpaper gutters, as is common in books of this era. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs on glossy stock. A memoir of scientific life by noted herpetologist and popular science author, Raymond Ditmars. VG-.…

1st edition orig. cloth Very Good octavo. 223pp., b/w frontis & pls., bibliog., index, Cloth rather faded o/w nice tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing--stated. Very nice and tight in bright jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. 1st Reprint of 1st Edition. 258 pages. Black/white photos. An ex-library reading copy. Spine slightly sloped. Internally clean. Scan available.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1938. Octavo, xiv, 224 pages plus 23 pages of plates. Cloth; edges, endpapers and preliminaries foxed; a very good copy with the dustwrapper a little rubbed, creased, chipped and torn. Several chapters on herpetological matters.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. American herpetologist, writer, public speaker and pioneering natural history filmmaker, gained a deep understanding of zoology through his own personal study of snakes and other animals in the wild and captivity. It was in large part, thanks to the efforts and enthusiasm of Ditmars, that the Bronx Zoo first achieved a world-class status. Numerous black and white photographs. This is the last title of Ditmars. The dust jacket is clipped at the bottom corner, with a few small chips and tears. Light foxing to a few pages, dust jacket. Previous owner old signature inside cover. First printing. Size: 6½" - 8½" First printing First printing. book.…

Octavo,258 pp.,photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 304. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1937 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 304.…