Item 5815The Living Planet
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1984. hardcover. 8vo. 320pp. see pictures for synopsis. #05898h.
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Item 1318The Wind and the Weather
New York: Thomas Y Crowell and Co, 1957. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 277pp. from front flap: "How rain is made, how to read nature's warning signals, what to do in a storm, how to be your own weatherman, the effect of a sunshiny day on the stock market--these and score.....
Item 468Out of the Earth
Harper and Brothers, 1950. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 305pp. scarce with DJ. #00227.
Item 448The House of Life
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 350pp. stated first printing. author's signature tipped in on card from National Wildlife Federation on FFEP. From back cover: "Though Rachel Carson's last book, Silent Spring, may have changed the course of history, she was not at heart a crusader. I have.....
Item 91The Edge of the Sea
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. Bob Hines. first. hardcover. Third and final volume of Carson's sea trilogy, examining and explaining the ecology of the US eastern seaboard. Stated first printing. #00048.
Item 90Silent Spring
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. Lois and Louis Darling. first. hardcover. Stated first edition first printing of Rachel Carson's extended essay on the environmental impact of indiscriminate pesticide use, a hugely influential book credited with leading to a ban on the pesticide DDT for agricultural use in the US and the.....
Item 988The Sea Around Us
New York: Oxford University Press, 1951. hardcover. 8vo 230pp. Thirteenth printing. from front flap: "Here is an enthralling, informative story of the dominating feature of our planet, the ocean. Told with literary skill and scientific accuracy, The Sea Around Us focuses on what is humanly interesting and significant in the.....
Item 507The Ocean River
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 325pp. from inside flap: "The Ocean River is that tremendous current, the Gulf Stream, and here for the first time its complete scientific and historical story is told. This beautifully written book fully explains a phenomenon which has had, and is having.....
Item 947Conservation
Rutgers University Press, 1957. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 284pp. Author, from rear cover: "It was the Western World that started the three lines of constructive change that in modern times have been working together to transform human life--the scientific revolution, the anticolonial revolution, and the modern revolution against political and.....
Item 954This Land of Ours
Macmillan Company, 1960. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 272pp. from front flap: "The old idea of "inexhaustible resources" is a myth. The open countryside is vanishing. Parks and forests, historic sites and water supplies are threatened on every side. Many of our communities are outmoded, colorless, increasingly inconvenient, and without adequate.....
Item 1560Spider, Egg, and Microcosm
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 243pp. introduction by E.B. White. from front flap: "SPIDER, EGG, AND MICROCOSM takes the reader into three strange and wonderful worlds of scientific inquiry. Here he will be entranced as he observes with Dr. Petrunkevitch the mysterious ways of the.....
Item 1557Weather Wisdom
Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1976. William C. Sherb. hardcover. 8vo 180pp. from front flap: "...It's all spelled out for you here in this handy almanac: all the natural indicators of the weather--from the cows lying in the field, to the shapes of the clouds, to the pain.....
Item 3266Moment in the Sun
New York: Ballantine Books, 1970. mass market paperback. 16mo 365pp. see pictures for synopsis. #03331.
Item 2857Ants, Indians, And Little Dinosaurs
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. mass market paperback. 16mo 377pp. selected from Natural History and edited by Alan Ternes. See pictures for synopsis. #02922.
Item 254The Majestic Land
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1950. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 347pp. from front flap: "...He climbs into your car with you and tells you about the Majestic Land. He has a thousand stories, about the early explorers, the Indians, the miners, the highwaymen, prospectors, ranchers and mountain men of the past, about.....
Item 4798The Nuclear Waste Primer
1993. 1993 Revised Edition. softcover. 12mo. 170pp. see pictures for synopsis. #04881.
Item 588Van Loon's Geography
Simon and Schuster, 1932. first edition. hardcover. 8vo. 525pp. Geography by Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author with maps, color plates, illustrations, index. #00657.
Item 1275Van Loon's Geography
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932. Hendrik Willem van Loon. hardcover. 8vo. 525pp. stated second printing. Geography by Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author with maps, color plates, illustrations, index. #01343.
Item 1276Van Loon's Geography
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932. hardcover. 8vo. 525pp. stated fourth printing. Geography by Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author with maps, color plates, illustrations, index.includes bookmark which appears to be illustrated by van Loon, no date/publishing information/attribution. #01344.
Item 1277Van Loon's Geography
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1932. hardcover. 8vo. 525pp. stated sixth printing. Geography by Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author with maps, color plates, illustrations, index. #01345.
Item 1432Land Above the Trees
New York: Harper and Row, 1972. Ann Zwinger, Herman Zwinger, Beatrice Willard. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 489pp. from front flap: "This beautifully illustrated volume--including twenty-four pages of color plates--is the first comprehensive book on the ecology of the alpine tundra of the United States, the area above tree limit which.....
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