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.....
Harper and Brothers, 1950. first edition. hardcover. Octavo 305pp. scarce with DJ. #00227.
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.....
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.
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.....
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.....
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.....
Harper and Brothers, 1953. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 266pp. 48 pp. b/w photos, 16 pp. of color photos. stated first edition (A-C Harper Brothers code). Cousteau and Émile Gagnan designed, built, and tested the first "aqua-lung" in the summer of 1943, off the southern coast of France. In the opening chapters, Cousteau recounts the.....
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.....
New York: McGraw Hill, 1940. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 382pp. from Preface: "The aim of this book is to make possible the identification of aquatic plants in sterile as well as in flowering or fruiting condition. An effort has been made to render such identification as simply as possible, but.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
New York: Ballantine Books, 1970. mass market paperback. 16mo 365pp. see pictures for synopsis. #03331.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 244pp. from front flap: "This monumental work first appeared in three issues of The New Yorker, and was quickly recognized throughout our country--indeed throughout the Western world--as the definitive statement on our plight. In defining the shape and the dimensions.....
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.
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.....
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. hardcover. 12mo. 262pp. from review in Nature (1906): "PROF. VAN DYKE provides in these pages a readable account of many branches of modern oceanography expressed in a literary form too seldom found in works dealing, with scientific subjects. As one would expect, the romance and poetry.....
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.
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.
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.
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.
New York: William Sloane Associates, 1948. Stuart I. Freeman. Book of the Month Club. hardcover. 8vo 335pp. from front flap: "Presented with magnificent force and clarity by a man who is both a keen-minded scientist and a brilliantly exciting writer, ROAD TO SURVIVAL deals with the inescapable facts of the.....
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.....