London: Natural History Musuem, 2020. First Edition. Paperback. A comprehensive, illustrated identification guide for beginners and serious collectors alike, featuring special colour photography of specimens held at the Natural History Museum, London. Rocks are minerals are naturally occurring compounds formed by intense geological processes in the Earth's crust such as..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. A companion book to the PBS television series. More
New York: Touchstone Books, 1968. Stan Zagorski (book design). First Trade Paperback Edition. Second Printing. Paperback. Early printing. Rare edition. The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Joyce A. Powzyk (illustrations), Kevin Koy (maps). First Edition (presumed), First Printing. Hardcover. A country uncommonly rich in plants, animals, and natural habitats, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam shelters a significant portion of the world’s biological diversity, including rare and unique organisms and an..... More
Bombay: Bombay Natural History Society, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. From dust jacket front flap: "The Bombay Natural History Society was founded in 1883 'for the purpose of exchanging notes and observations on Zoology, exhibiting interesting specimens of animal life and otherwise encouraging each other'. Its funds are devoted to..... More
New York: Abradale Press/ Harry N. Abrams, INC., 1985. First Edition (presumed). Outsize Hardcover. The ocean world - a mysterious realm filled with beauty and drama - is captured in this magnificent and comprehensive volume, a virtual encyclopedia of the undersea world. No better guide to that world can be..... More
New York: Anchor Books/Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959. George Giusti (cover design), R. Paul Larkin (illustrations). First Edition (stated). Paperback. Part of the Science Study Series, book no. S5. More
London: Penguin Books, 2000. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Lord Shackleton, a...... More
Denver: U.S. Geological Survey, 1993. Reprint. Softcover. More
Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1965. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. A Pelican book. # A761. A series of studies commissioned by Scientific American from a team of international experts on the plain facts of earth's resources and of the human claims on them. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992. First Edition (presumed), Seventh Printing. Hardcover. First published in 1992, Earth In The Balance helped place the environment on the national agenda; now, as environmental issues move front-and-center in the public consciousness, the time is right to reflect deeply on the fate of our planet..... More
Archerfield: Steve Parish Publishing, 1999. First Edition. Paperback (Outsized). More
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