Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dodd Mead
Date Published: 1944
Description: Robert Williams Wood. Very good in good dust jacket. Tight, clean book, light interior yellowing, former owner's name on endpaper, moderate wear to cover. DJ has moderate wear, interior light stain, light foxing. Nonsmoking home. 49 p. Includes illustrations. read more
Binding: Trade Paper
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Woodcuts By Author. Very Good- No Dj. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very Good-, slight discoloration at top edge of back cover, corners of front cover slightly bent, block tight, pages clean. This book of humorous verse and artwork comes from one of America's foremost, and most wacky, physicists. In his molecule-manipulating hands, the shamrock becomes half plant, half bird, a flock of larks combines into a larkspur, and a toucan eats pecans. Wood also authored "Animal Anatomies, " a similar work. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Paul Elder, San Francisco
Date Published: 1907
Description: Paul Elder & Co. San Francisco, 1907. First Edition. Fair in brown cloth spine over grey boards, spine strip absent. Internally very good. Illustrated. Nature Series No. 23. read more
Binding: Boards
Publisher: Paul Elder and Company., San Francisco and New York.
Date Published: 1907
Description: Duodecimo (7.5in x 5.75in) beige spine and blue boards with titling and illustration to top board. 28pp. Spine is darkened. Pages tanned. Booksellers label to gutter of endpaper. Name to endpaper. Each page has two drawings that appear similar and a short pithy verse depicting the differences, eg the drawings on the first page are a burr and a bird. read more
Edition: 1st Thus
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dover, NY
Date Published: 1959 (1917)
Description: Fine with no dust jacket. We fit archival quality clear acrylic covers for additional protection whenever possible.; Woodcuts; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 54 pages; 1959 (1917) facsimile of 1917 Dodd Meade edition, bound in stiff card. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company, New York
Date Published: 1942
Description: Wood, Robert Williams. Very Good in Poor jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 21st Edition. Light rubbing about the corners, spine ends; little wear overall. Dust jacket spine is mostly missing; reinforced for protection. Text is clean. Illustrated. 49 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dover Publications, New York
Date Published: 1917
Description: Very Good. Softcover. 1959 reissue of Wood's original book, which depicts nonsense verse linking (or distinguishing) among flora and fauna (quail and kale, the ole gander and the oleander, the hen and the lichen, the catbird and the catnip, the pansy and the chimpansy). This volume contains the complete text of "How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers, " some of the author's "Animal Anatomies, " three illustrated poems and two sketches that had been omitted from earlier editions of these books, ... read more
Description: Good. Paul Elder and Company; Edition Not Stated; 1907; 28 pages, bound in blue paper-covered boards. Spine heavily worn, spine ends chipped. Cover tanned on edges, printing & Illustrations bright & intact. Binding separating at front inner hinge. Interior clean, previous owner's name in ink. All pages & drawings intact, though moderately tanned.; Small 8vo 7½"-8" tall. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Paul Elder, San Francisco
Date Published: 1907
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Aged bookplate fep, pages yellowing; heavy cardboard with pictorial cover. Light wear and one corner bump but no tears or marks. Unknown printing. Illustrated by. 28 p. ; 20 cm. Nature Series No. 23. "A Manual of Flornithology For Beginners" Verses and illustrations by Robert Williams Wood. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Paul Elder and Company
Date Published: 1907
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Clean and unmarked. Pages yellowed; boards faded at edges. A good, solid copy; rare in this edition. 54p., ill., 20 cm. read more
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