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New York: Harper & Row , 1980. First printing A Fine copy in a Near Fine DJ. Octavo (6.5 x 9.5 in., 165 x 241 mm). Dark blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Very slight wear to DJ. Slight fading on top of front boards. Pp. 248 with 32 black and white illustrations and 8 color plates. ... more information

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1938. Second Edition Two Volumes bound in one. A Near Fine Presentation copy. Signed and inscribed by Francis H. Herrick. June 25, 1938. Octavo (6 x 9 inches 152 x 228 mm.) Blue Cloth with gilt cameo of Audubon on cover, t.e.g., very slight softening to head and foot of spine. Small ex-libris stamp on front pastedown. Pp. xc, 500, Frontispiece, photogravure portrait of Audubon, fully illustrated with photographs and journal entries. Renewed preface to the second ... more information

New York: St Martin's Press, 1982. First printing Fine condition in a Fine DJ. Royal Octavo (6.5x9.5 Inches). Green boards with white cloth and silver lettering to spine. Pp. 495, fully illustrated with b/w photographs. Judith Thurman, the special consultant to director Sidney Pollock for the film Out of Africa and an expert on Dinesens life, produces an excellent biography of the famed storyteller Isak Dinesen. ... more information

London: Peter Nevill, 1952. First UK edition A Fine Copy in a Fine (price-clipped) DJ. 8vo. Red boards with black lettering to spine. Pp. 424, illustrated. The definitive biography by the definitive Alcott scholar. ... more information

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980. First edition A Fine copy in Near Fine DJ. Octavo (6.5 x 9.25, 165 x 234 mm.) Red cloth with pictorial endpapers showing map of Audubon's North America. Slight crease to price-clipped dust jacket. Pp xiii, 638. Fully illustrated with Audubon's artwork, photographs of his collaborators as well as settings and locations crucial to Audubon's life and travels. This work chronicles a 13 month journey taken by journalists Mary and Michael Harwood, some 35,0... more information

New York: Random House, 1939. First printing Near Fine condition, sticker of fromer owner on FFL, in a VG DJ, paper loss to head and tail of spine, chipping to corners. Octavo (6x9 Inches). Pp. 290 illustrated with 8 full-page color plates by Burkhardt. A biography of Louis Agassiz, founder of the Agassize museum at Harvard. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First printing A Fine copy in a Near Fine, slighlty rubbed, DJ. Octavo ( 5.5 x 8.25 inches). Ivory/gold printed boards with green cloth gilt lettered spine. Pp.197. A lovely and intimate portrait of Cather, written by her long-time companion, Edith Lewis. ... more information