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Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: First edition (but with the frontispiece in black and white). 8vo. xxi, (3), 417 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, frontispiece, map, endpaper maps. Biscotti, p. 210: "An important and thorough work." Heller 164: "Partly in diary form." Very good. Original decorated rust cloth. (7291).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
John M. Holzworth .. The Wild Grizzlies Of Alaska (first edition).. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: VG book without jacket. Dark orange cover with dark green lettering and illustration of bear on front cover, black and white frontispiece, copyright page states first edition. Cover has slight wear, lightly soiled, a couple of small ink mark on outer edge of front cover, bookplate inside front cover, rear end paper starting to split at hinge, no marks or writing. ** We are a small family business selling fine new and pre-owned books online since 1999. We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.
Seller: Brentwood Books, Kinnelon, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.22 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1930. First Edition. 417 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth with decorations. Black and white photographic plates throughout with colour illustrated frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Tape marks to endpapers. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Water stain to front board. Light wear marks overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$34.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dark blue cloth, lettered/illus. in orange, deckled text block edges. 1st edition: Fall 1930 (first state with color tinted frontis. photo, as called for). Portions of both covers and spine panel flecked (possibly affected by moisture contact), with modest rubbing to corners and spine extremities, top text block edge darkened by age. Former owner's signature inked on upper front flyleaf and date inked inside front cover, text portions of DJ flaps mounted on front blanks (DJ otherwise lacking). xxiii,417 pp., illus. w/ 84 b&w plates, map. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
John M Holzworth. The Wild Grizzlies Of Alaska. G P Putnam's Sons, 1930, 1930.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dust jacket missing. First edition, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 2.1
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Holzworth, John M.. THE WILD GRIZZLIES OF ALASKA. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1930.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo; 417 pages; Minor wear and minor bumping to corners.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Holzworth, John M.. THE WILD GRIZZLIES OF ALASKA. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1930.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo; 417 pages; Very minor cover wear.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. xxi, (3), 417 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, color frontispiece, map, endpaper maps. Biscotti, p. 210: "An important and thorough work." Heller 164: "Partly in diary form." Very good. Original decorated black cloth. (7290).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Holzworth, John M.. The Wild Grizzlies of Alaska. G. P. Putnam, New York, 1930.
Price: US$49.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A clean unmarked copy in a slightly chipped dust wrapper.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Holzworth, John M.. THE WILD GRIZZLIES OF ALASKA. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1930.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first edition. 417 pages, "with 48 illustrations and a map" plus map end papers. Very good plus condition in dust jacket with two corners chips at top of front cover, one chip extended to top of the spine. A clean and unworn copy with no owner names. The jacket is in clear mylar protector.
Seller: Jim Hodgson Books, Churchton, MD, U.S.A.
Holzworth, John M.. THE WILD GRIZZLIES OF ALASKA. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1930.
Price: US$63.75 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo; 417 pages; Inscribed by Holzworth on front free endpaper. ; Signed by Author
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
HOLZWORTH, John M.. The Wild Grizzlies of Alaska.. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1930.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: xxi, 417 pp. With 84 Illustrations from Photographs and a Map. 8vo, publisher's cloth. First edition. Trace of foxing to endsheets; large dog-ear to last two leaves; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
HOLZWORTH, John M.. Wild Grizzlies Of Alaska.. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1930.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 417 pp. 4to. Publisher's decorated cloth in dust jacket. First edition, with color frontispiece and more elaborate binding. Near fine (shelfwear to bottom of spine) in a jacket with some minor chipping to the extremities of the spine. With 84 photographic illustrations and a map.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. xxi, (3), 417 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, color frontispiece, map, endpaper maps. Biscotti, p. 210: "An important and thorough work." Heller 164: "Partly in diary form." Very good. Original decorated black cloth, illustrated dust jacket (rather tired and showing wear and tear at the extremities). (#6886).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Lg. 8vo. xxi, [3], 417, [1] pp. Photo frontisp., 83 photo illust., map on endpapers. Brick red cloth, black lettering, cover art of Grizzly Bear on front cover (slight shelfwear, very slight bumping), w/ d.j. art deco cover art of Grizzly Bear w/ mountain landscape behind by Charles Stevens (chipping & tear to head of spine, couple minor closed tears), NF/G copy. First edition, stated, of this book which launched a national movement to protect Grizzly Bears in Southeast Alaska, and particularly on Admiralty Island. The first management plant was prepared by the Alaska Game Commission and National Forest Service in 1932, and conservation remained assured until the logging contracts and lawsuits which occurred in the 1960's and 1970's before Admiralty Island was designated at the Kootznoowoo Wilderness.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Holzworth, John M. THE WILD GRIZZLIES OF ALASKA. G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY, 1930.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 417 pp.+ Color Photo Plt at Frontis (With Tissue Guard) & 82 BW Photo Plts in Text, Map e.p., Drk Blue Hardback with Orange Title & Illus of Grizzly Bear on Cover, Near Fine, no DJ, 1st ed (Stated)
Seller: Larry W Price Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$109.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xxiv, 417pp., tinted colour frontispiece of Ivan the Terrible, famous Alaskan brown bear with descriptive tissue guard, 84 illustrations from photos, map endpapers, original cloth, spine and upper cover titled in orange with silhouette of grizzly bear to centre of upper cover. A generally VG+ tightly bound copy, a trifle dulled on spine with a mylar protective cover. (Alaska. Arctic Biblio. 7379; Biscotti, p.210). Holzworth's account of the grizzlies of Alaska with notes on other Alaskan wildlife based on three trips to Admiralty, Chichagof and Baranoff Islands from 1927-29. Extensively illustrated with photographs of grizzlies and the wildlife of Alaska and British Columbia. Appendix by C. H. Merriam on a new grizzly from the Talkeetna Mountains, Alaska 'Ursus holzworth.
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom
HOLZWORTH, John M.. The Wild Grizzlies of Alaska. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Description: 417pp, color frontispiece, tissue guard, b/w ill & map. From the library of Dale W. Rice, famed writer/researcher/collector of natural history, and founder of the Dale W. Rice Memorial Library in Seattle, WA. clean throughout, split front interior hinge, mildly tanned pages, Dale Rice plate, worn spine, mildly worn boards, Good
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$149.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Published by G P Putnam's Sons, New York, 1930. Xxi, 417 pgs. Color frontispiece. Illustrated with 84 illustrations from photographs and a map. Signed by John Holzworth on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (large chip present to the heel of the DJ). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "A story of the grizzly and big brown bears of Alaska, their habits, manners and characteristics, together with notes on mountain sheep and caribou, collected by the author for the United States biological survey." EB
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Holzworth, John M.. The Wild Grizzlies of Alaska. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1930.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. xxi, [3], 417pp. Frontis, 94 photogravure plates, endpaper map, index. Rust pictorial cloth stamped in black. Spine ever so slightly faded but a fine, clean and tight copy. An unusually nice copy of this work. "A story of the Grizzly and Big Brown bears of Alaska, their habits, manners and characteristics, together with notes on Mountain Sheep and Caribou, collected by the author for the United States Biological Survey." "Careful study of brown bears and grizzly bears in Southeast Alaska and on the Kenai Peninsula; a plea for protection" (Ricks). [Ricks: p.123; Smith: 4596].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Holzworth, John M.. The Wild Grizzlies of Alaska. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1930.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 84 illustrations from photographs and a map. 417 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brick-red cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine 84 illustrations from photographs and a map. 417 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.