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Price: US$64.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. xxii 691 pp. plus 49 colour plates; maps, b/w photographs and illustrations. Dark green buckram with gilt titles. Signed (no inscription) on title page and inscribed by author to original owner on ffep. The author was a Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union, Professor of Ornithology and Director of the Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota. Edges and endpapers darkened. Boards show minor wear to corners and head/tail of spine, a couple of light scuff marks. Errata slip laid in. Due to weight of book extra shipping charge may apply.
Seller: Summerhill Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Roberts., Thomas. The Birds of Minnesota [Volume I and II]. University of Minnesota Press, 1932.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: V. 2 inscribed by author with author photo pasted in and signed author letter laid in ; 92 col plates
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Copyright Date: 1932 Sm Quarto, Teg, Quarter Tan Calf With Gilt Lettering And Decoration, Buckrum Boards, Two Volumes #59 Of 300 Signed Limited Edition Copies, Goose Decorated End Papers, Binding By William Kittredge, PP.691 plus Color Plates, Volume I I pp.819 plus Color Plates, Large And Heavy Oversized Volumes would require additional postage Near Fine, Two small Tan Stains At Book Fore Edges, A Beautiful Collector Copy; Embossed At Fep Margaret and Ronald Hubbs
Seller: Terrace Horticultural Books, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Roberts,Thomas S.. The Birds of Minnesota; Two Volume Set. University of Minnesota Press, 1932.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 2 Volume set. This is #222/300 copies SIGNED by author, Thomas Roberts. Kittredge binding. A beautiful set. Illustrated with ninety-two color plates by Allan Brooks,George Miksch Sutton, Walter Alois Weber,Francis Lee Jaques, Walter Brechenridge,including one plate by the late Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$432.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 2 volumes color fronts., illustrations, 90 color plates, diagrs. 29 cm. This is set #159 of a limited edition of 300 copies, finely bound by William Kittredge with quarter tan calf with gilt lettering and decoration, top edge gilt. " Illustrated with ninety-two color plates by Allan Brooks, George Miksch Sutton, Walter Alois Weber, Francis Lee Jaques, Walter John Breckenridge, including one plate by the late Louis Agassiz Fuerteo .". A nearly perfect set in the original slip case, which has split and been repaired with tape. Laid into Vol. I is a photograph of Roberts, signed by him on the back.
Seller: Cambridge Books, Cambridge, MN, U.S.A.
Thomas S. Roberts. The Birds of Minnesota. University of Minnesota Press, 1932.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarto. (11" x 9") Brown leather spines. 2 Volume set. This is #222/300 copies SIGNED by author, Thomas Roberts. Kittredge binding. A beautiful set. Illustrated with ninety-two color plates by Allan Brooks,George Miksch Sutton, Walter Alois Weber,Francis Lee Jaques, Walter Brechenridge,including one plate by the late Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$720.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Allan Brooks, George Miksch Sutton, Walter Alois Weber, Francis Lee Jaques, Walter John Breckenridge and Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1932. 1st edition. One of 300 numbered Deluxe sets, signed by the author. Bound in quarter tan calf and cloth boards with gilt ornamented spines, t.e.g. Pictorial endpapers. xxii, [1], 691, [1] pp., color frontispiece and 49 color plates; xv, [1], 792, [1] pp., color frontispiece and 39 color plates. Numerous textual photographs, figures and maps. A two and half inch not very serious water stain on the lower edge of the front cover of volume one is the only thing that prevents this set from being perfect. The spines are bright and the text appears unread.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.