You can order signed bookplates and get them inscribed according to your instructions.
Since I am no longer selling books directly through this website it is not possible to sign the books themselves. My solution is to offer free signed bookplates. These are stickers that can be pasted into any book, and I will personalize them with any (short) inscription you like. Follow the link to order yours.
I do still sell signed prints and original art directly through this website.
Bookplates are an easy way to personalize a book. You can also order bookplates for books you already own! And even though it’s called a bookplate, it can stick to anything else just as well! So you can order bookplates to personalize calendars, puzzles, etc.
For books and related published products on this website the entries now link to Bookshop.org – a service that supports local independent bookstores. I hope this new system works for you, to order books from Bookshop (or even better from an actual bookstore) and then order bookplates here.
A “flexibound” binding is a flexible cover that is thicker than a typical paperback and extends beyond the page edges. It is intermediate between the traditional “paperback” and “hardcover” styles, and many sellers simply list it as one of those categories, causing some confusion.
They are all the same (with one exception). The Sibley Guides to Birds and Trees have only one binding, called “flexibound”. It is a flexible cover, thicker than a typical paperback and extending beyond the page edges. It is intermediate between the traditional “paperback” and “hardcover” styles, and many sellers list it as one of those two categories.
Regardless of how it is listed, all copies for sale have the same flexibound cover. The only exception is the Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior, which was originally published in a hardcover binding, but is now sold as flexibound.
It is a book for birders of all levels. In origin and concept it is an expanded introduction to the field guide. It covers all of the fundamentals of bird identification with the goal of helping you understand the techniques of birding and the patterns of variation in birds. In that way it will help you get more out of the field guide. A motivated beginner will learn a lot from it, and there is a lot that will also be of interest (if not new) to the experienced birder.
About the book
Birding Basics, published in October 2002, is meant to be the introduction to The Sibley Guide to Birds. It was clear when I was writing the introduction in that book, kept short for very good reasons, that it would not be sufficient to cover all of the details that I thought it should. So I cut and condensed to make that intro, and two years later came up with the idea to create a whole new book.
This book introduces readers to the basic information that underlies the techniques of modern bird identification. It is a beginner’s guide to the concepts and tools of bird identification; topics such as molt, feather wear, shape, structure, and feather patterns, to name a few. Understanding the basics of the appearance and variation of birds will help any birder of any level advance to make quicker and more accurate identifications. This book will work with any field guide.
More information is available here
Information from the publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Spanish language edition
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Version history:
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First EditionFirst printing – October 2002 |
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Translated to Spanish and published by Corbidi, 2010 |
