Birds of a Valley by Philipson, W. R

Longmans Green And Co, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. This book is a study of birds of the lake district, illustrated with Woodcuts by Claire Oldham. The book is a little stained on the spine. The Jacket has been price clipped and is worn around the edges.

Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd., 1948. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1948. First Edition. 170 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth. Newspaper clipping inserted to front free endpaper. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Sticker to front flap. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing overall.

Longmans, Green and Co., 1948. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1948. First Edition. 170 pages. Laminated pictorial dust jacket over pictorial cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout by Claire Oldham. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

Longmans, Green and Co. Good in Good dust jacket. 1948. First Edition. Hardback.

Longmans, Green & Company. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1948. First Edition. Hardback.

Longmans, 1948-01-01. First Edition. hardcover. Good/Acceptable Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). First Edition. Previous owner's ink inscription. Illustrated by Claire Oldham. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

Longmans, Green, 1948. 1st edition. Hard covers, no jacket. V.g./No Jacket. Little used.

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1948. 170, woodcuts to text. . HB. Vg in d/w (slightly worn, short closed tear to rear panel).. Illustrated with attractive woodcuts by Claire Oldham. Dust jacket states 'This book is the fruit of years of minute and affectionate study of birds, particularly those of the English Lake District…….The scene of the book is set among the fells and lakes of Patterdale'..

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1948 8vo. original oatmeal cloth (a trifle rubbed & spotted, prev. owner's name to FFE; lacks dustwrapper); pp. [viii (last blank)], 172, with woodcut illustrations. A very good copy. From the library of distinguished Lakeland literature collector Michael R.W. Berry, with his bookplate.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/No Jacket. Illus. by Claire Oldham.