THE FAUNA AND FLORA OF THE ILFRACOMBE DISTRICT OF NORTH DEVON. by Palmer, Mervyn G. (Ed.) - 1946

James Townsend & Sons, 1946. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1946. No Edition Remarks. 266 pages. No dust jacket. Grey boards with green cloth spine. Includes photographic plates. Fold-out map to rear. Foreword by F S Wallis. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Gutters and hinges very cracked with exposed netting. Feeling loose and shaken overall. Previous owner's stamp to front endpaper. A few dog-eared corners. Some annotations and marginalia throughout. Boards have some edge wear, with pronounced bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are crushed and frayed. Rather scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Some water staining to rear. Boards are slightly bowed.

Exeter, Devon: James Townsend & Sons, Ltd.. Quarter bound in green cloth on grey/green board. 279pp. b/w plates; fold-out map. Shelf wear to boards, which appear a little grubby, and with spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Spine cracked at title page. Previous owner's name to front free end paper. End papers tanned and pages a little toned. Slight foxing to text block edges, o'wise contents generally clean. . Good+. Hardcover. 1946.

James Townsend & Sons, 1946. Book. Very Good. hardback. green cloth backed boards, lettered black. A tightly bound copy with an unmarked text, mild foxing. Fold-out map, b&w plates, xiii + 266pp.

Exeter: James Townsend and Sons, Ltd. , 1946. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 6". Various. A first edition copy of this fascinating study of the natural wildlife in the Ilfracombe District of North Devon, edited by Mervyn G. Palmer, the curator of the Ilfracombe Museum. With a foreword by Dr. F. S. Wallis, the director of the City Museum, Bristol. Collated, complete a seven black and white photographic plates, a black and white photographic frontispiece plate, and a folding map of the district to the rear of the text. In a quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with just some slight bumping to extremities and head and tail of spine. Very small section of loss to paper to front board. Offsetting to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean throughout. The odd light spot to fore edge of the occasional, page, only visible to textblock. Ink spot to page iii, not affecting text. Very Good Indeed