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Boston: HMCo. VG+/Good+ Only (see notes). 1970. 1st US. hardcover. 8vo . 286pp . Several ragged tears to 3/4", edgewear to DJ .
The Vanishing Jungle: The Story of the World Wildlife Fund Expeditions to Pakistan by Mountfort, Guy
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The Vanishing Jungle: The Story of the World Wildlife Fund Expeditions to Pakistan
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London, Collins, 1969, hardcover, 286 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good+ in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end and corner wear. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, edge chips, rubs, short closed edge tears, in new Brodart sleeve. The story of two major expeditions to Pakistan in the mid-1960s for the purpose of helping to create protective reserves and national parks. Illustrated with drawings by Penelope Gillespie, color mapped endpapers, and 114 black-&-white and color plates, most by Eric Hosking. Appended lists of Mammals, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Birds observed during the expeditions, Notes on Photography by Eric Hosking, Selected Bibliography, Index. Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of the Netherlands. ISBN 9780002118804
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- Keywords Description and travel; Life Sciences; Pakistan; Science; Wildlife conservation; Zoology
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. gilt pictorial terra cotte cloth. Ex-library, spine & cover edges heavily sunned, o/w VG+ no dj. 8vo. black & white, & color photos. First American Edition, so stated
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Roy. 8vo. Pp. 286. Pictorial gilt cloth. Fine in defective dust wrapper. The story of the World Wildlife Fund expeditions to Pakistan. With colour and black & white plates by Eric Hosking, an appendix of bird species and colour endpaper maps.
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The Vanishing Jungle: The Story of the World Wildlife Fund Expeditions to Pakistan;
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London, UK: Collins. 286pp. b/w & colour plates; b/w illus.; maps to end papers. Spine and corners slightly bumped, upper and lower panels, spine and edges all rather rubbed. Tears to upper and lower edges of dust jacket with slight loss to top and tail of spine. Small repair attempted with adhesive tape. Edges rubbed and spine slightly sunned. Light foxing to text block edges but text and plates are clean and bright. OVERSEAS ORDERS MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1969.
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The vanishing jungle: The story of the World Wildlife Fund expeditions to Pakistan;
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London, UK: Collins. Brown cloth, gilt tiger motif to front, gilt title on black panel to spine. 286pp. b/w illus.; b/w & col. photo plates; maps to end papers. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Shelf wear to dust jacket with two small holes to rear panel, creasing, chips and tears to upper edge and all extremities slightly rubbed. Spine sunned. Price clipped. Gift inscription to ffep and minor foxing to text block edges, o'wise contents are clean and bright. OVERSEAS ORDERS MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1969.
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London, Collins, 1969.. 8vo; pp. 286; illustrated endpapers, numerous b/w and colour illustrations, appendices, selected bibliography, index; original cloth, chipped dustjacket, otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by Eric Hosking.
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The Vanishing Jungle (Two wildlife expeditions to Pakistan)
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Collins, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Eric Hosking. In 1966 Guy Mountfort was invited to organize the first of two major expeditions to establish the facts and to help to lay plans for conservation. These led to the creation of no less than seven protected reserves and two national parks. The Jacket has a clear protective cover but the Jacket is a little worn around the edges and has a small tear at the top and bottom of the spine.
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The Vanishing Jungle: The Story of the World Wildlife Fund Expeditions to Pakistan
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.. Hardcover. 1970. 1st Edition. 8vo 286pp . Very Good in Good+ DJ. B&W and Color Illustrations .
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The Vanishing Jungle: Two Wildlife Expeditions to Pakistan. The Story of the World Wildlife Fund Expeditions to Pakistan
by Mountfort, Guy
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. Full brown cloth with gilt blind stamped illustration of a tiger on front cover. Black label and gilt lettering on spine. Jacket is not price-clipped but does have tape reinforcement to the back of the jacket at the top & bottom of spine and at the corners. The tape has yellowed causing darkening to the jacket visible fromt front of the jacket. One half inch closed tear to front panel. Overall EXCELLENT condition book in a VERY GOOD minus jacket. Guy Mountfort (December 4, 1905 - April 24, 2003) was an English ornithologist and conservationist. Born in London, Mountfort was the author of A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (1954), with illustrations by Roger Tory Peterson and distribution maps by Philip Hollom. In 1961 he created the World Wildlife Fund with Julian Huxley, Peter Scott and Max Nicholson. In 1972 he led the campaign to save the Bengal Tiger, persuading Indira Gandhi to create nine tiger reserves in India, with eight…
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The Vanishing Jungle: The story of the World Wildlife Fund expeditions to Pakistan
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Collins , 1969. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition first impression large octavo Hardback 286 pp. illustrated in colour and black and white.Very Good condition with Very good unclipped dust jacket. Name clipped from title page otherwise no inscriptions.
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