Animals from Goldring Books

London: Allen Lane, 2008. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 279 pages. The author has been a hedgehog obsessive for over 20 years, ever since an expedition to the Orkney Islands in 1985. From radiotracking hogs in Devon, to working with HogWatch to record the current numbers… Read more

London: Heinemann, 1973. Gilt titles and motif on red cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a strip of age toning to endpaper and the odd bit of foxing else a very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has just a touch of wear and in not price clipped. 159 pages.… Read more

London: Little Brown, 2005. A Very Good unmarked copy with ery Good dustjacket which is not price clipped. 429 pages. Map endpapers and 4 maps. The author's two year journey through eleven countries in search of the tiger and to ask the question 'can the tiger be saved from extinction in the wild?'. She plunges into leech infested jungles… Read more

London: Lutterworth Press, 1965. Green boards are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges else clean, tight and unmarked however frontispiece illustration is loose. Dustjacket has chipping and wear with a small loss to back and 2 small taped repairs. 224 pages. 48 photographs including 5 in colour. Comprises: Part… Read more

London: Collins, 1972. A Very Good clean, tight and unmarked copy which has a prize bookplate to front endpaper with dustjacket which is pride clipped. 221 pages. Illustrations by Edward Mortelmans. Here Gerald Durrell tells of an expedition to Sierra Leone to catch himself a colobus, and another to Mexico in quest of a Volcano rabbit and a Thick-billed… Read more

London: Paddington Press, 1977. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 220 pages. Coloured photographic illustrations throughout. In this world of disappearing and endangered natural species, a phenomenon has taken place that could mark the beginning of a new strain of lions. White lions - not albinos, but normal healthy lions, as… Read more

Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, 1986. A Very Good copy which has age darkening to page edges with VG dustjacket. 192 pages. Numerous colour and black and white photographs and textual drawings. Sharks are among the most ancient groups of fishes and have remained little changed for millions of years. The book sets out to provide the general reader with… Read more

Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1983. A Fine unmarked copy. 180 pages. Colour illustrated throughout. A naturalist's field guide to the identification of European butterflies. The pictograms accompanying each plate enable the reader to discover at a glance all the interesting facts relating to the biology and the behaviour of that particular butterfly and, most importantly, each colour photograph… Read more

Herts: Ringpress, 1992. White title on red boards which have a little shelf wear to lower edge else unmarked. Internally very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is also VG and not price clipped. Foreword by Harry Baxter, International Judge. 160 pages. Illustrated throughout. 3. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to -… Read more

Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1979. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. 187 pages. Illustrated throughout. The book is a history of mankind's war against animals, detailing the hunting to extinction or near extinction of animals, using as examples species or sub-species of whale, fur-bearing animals, buffalo, elephants, birds and big-game animals. … Read more

London: Rivington Books and Andre Deutsch, 1979. A near Fine clean, tight copy which has a small name to front endpaper else unmarked with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 182 pages. 31 illustrations. 10 figures. 3 maps. The author is the Director of Operations and Chief Naturalist at Tiger Tops Jungle Lodge in Royal Chitawan National Park,… Read more

London: Headline, 1996. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine price clipped dustjacket. A large format volume of 192 pages illustrated with photographs and drawings by the author. The book heralds a new voice in wildlife literature. Engaging, humorous, always passionate, sometimes disturbing, and ultimately deeply moving, Darroch Donald's stories explore the age-old relationship between humans and wild animals. He… Read more

London: Century, 1985. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. 264 pages with illustrations in the text. Foreword by Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk. An excellent collection of stories arranged in sections on Affection, Triumph, Adversity, Comedy, Obituary, featuring stories by over 80 famous authors, both fiction and true accounts of man's best friend, beautifully… Read more

London: The Bodley Head, 1988. Gold title on green boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a little age toning to the page edges else very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket has a very small closed tear to front top corner and is price clipped. A large format volume of 168 pages. 104 coloured photographs… Read more

London: Harper Collins, 1992. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a very small amount of wear to lower spine edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. A large format volume of xvi + 344 page and 58 illustrations. First edition, First printing. In the book Lucinda Lambton has gathered together a wealth of anecdotes and… Read more

London: William Kimber, 1963. Gold title on blue boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is some light foxing to closed edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket is VG+ and is not price clipped. 27 outstanding illustrations. In 1959, after November gales had lashed the coasts of… Read more

London: Sceptre, 2007. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. In this eye-opening book, Hattie Ellis traces the chicken's evolution and history in farming, and reveals the grotesque scandal of today's chicken factories. But she also talks to chicken lovers around the world - from British farmers and Italian Slow Chicken afficionados, to the pioneers… Read more

London: Ebury Press, 2009. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. In the remote outpost of Now Zad, in Helmand in Afghanistan, Pen Farthing and his troop of young Royal Marines survive frequent engagements with the Taliban and forge links with the local community. Appalled by the horrors of local dog fighting, Pen has no… Read more

London: Macdonald, 1988. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy which has usual age darkening to page edges with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition. Map of Parc National Des Volcans, Rwanda to front endpaper and schematic of Karisoke Research Center to rear endpaper. 31 illustrations. Deep in the mist shrouded Virunga volcano country of Central… Read more

London: Blandford Press, 1996. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The authors have spent more than ten years travelling in China, exploring and filming their television documentaries of the country's beautiful wild places and the many creatures those habitats support. In this significant book they record, region by region, the status of a wide… Read more