Search Results: Natural History from TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS

LONDON: COLLINS. Hard cover. Dust jacket has been lost. A guide to the wildlife and plants of the British countryside. Well illustrated with black and white photographs and colour sketches. Text and plate illustration. 320 pages. Green cloth boards. Slight wear on board edges. Gilt titles on spine. Impressed illustration on the front board of a bird in flight carrying a stick. Previous owner inscription on the front endpaper. Pages are tanned and lightly foxed on edges. Clean tight pages. Strong binding. Undated edition. Dust jacket has been lost. Location: STC62 . Very Good. Hardcover.

LONDON: COLLINS. Hard cover with illustrated dust jacket(Central image is a Kingfisher) Small tears/pieces missing on DJ edges. Has been price clipped. Green boards with gilt titles on board spine. Previous owner gift inscription on front free endpaper. Foxing on endpapers. A guide to the wildlife and plants of the British countryside. Well illustrated with black and white photographs and colour sketches. Text and plate illustration. 320 pages. Green cloth boards. Slight wear on board edges. Gilt titles on spine. Previous owner inscription on the front endpaper. Pages are tanned and lightly foxed on edges. Clean tight pages. Strong binding. Location: B30 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall . Very Good. Hardcover. REPRINT.. 1959.

LONDON: CONSTABLE YOUNG BOOKS LTD. Hard cover with photo illustrated dust jacket. Slight wear on DJ edges. A split on the top front corner of the DJ. Price clipped but has a Longmans price sticker on the DJ flap. Blue boards with gull illustration on front board in white. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. With illustrations by the author. . Very Good. Hardcover. First UK EDITION. 1966.

LONDON: JONATHAN CAPE. 7th Printing. Hard cover with illustrated dust jacket. Label on front of DJ, noting that the book has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2014. Slight wear on DJ edges. Not price clipped. Light brown boards. Slight marking/soiling on page edges. Overall Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Partly inspired by T.H. White's 'The Goshawk' the author learns to train her own Goshawk. Location: STC27 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall . Very Good. Hardcover. REPRINT.. 2014.

LONDON: BOOK CLUB ASSOCIATES. Hard cover with dust jacket. Account of the famous naturalist's discoveries studying chimpanzees in Africa. Colour and black and whie photograph illustration by Hugo Van Lawick. Photo illustrated dust jacket. Slight wear on DJ edges. No printed price on DJ, DJ has not been price clipped. Green cloth boards. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Book club edition. Location: STC109 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 1971.

LONDON: J.M. DENT & CO. Undated Everyman Library Edition. 'Naturalist's Voyage in H.M.S. Beagle' is the abbreviated title on the board spine. Beige green boards. Gilt titles and illustration on the board spine. The bottom 2cms of the board spine/front cover edge has a small split exposing the underlying binding beneath the cloth. Slight foxing on page edges. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Black and white line illustration. This edition does not have plates. . Very Good. Hardcover.

LONDON: HARPERCOLLINS. Hard cover with dust jacket. Slight wear on DJ edges. Not price clipped. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Colour and black and white photograph illustration. 287 pages with index. With a foreword by Gerald Durrell. Location: LD1 . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1993.

POOLE, DORSET UK: BLANDFORD PRESS. Hard cover with dust jacket. Slight wear on DJ edges. No printed price on DJ. Residue of label on front flap. Black boards. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. Previous owner gift inscription on the otherwise blank reverse of the front free endpaper. Endpapers are illustrated. Colour and black and white illustration. Both a natural history of British mammals and a guide to some of the folklore associated with them. Location: LBB1 . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1983.

POOLE, DORSET UK: BLANDFORD PRESS. Slight wear on cover edges. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Colour and black white photograph illustration. Dust jacket has been clipped. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1982.

LONDON: WILLOW BOOKS/COLLINS. Hard cover. Illustrated boards. No dust jacket. Slight wear on board edges. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Location: MAL1 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1986.

Kingswood, Surrey, UK: WORLD'S WORK. Hard cover with dust jacket. A natural history study of the Pelican and its environment. 64 pages with appendix and index. Illustrated with black and white photographs by Ralph W. Schreiber. Surface wear on jacket edges. Small area of surface damage on front of DJ. Green boards. Slight wear on board edges. Clean pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. DJ has not been price clipped. Location: MBS1 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1977.