Gorillas In the Mist

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket.. Inscribed first printing of Fossey's landmark scientific memoir. The primatologist's famous account of her research and conservation work with the mountain gorillas of Rwanda, published just two years before her murder. Fossey, initially trained as a biologist, ultimately earned a degree in occupational therapy and made… Read more about this item

Hardcover. 326 pp. plus photos. Houghton Mifflin Co., New York (1983). Book Club Edition. Book appears to be unread. Clean and unmarked. Very Fine/Very Good. More photos upon request. Shipped in a box within a box, in bubble wrap, and with a tracking number.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Dian Fossey on the title page and inscribed to former owners. Near Fine, with lean to spine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing and fading to spine, light edge wear with several short tears, and light staining visible at… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Houghton Mifflin 1983, On Title Page And With Numberline (1-10) On Copyright Page. Illustrated Dust Jacket, Inside Corner Of Flap Clipped. Typical Library Stamps, Stickers. 326 Clean, Bright, White Tightly Bound Pages. Pages Have B/W Photos Throughout. Endsheets B/W Illustrations Of Gorillas With Their Names. Front End-Sheet Pocket… Read more about this item

First UK edition, first impression. Original green cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. Slightest hint of very faint spotting to top edge, else fine in a fine dust jacket. A fantastic copy.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectable - Very Good Condition/Very Good. VG/VG 1st print 1st ed 1983 Hodder hardback, unclipped jacket. Minor lower front corner bump to board with minor waviness to adjacent pages, dulling to pages with age, very bright and unfaded green to jacket spine, tight and unmarked. 326 pages. Quantity… Read more about this item

Ringwood, VIC, Australia: Penguin Books , 1989. Book. Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Medium softcover, reprint, 252gms, 282 pages. Book is in good condition with minor general wear and tear and moderate to heavy page discolouration/spotting throughout, otherwise no other pre-loved markings..

Paperback. Acceptable.

Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1983. First edition, first printing. Very faint rubbing to tips of cloth spine, still fine in near fine to fine dust jacket with very mild edge wear to tips/corners, in mylar cover.. Association Copy. Affectionately inscribed by the author on the half-title to Colorado naturalist author, Charles Southwick: "To Chuck / With all best… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.. Hardcover. 1983. 2nd Printing. 8vo 326pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations. DJ spine slightly faded. An important study which ranks with George Schaller's earlier work .

Fossey's account of her 13-year reign as the 'gorilla lady' recruited by Anthropologist Louis Leakey to study that species of great ape, as Jane Goodall was Leakey's assignee to the chimpanzee. The book was adapted into the film 'Gorillas in the Mist', for which there is no spoiler here. Pretty lavishly illustrated with a section of full page color… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, xviii, 326 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good minus dustjacket. Green spine with yellow text. Dustjacket has mild edgewear and shelfwear. Boards have mild edgewear. Textblock clean. 1369995. FP New Rockville Stock.

Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Light edge wear to jacket. Price-clipped. .

Houghton Mifflin , 1983. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Good. Larger, sturdy book, black cloth spine, very bright silver lettering on spine, gray boards with an illustration of gorilla mother and baby on front, the faces of 12 gorillas and names inside covers and adjacent end papers,326 pages including appendices with charts, a bibliography and an index, includes five… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

VERY GOOD condition — DUST JACKET: Wear & tear to top and bottom of spine, panels, folds and flaps. Very minor chipping to top and bottom of spine, primarily at the corners. Small closed tear, top of spine. Spine sunned. Minor moisture stain to bottom, reverse. BOARDS: Very good condition. Foot of spine soft w/minor moisture stain, extending to back… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1983-08-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1983T. hardcover. Very Good. 1.5000 in x 9.0000 in x 6.4000 in. Dust jacket shows several tears on spine, only one larger than a quarter inch. Full number line. Text is clean and bright.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. Softcover. Very Good. Later. Very good in wrappers. Paperback slightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, reader's crease. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.