The Wood Pigeon (Collins New Naturalist Series) Tapa dura - 1965

Collins, 1965-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good++. 7x5x1. 1965. First edition. A number is printed inside cover else book is in VG++ condition clean tight and bright.

London: Collins. Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 0002132524 . No signatures. Quite heavy foxing to page edges. Some adhesive tape stains to the endpapers (caused by a plastic cover which was taped over the dust wrapper). Some minor foxing to dust wrapper. Small mark to front panel of dust wrapper over the eye of the pigeon. No tears in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Dust wrapper now in archival mylar cover.; 256 pages + frontispiece + plates. Green cloth boards. Ornithology. "The wood-pigeon is one of the most common, most interesting, and least studied of all British birds. Before 1939 the chief authority upon the bird itself and its habits was probably Aristotle." - from dust wrapper blurb. A volume in the celebrated New Naturalist Library. "[. . .] we have now come to look forward to new volumes in this series - well written, beautifully produced, and awakening interest in some fresh feature of Britain's countryside"… Leer más