New Naturalist No. 72 HEATHLANDS Tapa dura - 1986

'HarperCollins', '1986-01'. 'Hardback'. 'Good'. '1986 reprint. Good condition. There are some very light scuffs to the dust cover edges and there is a personal library sticker on the front matter with a name in pen, and the sticker is also covering the name being written in pen directly on the page. Otherwise in very good condition with all pages crisp and clean.'

London: William Collins Sons (Book Club edition), 1986. First edition thus. Original Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo (22cm). In the green cloth, gilt titles to spine and Collins to base, but no Collins to base of spine of dust wrapper, which also lacks a price so the contemporaneous book club edition. 20 col. photographs as well as over 100 diagrams in b&w. pp. 223. A few small impressions, lines to jacket. Otherwise a smart, attractive copy, clean and unmarked, binding tight.

Collins, 1986. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:9780002190206

Collins, 1986-01-01. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 224 x 155 mm. NO. 'There are really two Britains - two different countries, their boundary a line that strikes diagonally across England from Yorkshire to Devon'. The moorlands belong to the 'region of mountains and old rocks', and the heathlands 'the newer, fertile land of the plains'. It is with the lowland heaths of Britain that Dr. Nigel Webb's book is concerned." This is a very readable book which discusses very fully the history and ecology of this essentially artificial environment which arose after cutting down the deciduous forest, and then overgrazing the land with livestock. Ironically, this man-made disaster area is now home to many valuable, rare species of plant and animal. With the similarly created uplands of Wales, Scotland and northern England, moor- and heathland is now generally regarded as the epitome of natural, untouched, wild countryside. Chapters include: 'A waste and barren… Leer más

London: Collins, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. large Octavo. 1st printing. The New Naturalist Series. DJ in plastic protective cover.

London, William Collins First edition - hard cover in dust jacket The author tells the extraordinary story of how heathlands came to be, the influence of geology, climate, soils and man, and how the plants and animals survive and function. He gives a most rewarding and complete picture of the natural history of lowlands heaths. 223 x 154mm., pp. 223, b/w & col. plates, maps, diagrams, refer., index. Hardcover in d.j. Contents, no inscriptions; d.j. med. rub/wear bot. r.h. front corner, rub/thinning back bot. l.h. corner, slight fading on spine, light indentations. VG+/VG ISBN: 0002190206

The 1986 reprint, genuine Collins edition with Collins printed at the base of the dust wrapper. Near fine book in near fine unclipped dust wrapper, protected in removable archive sleeve.

Published by Book Club Associates, 1986. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. New Naturalist series No. 72. Book Club edition - no price on dustwrapper and no Collins at base of spine. Green cloth. 20 colour photos and over 100 b/w photos and diagrams. Foxing to endpapers. Free front endpaper has pencil erasure marks and top corner is creased. Text block is slightly grubby otherwise contents are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is faded at spine (normal for this series).

LONDON. COLLINS. 1986. EARLY REPRINT. FINE COPY IN FINE DUSTWRAP. NUMBER 72 IN THE NEW NATURALIST SERIES. 'COLLINS' ON THE FOOT OF THE SPINE, NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. VERY GOOD COLOUR TO THE SPINE, WHICH IS USUALLY FADED.

Published by Book Club Associates, 1986 (Circa.). Hardback. Fine/Nearly Fine. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. New Naturalist series No. 72. Book Club edition - no price on dustwrapper and no Collins at base of spine. Green cloth. 20 colour photos and over 100 b/w photos and diagrams. Spine of dustwrapper lightly faded.