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London.: Country Life Limited., 1950. 210pp, colour frontis, photographs.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Country Life, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1950. First Published. 210 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Loss to spine ends. Light sunning to spine. Some rubbing to surfaces.

Country Life, 1950. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:

Country Life, London / Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1950. 1st edition. Hard covers. Good/No Jacket. Owner's bookplate; rusty marks at top corner of pastedown and facing end paper. Cover partly sunned, spine dulled. Offprint of article on flamingos (in French) loosely inserted - with rusty paperclip.

London England / New York: Country Life Ltd/Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. hardback. Slight foxing to edge. From the library of The Rt. Hon. Malcolm Macdonal P.C., O.M. with his sticker to inside cover. Green cloth with gilt lettering. The title os this book might legitamely lead the reader to expect a biography of the flamingo. let me hasten thus early to disillusion him. Five days in a flamingo colony, spread over two season, does not justify a man in attempting anything of such all-embracing significance as a biography. Five days in a flamingo city does, however, justify an account of this, the greatest spectacle in all the world of birds. Illustrated. 210 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harback.

LONDON. COUNTRY LIFE. 1950. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD COPY IN WORN DUSTWRAP. THIS RECORD OF THE AUTHOR`S JOURNEYS TO OBSERVE AND PHOTOGRAPH THE MANY EXQUISITE BIRDS OF THE CARMARGE IS FULLY ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHS IN COLOUR AND HALF-TONE, AND THERE ARE APPENDICES GIVING A FULL REVIEW OF EXISTING KNOWLEDGE AND LITERATURE ABOUT THE FLAMINGO.

London: Country Life Limited, 1950. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 210 pages; b/w photographic plates. Dust jacket very good, a little rubbed to edges, spine lettering faded, not price-clipped, now presented in an archival sleeve. Original cloth with gilt lettering, very good. Contents clean and tight, Eric Hosking's bookplate to the front pastedown, internally clean and unmarked, no inscriptions. A very good copy with an interesting provenance. Eric Hosking, OBE, Hon FRPS, FBIPP (1909-1991) was widely acknowledged as one of the world's most eminent natural history photographers, "Perhaps the most famous bird photographer ever to have lived" (Gemma Padley). He was pioneering and developed new techniques, especially the use of flash photography and automatic shutter release technology, which enabled him to photograph birds at night and freeze birds in flight for the first time. Famously, when just 28 he lost an eye to a tawny owl while climbing up to a hide in… Leer más

LONDON. COUNTRY LIFE. 1950. FIRST EDITION. VERY GOOD COPY, NO DUSTWRAP. THIS RECORD OF THE AUTHOR`S JOURNEYS TO OBSERVE AND PHOTOGRAPH THE MANY EXQUISITE BIRDS OF THE CARMARGE IS FULLY ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHS IN COLOUR AND HALF-TONE, AND THERE ARE APPENDICES GIVING A FULL REVIEW OF EXISTING KNOWLEDGE AND LITERATURE ABOUT THE FLAMINGO.

London, New York: Country Life Limited, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. FIRST EDITION. Full red cloth-patterned hardcover with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Book is slight cocked. Corners are lightly bumped. Jacket is not price-clipped but thee is hand written marks for a price change to the jacket. Jacket has been clear tape repaired at the extremities. Modteart wear to the book with a severall chips and light soiling. Overall a VERY GOOD book in a FAIR dust jacket only. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

1950. N.Y., (1950). Orig. full cloth. 210 pp., cold. frontisp. and many plates.