VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD PROTECTED DUSTWRAP. PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE AUTHOR. THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES THE PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ELEVEN RECOGNISED SUB-SPECIES AND DISCUSSES MIGRATION FOOD PREFERENCES HABITAT AND HAZARDS AS WELL AS COURTSHIP MATING AND NESTING HABITS. THE HISTORY OF GOOSE HUNTING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROTECTIVE GAME LAWS AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS ARE AMONG THE FASCINATING AND INFORMATIVE SUBJECTS COVERED IN THIS BOOK. 150 SPLIENDID PHOTOGRAPHS ILLUSTRATE EVERY TOPIC IN THE TEXT WHICH WRITTEN PRIMARILY FOR ADULTS IS CLEAR ENOUGH TO BE UNDERSTOOD AND ENJOYED BY YOUNG READERS. 2ND PRINTING.
REPRINT FINE COPY IN FINE PROTECTED DUSTWRAP. NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. NEW NATURALIST SERIES NUMBER 29. WITH 2 COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS AND 87 BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY THE AUTHOR.
VERY GOOD HARDBACK WITH PROTECTIVE COVER OVER DUSTWRAP. ONE OF THE NEW NATURALIST SERIES. AUTHOR WAS DIRECTOR OF ROTHAMSTED EXPERIMENTAL STATION FOR 30 YEARS. FULLY ILLUSTRATED. NUMBER 35.
2ND EDITION. VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD PROTECTED DUSTWRAP. NUMBER 35 IN THE NEW NATURALIST SERIES. HAS CELLOPHANE MARKS ON F.E.P. AND REAR END PAGE. DUSTWRAP IS CELLOTAPED.
FINE COPY IN VERY GOOD SLIP CASE. BEING A FURTHER SELECTION OF BRIEF LIVES TOGETHER WITH EXCERPTS FROM HIS WRITINGS ON ANTIQUITIES SCIENCE AND FOLKLORE.
FIRST EDITION PUBLISHED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY. VERY GOOD REBOUND WITH ORIGINAL SPINE AND BLIND-STAMPED BOARDS NEW ENDPAPERS SMALL STAIN ON FRONT BOARD CORNERS BUMPED CONTENTS CLEAN. ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND NEWSPAPER ARTICLE GLUED TO FRONTISPIECE VERSO AND ENDPAPERS. ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. TO THE REAR OF THE BOOK IS A LONG INK INSCRIPTION (1931) BY THE PREVIOUS OWNER MARY LOUISA ROW MAKING REFERENCE TO THE FAMILILY HISTORY AND MENTIONING THE NAMES OF ROWE MAYNARD (OF MAYFIELD) AND JOHN EDWARDS WHO WAS HIGH SHERIFF IN 1744. ALSO MENTION OF WHITFELD SIR THOMAS MAY OF THE OLD PALACE AND JUDGE SIR JOHN JEFFERAY.
NO DATE – BUT VICTORIAN. CONSIDERS THE LIVES OF RICHARD BENTLEY MARVELL LORD FAIRFAX ANNE CLIFFORD WILLIAM MASON JOHN FISHER AND RICHARD ARKWRIGHT. OCTAVO 480 pp. ORIGINAL BLIND STAMPED BEVELLED BOARDS SOME LOSS AT TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE AND TWO INCH CRACK IN THE JOINT. SOME FOXING TO EARLY PAGES BUT OTHERWISE A TIGHT AND CLEAN COPY.
