Swifts in a Tower by Lack, David - 1956

Paperback. Good.

Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; First published in 1956 this new edition from the RSPB still offers the clearest insights into this much loved and enigmatic bird Published to coincide with the RSPBs Oxford Swift City project The author David Lack is one of the most ce

Hardback. New.

London: Unicorn, 2018. Second printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No dustjacket. Smaller 8vo. pp. 274, ""First published in 1956, Swifts in a Tower still offers astonishing insights into the private lives of swifts, their lifestyles, and the environment they inhabit. Now more than sixty years later, swifts have been studied even more thoroughly, using technology unimaginable in the 1950s. This research has revealed more secrets of these indomitable…

Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1973. Nice copy. Price clipped dust jacket with no rips or chips.. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Methuen, 1956. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1956. 239 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to clipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Methuen, 1956. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1st editiion. Not price clipped. has contmporary gift inscription on the inside front page.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo (14 x 20cm). pp. 239, b/w plates. Dust jacket near fine, bright, small shadow on the spine from a removed label, edges crisp, not price-clipped, now protected in a clear removable archival sleeve. Contents clean and tight, very top edges of the reference section with a few creases, fore-edges a little dust soiled, no inscriptions or marking, paper bright. A very good copy in a near fine dust jacket..

Great Britain: Methuen, 1956. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Near fine book with previous owner's bookplate, signature, place and date in a very good jacket with wear to corners, still VG. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.].

London: Methuen, 1956. 1st edition, 8vo, 239pp, photo illustrations; pretty decent example of this scarce item, some light edge spotting, ffep foxed, previous owner's neat name to top of ffep o/w safely VG Copy in dusty DJ, price clipped and lightly nicked at extrems and a little foxed to lower panel but which is by and large just the way we like to get 'em. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

A guide to creating a bird-friendly environment, with tips on feeders, nest boxes, birdbaths, recipes, and bird identification, all pages clean and unmarked

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.

New York: Grove Press, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Helen Macdonald to special themed bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". ix, 261pp. A touch of shelfwear to bright dust jacket. Bound in full black paper over boards, with spine backed in black cloth and lettered in silver. A new, unread signed first edition of this collection of essays about the natural world by Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk. ABOUT VESPER FLIGHTS: From the New York Times bestselling author of H is for Hawk and winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world. Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. Helen Macdonald's bestselling debut H is for Hawk brought the astonishing story of… Read More

New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink at front free endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 417pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America. The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you're not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as "majestic" and "noble," yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation's founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the… Read More

Old original printing of United States National Museum, `1953, 734 pp, rough page ends, strong binding. There are a very few notations by owner and salutation. This was later printed in 2 volumes. No photos, printed by Unite tates Government Printing Office in Washington D.C. orig. price $4.50.

New York: Doubleday, 1964. Hardcover. Very good. 4to (33 x 24 cm). 288 pp. Signed by Peterson on 2nd blank endpaper, rest of text block tight and unmarked. Black cloth covers with gilt titles to spine and upper, light wear to head/tail of spine,corners and edges. No DJ.

Montgomery, R.A: 1986 Bantam-Skylark: The Owl Tree, Choose Your Own Adventure #36. Softcover. Illustrated by Leslie Morrill. Number line CW 098765432. Used. VG condition. 50 pages. 5 ¼ X 7 5/8. Series. Keywords: Choose Your Own Adventure, Bantam-Skylark, Adventure, Series, Collectible. ISBN9780553154498

Rising from sandbars on the Platte River with clarion calls, the sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) feels the urgency of spring migration. Elegant, noble, and spiritual, the sandhill crane is one of the most ancient of all birds. More than a half-million strong, flying in squadrons, these majestic creatures point northward to their Arctic and sub-Arctic breeding ranges. Theirs is an epic story of endurance through the ages. With 153 stunning color photographs, On Ancient Wings presents sandhill cranes in their wild but increasingly compromised habitats today. Over the course of five years, Michael Forsberg documented the tall gray birds in habitats ranging from the Alaskan tundra, to the arid High Plains, from Cuban nature preserves to suburban backyards. With an eye for beauty and an uncommon persistence, the author documents the cranes' challenges to adapt and survive in a rapidly changing natural world. Forsberg argues that humankind, for its own sake, should secure the cranes' place in the future.… Read More

Trade paperback with multiple illustrations, maps, photographs. 340 pages with indexOrnithology and how the banding yields info about birds as carriers of disease.

Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars, Alfred A. Knopf 1st Ed. 1955. Hardcover. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Used. VG/ No DJ. Rose red boards. Spine lightly sunned. A nice copy of a scarce item.