Novick alvin text (2 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. Large quarto-sized book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and only marking in or out is the Inscription to prior owner, "To Cy Hamlin, May 1970, Alvin Novick," to FFEP. Book is Near Fine or better. Unclipped glossy pictorial Dust Jacket shows original price of 10 GPB net. Several closed tears now repaired with archival quality tape and some previously repaired tears, but still colors are bright and DJ presents well - Good+ or perhaps VG. Inscribed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good-. First Edition. Stated first edition. Hardcover is green with gold embossed lettering on front and spine. Pages are clean and tight; appears almost as if unused. DJ front cover picture is very clever--has title and author/photographer information at top and then upside down across the bottom; likely immitating the fact that bats hang upside down. Printed in Switzerland. SBN: 03-082875-9 on copyright page. Extensively illustrated with 100+ color and b/w photographs and drawings, including one 4 page, gate-fold section. Sections are: Why Bats? ; Wings; Flight; Social and Family Life; Foraging; Locomotion and Repose; Echolocation; appendix on photography. Phenomenal book on the world of bats, the only true flying mammal. Very oversized and heavy, 6#. ; Photographs; 10 1/4 x 12; 171 pages; Cover has light shelf wear and bumping. DJ has sunning, rubbing/scuffing, bumping, series of crinkles and small tears along top and bottom; in a mylar cover. Illustrated by Nina Leen (ilustrador).…