Publicado por Dufour Editions, 1967
ISBN 10: 0854290621 ISBN 13: 9780854290628
Librería: Dufour Editions Inc., Wyomissing, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Hard Cover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. OUT-OF-PRINT.
Publicado por Collins Harvill. London. 1967, 1967
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Original o primera edición
ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1967). 1967 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Ppx,204. B/w photograph plates and b/w illustrations, bibliography, map end-papers. Yellow boards, gilt titles to spine. Boards slightly bumped and marked else very good in frayed dust-wrapper. "People the world over have awakened to the fact that man threatens with extinction some of the most extraordinary and beautiful creatures on the earth. To get this threat into perspective Professor Cloudsley-Thompson traces the history of man's impact on African animals from the Roman games, where they were put to fight men or other animals, to their display as a tourist attraction in the wider arena of a National Park. The book abounds with extracts of particular interest from the works of the great hunters and early explorers and detials the methods and causes which have depleted the great herds of animals which once roamed the plains of Africa. He concludes with an urgent plea for the conservation of this wonderful heritage of wild life before it reaches the point of extinction." Chapters include: The impact of man; Traditional Afican hunting methods; The changing scene; Firearms and human settlement; Behaviour and migration; Reactions of big game to man; Pachyderms; Carnivores; Ruminants and reptiles; Game conservation. Appendices list "some of the more famous big game hunters and explorers of eastern Africa, and "biomass of the main wild mammalian species in a number of areas." .
Publicado por London: G. T. Foulis & Co. Ltd., ., 1967
Librería: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, Estados Unidos de America
Octavo, (hardcover), gold cloth, gilt letters, v, 204 pp. Fine, in a price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing to spine and light edgewear. Illus. Plates. '.Professor Cloudsley-Thompson traces the history of man's impact on African animals from the Roman games, where they were put to fight men or other animals, to their display as a tourist attraction in the wider arena of a National Park. The book abounds with extracts of particular interest from the works of great hunters and early explorers and details the methods and causes which have depleted the great herds of animals which once roamed the plains of Africa.' Contents: The Impact of Man; Traditional African Hunting Methods; The Changing Scene; Firearms and Human Settlement; Behaviour and Migration; Reactions of Big Game to Man; Pachyderms; Carnivores; Ruminants and Reptiles; Game Conservation; Appendices; Bibligraphy; Index. African History, Natural History, Africa, Game, African Mammals, Conservation, Hunting, Endangered Animals, Extinction, Extinct, Endangered Species.
Publicado por G T Foulis & Co, 1967
Librería: Fieldfare Bird and Natural History Books, Sidmouth, DEVON, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Man threatens with extinction some of the most extraordinary and beautiful creatures of the world. To get this threat into perspective the Author traces the history of man's impact on African animals from the Roman games, where they were put to fight men or other animals to there display as a tourist attraction.
Publicado por Dufour Editions, Chester Springs, PA, 1967
ISBN 10: 0854290621 ISBN 13: 9780854290628
Librería: 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Collectible - Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW, showing trace discoloration. Yellow linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; intact w/edge wear and rubs to surfaces & all leading edges. Maps to endpapers. Check mark to fEP. A natural history of wildlife, fauna and flora, of Africa from Roman times to the present. Studied examination of travelogues, journals of hunters and sportsman, records of zoos points to the need of conservation post haste before Africa's the natural, living ecology becomes irrepairable. 10 chapters: I, The Impact of Man; II, Traditional African Hunting Methods; III, The Changing Scene; IV, Firearms & Human Settlement; V, Behavior & Migration; VI, Reactions of Big Game to Man; VII, Pachyderms; VIII, Carnivores; IX, Ruminants & Reptiles; and, X, Game Conservation, followed by appendices. Fine copy in lesser dust jacket.
Publicado por G. T. Foulis & Company, Ltd., London
Librería: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. First Edition. (1967) 204 pp. Original peach covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Top of spine a bit bumped. DJ a bit soiled w/ light edge wear. Illust. w/ b/w photos and drawings. Contents nice.
Publicado por Foulis UK, 0, 1967
Librería: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, Nueva Zelanda
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. pp 204 plates stain on back panel of D/J.
Publicado por G T Foulis & Co, 1967
Librería: Books Written By (PBFA Member), Northampton, NTH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 1st Edition. Yellow boards with gold lettering to the spine. Slight lean to the boards and tanning to the pages. Glazed pictorial clipped dust wrapper, with significant creasing and rubbing to the edges, corners and spine.Water mark to the rear of the jacket. Now in a new removable protective clear sleeve. 204pp, No inscriptions, clean pages with black and white illustrations throughout. (Any digital image can be provided upon request).
Publicado por Dufour Editions, [Chester Springs, Pa.], 1967
Librería: DuBois Rare Books, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. x, 204 p. (including apendices, bibliography and index): ill. ; 23 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original orange cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: wear to the extremities with light creasing, small closed tears, and areas of abrading. Laid in is a pamphlet by Cloudsley-Thompson, an offprint from The Entomologist's Record, Vol. 80, entitled "Some Aspects of the Fauna of the Sahara", the ffep of which contains an Autograph Letter Signed (or a very long inscription) by Cloudsley-Thomson, dated 28, December, 1968 to an unnamed party. Items signed by Cloudsley-Thompson are scarce to the trade. From Wikipedia: "John Leonard Cloudsley-Thompson DSc CBiol FSB FRES FZS (23 May 1921 - 4 October 2013) was a British naturalist renowned for his work on desert fauna. He was a tank commander during the Second World War. After the war, Cloudsley-Thompson returned to Cambridge to complete his studies, gaining his MA and PhD. He then became a lecturer in zoology at King's College London.In 1960, he became professor of zoology at the University of Khartoum, and keeper of the Sudan Natural History Museum. Following a short spell in 1969 as visiting professor at the University of Albuquerque in the deserts of New Mexico, (mention in the above referenced ALS) he returned to London in 1972. He was appointed professor of zoology at Birkbeck College, University of London, and remained with the university until he retired in 1986, when he was made emeritus professor. Cloudsley-Thompson was also a former chairman of the British Naturalists' Association between 1974-83, and the recipient of the Association's highest honour for outstanding services to the understanding of natural history, the Peter Scott Memorial Award in 1993. By the time of his death in October 2013, he had written over 50 books on desert fauna and the adaptations used by its wildlife such as spiders and scorpions." First Printing of First American Edition.