flying fox drifting sand (29 resultados)

Condición: Good. 1963. First Edition Thus. 332 pages. Paperback book with red cover. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and visible foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to first page. Paper cover has mild edge wear with mild corner curling. Moderate sunning to spine. Mild water stains and droplets to boards. Notable creasing to covers and spine.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Reprint . With an introduction by Julian Huxley. Gift inscription written by the previous owner. Complete with all plates. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 332 pages. There is gilt on the spine and on the front cover. Frontispiece. The boards are a touch edge worn and a minor tear on the spine of the book. There is foxing on the block of the book. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. 1948. 21.5cm, xvi,332p. frontis & 33 plates, 4 maps, brown cloth, very good (S3.4) The author describes two threatening problems, giant fruit-eating bats know as flying foxes and soil drift.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. 2nd Edition. pp.xii+332. 21.5cm. Frontispiece & 36. 4 maps. Hard cover in dust jacket. The jacket defective and with tape repairs. A good clean copy of the 'School Edition'.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. pp.xvi+332. 21.5cm. Frontispiece. 36 black and white photographic illustrations. 3 maps. Hard cover (no dj). A good clean copy.

Hardcover. Condición: very good. School edition. Brown octavo with brown spine title; brown and yellow pictorial jacket; x, 332 pages: illustrations, map; 22 cm. "Although Mr. Ratcliffe is a biologist, and although his Australian vagabondage was strictly professional, Flying Fox and Drifting Sand is far from being a scientific journal or a piece of popular natural history. The author was just as much interested in places and people as he was in creatures and problems which he had to investigate; and from his book there emerges a lively and convincing picture of the Australian bush." --Jacket. A very good (+) copy with clean pages, solid binding, some slight edgewear; Australian bookshop sticker on front pastedown; DJ is very good (-) with small closed tear near top of DJ spine and a few small chips around edges.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Reprint. Cloth, x, 332pp. A nice copy in a very good d/w/. part of the book describes an expedition in 1929-31 to the eastern coast to study the giant fruit eating bats known as flying foxes; the other part describes the outback of central Australia.

Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), 341 pp. Very Good, with light edgewear. Natural History, Bats, Australia.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Sirius Books Edition. xvii, 332pp, bw ills. Or red cloth in jacket. Sirius books edition. Offset toning to endpapers, minor rubbing to jacket. Account of two expeditions for the CSIRO by the author- the first in 1929-31 in the jungles and mangrove swamps of Queensland to investigate flying foxes; the second in 1935 when he travelled inland, from South Australia up the Birdsville Track into Queensland, to study erosion. Size: 8vo.

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. 3rd Impression. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Price clipped DJ is chipped at spine ends (with some loss to the top) and upper corners, it also has some mild wear to edges. Tiny abrasion to front pastedown. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Introduction by Julian Huxley. 341 pages. A lively and convincing picture of the prewar Australian bush. The author looked at flying foxes in Queensland during 1929 to 1931 and then spent time on his return to Australia in 1935 he worked on such problems as wind erosion, termites and rabbit control. He was also a founder of the Australian Conservation Foundation. He was deeply interested in the places and people he met and this is brought out in this very popular account of the Australian bush.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1953 printing. Solid hardcover No marks inside except owner name on front fly. General light rubbing to cover. Red decorations and titles are still clear. No dust jacket. Book.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1953/ 1951 (school edition)/ January 1938. Octavo, xii, 332 pages plus a map and 18 plates. Pictorial papered boards ([printed red on grey) lightly sunned and bumped, with a light crease to the printed paper on the front over; edges and endpapers a little foxed; a very good copy with the very good price-clipped dustwrapper slightly chipped and rubbed. The introduction is by Julian Huxley.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Julian Huxley. Ilustrador. A firm straight book. Internally spotless. Piece missing from lower part of spine.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Publisher Sirius, Australia 1963. Good condition. Red boards with white lettering and design. Wear to corners and edges. Tight binding, no markings in text. Ex-library book with associated labels. Original red and white unclipped d/j in good condition, some creasing, tanned inside.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Aust? edition. 1st Aust? edition. 22cm. VG h/c in chipped, much repaired DJ, inked name top FFEP. 332 pages, 37 mono photographs Relates the experiences of a British biologist researching and wandering in Australia between the World Wars. First published in Britain in 1930.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Very Good In A Good Protected Jacket With Frayed Ends Pp 341, Frontis , 31 Plates And 4 Maps.

First Edition, Third Impression. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked taupe cloth boards, with endbands slightly rubbed. Contemporary reader autograph to front free endpaper. Text edges faintly foxed, with the interior remaining tight, bright and clean. A well-preserved example overall. Physical description; 341 pages : maps, plates ; 23 cm. Notes; Introduction by Julian Huxley. Subjects; Natural history. Australia. Description and travel. 20th century. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hard. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Pages clean and bright, boards tidy, wear to dust jacket with rubbing, chipping and some closed tears. Size: 8vo.

The adventures of a biologist in Australia. With an Introduction by Julian Huxley. Sydney 1951. XII, 332 pp + Plates. Cloth.[#27238].

First Edition, Third Impression. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked taupe cloth boards, with endbands slightly rubbed. Contemporary reader autograph to front free endpaper. Text edges faintly foxed, with the interior remaining tight, bright and clean. A well-preserved example overall. Physical description; 341 pages : maps, plates ; 23 cm. Notes; Introduction by Julian Huxley. Subjects; Natural history. Australia. Description and travel. 20th century. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good+. 1st UK Edition. 341 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Black and white plates throughout. Previous owner's signature on the ffep. Page edges are lightly darkened and foxed. Brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Lightly worn around the edges. Dark orange dustjacket with white titles and black and white photography. Worn around the edges. Lightly faded on the spine. Jacket is lightly stained and scuffed. 1ST UK EDITION. VG/G+. Book.

First Edition. With an Introduction by Julian Huxley. Pp. [xvi]+342(last colophon), frontispiece, plus 35 plates (including 4 maps); demy 8vo; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the boards a trifle canted and slightly scuffed, fore-corners lightly bruised; later (not recent) endpapers, commercial bookplate and bookseller's stamp on upper pastedown, the half-title page offset, hinge starting near front, a little light foxing; Chatto & Windus, London, 1938. First edition. *Francis Ratcliffe (1904-1970) was brought to Australia by the CSIRO in 1929 to study flying foxes in Queensland and northern New South Wales.

341 S. Hardcover mit Abb., leichte Gebrauchspuren.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. 1st Edition. Great condition for age, some discolouration on textblock, one loose page (279), missing dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First American Edition. Hard cover, 8vo, in tan cloth, titles in blue to spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket, 341pp. Printed by R.& R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh. Printed on laid paper, with frontispiece and many other illustrations and maps. Condition: Very Good in a Very Good, un price-clipped d/j. Outer rear joint shows some staining in the gutter; matched by browning along corresponding interior rear hinge--could be from gluing during manufacture? (Not seen on the front joint or hinge.) Text block edges a bit dusty, just a hint of foxing to top outer edge and fore edge of text block. Interior with mild age-toning. D/j with minor crimping, one half-inch closed tear, and a couple of marks to rear portion.** As much a travelogue as a scientific work, this highly readable title helped bring the topic of conservation to the consciousness of the Commonwealth.**Indian-born zoologist, entomologist, and early conservationist Francis Ratcliffe, OBE (1904-1970) was best known for his work on the giant fruit-eating bat, or "flying foxes." He conducted this scientific survey on behalf of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, beginning in 1929. The first part of this book deals with his observations on their behaviors in the various environs of eastern Australia, and their detrimental effects on commercial farming. The second part of the book discusses the effects of erosion on the environment and quality of life of the people living in "the Stony Desert" of Queensland. The Introduction is written by Professor of Zoology at Oxford University, Dr. Julian Huxley, under whom the Author studied in the 1920's. (ADB) Rare with the dust jacket. OCLC 423982. Book.

Condición: Very Good. *Presentation Copy* To Dr F. Coles Phillips, University of Adelaide Petrology Dept 1953. Good condition brown cloth hardback with title stamped on spine. Published by Angus & Robertson second printing 1951. Frontispiece 332 pages, 33 Plates, Maps. The author describes two major problems huge fruit eating bats known as flying foxes & soil drft.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1938. 8vo. Orig. cloth (slightly rubbed). (xvi, 342pp.). With frontispiece, numerous plates, and 4 maps. Previous owners name on front free endpaper. Slightly foxed. 1st edition.

Secondhand, Hardback. , . NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.Author: Francis RadcliffFormat: HardbackNumber of Pages: Flying Fox and Drifting Sand is a biography by Francis Radcliff. It details Radcliff's adventures as a biologist in Australia. Published by Angus and Robertson in 1948.First Australian Edition. Condition: Good with a small bookshop sticker affixed at front pastedown's bottom right corner and previous owner's name to front endpaper. Brown board cover with gilt lettering. Includes frontis and several black & white plates. Dust jacket: Poor with notable wear and tear. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. Secondhand, Hardback.

Condición: Very Good. Flying Fox and Drifting Sand. The Adventures of a Biologist in Australia. *Presentation Copy* Hardcover with title stamped on spine. . pp.xvi+332. 21.5cm. Frontispiece. 36 black and white photographic illustrations. 3 maps. Presented to Dr Coles Phillips, University of Adelaide 1953. Signed by the students with presentation label.