vanishing jungle de mountfort guy eric hosking (5 resultados)

Hard Cover. Condición: VG+. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG. Eric Hosking Ilustrador. First Edition. VG+/VG. 8vo. original brown pictorial boards gilt, spine label (edges a bit rubbed, faint trace of spotting to leaf edges, remains of pencil price to upper forecorner FFE) in dustwrapper (extremities a bit torn, esp. to head of spine & upper forecorner); pp. 286, with 60p. illustrations, text figures & colour endpaper maps. A very good copy.

Full Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Illustrated by Eric Hosking Ilustrador. First American Edition. Full brown cloth with gilt blind stamped illustration of a tiger on front cover. Black label and gilt lettering on spine. Jacket is not price-clipped but does have tape reinforcement to the back of the jacket at the top & bottom of spine and at the corners. The tape has yellowed causing darkening to the jacket visible fromt front of the jacket. One half inch closed tear to front panel. Overall EXCELLENT condition book in a VERY GOOD minus jacket. Guy Mountfort (December 4, 1905 - April 24, 2003) was an English ornithologist and conservationist. Born in London, Mountfort was the author of A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (1954), with illustrations by Roger Tory Peterson and distribution maps by Philip Hollom. In 1961 he created the World Wildlife Fund with Julian Huxley, Peter Scott and Max Nicholson. In 1972 he led the campaign to save the Bengal Tiger, persuading Indira Gandhi to create nine tiger reserves in India, with eight others in Nepal and Bangladesh. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original brown flecked paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, gilt tiger illustration to the cover, coloured map end papers. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 286 printed pages of text with monochrome and colour photographs throughout. Foxing and dust marking to the closed page edges. Near Fine condition book in Very Good condition price clipped dust wrapper with sun bleaching to the spine, rubs, chips and small closed tears. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 002118807 PAKISTAN.

Condición: Very Good. Hardcover book, First edition in dustjacket. Signed by Eric Hosking . 286 pages with Photographic illustrations by Eric Hosking. Expeditions to the Himalaya, Sind desert , the jungles of Sunderbans and the Chittagong Hill Tracts. A Very Good copy in a Good unclipped dustjacket. Light bump to bottom edge of front cover. Jacket spine sunned and faded. light wear to jacket edges. Pictures available.

Paperback. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: no dj. Vanishing Jungle, the. Book.