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Altre immaginiEditore: The Swarthmore Press, Ltd, Ruskin Houose, 40 Museum Street, London W.C.1 1924
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Da: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Regno UnitoOrlando Booksellers
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket, as Issued. First Reprint of the First Edition. First reprint of the true first edition, published January, 1924. (First published April, 1917). Twenty-three photo colour and sepia illustrations of birds by Oliver G. Pike. W. Bickerton, J.T. Newman, Herbert Lazenby. Also colour plates of ne…sting places at the British Museum, South Kensington including full-plate frontispiece showing: 'Kingfishers and nest in river bank from case in British Museum, South Kensington'. ***Good in blue cloth-covered boards, with gilt titles to spine and gilt titles and blind border to front board. Light stain affecting the gilt titles on the spine. Boards slightly rubbed, faded and marked. Edges of boards rubbed. Corners of boards rubbed and bumped. Small splits to cloth of tail of spine. Head and tail of spine frayed and rubbed. Contemporaneous owner's name in blue fountain pen ink: 'H.C. Oldfield ' to top of front pastedown. Light unobtrusive scattered foxing to end-pages and outer margins of pages and fore-edge of text-block. Most pages clean. 220mm x 148mm. 256 pages including index to rear. ***Contents; Preface; Bird Life in January: Hard Times, Calendar; Bird Life in February: Mere and Fen, Calendar; Bird Life in March: The Month of Awakening, Calendar; Bird Life in April: The Summer Migrants, Calendar; Bird Life in May: May on the Moors, Calendar; Bird Life in June: The Leafy Month, Calender; Bird Life in July: Sea-Fowl Haunts, Calendar; Bird Life in August: Mountain and Moor, Calendar; Bird Life in September: The Sacrifice in Game, Calendar; Bird Life in October: Seed-time and Harvest, Calendar; Bird Life in November: The Home of a Naturalist, Calender; Bird Life in December: Wild Fowl on the Coast, Calendar; Index. List of illustrations: Kingfishers and their nest in river bank (from case in British Museum, South Kensington; Birds attracted by Coco-nuts; Little Grebe on Nest; Robin's Nest in Kettle; Peewit and her Nest; Kentish Plovers and their Nesting-place (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Long-tailed Tits and Nests (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Bullfinch on Nest; Nest of Chaffinch; Peregrine Falcon and Young (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Nest of Grasshopper Warbler; Linnet's nest in Rose Bush; Red Warbler Feeding Young Cuckoo; The Young Barn Owls; Young Nightjars; Stock Doves and Nest (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Puffins Feeding their Young (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Pied Wagtails (from case in British Museum, South Kensington); Black-Throated Diver; A Brood of Young Kestrels; Group of Black-headed Gulls; A Sitting Woodcock; Herons and Wild Ducks. ***A nicely illustrated and informative book of the period. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Oliver G. Pike. W. Bickerton, J.T. Newman, Herbert Lazenby (illustratore).
