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David Attenborough: Life Stories.
London: Collins, 2009. [Natural History] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.224. Heavily illustrated in colour throughout. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'to Lottie | David Attenborough'. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and light green endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket..... More
The Private Life of Plants. A Natural History of Plant Behaviour.
London: BBC Books, 1995. [Animal Behaviour] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.320. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £17.99. A touch of light..... More
The Trials of Life. A Natural History of Animal Behaviour.
London: Collins / BBC Books, 1990. [Animal Behaviour] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.320. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket. A crisp, clean copy in a bright..... More
The Ginger Man. With an Introduction by Arland Ussher.
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. The Traveller's Companion Series, n° 7. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.353 [5]. Publisher's green card covers. Trivial wear, bump to top corners else a fine, fresh copy of this important book. The Irish American playwright's first novel, being the..... More
A Singular Man.
London: The Bodley Head, 1964. [Modern literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.340. Publisher's hardcover in the orange variant of the dust-wrapper (also exists in blue and yellow), priced at 21s. No inscriptions or price-clipping. Some light spotting, jacket with a few small marks to flaps otherwise a crisp..... More
The Ginger Man.
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1958. [Modern Literature] FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.382. Publisher's green cloth with printed title lables to spine and upper, and red endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 15s. very minor wear to jacket edges. A lovely near fine copy. The Irish American..... More
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1981.
London: Queen Anne Press, Macdonald Futura, 1981. [Cricket] ORIGINAL ALMANACK. Sextodecimo (17 x 11cm), pp.iv; 1231. With six double-sided black and white photographic plates. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. With the yellow dust-jacket titled in dark brown, priced at £7.95. Light toning and spotting..... More
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