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Some Common Birds of West Africa. With Coloured lllustrations.
Lagos: Church Missionary Society Bookshop, no date [1933]. [Ornithology] FIRST EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 12cm), pp.xii; 112. With a fine colour illustration of each bird. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Light spotting to endpapers. Very light rubbing to cloth with a few marks to lower board. Near fine. A small book on the bird-life of West Africa intended for schools, with a view to fostering an interest in conservation. Item #55941
Price: £35.00
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See all items by W. A. FAIRBAIRN, died 1984