"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1958. [Ornithology] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.lxix; 384. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge green, dust-jacket with illustration laid onto upper panel and with printed price of 63s. net. Illustrated with sixteen colour plates, fifteen half-tone plates, numerous in-text illustrations, folding map of Cyprus to rear. Bookplate of K.I. Beynon to pastedown, very light spotting to edges and endpapers. A fine copy. Item #56421
Price: £75.00