Venables u m (24 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. First edition and printing. In very good dark olive green cloth boards, gilt titles to spine. The boards are tight, flat and clean; very slight wear to spine ends. The end papers are unmarked; the paste down end papers show brown and white maps of Shetland. The text pages are illustrated with black and white plates and maps and in very good plus condition. The pages are firmly attached, even and unmarked. No dedications etc. In good green dust jacket with green map of Shetland and black borders on top and tail ends. The jacket is quite clean with worn edges. There are some closed tears that have been repaired with sellotape. Not price clipped. In removable protective sleeve.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. * PUBLISHER : OLIVER AND BOYD * YEAR : 1955 * ISBN : N/A * No OF PAGES : 391 * CONDITION : USED - GOOD * OTHER: THE COVER BOARDS ARE RUBBED WITH BUMPING ALONG THE EDGES AND CORNERS WITH SMALL STAINS AND MARKS TO THE REAR. THE SPINE IS RUBBED WITH BUMPING AT BOTH ENDS. THE BINDING IS FIRM. THE GREEN COLOURED TOP FOR-EDGE IS CLEAN. THE PAGES ARE LIGHTLY TANNED, HOWEVER PAGES REMAIN CLEAR AND CRISP. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 391 pages, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations. Original dust jacket very good, some wear and chipping, now protected in a removable archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, fine. Contents clean and tight. A near fine copy with a very good dust jacket. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-xii, 391 pp, black and white frontispiece, 7 plates, end paper maps, 2 other maps. An excellent clean copy in a slightly worn dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1955. Account of an 8-year study of the birds and mammals of the Shetland Isles undertaken by the Venables' - naturalists who settled in Shetland after WW2. Described on the inner jacket flap as "the first general zoological study made by naturalists residents in Shetland". 391 pages printed and bound in dark green boards with gold, gilt lettering to the spine. Mapped end-papers (Shetland). The contents are organised over 6 sections as follows: Naturalists in Shetland; Shetland Habitats; Status changes in Shetland Birds; Land Mammals; Sea Mammals; Birds. 3 Appendices, Bibliography. 8 black & white photographic plates. 3 maps. In overall VGC - clean, tidy and tightly bound. Sign of wear (minor rubs) to bottom of spine. Former owner's name in pen to top r.h.s of f.e.p. Extract from 'The Countryman' glued to r.h.s of f.e.p. Small, green, 'Foyle's' sticker to l.h.s of f.e.p. With non-clipped dust-jacket in Good+ condition - rubs and bumps to top of jacket edges and 4 small tears mended with invisible tape to inner jacket. Overall, a very nice copy. 8vo.…

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. 391 pages, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations. Original dust jacket very good, with light wear only. Hard-back binding, fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked. A fine copy. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition, 1955. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 391 pp., bound in publishers green cloth with illustrated green and black dust jacket. Jacket shows signs of shelf wear with rubbing at tips, edges and top/base of spine. Paper is slightly age toned; text appears unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.…

Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Rather worn and frayed. First Edition. Illustrated, large octavo, pp xii, 391, very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is poor and rather worn and frayed. From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter with his stamp on the front endpaper and extensive pencil notes on the rear endpaper.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book - very good, dust jacket - none.

Etat : Acceptable.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Book - very good, dust jacket - good (worn).

Etat : Good. xii, 392, 8 b/w plates, 3 maps. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Name to endpaper. Vg. First edition.

Etat : Good. xii, 392, 8 b/w plates, 3 maps. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Good in torn d/w (loss to head of spine). Now in removable protective sleeve. First edition.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper very slightly darkened at spine. With the bookplate of Peter Tate (1926-2009), author of A Century of Bird Books (1979) and Birds, Men and Books: a literary history of ornithology (1986).

8vo. xii, 391pp, frontis, plates, text figures, text tables, full-page text map. Original green cloth gilt, ep maps, te coloured. Extremes lightly rubbed; a very few small light stains to cloth; gilt to spine faded; ex-library with usual evidence.

Hard covers, dust jacket. Etat : V.g. V.g. 1st edition. Edge wear to jacket. Owner's bookplate Weight: 1 Language: English.

Etat : Very Good. xii, 392, 8 b/w plates, 3 maps. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Vg in slightly worn d/w (some foxing to flaps; in removable protective sleeve). Fore-edge spotted. From the library of Trevor James (1947-2020), Hertfordshire naturalist and coleopterist, with his bookplate and name. First edition.…

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. Octavo. xii, 391pp. Publisher's green boards with gilt titles to spine. Slight rubbing to head and tail and a few bumps to the surface. In the pale green map decorated dust wrapper, surface and edge wear including creasing, nicks and tears (a couple tape-repaired). Scrape to wrapper front that has removed the northern most island from the map (see image). Slight split to rear inner hinge. Illustrated. Clean and bright internally. Overall a Good/Fair copy.…

Hardback. Etat : VG+. Defective DW. 1st Edition. Front cover of DW has small loss and a large tear along top.

1ST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY IN GREEN CLOTH.

1955, 8vo, 391pp. black and white photographs, tables, endpaper maps, worn dust wrapper, very good.

1955. Oliver and Boyd. Hardback. Book - VG. DJ - Good. Ex-lib.

Edinburg, London, (1955). Orig. full cloth. Part of wrappers pasted in. XII,391 pp., 8 plates.

xii, 391 p., 7 pls, 3 maps, frontispiece, cloth (dust jacket). Good copy.