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ATTENBOROUGH, David. [Zoo Quest Series]; Comprising Zoo Quest to Guyana, Zoo Quest for a Dragon, Zoo Quest in Paraguay, Quest in Paradise, Zoo Quest to Madagascar and Quest Under Capricorn. London: Lutterworth Press, 1956-1963. 8vo., 6 vols; publisher's cloth in green, red and blue; all in the original unclipped dust jackets with full-colour photographs; each volume with colour frontis photograph and additionally illustrated in black and white, with maps, some additional colour photographs in the later volumes; a lovely uptogether set, with a few condition points of note; some rubbing and chipping to the dust jackets along spine and edges; with some very unobtrusive internal tape repair to foot of vol 1; gutter slightly cracked in vols 1 and 2, but holding firm; previous ownership in ink now crossed out to vol 2, mostly hidden beneath flap of jacket; lightly frayed to the edge of final few pages; a couple of spines lightly sunned; foyles bookseller sticker hidden beneath front flap of vol 5; very slight spotting to the upper edge; scarce as a complete set thus. First editions of all six volumes. A complete set of Attenborough's first books, published over the course of seven years. Zoo Quest was a multi-part nature documentary which aired on the BBC between 1954 and 1963, and was the first major programme to feature David Attenborough, fully establishing him as a nature documentary presenter. In each, he paired with a member of staff from London Zoo, traveling to a foreign country to capture an animal for the collection (accepted practice for the time). Attenborough wrote an accompanying book for each expedition aside from the first, totalling 6 volumes, and 7 episodes. The series was highly successful, with Zoo Quest for a Dragon being the first footage to capture a Komodo Dragon. In order, the books cover the author's expeditions to Guiana, Indonesia, Paraguay, New Guinea and Islands of the South Seas (Tonga and Fiji), Madagascar and Australia. A lovely set.