D H S Risdon (73 results)

Paper Covered Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 96 pages, illustrated with full color photographs. Illustrated endpapers. The top and bottom cover edges are heavily worn. The text is clean and unmarked. The jacket edges are heavily worn.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Moderate shelf wear to edges and corners of dust jacket and cover, denting to top and bottom of spine. Binding remains intact and pages are mostly clean and unbent. Good used reading condition. Used Book.

Hardcover. former owner's name stamp on title page. 140 pages; 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 " Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket.

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Illustrtated throughout with b/w drawings and color photos. Fine/Fine. Clean, tight, unmarked. Item # B6433. **SAVE MORE** Additional books in the same order ship for FREE via Standard Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 140 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains colour illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is darkened. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Condition: Good. 140 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, with tears, chips and areas of loss. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8th edition. hardback, 8vo, a very good clean and tightly bound copy in a well preserved dust jacket, brightly coloured plates, b&w illustrations, 140pp.

Condition: Good. First Edition. 159 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains colour illustrated plates throughout. Black and white illustrations throughout. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild sunning to board edges. Faint mottling to boards. Heavy sunning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Mild droplets to spine and front board. Pen marks to rear.

Condition: Good. DJ may have small chips and tears. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Text in French. D/j has sunning to spine, bruising to top spine. Rubbing to tips of boards. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Heavy/oversize item - additional shipping charges may be required depending on speed/destination requested.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Large quarto, hardcover, near fine in good green pictorial dj. Illustrated with 75 color photos and many line drawings. 64 pages. Scarlet tanager on cover. Includes newspaper article from 1982 of blooms and birds in Briones Park, East Bay, California. Book.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright with no markings, 159pp with colour plates. Good DJ with some edge wear and small tears.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 26 pages. Illustrated. W Bain "My Way With Gouldians" / D H S Risdon "Tanagers" / R P Elliott "My Parrot Family Birds" (SL#122).

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1965). (1953) 1965 revised impression of 8th edition. 8vo (140 x 222mm). Pp140. Colour frontispiece, 56 full colour paintings of birds, b/w illustrations. Green boards, spine titled in gilt. Light spotting and browning, bookseller's sticker to front end-paper. Good-plus in price-clipped dust-wrapper. "The great value of this book. lies in the fact that the mass of information it contains is the result of the author's extensive, first-hand, practical experience of the numerous species about which he writes. A most valuable feature of this work. is the manner in which the birds have been grouped in collections which may safely be asociated together in the same aviary." Chapters include: Housing; Feeding; Breeding; General Management; Diseases, parasites and accidents; Small finches, mannikins, waxbills, doves and quails; Weavers, whydahs and large finches; Cardinals and birds of similar size; Parrakeets and lovebirds; Some hardy softbills. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, 8vo, a very good copy in a price clipped dust jacket that is lightly creased at head of spine, b&w illustrations, 178pp.

Faber and Faber, London, Boston - 1979, Faber Paperbacks, 13,50x21,50 cm, broché, 188 pages Bon état - Pour les envois hors de France, la tafication Ğlivre & brochureğ pour les frais de port a disparue.Les frais de port annoncés correspondent à une moyenne. Ils seront calculés au plus juste en fonction du poids de votre article.

green cloth. Condition: V.g. Dust Jacket Condition: Vg. Eighth Edition. 140pp, with 10 line illustrations and 14 coloured plates. Foreword by The Duke of Bedford. An attractive dust-jacket, which is a triffle bumped at the edges.

Condition: Good. 1967. First Edition. 178 pages. Colour photographic dust jacket over gray cloth with yellow lettering to spine. Illustrated throughout with black and white diagrams. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. line drawings and colour photographs.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. FIRST American EDITION very good in very good dust jacket. Full light blue cloth pattered hardcover with two cranes in flight on cover. Lettering on spine in dark blue. Light wear to extremities with to of front board bumped. Light wear to dust jacket. Overall a VERY GOOD book in a VERY GOOD dust jacket. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Revised edition of eighth edition. The jacket shows heavy rubbing to the edges along with small tears and chips, moderate surface scuffs and staining. Not price clipped. The boards show light wear, some edge scuffing, slight spine fading. The leaves are tight and in good condition. The pages are mostly clean, but the foremost pages have a large foxing spot to the lower margins (a modest example in photo 5) and spots occasionally appear on the remaining pages. Measures 22.3 x 14.5 x 1.7cm. 140 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 8th revised. Blue cloth cover with light wear and fading, some small stains to back cover. Text and illustrations clean and pages intact. Very Good condition inside. Penciled price to front blank endpaper. Many nice color illustrations. 140 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good ++. First Edition. viii +159 pages. Colour and B&W plates and line ilustrations.No obvious date but looks mid-20th century. RAF blue background dustjacket with wear and chipping to edges with tape repairs, Clean light blue binding. Page-edges are moderately browned o/w pages clean.

Paper covers. Condition: Good. No Jacket. New edition. Front cover creased. Weight: 1.0 Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Tiny chips at corners and a 2 inch tear at top back of DJ. Foxing on flyleaf and endpaper ; Covered in Mylar; Color palates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 140 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of the harder to find volumes in the Faber 'Your Book' series. Well illustrated with photos and drawings. All in VG, clean and bright internal order. Minimal wear only to red and yellow patterned cloth with bright gilt titling to spine. VG- unclipped d/j a little faded to spine. 8vo. 64pp + plates.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Revised impression of 8th edition. 140 pp, beige and blue boards, slight curve to front board. Colour plates. VG.

Condition: Good. First Edition. 159 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations with colour illustrated and black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Spine is in good condition. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing.