Denis Summers Smith (66 results)
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Hard cover. First edition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 342 p. Dr. Summers-Smith's absorbing monograph is concerned with the world's twenty species of True Sparrows, the genus Passer. An international authority on the sparrows, his earlier monograph, The House Sparrow, first appeared in the Collins New Naturalist series in 1…963 and was later reprinted. The True Sparrows have an extensive natural distribution in the Afrotropical, Palaeartic and Oriental regions, but they have been successfully introduced in Nearctic, Neotropical and Australasian regions so that today their distribution is almost worldwide. The twenty species accounts include physical characteristics, distribution, breeding biology, feeding and other aspects of biology and behaviour in a common format that aids comparisons and speculation as to the evolution of the genus. Important additional chapters discuss sparrow characteristics and relationships, their evolution and systematic position. Robert Gillmor provides eight superb colour plates illustrating all the species and a further 62 of his drawings grace the book's pages. In addition, the text is supported by over 100 maps and diagrams. Fine in fine dust jacket. price clip to the jacket is only flaw.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. New hardcover in dust jacket. Illustrations and color plates by Robert Gillmor, Covers the 20 species of true sparrows, the genus passer.
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-vii, 141 pp, photographs, humorous drawings by Euan Dunn, lovely painting by Robert Gillmor on the dust jacket. A fine copy without any fading to the spine of the wrapper.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. T & AD Poyser, 1988. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, 342pp, illust. A good copy. 0856610488/0.8uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed co…ndition grading).
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342 Seiten, zahlr. Abb. im Text und auf Tafeln (8 Farbtafeln). Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. Neuwertig! Poyser monographs.
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Octavo,342 pp.,illustrations, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a near fine tightly bound copy, the contents clean and unmarked and with a very well preserved pictorial dust jacket which is protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve. Illustrated, 141pp.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. T & A D Poyser, 1988. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, 342pp, illust. D/j price-clipped. A good copy. 0856610488/ . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description an…d its listed condition grading).
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Hardcover. 8vo. Pp: vii, 141. First edition. Colour illustrated dust jacket. Tan buckram boards with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white.ISBN: 0856610739 As new in very good plus boards with small bump to top of spine. Very good plus dust jacket with light surface marks.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Excellent tight clean crisp 1st ptg hardcover in like DJ, un-price-clipped, free of markings, hard to fault, as new condition, possibly slight suinfade to spine, with tan colour on bird plumage still present. Size: 8vo.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1988. 342pp. B&W and colour illustrations. Page edges browning slightly. Light wear to jacket. Spine illustration sunned. Book and unclipped dust jacket are otherwise in very good condition with no inscriptions. Robert Gillmor (illustrator).
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Published by T and A D Poyser Ltd, Staffordshire UK, 1988
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Staffordshire UK: T and A D Poyser Ltd , 1988. Very informative book on sparrows, 342 pages in very bright clean condition, many colour and B/w illustrations, all present as listed plus very informative text. Dustwrapper is also very bright and cle…an, price clipped, a very nice example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST . First Edition. Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 9 ½ x 6½ Inches. Hardcover.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's hardback in better than very good condition: firm and square, strong joints. Complete with original dustjacket, not showing any tears or chips. Contents tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus… a tidy book in very presentable condition.
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Published by J. Denis Summers-Smith, Guisborough, Cleveland, 1995
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st edition. 1st edition, 1995. A Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo., 205 pp., bound in publishers grey cloth with illustrated dust jacket. Minor signs of shelf wear to jacket; text appears clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Robert Gilmor (illustrator).
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Condition: Used - Good. Good hardback. 1st edition. 1997 1st edition with B&W illustrations; tightly bound in laminated boards with wear to bottom front hinge corner. Internally, front free endpaper has been removed - hence only 'good'; otherwise, a clean, tidy copy. Used - Good. Good hardback.
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FIRST EDITION, VERY GOOD COPY IN A VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. ILLUSTRATIONS AND COLOUR PLATES BY ROBERT GILLMOR.
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Condition: New. Series: Poyser Monographs. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: PSVW6; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. . . 2010. hardcover. . . . .
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Condition: New. Series: Poyser Monographs. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: PSVW6; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. . . 2010. Hardcover. . . . .
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. While Denis Summers-Smith's monograph The Sparrows presented his knowledge of sparrow biology, this volume tells the other, human, side of the tale. Denis Summers-Smith first took up the study of the House Sparrow in 1947, thinking that the difficulties of travel in post-war Britain would be…st suit the study of a species always close at hand. The humble House Sparrow, common everywhere, was surprisingly poorly researched and his work soon provided interesting insights into this successful and adaptable little bird.As new opportunities to travel opened up, his interest blossomed to take in the genus Passer as a whole. His travels would ultimately lead to his study of all but one of the group, found only in deepest Turkestan, and to the publication of his authoritative monograph on sparrows in 1988.His wry descriptions of the tribulations and unexpected pleasures of a traveller on four continents, from the Himalayas and Thailand to Africa and the Americas (with a good few islands in between), are interspersed with observations and speculations on the biology of sparrows in a wide variety of habitats. Everywhere local officials and bird watchers warmed to the eccentric Scot in pursuit of the little birds that nobody notices but which so often make their homes beside us.The author's own photographs and delightful cartoons by Euan Dunn further paint the picture of this lifelong search. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
