Introduction by Gerald Durrell (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. (xiv) 208 pp. Black boards lettered in orange on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white photographs. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. The Contents are: Foreword by H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II; Introduction by Gerald Durrell; First There Was Kay; Then There Were Owls; The Owl for All His Feathers Was A-cold; O Come Poor Owl and Tell Thy Woes to Me; Of Owls and Pussycats; Two Owls and a Hen Four Larks and a Wren; Owls to Athens; Match-makiing and Motherhood; From Wheeper to Chricket: The Imprinted Owls; On the Mouse Run; The Sorry Howlet That Singeth How; An Iniquitous Device; A Day to Remember; Economy Class Owls; Unnatural Causes; Owls Underground: A Threatened Species; and The Peripatetic Partner; followed by Scientific Names of Owls Mentioned. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Hard Back. Condition: Book VG ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket VG ++. First Edition. 152 pages. Dustjacket has very light wear with tiny creases to spine-ends, slight wear with tiny rubs to corners. Book has very light/slight wear to spine-ends, minimal other signs of wear. Maps to end-papers. Excellent b/w photos. Text is spotless. Very nice condition. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket Clean, A Little Dented Over Spine Ends And Upper Board Corners. Spine Undamaged Save A Little Denting To Ends. Boards And All Pages Both Tightly Bound And Clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. UK1ST.EDITION.1ST.PRINTING/VG HARDBACK IN VG DUSTWRAPPER.SOME FOXING.89.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing of the Dutton editions. Bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. Dust Jacket with price is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has evidence of shelf handling with a small loss on the bottom of the spine. Prelude to Justine. First published in 1938 by the Obelisk Press. The novel shows several surrealist influences, and these may be in part related to materials from the 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition, about which Henry Miller was sending Durrell materials from Herbert Read. In reviewing it in The Observer, Philip Toynbee wrote, 'This is a wild, passionate, brilliantly gaudy and flamboyant extravaganza; it is intrinsically and essentially, the book of a young man - Durrell was 24 when he wrote it - richly obscene, energetically morbid, very often very funny indeed, self-pitying, but, above all, stylistically and verbally inventive as no other young man's novel of the period was even attempting to be.' Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Large 4to. With jacket. 238 pp. Copiously illustrated (with great colour photography) throughout. Near as-new with just a little rubbing to jacket. FINE / VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First English Edition. 8vo. With jacket. 47 pp. Colour plates. Nepomuk the domesticated brazilian a-i (sloth) and studies of sloth behaviour. Just light foxing to endpages. No inscriptions. Light edge-wear to jacket. VG / GOOD+.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 8vo. Paperback. 333 pp. A good wide-ranging selection of Fabre's writings. Clean and bright. VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 3rd edition. 676 pages. 9.75x6.75x2.00 inches. In Stock.