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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket has a bit of chipping and wear along the edges. Text is clean, unmarked and the binding is sound. A number of full page photos, most of which are B/W.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The has an inscription with signature on the front end page! The book has light edge wear, slight rubbing, and overall fading. Otherwise, it is clean, crisp, and well-aged. The dust jacket has light edge wear, fair rubbing, and light overall fading. Otherwise, it is sharp, clean, adorned with mylar.

110pp. 4to. Original boards in dustwrapper. B&W photographic illustrations and colour plates. A very good copy.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy large octavo 109pp., frontis., colour & b/w plates, text ills., bibliog., Ownership inscription, repaired close tear to dust jacket o/w nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Most Australians are familiar with the kookaburra, usually seen perched on a tree with head thrown back in full-throated laughter. But very few realize that this bird has evolved social behaviour patterns that enable it to adapt to its environment often more successfully in terms of survival than many of the human species. To understand the way of life of such a familiar avian character should be reason enough for writing this book. But besides discovering the real meaning behind that mirthful chuckle, the reader will be surprised to find that the kookaburra is more unique than we could ever have guessed. Kookaburras live in family groups some-what analogous to human families where auxiliaries, like teenagers, remain with their breeding parents year round helping in all household duties from defence of territory to incubation of eggs to feeding and protection of young. These auxiliaries, though sexually mature, do not breed but remain subordinate to their parents for up to three years and sometimes more, thus acco.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. hardback book and unclipped dust jacket [$6.50] in near fine condition,stated-first published in united states 1972.

Large octavo,110 pp.,photographs, signature, bookplate, fine copy in dustwrapper. A classic early account of cooperative nesting.

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Quarto hardcover; dark red boards with gilt spine titling; 109pp, colour and monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; well-browned and spotted text block edges; faint offsetting to the endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper with one inch tear on upper rear corner and very slightly sunned spine panel and adjacent; minimal wear to edges (now professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film). Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. The author first heard the 'laughter' of the kookaburra when working part-time in San Diego Zoo. She was fascinated by the sound and would go to work early just to hear it. She dreamed of visiting Australia and studying the bird in its natural bushland setting. Two years later Professor Marshall of Melbourne's Monash University offered her a postgraduate scholarship. The kookaburra, or laughing jackass, Dacelo gigas, is a member of the kingfisher family and feeds mainly on large insects and small reptiles and amphibians. At a maximum of 47 cm in length, and with a 10-cm bill, the kookaburra is larger than most kingfishers, but its brown and tan plumage is drab by the standards of the family. Kookaburras nest during the spring and lay 2 to 4 white eggs in tree holes or termite nests. Their loud cries, which resemble human laughter and are typically chorused at dawn and dusk, are one of the characteristic sounds of the Australian bush.

30'' x 20'' original one sheet lobby or outside advertisement colour poster from The Old Vic Theatre, London. In Fine condition. Sent rolled in a tube with end caps. We currently hold in stock over 100 other English and foreign theatre and cinema posters. Member of the P.B.F.A. THEATRE (Cinema) POSTERS.