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Published by Eyre Methuen, London, 1972
Seller: steve porter books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1972. This is a clean and tight copy presented in ochre boards without a wrapper. There is some foxing to the page edges. No inscriptions. Includes maps and photographs pertaining to the area.
Published by Weidenfield and Nicholson, 1971
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Large 8vo, i-xxv, 397 pp, 4 colour plates, 115 black and white plates, text figures including maps. Green cloth a little rubbed, no dust wrapper but a good copy of a very detailed monograph.
Published by Weidenfeld And Nicolson, 1971
ISBN 10: 0297000292ISBN 13: 9780297000297
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards are clean. Content is clean with light spotting, writing on the ffep and a sticker on the front pastedown. Back hinge has a crack. Good DJ has tears with some tape repair.
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Publication Date: 1972
Seller: Itziar Arranz Libros & Dribaslibros, Boadilla del Monte, MAD, Spain
Association Member: LANCE
Book
Sin Encuadernar. Condition: Bien. AFRICA. Editado en London, Eyre Methuen, 1972. Octavo Mayor. Tela c/ sobrecubierta. Cat. XVI. Portada, XIX hojas + 234 pp. + láminas. Primera edición. Prólogo de Vivian Fuchs. Buen estado. The Lake. The plants and animals of Lake Chad. Epilogue: the Mirage. 20-2.
Published by American Elsevler Publishing Company, New York, 1971
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Hardcover. A near fine copy with slight aging to the boards. The jacket is near fine with wear to the top edge. Index, photos, charts, diagrams, 53 pages of bibliography. 397 pages. The book was written as an up-to-date text on the Elephant. And this book does just that. Elephant as a Social Animal, Expilitation by Man, Elephant as an Individual Animal. This a heavy book and might need additial postage.
Published by American ELSEVIER, London, 1971
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Small quarto. 397 pp. Illustrated with 8 color photogrpahs,b/w photographic plates, line drawings, diagrams, 33 p. bibliography. One of the best and most detailed books on the African elephant. Jacket. VG/VG.
Seller: Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
London, 1971. XXV,397 pp. 115 ills on plts. Cloth.
Seller: Callahan and Company Booksellers, Peterborough, NH, U.S.A.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1971, with a nice signed inscription from the author. Illustrated with color and b&w photographs and drawings. 6.5" x 9.5". Green cloth, blind embossed owner stamp at bottom of the title page, inner hinges cracked, but sound. 397 pp, including 53 pp bibliography. ".written to meet the need for an up-to-date handbook on the species.the first part of the book is technical, dealing with the functional anatomy and health.part 2 treats the ecology and ethology.a definitive work on the African elephant.", with a chapter on elephant hunting. A very scarce book. Very good in very good wrapper.
Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, [1971], 1971
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, 8 coloured plates on 4, and 115 monochrome plates and maps in the text; original green cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Bright copy of one of the best and most comprehensive monographs on the species, published in Weidenfeld's series 'The World Naturalist'. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
Published by Weidenfield & Nicolson, London, 1971
Seller: SAFARI BOOKS, Edmonton, AB, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo, first edition, original green cloth with price clipped dustjacket protected in mylar. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w photographs as well as sketches and diagrams. A most comprehensive study of the modern African elephants todate, very light wear to DJ, XXV + 397pp, overall VG/VG.
Published by Africa and the UK, Various, 1937 - 2012., 2012
Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland
Book
21 cm x 26 cm - 24.5 cm x 31 cm. Circa 2,500+ pages. Numerous monochrome and colour photographs throughout the collection. Includes Hardcover book with dustjacket, softcover book, reprints of academic journal articles in paper wrappers and a variety of loose material in cellophane files. The archive, running from 1937 to 2012, is contained in two green (24.5 cm x 31 cm x 10.5 cm) boxes, four additional folders (32 cm x 24 cm) and two hardcover volumes (21.5 cm x 26cm). Very good condition. Includes, for example, the following: Sylvia, K. Sikes, Lake Chad, (London: Eyre Methuen, 1972) / Sylvia K. Sikes, Lake Chad Versus the Sahara Desert (Newbury: Mirage, 2003) / Sylvia K. Sikes Habitat and Cardiovascular Disease: Observations made on Elephants (Loxodonta Africana) and Other Free-Living Animals in East Africa,' Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, (1969) 32: 1-104 / Sylvia K. Sikes's hand-written notebook "Records of Beetles of Interest (1937-1942)" / Dr. Sylvia K. Sikes, 'A Spotted Hyaena (Crocuta Crocuta, Erxl.) as a Pet.' The Nigerian Field - The Journal of the Nigerian Field Society, Vol.XXXIII, No.2, (April 1968), p.66-72 / Sylvia K. Sikes, The Natural History of the Elephant, (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971) / Sylvia K. Sikes, 'How to Tell the Age of an African Elephant,' African Wild Life, (September, 1967) Vol.21, No.3, p.191-202 / Dr Sylvia K. Sikes, 'The Disturbed Habitat with Its Effect on the Health of Animal Populations, with Special Reference to Cardiovascular Disease in Elephants,' Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, (February 1968) Vol.61, No.2, p.160-61 / Sylvia K. Sikes, A typed 13-page account (tipped-in on A4) of a 1951 safari / Sylvia K. Sikes, printed copy of a letter from Sikes to Unknown (for private circulation) dated from 21.1.57. Sikes's newsletter from Nigerian College of Technology in Zaria in Northern Nigeria, describing her missionary life and her evangelism / 'Report of a Workshop, 'An International Centre for Manatee Research' 7-13 February 1974, (Georgetown, Guyana: The NATIONAL Science Research Council, 1974) / Sylvia K. Sikes, 'Cardiovascular Disease in Freeliving Wild Animals with Particular Reference to the African Elephant (Loxodonta Africana)', Thesis for Ph.D., University of London, 1967 and etc. Sylvia K. Sikes (1925-2012) was a British Kenyan-born zoologist who wrote the first authoritative guide to the African elephant and established wildlife conservation programmes in Nigeria. A world-leading expert on the African elephant, Sikes specialised in elephant heart health. She also authored two studies on the worsening ecological conditions in and around Lake Chad as its waters disappeared. Also trained as an educator Sikes taught in missionary schools in a number of African countries and helped set up and organise Evangelical Christian fellowship groups among students in Nigeria and Kenya. Due to political turmoil in Nigeria Sikes returned to the UK to farming and retirement. A detailed inventory of archival material of Sylvia Sikes is available ( as a Word document) upon request. Please contact Inanna Rare Books for further information related to this collection. Sprache: english.