Ursula Venables (14 results)

Condition: Good. 1952. First Published. 239 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over pink cloth covered boards. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and plates remain bright and clear. Text block edge is moderately foxed. Heavy cracking at the hinges with exposed binding material. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Board corners are bumped. Boards are bowed. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. No dust jacket, corner of the first few pages creased.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 175pp Frontis. map of Shetland, 12 b&w photographic illus. Inscribed and signed by the publisher to the half title-page dated 1956. Attractive illus. end-papers and printed on quality paper. Surprisingly scarce. Bound in pub. blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Spine dulled but a nice copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. In a blue cloth hardcover with gilt titles to spine. With an unclipped dust jacket with black titles to spine and front and a photograph to front. Illustrated end papers. 175 pp. with a number of black and white drawings and photographs. The book is in very good condition. There is very minor shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover and the spine is lightly sunned. The binding is tight. There is some light foxing to the top edge, otherwise the pages are clean and unmarked. The dust jacket is fair. There is moderately heavy shelf-wear to the extremities and a 1" split to the spine. There is a mark to the front, light tanning and marking of the back and heavier tanning to the spine. The top and bottom edges of the jacket are backed with tape.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The boards have a little discolouration around the edges of the front and rear panels. The page edges are browned with the some spotting to the fore edges. Light browning to the pages which are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has quite a bit of damage particularly to the top edge. The front panel has a one inch piece missing from the top right corner and tearing and creasing at the top left corner where there is a little loss. The bottom edge has a one inch closed tear and some smaller nicks. One inch piece missing at the top of the spine with a small piece missing at the bottom. The rear panel has a three inch ragged closed tear at the top right corner and tears and small chips at the top left and bottom right corners. Small creases at the bottom corners of the front and rear flaps. First printing. …

hardcover. Condition: Good. Includes dust jacket. Secondhand. Clean pages.Dust jacket is rather fragile, and ecnlosed with a protective plastic covering. Good book.

Hardcover. Condition: good. . 1952, An autobiographical account of the naturalist's life on the Shetland Islands. clean covers, no dustjacket, prelim clipped, feint toning, to endpapers & edges, contents clean no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition hardback, with dust wrapper. Some light thumbing.Head edge of pages stained red, other edges bear light foxing. Some uniform discolouration of pages due to age, somewhat darker at the free endpapers. Gently handled otherwise this book is in good condition. Dust wrapper lightly thumbed. Some scuff and light scratches front and back. Price clipped. Corners showing a little wear and tear, otherwise in good condition. *We try to describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound.…

Condition: Very Good. 238, 28 b/w photos, text illus. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Vg. First edtion. An autobiographical account of the naturalist's life on the Shetland Islands.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 239 pages plus plates The Authors life as a naturalist on Shtland Book spine lightened ow vg cond no Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 8vo. Pp 239. Plates. Patterned front endpapers. Original cloth. Spine faded and stained, otherwise a decent copy.

1st Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 238 p. illus. 22 cm. Notes: Includes bibliography. Subjects: Agriculture Scotland Shetland. Shetland (Scotland) Description and travel. Birds - Scotland Shetland. Natural history Scotland. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

1st Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 238 p. illus. 22 cm. Notes: Includes bibliography. Subjects: Agriculture Scotland Shetland. Shetland (Scotland) Description and travel. Birds - Scotland Shetland. Natural history Scotland. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

Edinbyurg 1956, 173 pp., plates and ill., dust jacket c328-P.