Venables U M (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition and printing. In very good dark olive green cloth boards, gilt titles to spine. The boards are tight, flat and clean; very slight wear to spine ends. The end papers are unmarked; the paste down end papers show brown and white maps of Shetland. The text pages are illustrated with black and white plates and maps and in very good plus condition. The pages are firmly attached, even and unmarked. No dedications etc. In good green dust jacket with green map of Shetland and black borders on top and tail ends. The jacket is quite clean with worn edges. There are some closed tears that have been repaired with sellotape. Not price clipped. In removable protective sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. * PUBLISHER : OLIVER AND BOYD * YEAR : 1955 * ISBN : N/A * No OF PAGES : 391 * CONDITION : USED - GOOD * OTHER: THE COVER BOARDS ARE RUBBED WITH BUMPING ALONG THE EDGES AND CORNERS WITH SMALL STAINS AND MARKS TO THE REAR. THE SPINE IS RUBBED WITH BUMPING AT BOTH ENDS. THE BINDING IS FIRM. THE GREEN COLOURED TOP FOR-EDGE IS CLEAN. THE PAGES ARE LIGHTLY TANNED, HOWEVER PAGES REMAIN CLEAR AND CRISP. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-xii, 391 pp, black and white frontispiece, 7 plates, end paper maps, 2 other maps. An excellent clean copy in a slightly worn dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1955. Account of an 8-year study of the birds and mammals of the Shetland Isles undertaken by the Venables' - naturalists who settled in Shetland after WW2. Described on the inner jacket flap as "the first general zoological study made by naturalists residents in Shetland". 391 pages printed and bound in dark green boards with gold, gilt lettering to the spine. Mapped end-papers (Shetland). The contents are organised over 6 sections as follows: Naturalists in Shetland; Shetland Habitats; Status changes in Shetland Birds; Land Mammals; Sea Mammals; Birds. 3 Appendices, Bibliography. 8 black & white photographic plates. 3 maps. In overall VGC - clean, tidy and tightly bound. Sign of wear (minor rubs) to bottom of spine. Former owner's name in pen to top r.h.s of f.e.p. Extract from 'The Countryman' glued to r.h.s of f.e.p. Small, green, 'Foyle's' sticker to l.h.s of f.e.p. With non-clipped dust-jacket in Good+ condition - rubs and bumps to top of jacket edges and 4 small tears mended with invisible tape to inner jacket. Overall, a very nice copy. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 1st edition, 1955. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 391 pp., bound in publishers green cloth with illustrated green and black dust jacket. Jacket shows signs of shelf wear with rubbing at tips, edges and top/base of spine. Paper is slightly age toned; text appears unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

pp.xii, 391 with b/w photos., maps & tables. 8vo. Light spotting to fore-edges of text block and to ends, o/w. a fine hardback in vg. dw. The first general study of the natural history of Shetland, the result of eight years of observation by naturalists resident on the islands.

Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book - very good, dust jacket - none.

Condition: Good. xii, 392, 8 b/w plates, 3 maps. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Name to endpaper. Vg. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Book - very good, dust jacket - good (worn).

Condition: Good. xii, 392, 8 b/w plates, 3 maps. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Good in torn d/w (loss to head of spine). Now in removable protective sleeve. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Dustwrapper very slightly darkened at spine. With the bookplate of Peter Tate (1926-2009), author of A Century of Bird Books (1979) and Birds, Men and Books: a literary history of ornithology (1986).

8vo. xii, 391pp, frontis, plates, text figures, text tables, full-page text map. Original green cloth gilt, ep maps, te coloured. Extremes lightly rubbed; a very few small light stains to cloth; gilt to spine faded; ex-library with usual evidence.

pp.xii, 391 with 8 b/w. plates & 3 maps. 8vo. Fine hardback in vg. plus dw. The result of eight years observation by naturalists resident in Shetland, this book provides quite detailed information on where and when the various species were spotted and information on numbers, nests and more.

Hard covers, dust jacket. Condition: V.g. Dust Jacket Condition: V.g. 1st edition. Edge wear to jacket. Owner's bookplate Weight: 1 Language: English.

Condition: Very Good. xii, 392, 8 b/w plates, 3 maps. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Vg in slightly worn d/w (some foxing to flaps; in removable protective sleeve). Fore-edge spotted. From the library of Trevor James (1947-2020), Hertfordshire naturalist and coleopterist, with his bookplate and name. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 391 pages, b/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations. Original dust jacket very good, some wear and chipping, now protected in a removable archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, fine. Contents clean and tight. A near fine copy with a very good dust jacket. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Defective DW. 1st Edition. Front cover of DW has small loss and a large tear along top.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Octavo. xii, 391pp. Publisher's green boards with gilt titles to spine. Slight rubbing to head and tail and a few bumps to the surface. In the pale green map decorated dust wrapper, surface and edge wear including creasing, nicks and tears (a couple tape-repaired). Scrape to wrapper front that has removed the northern most island from the map (see image). Slight split to rear inner hinge. Illustrated. Clean and bright internally. Overall a Good/Fair copy.

pp.xii, 391 with b/w. plates and graphs. 8vo. Hardback. Fine in vg. dw.

1ST EDITION. A VERY GOOD COPY IN GREEN CLOTH.

1955, 8vo, 391pp. black and white photographs, tables, endpaper maps, worn dust wrapper, very good.

1955. Oliver and Boyd. Hardback. Book - VG. DJ - Good. Ex-lib.

Edinburg, London, (1955). Orig. full cloth. Part of wrappers pasted in. XII,391 pp., 8 plates.

xii, 391 p., 7 pls, 3 maps, frontispiece, cloth (dust jacket). Good copy.