Birds of Britain by James Fisher, collins (44 results)

Decorative Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Condition: Fair. 1942. No Edition Remarks. 47 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial card covered boards. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations are lightly tanned throughout. Markings to some pages. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Previous owner's inscription to title page. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends causing tears to card. Wear marks overall. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Medium tanning to spine and edges. Staining and wear marks overall.

Condition: Good. 1942. Second Impression. 48 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial paper covered boards. Contains black and white, and colour illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Occasional thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Dark rubbing and marking to surfaces, with scuffing to edges.

Sky blue hardcover. Good. Bumped corners, slightly dented edges, tiny chips to bottom of spine, clean unmarked pages throughout, brilliant color drawings, sturdy binding. Fair. Rubbed, bumped edges, slightly faded and rolled spine with small chips. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Used: Good. 1942, Second Impression. Hardcover in good condition, faded spine, edge wear. Non-authorial inscription on ffep. 12 plates in colour and 26 illustrations in black and white.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. William Collins, London, 1942. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue pictorial paper over boards, boards have some wear, pictorial dust jacket has some toning and edge wear, rubbed at top and bottom of spine. Small red sticker on inside front cover from Underhills Bookshop of Plymouth, with penciled price of 4 shilling/sixpence on top right corner of inside front page. 48pp. Illustrations (12 plates in color, 26 in black & white). Bright, tight and clean-- a volume in general editor W.J. Turner's "Britain in Pictures" series.

Hard Back. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good , 1st Edition. Paper covered boards repeating the design of the dust jacket, 230 x 165 mm approx.48pp, with 12 colour plates & 26 b/w illustrations. First Edition 1st printing 1942. Britain in Pictures Series. Good/ Good (Book- Moderate shelf rubbing to extremities - heavy to top and tail of spine soiling spot to rear free end paper- 1 c.m diameter approx. no previous owner name or insc. Binding sound. Dust Jacket - heavy shelf rubbing with 1 cm approx loss to head and associated tear 2.5 c.m approx, a few mild foxing spots, supplied in a removable proprietary protective sleeve). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dispatched from UK bookshop within one working day.A good copy but with more than minor wear. For non-UK items of 1.5 kg or more may require an additional shipping charge. 1942 1st ed. No dust wrapper. Fading and some rubbing to boards; minor chips to spine ends; inscription to ffep; clean otherwise.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: G+ DW. 4th Impression. With 12 plates in colour and 26 illustrations in black & white. Small bookplate on front pastedown. Front of DW torn along bottom edge and rear of DW torn along top edge. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Hardcover. Tanned, edge-worn and foxed dust jacket with several marks and nicks. Flaps are foxed. Boards are quite edge-worn and a little faded, with some foxing. Hardcover spine is slightly cocked. Minor wear on hardcover spine ends and leading corners. Minor foxing at front and rear. Binding is intact, and the text and illustrations are clear. AF. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. W. Collins Britian in Pictures Series 1942 first edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket, inscription to firm page. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL. DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 24 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) BY ROYAL MAIL. ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY AIR MAIL. WE ALSO ACCEPT PAYMENT IN US DOLLARS OR EURO BY BANK TRANSFER. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Second impression. The book is in very good condition for its age. Minor bump to head of book spine. Some rubbing to board extremities. Pictorial boards. The dustjacket is complete but a little grubby and there are some chips. IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Generally clean and sound condition, some wear to edges, a little "rippling" to front endpaper, previous owner's name inside. Beautiful colour illustrations.

Hardcover. 8vo. Blue pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 48pp. Illustrations (some color), map. Very good/very good. Some jacket edgewear, with single edge chip. Fourth printing of this 1942 text, tight and handsome -- a volume in general editor W.J. Turner's lovely "Britain in Pictures" series.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. hardback, 9" x 6 1/2", third impression, a very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved dust wrapper and with a clean and unmarked text, twelve colour plates and 26 illustrations in b&w, familiar 48 page format.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Another Edition. Fourth impression. 12 plates in colour and 26 illustrations in black & white. 47 pages. Browning to free endpapers. Some edgewear to covers, mostly down sides of spine.

Hardback. No Jacket. Top of the spine is split and loose, piece missing to the base. 47pp Label stuck to the ffep. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Book - very good, dust jacket - good (worn). Britain in Pictures: the British people in pictures. 12 colour plates, 26 b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Britain in Pictures series. Blue and white covers. No inscriptions. No jacket. Colour and line illustrations. A little darkening to spine. A reasonable copy.

1st edition, 225x165 mm, 47pp, VG\VG, sl rubbing to bds, sl browning & scarring to sp dw, 10x10 mm chip to head of sp dw, severe wear to tail, sl chips to most corners of dw, Britain in Pictures.

Hardcover. Condition: ACCEPTABLE. 1947. Collins . Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE DJ; Acceptable, edgewear. DJ marked. DJ torn. End pages discoloured. End page foxing. Some pages marked. 9x6.

1947 RPTD/W WEAR /TEAR EDGES REPAIRED O/W VG/G++.

Hardcover. Condition: ACCEPTABLE. 1947-01-01. William Collins. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE No DJ. Edgewear. Rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd impression. 48pp, 26 black and white illustrations plus 12 full colour plates. A very nice, bright and fresh copy, mildly rounded at spine ends, else neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (small paper scar, spine slightly sunned and mildly rubbed at edges). 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Second Impression. This very good copy is bound in paper covered boards with bright, tight, white, bright and square.there is some edge wear to the spine A dustwrapper is not present International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. With most of Europe in Adolf Hitler's hands, Britain was in a grim predicament in 1941 but that year Collins, the publisher now known as HarperCollins, launched the remarkable Britain In Pictures series of social history books. The books were designed not only to boost morale but perhaps also to record the British way of life in case the Germans completed their European campaign by successfully crossing the English Channel. The books were slim volumes with distinctive elegant covers, but it was the star-studded array of authors that made the series really special. George Orwell wrote about the British people, Cecil Beaton wrote about English photography, the great poet and printer Francis Meynell wrote about English books, John Betjeman (who penned the immortal line" Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough" in 1937) wrote about cities and towns, Graham Greene wrote about dramatists, the doyen of sports journalists Neville Cardus wrote about cricket and Edith Sitwell wrote about women. Some of the authors have faded in obscurity but they were all experts in their field during those dark days of WW2. A wide variety of subjects were covered from battlefields to boxing, clocks to mountaineering, butterflies to farm animals, and from waterways and canals to maps and map-makers. In all, there were were 132 titles. For many collectors, obtaining the entire series of Britain in Pictures books is an obsession. Despite wartime paper rationing this series was considered by the government of considerable importance allowing Collins to publish the books in large quantities and priced them cheaply. Ref XX 2.

Hardcover. Condition: ACCEPTABLE. 1942. Collins. Hardcover. ACCEPTABLE DJ Acceptable. Edgewear. 9x7.

Third Edition. Good copy in the original printed boards with a good, somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 47 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subject; Great Britain, British Isles, England. 1 Kg.

Third Edition. Good copy in the original printed boards with a good, somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 47 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subject; Great Britain, British Isles, England. 1 Kg.