Drunken Forest, First Edition (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Beautiful First American Edition Copy from Private Book Collection, Pencil Inscription: R.H. Carter Xmas 1956 Light Green cloth cover is crisp and clean, Binding is tight, Inside is crisp with no writing or marks. Not Ex-Library Photos gladly provided.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Berkley Medallion Books, New York, 1964. Softcover, 206 pp. 1st printing from this publisher. With black & white illustrations by Ralph Thompson. On this animal adventure the zookeeper visits Uruguay. Very good with one creased page corner.

First Edition. First Penguin edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Previous owner's inscription to cover and title page. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 203 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm. Subjects; Wild animal collecting Paraguay Chaco Boreal. Rare animals Paraguay Chaco Boreal. Wild animal collecting Argentina Chaco Central. Rare animals Argentina Chaco Central. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. The boards are edge worn with scuffing and browning along the edges, there are small insect marks on the spine. The binding is secure. Ink inscription from a previous owner on the front end page. Spotting throughout, not affecting text. No other ink inscriptions or annotations. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

First Edition. First Penguin edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Previous owner's inscription to cover and title page. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 203 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm. Subjects; Wild animal collecting Paraguay Chaco Boreal. Rare animals Paraguay Chaco Boreal. Wild animal collecting Argentina Chaco Central. Rare animals Argentina Chaco Central. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. The dust jacket is edge worn and chipped. It will still look good in cellophane though.Previous ownership inscription and stamp.Foxing.tightly bound. Complete with 238 pages. [Restored]13-05-2020. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Scarce UK proof of this early Durrell title. Plain brown wrappers printed with name, title and probable publication details. Small previous owner name to front wrapper. Fair only due to paper tears at ends of darkened spine.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Thompson, Ralph (illustrator). First Edition. Pages clean and bright, light spotting on endpapers, previous owner inscription on front endpaper, binding firm, light sunning to edges of boards, chipping with some loss to edges of dust jacket, price clipped. Size: 8vo.

Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First Edition. Octavo (22 cm); [6], 238pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($3.75). Boards full bound in mint green cloth with dark green stamping. Dust jacket generally scuffed and rubbed at margins with sunning to spine. Board margins lightly soiled with corners and spine ends bumped. Page edges toned and lightly soiled. Small sticker to back paste down. A Very Good or better copy in like dust jacket. A recounting of British naturalist Gerald Durrell's trip to Argentina and Uruguay with his new wife to gather zoological data on the animals of the area and potentially the animals themselves.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FOUR First edition Gerald Durrells set. All with dustjackets, all very good dustjackets, v/g books. My Family and Other Animals: Dustjacket has some nibbles to spine head, and light sun fading to spine. Not price clipped, so VG to near fine d/j. Published by Rupert-Hart Davis and The Book Society concurrently. 1956 First edition. A Zoo in My Luggage: has one closed tear 8mm long to top of d/j. 1960 Rupert-Hart Davis first edition.Bright and clean d/j, not price clipped. The Drunken Forest: 1956 Rupert Hart-Davis first edition. Fading to spine of d/j and top edge of front of d/j, else fine d/j. Not price clipped. Book near fine condition. Encounters with Animals: 1958 Rupert Hart-Davis First edition, second impression. Small 8mm loss to head of front d/j., one 5mm tear to rear top of d/j. Else near fine. Bright and not price clipped. Overall a very good to near fine set. NOTE: All have a neat previous owner's name to free endpaers. Also note: Shipping will be for four books, so will be more than quoted. Please contact me for a quote before buying.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Condition: Early titles are Near Fine to Very Good; later ones are in Fine condition: First Editions account for three-quarters of the set; exceptions are The Overloaded Ark, 1956, 3rd impression; The Three Singles to Adventure, 1954, 2nd impr.,The New Noah, Jan 1963, 4th impr., Encounters With Other Animals, 1962, 3rd impr. "The Corfu Trilogy", subject of two popular TV series, consists of two first editions: Birds, Beasts and Relatives, 1969; The Garden of The Gods, 1978, with a later illustrated edition of My Family and Other Animals. The books have no previous owner's marks and are not price clipped. The set contains books written by Gerald Durrell, his wife, Jacquie, and daughter, Lee. This very heavy set of 25 books will need additional postage.