Introduction Study Bird Behaviour by Howard Eliot (10 results)

Condition: Good. 1929. No Edition Stated. 135 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. B&W illustrations throughout. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut. Ex-library with usual stamps, inserts and markings. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with small splits and crushing to spine ends. Notable sunning to spine, with scuffing and marking to boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. The blue cloth boards are bumped and rubbed at the corners, excess glue at spine showing, darkened spine with library number, rubbed head/tail. Two bookplates on inside cover, library and donation, foxing on paper edges, first and last few pages. Printed on excellent stock by letterpress. All orders packed with care, dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.

Condition: Good. 1929; 135 Pages; Blue cloth covered boards with gold titling; Wear on spine and edges from shelving; Spine is torn on front cover; Front hinge wear;Ex-Library with typical stamps and markings; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; interior clean and unmarked; Additional shipping charges may be required for International and Expedited orders.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated study into bird behaviour from Henry Eliot Howard. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and ten plates. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive study on the behaviour of birds with reference to individual species and their characteristics. Intended for the use of amateurs as an introduction to ornithological study. Written by Henry Eliot Howard, an English ornithologist noted as the first to describe territoriality behaviour in birds. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine and the edges of the boards. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also smart with light shelf wear and chipping resulting in minor loss to the head of the spine. Sunning to the spine and the odd small mark to the board. A 2" tear to the front flap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Very Good. book.

Quarto,136 pp.,ten uncoloured plates, near fine copy in excellent dustwrapper.

Condition: Used - Very Good. 1929. Cambridge: The University Press, 1929. 4to, 136 pp, VG in cloth (ex-lib, but with only a few pencil markings and stamps; a little handled copy). Eleven beautifully printed lithographic plates.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Jacket chipped at spine extremities. Attractively printed and illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Authors presentation copy. In light blue cloth boards with gilt titles, some very minor edge wear to head and tail of spine and board corners. Occasional minor foxing throughout. Illustrated with b&w plates and diagrams. A Near Fine copy.

Cambridge: University Press. 1929. 4to. Original blue cloth and dustwrapper; pp. x + 136, 10 uncoloured plates, 2 charts; wrapper a little sunned to extremities, a little occasional foxing, very good. First edition, scarce especially in dustwrapper. Henry Eliot Howard (1873 - 1940) was an English ornithologist and the author of the celebrated British Warblers. He was most noted for his work on territoriality, which informs this enthralling book. He traces the lives of birds during breeding season - the trials and tribulations of which the plates depict in an unusually frank manner - and moves on to a discussion of the bird's mind. Throughout he examines the behaviour of the bird in relation to its territory, resulting in a pioneering, as well as engagingly written, work.

Quarto,136 pp.,ten uncoloured plates. Contemporary red half calf by Waltbys of Oxford, bookplate, apart from a few minor spots a handsome copy.