No signatures. Foxing to page edges. Some minor adhesive tape stains to the endpapers. Adhesive residue along the long edges of the dust wrapper (caused by a plastic cover with adhesive edges). No tears in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Dust wrapper now in archival mylar cover.; xvi, 269 pages + frontispiece + plates. Green cloth boards. Ornithology. "Its behavious, manners and movements are amazingly complex and have been most beautifully unravelled by MR. Summers-Smith in this scholarly and fascinating book." - from dust wrapper blurb. A volume in the celebrated New Naturalist Library. "[. . .] we have now come to look forward to new volumes in this series - well written, beautifully produced, and awakening interest in some fresh feature of Britain's countryside" - quoted from a Guardian review of the series. This volume is one of the "Special Volumes" of the New Naturalist Monographs series. ; Series title: New Naturalist Monograph No. M19; 8vo.

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Title: The House Sparrow
Publisher: Collins, London
Publication Date: 1963
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Condition: Very Good-
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-

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We are located in Dunedin, in the south of the South Island of New Zealand. We are a generalist rare and out-of-print bookseller, selling books in most subject areas. Our stock of over 8,000 titles has particular strengths in the areas of New Zealand history and literature, Maori, Tibet and Central Asia, Travel, Military, and Antiquarian. We are a member of ANZAAB (Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers) and ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers).

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Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB
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Malcolm Moncrief-Spittle, trading as Renaissance Books. Contact details: Renaissance Books, PO Box 335, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. Phone: +64 3 4719294. Email: renaissancebooksnz@gmail.com. Website: www.renaissancebooks.co.nz. GST #39 820 209. Terms of Sale: All books may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund of the book price, not including shipping. Return shipping also refunded where books are not as described.

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