The House Sparrow

Summers-Smith, J. D.

Published by Collins, London, 1963

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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
Author
Summers-Smith, J. D.
Publisher
Collins, London
Publication year
1963
Condition
Very Good-
Dust jacket
Very Good-
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First Edition.

Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB

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