The Seals and the Curragh by R M Lockley

J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1954. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1954. First Edition. 149 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Plates are bright and clear. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Clipped jacket has heavy edge-wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing.

J. M. Dent & Sons, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 149 pages (complete). Jacket chipped, edge worn, small edge tears, marked. Boards a bit edge worn and marked. Mild tanning, top stain, a bit foxing, minor markings. However, it is still in good condition, tightly bound and intact. 1st edition. MK.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Good Dust-Jacket which has a few small tears and chips to the edges of the wrapper.Not Price clipped and this copy has No previous inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning or rolling to spine.The name of the naturalist Ronald Lockley is closely linked with Skokholm.R.M.Lockley,who had been fascinated by islands from his earliest youth, took the lease of Skokholm in 1927, and established Britain's first bird observatory on the island in 1933.During his first winter on the island, when Lockley was attempting to make the farmhouse fit to live in, he was almost forced to give up, until the schooner Alice Williams, with a cargo of coal was wrecked in what is now known as Wreck Cove, in the shadow of Spy Rock. Lockley rapidly arranged to buy the salvage rights for the sum of £5,and he recruited a team of… Read More

Scientific Book Club. [nd] c, 1955. 1st. Ed.. pp.149 with b/w. photos., and illus. 8vo. A vg. hardback in good to vg. dw. Ronald Lockley's account of his adventures observing the day-to-day lives of grey seals.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1954. Book. Illus. by Tunnicliffe, Charles. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo (22 x 14 cm). Pp. vii, 149, b/w illustrations by Phillida and John Mead and b/w photographic plates, dust jacket fine. Blue cloth binding fine, contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A fine copy..

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1954. Book. Illus. by Tunnicliffe, Charles. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo (22 x 14 cm). Pp. vii, 149, b/w illustrations by Phillida and John Mead and b/w photographic plates, dust jacket fine. Blue cloth binding fine, contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A fine copy that is unused and has been stored in its original publisher's sales agent's packaging..

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1954. Book. Illus. by Tunnicliffe, Charles. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo (22 x 14 cm). Pp. vii, 149, b/w illustrations by Phillida and John Mead and b/w photographic plates, dust jacket near fine, crease at the bottom of the spine. Blue cloth binding fine, contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A fine copy that is unused and has been stored in its original publisher's sales agent's packaging..

London: J. M. Dent, 1954. 1st edition. Nice copy. octavo. chipped dust jacket 149pp., frontis., b/w plates, text iils., maps, note, index, Introducing the Natural History of the Grey Seal of the North Atlantic