THE VANISHING JUNGLE The Story of the World Wildlife Fund Expedition to Pakistan by Mountfort, Guy - 1969

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970. gilt pictorial terra cotte cloth. Ex-library, spine & cover edges heavily sunned, o/w VG+ no dj. 8vo. black & white, & color photos. First American Edition, so stated

London, UK: Collins. 286pp. b/w & colour plates; b/w illus.; maps to end papers. Spine and corners slightly bumped, upper and lower panels, spine and edges all rather rubbed. Tears to upper and lower edges of dust jacket with slight loss to top and tail of spine. Small repair attempted with adhesive tape. Edges rubbed and spine slightly sunned. Light foxing to text block edges but text and plates are clean and bright. OVERSEAS ORDERS MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1969.

London, UK: Collins. Brown cloth, gilt tiger motif to front, gilt title on black panel to spine. 286pp. b/w illus.; b/w & col. photo plates; maps to end papers. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Shelf wear to dust jacket with two small holes to rear panel, creasing, chips and tears to upper edge and all extremities slightly rubbed. Spine sunned. Price clipped. Gift inscription to ffep and minor foxing to text block edges, o'wise contents are clean and bright. OVERSEAS ORDERS MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1969.

London, Collins, 1969.. 8vo; pp. 286; illustrated endpapers, numerous b/w and colour illustrations, appendices, selected bibliography, index; original cloth, chipped dustjacket, otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by Eric Hosking.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.. Hardcover. 1970. 1st Edition. 8vo 286pp . Very Good in Good+ DJ. B&W and Color Illustrations .

London: Collins, 1969 8vo. original brown pictorial boards gilt, spine label (a little rubbed & sunned, fore-edge slightly thumbed; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 286, with 60p. illustrations, text figures & colour endpaper maps. A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket. Illus. by Eric Hosking.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970. Full brown cloth with gilt blind stamped illustration of a tiger on front cover. Black label and gilt lettering on spine. Jacket is not price-clipped but does have tape reinforcement to the back of the jacket at the top & bottom of spine and at the corners. The tape has yellowed causing darkening to the jacket visible fromt front of the jacket. One half inch closed tear to front panel. Overall EXCELLENT condition book in a VERY GOOD minus jacket. Guy Mountfort (December 4, 1905 - April 24, 2003) was an English ornithologist and conservationist. Born in London, Mountfort was the author of A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe (1954), with illustrations by Roger Tory Peterson and distribution maps by Philip Hollom. In 1961 he created the World Wildlife Fund with Julian Huxley, Peter Scott and Max Nicholson. In 1972 he led the campaign to save the Bengal Tiger, persuading Indira Gandhi to create nine tiger reserves in India, with eight… Read More

London: Collins, 1969 VG+/VG. 8vo. original brown pictorial boards gilt, spine label (edges a bit rubbed, faint trace of spotting to leaf edges, remains of pencil price to upper forecorner FFE) in dustwrapper (extremities a bit torn, esp. to head of spine & upper forecorner); pp. 286, with 60p. illustrations, text figures & colour endpaper maps. A very good copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG+/VG. Illus. by Eric Hosking.

Collins , 1969. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition first impression large octavo Hardback 286 pp. illustrated in colour and black and white.Very Good condition with Very good unclipped dust jacket. Name clipped from title page otherwise no inscriptions.

1969. London, (1969). Orig. full cloth. Part of wrappers pasted in. 286 pp., plates.