The Wood Pigeon by R. K. Murton - 1965

Collins, 1965. Hardcover. Good. 1965. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white and colour plates. Clean pages and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear and ring marks to boards.

London: Collins, 1965. 256 pages, plus plates. Very slight signs of use, though overall a tight and very clean copy.. First Edition. Cloth - Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket.

Collins, London, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". 256 pp. Binding firm, spine slightly faded. Previous owner's book-plate laid in. Edges browned slightly. Ex-library, with minimal stamps and markings. Covers slightly marked. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Animals & Birds; Natural History & Resources. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51741. .

8vo. Pp. 256. Fine in bright dust wrapper. Inscription on front endpaper. Not price-clipped. With a colour frontispiece, 39 black & white photographs and 22 text figures.

London: Collins, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 256pp. Green buckram with gilt spine lettering.Light bumping to the spine ends, very lightly cocked, else clean and tight in a price clipped dust jacket with a short closed tear at the top edge of front cover and lightly sunned spine. First printing. Illustrated. New Naturalist Monograph Series Number 20. Nice copy.

London: Collins. Laminated cloth covers. 256pp., Col. frontis. photograph; 39 further b/w photographs and 22 figs. to text. Slight shelf wear to dustwrapper, rear panel a little grubby, price-clipped. Previous owner's name to ffep o/w a lovely clean copy. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1965.

London: Collins. Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 0002132524 . No signatures. Quite heavy foxing to page edges. Some adhesive tape stains to the endpapers (caused by a plastic cover which was taped over the dust wrapper). Some minor foxing to dust wrapper. Small mark to front panel of dust wrapper over the eye of the pigeon. No tears in dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Dust wrapper now in archival mylar cover.; 256 pages + frontispiece + plates. Green cloth boards. Ornithology. "The wood-pigeon is one of the most common, most interesting, and least studied of all British birds. Before 1939 the chief authority upon the bird itself and its habits was probably Aristotle." - 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"… Read More

UK: Collins, 1965. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good ++/Very Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1965. Part of the New Naturalists Monograph series. Book is very good++ with bright boards and contents.The complete wrapper is very good++ and very bright. Nice bright white spine. Price clipped. More images can be taken upon request. Ref A1234

COLLINS. LONDON. 1965. FIRST EDITION, NEAR FINE COPY IN NEAR FINE, PROTECTED DUSTWRAP, PRICE CLIPPED. (A LITTLE FOXING TO FEP). 39 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS AND 22 TEXT FIGURES. NEW NATURALIST SERIES - NUMBER 20 IN THE MONOGRAM SERIES.

COLLINS. LONDON. 1965. FIRST EDITION, NEAR FINE COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP, PRICE CLIPPED. 39 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS AND 22 TEXT FIGURES. NEW NATURALIST SERIES - NUMBER 20 IN THE MONOGRAM SERIES.