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Collins, 1952. Hardcover. Good. 1952. 410 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Collins, 1968. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1968. 410 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Light tanning to spine and edges.

1952., 1983. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. First Edition. Robust, Unmarked And Scarcely Worn. Title Label Penned At Head Of Spine.

Collins, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardback, dustwrapper rubbed to edges, slightly more pronounced to top and bottom of spine, small tear to upper rear edge. Has been internally reinforced with special non acidic archive tape and is now in a clear removable protective sleeve. Significant spotting to end papers and edges of text block. Still a good study copy. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.

Collins. Used - Good. 1968 In dust wrapper. Text unmarked. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less (usually same day). Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks, rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry.

London: Collins, 1952. Hardcover in good condition. No jacket. First edition. Boards and spine are slightly marked and faded. Leading corners and spine ends are lightly bumped and worn. Page block and pages are lightly marked and tanned. Upper edge of front pastedown is nicked. FEP is lightly creased. Contents are clear throughout. HCW. Hardcover. Good. Used.

London: Collins. Good. 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Cloth. Fading to spine and margins of cover. Sl. faded gilt lettering to spine. Slight shelf wear to extremities.Light foxing on endpapers. Ex Libris book plate to front paste down. Previous owners neat name on ffep. 410pp + adverts. CLEAN & TIGHT. .

Hardback. Very Good.

Collins, London 1963, 3rd imp, hb, no dw, large 8vo, 410pp, New Naturalist publication, orig green cloth, col and b/w plates, and many text diagrams, good+. Hardcover.

London: Bloomsbury, 1989. xii, 410pp, index, bibliography, appendices, bw ills. Or white cloth in jacket. Light toning to edges, slightest of edge wear to jacket. One of the Collins New Naturalist Series.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Collins, 1982-01-01. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. Slight rubbing to wrapper with a small tear to top front edge of spine, no fading or tears. Not price clipped, no inscriptions, illustrated. Bright and clean internally with hardly any wear. Heavy book, will require additional postage outside the UK.

Collins, 1968. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Collins 1968 reprint, ex-library copy, with stamps to first few pages. Pages clean and bright, binding coming away from front board, minor shelf wear to cover, no dust jacket.

Collins, 1982. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Readers Union, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. SECOND EDITION without dust jacket on green cloth - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post

London: Readers Union / Collins, 1960. Well illustrated, octavo, pp xii, 410, a tiny suggestion of foxing to the fore-edge and the endpapers, otherwise an exceptionally clean copy internally, green cloth in very good condition. A very pleaseing copy. [The study of our mammals during the present century has been wide and intensive. On the whole it has been conducted by workers who are general naturalists, ecologists, anatomists, physiologists - but not purely mammalogists. Dr. Matthews himself is a general naturalist of wide experience and distinction, but here he has done what British natural history has wanted for half a century - written a synthesis of our knowledge of mammals which treats them as mammals. And what an exciting synthesis it is! The ordinary amateur naturalist is bound to be astonished at the remarkable discoveries about the distribution, life history and habits of our British mammals that Dr. Matthews has collected together in his book. These advances are shown, perhaps, most… Read More

London: Collins, 1952. Hardcover with jacket in good condition. First edition. With 16 colour plates and 48 black-and-white plates. Includes 92 figures in the text. Plastic-protected jacket is tanned, edge-worn and marked. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are nicked and creased. Minor puncture on rear of jacket. Hardcover leading corners, edges and spine ends are lightly bumped and worn. Page block and some pages are lightly tanned and foxed. Contents are clear throughout. HCW. Hardcover. Good. Used.

London, UK: Collins. Green cloth, gilt title. First ed. 424pp. 16 col. plates; 48 b/w plates; 92 figs. Tail of spine slightly bumped and small bumps to edges of upper board Slight shelf wear to dust jacket, with small chips and tears to spine and corners and larger tear and chip to lower spine. Slight foxing to rear end papers and text block edges, o'wise a very good, sound copy. . Very Good-. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1952.

London: COLLINS / NEW NATURALIST / N/N, 1952 Green Buckram Boards with gilt tiles to spine, 220x160mm approx. xii + 410pp +2 of publisher's adverts. 16 colour plates, 48 b/w plates and 92 figs. First Edition 1st printing 1952 of No 21 in the New Naturalist series. Near Fine/VG (Book- No previous owner name or insc. No notable defects. Dust Jacket 8 x 8mm approx chip to tail of spine. General light shelf soiling and rubbing. Light spotting to exposed edge or rear flap fold. NB a piece of coloured paper has been inserted behind the chip to mask the stark white of the backing paper of the removable proprietary protective sleeve so that it does not draw the eye on the bookshelf. Non price clipped. Cover 25s).Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale.

London: Collins, 1968. Book. Near Fine, Sl Offset & Edgefox. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. 2nd Edition. No.21 in The New Naturalist series. Illustrated with 16 colour plates, 48 b&w plates and 92 figures in the text. Expanded condition report/scan on request..

London: Collins, 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reader's Union Edition. 8vo (16 x 22cm). Pp. xii, 410, with 16 colour plates, 48 black and white plates and 92 figures in the text. Facsimile dust jacket very good, no loss, some marking on the rear panel, not price-clipped. Green buckram binding, a little marked, good. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, no foxing. A bright clean copy with a facsimile jacket..