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Collins, 1956. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1956. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white photographic plates. Minor foxing and noticeable tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light creasing and staining to gutters and hinges but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has slightly heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate staining, tanning and scuffing overall.

Collins, London. 1956. Collins, London. 1956. First edition. Hardback with DW. Illustrated. Green cloth boards bumped at head and tail of spine and browned around edges. Wrapper is price clipped, browned and worn and torn around edges with some loss. Back flap is torn with a large portion missing. Pages browned. A nice copy of this SCARCE book.

London: Collins, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Collins, 1956. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 256 pages, b/w photographs. Dust jacket near fine, no loss, old tape residue to the reverse of the top and bottom of the spinenot price-clipped, now protected in a clear removal archival sleeve. Contents clean and tight, signed in pen by "Robert Gillmor January 1956". An extraordinary account of how the author befriended garden birds and won their trust; this book features the remarkable great tit Star and "is living proof that bird intelligence can reach heights quite unrealised by the authors of conventional text-books". An obituary in the May 1973 issue of British Birds read "Miss Len Howard, who died on 5th January, was known personally to few ornithologists, though many were familiar with her two books, 'Birds as Individuals' (1952) and 'Living with Birds' (1956). Possessing an extraordinary ability to tame the wild birds in her garden at Ditchling, Sussex, so that they (and especially… Read More