Search Results: the yellow wagtail the new naturalist by smith stuart

Collins, 1950. Hardcover. Good. 1950. First Published. 178 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white photographic and colour illustrated plates throughout. 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 sunning.

Collins, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1950. First Published. 178 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Black and white photographic plates. Moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free front free endpaper. Binding is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with noticeable tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

London: Collins (1950). Hardback in very good condition with some fading to cloth. No dust wrapper. First edition.

Collins, 1950. Ex-Library/no dust jacket. Ex-library copy with usual marks,clean and tight but for library marks,green boards,no dust jacket, faintly dented lower corners.

Collins, 1950. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Collins, 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. very nice hardcover; very nice jacket in mylar now taped to boards; clean text; small white out over prev owner name; NOT ex-library

Collins, 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. First Edition without Jacket on green cloth - collectable - will send out 1 st class post

London, UK: Collins. Green cloth, gilt title. 192pp. 8 col. plates (26 paintings); 11 b/w photos; 4 line drawings; 4 maps. Boards rather faded and spine and corners very slightly bumped. Dust jacket foxed and chipped to spine and corners,; slightly edge worn and creased to top edge. Slight foxing to end papers, o/w contents are clear and clean. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1950.

Collins, 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Published 1950. Formerly of the University of Minnesota Museum of Natural History, thus usual library markings. Binding is tight and sturdy, fading to spine. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

London: Collins, 1950. Book. Illus. by Bradbury, Edward. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. No 4 in the New Naturalist monograph series. pp xiv, 178, with 8 colour plates Edward Bradbury, b/w photographs, maps and diagrams & text figures. . Dust jacket very good, clean and bright with no fading, yellow remains strong to spine, a little rubbed, not price-clipped,red pen repricing at 7/6 now protected in a removable archival sleeve. Green buckram binding faded, but unmarked. Contents clean and tight, endpapers lightly toned, a few spots, no inscriptions. A very good copy with a very good dust jacket. [Collecting the New Naturalists M4A].

London: Collins, 1950. Book. Illus. by Bradbury, Edward. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. No 4 in the New Naturalist monograph series. pp xiv, 178, with 8 colour plates Edward Bradbury, b/w photographs, maps and diagrams & text figures. . Dust jacket good, clean and bright with no fading, yellow remains strong to spine, rubbed with the top and the bottom of t he spine repaired, not price- clipped, now protected in a removable archival sleeve. Green buckram binding with a little uneven fading. Contents clean and tight, small bookplate to the front pastedown,no inscriptions. A very good copy with a good jacket. [Collecting the New Naturalists M4A].

Collins, 1950. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green buckram cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper fused to covers, price clipped). Pp. xiv + 178, illus with coloured and b&w photos and diagrams (previous owner's neat inscription on front free endpaper).

London: Collins. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Ex libris plate to front paste down. 1950. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 178pp. .

Collins, London, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. In this book, the first New Naturalist Monograph on a species of bird, Dr. Stuart Smith, author of How to Study Birds, has concentrated the result of years of observation and research on the Yellow Wagtail. Dr. Smith writes from his own experience of practical field-studies, his continual hobby and spare-time occupation. Most field-workers have their "own" bird, or birds, and Stuart Smith's favourite is Motacilla flava flavissima, the Yellow Wagtail of the British Isles, a subspecies, practically confined to these islands, of a species which is widely distributed in the Old World. The British Yellow Wagtail in particular, and the Yellow Wagtail species in general, have been deserving of study and monography for many years. Dr. Smith's middle chapters, on territory, display and reproduction, are based on many hours of careful observation in the field, and much careful deduction therefrom. His… Read More

London: Collins, 1950. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. xiv, 178pp. Illus. 1st edition 1950. Gilt titles to spine. Ex-library with usual library markings. Sound library binding. A little wear to extremities. Sound reading copy. (q6). First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket.

London: Collins, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 178pp. Green buckram with gilt spine lettering. Boards lightly spotted and sunned, spine sunned and bumped at the head and foot, clean throughout and the binding tight. Dust jacket sunned around the edges and spine, with nicked corners and spine ends, and a short closed tear to the lower edge of the front cover. First printing. Illustrated. New Naturalist Monograph Series Number 4.

Collins,, 1950. 8vo., First Edition, with 26 coloured plates on 8 by Edward Bradbury, 11 monochrome plates on 4, 4 illustrations in the text and 4 maps, free endpapers very lightly spotted; original series binding of green buckram, gilt back, covers very slightly faded else a bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist Monograph 4. Dustwrapper artwork by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis.

London: Collins, 1950. Book. Illus. by Bradbury, Edward. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp xiv, 178, with 8 colour plates Edward Bradbury, b/w photographs, maps and diagrams & text figures. There was only one book published in 1950, but later jackets were produced as more books were released for sale. Dust jacket, (priced 90p) clean and bright with no fading. Green buckram binding very good, gilt bright. Contents clean and tight, some spotting to the fore-edges and top edge. .

London: Collins, 1950. Book. Illus. by Bradbury, Edward. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. No 4 in the New Naturalist monograph series. pp xiv, 178, with 8 colour plates Edward Bradbury, b/w photographs, maps and diagrams & text figures. . Dust jacket near fine, clean and bright with no fading, yellow remains strong to spine, repair to short closed tear, very slight toning to the spine now protected in a removable archival sleeve. Green buckram binding a little faded, near fine. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. A near fine copy with a bright near fine dust jacket. [Collecting the New Naturalists M4A].

London: Collins. VG: in very good condition with dust jacket. 1950. First Edition. Green hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 178pp. .