1936 Birds of the Seashore
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Description
Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
Later edition, first published in 1931. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seven colour plates, and numerous in-text and full-page black-and-white images. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive work on birds of the seashore, with chapters studying the different families of bird species and their habits for feeding, mating, and song. Written by Harold John Massingham, a prolific British writer of ruralism and matters of the countryside or agriculture. Illustrated by Joseph Van Abbe, or J. Abbey, a Dutch-born British illustrator, Ernest Ellis Clarke, an English artist, and Eric Fitch Daglish, a British engraver and author.
Condition
In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light wear and fading to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear and sunning to the extremities. The odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting, predominantly to the first and last few pages.
Very Good Indeed
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