Search Results: the cuckoo and other bird mysteries by acworth bernard

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944. Hardcover. Good. 1944. First Edition. 198 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1944, , 1944. Oln, Ou.,198s., in gutem Zustand, [AZB12,5].,

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944. First Edition . A very good copy in a very good dustwrapper which is not price-clipped and which is now protected. 198pp. Deals with the laws of flight and their bearing on bird phenomena in addition to the cuckoo.

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Much of the subject matter of this book deals with the laws of flight. The latter part deals with the Cuckoo its facts and theories. There's a small library stamp on the back page.

Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1946T. hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1946 EDITION second impression with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. Hardcover. Good/ Good. This book takes up about a third with a fascinating study of the Cuckoo, the rest is devoted to theories of migration and flight with some interesting observations about insects and winds. The jacket is worn and stained around the edges and has been price clipped

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944. 198pp, original green cloth. 1st edition. hard back. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.

Eyre & Sottiswood, 1944. First edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Slight rippling to endpapers, else fine in near fine dust jacket with slight wear and one very small chip to top of spine..

London: eyre and Spottiswoode 1944, 1st, hb, no dw, vg. First Edition. Hardcover.

Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1944 Eyre & Spottiswoode first edition hardback; Good condition copy, fep missing else very good, with very good unclipped dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1944.

Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1944 Eyre & Spottiswoode first edition hardback; Good condition, clean and sound inside, some wear and fading to green boards, sticker mark on front, no dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1944.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Impression. 8vo. 198 pages, b/w diagrams, map end papers. Original dust jacket very good with a little general wear and a little rubbing to edges, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, near fine. Contents clean and tight, bookplate belonging to Edwin Cohen, to front paste-down otherwise umarked. A very good copy. Provenance [Edwin Cohen author of Birds of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight].

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Second Impression. 8vo. 202 pages, b/w diagrams, map end papers. Original dust jacket very good with some cockling to front panel, not price-clipped, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, near fine. Contents clean and tight, unmarked. A near fine copy in a very good jacket..

Eyre & Spottiswoode. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. 2nd printing. Dust jacket Slightly dampstained. (birds, flight)

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Book Item Type: Book. No Dust Jacket. Category: Natural History & Resources; Birds; Animals & Birds. Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 005357. .

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. Second impression. Slim octavo, pp 202, (i), very clean internally, green cloth in very good condition, in a rather worn and wrinkled dustwrapper which is obviously of wartime economy production. [This copy belonged to the nature writer "Ceres" {= Alison Ross = Alison Esplan}, with her pencilled notes on the dustwrapper and various neat pencil marks in the margins. It also contains three interesting letters from the author {these have been cut in two to facilitate fitting in the book}, and three little pamphlets regarding The Evolution Protest Movement including one by Acworth on Darwin and Natural Selection. Acworth was the prime mover in the Movement.]. Cloth. Very Good/Rather worn and frayed.

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, , 1946. HBDJ, 1946, 1st edition, Second impression STATED, VG/GOOD+, 202 pgs, Original green cloth gilt Titled in black on Spine,Hardcover. Used: Very Good/Good+. 202 pg. Hardcover in very good condition with good+ dust jacket of white titled in Red. Dust jacket has a few small tears Wrinkling at Btm lite Soil. . Book Condition: . Very Good. Jacket Condition: . Good+. CONCLUSION , ADDEDUM ,CUCKOO IS Famous for Laying its eggs in other birds nest & having same color as their Eggs, which was known to Ancients & mentioned by Aristotle & Pliny & in Bible in Leviticus XI & Deuteronomy XIV Idiosyncratic essays on bird life, a third of this book is devoted to the cuckoo, the rest is given over to theories of flight & migration with some interesting observations about insects & winds."Whether he is right or wrong he has done ornithology a great service by bringing to the solution of old problems an entirely new approach, cuckoo?s secret… Read More