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Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. 316pp., col. frontis., b/w plates & maps. Dark green cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine: light wear to corner, o/w in very good condition. Dustjacket: a little shelf-worn and w. small light stain to back cover, price clipped. Now protected by proprietary removable plastic sleeve. Contents in very good condition, clean and bright, binding tight. Weight: 0.81 kg - Overseas orders may require additional postage. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1966.

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1966. Photos, maps, biblio, index, 316 pages. Light dust brown spotting on outside edges of text block. Nice dust jacket, now in removable protective Brodart archival cover.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

8vo. Pp. xii + 316. A fine copy in a price-clipped dust wrapper, spine ends and corners rubbed, small hole in front cover. Colour frontispiece and 17 black & white plates. The first edition.

Leeds: Peregrine Books , 1993. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾. N/a. 339pp. (mauve & white spine) 8vo. sized. 1993. Revised second Edition. A very good, clean, tight copy in a very good plus jacket. Original publisher's green boards - gilt embossed to the spine. The text supported by numerous photographic reproductions, diagrams and maps. No inscriptions. The head of the spine bumped with some light associated creasing to the overlying jacket. The jacket has not been price-clipped - it has some slight and uniform fading to the spine, though the titles in white are completely legible. A very good, clean, tight copy in very good plus jacket.

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1966 First edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt titles, pictorial dust jacket . 316pp. With colour photo frontispiece, 17 b&w photos in plates, and 11 text figures and maps. Covers clean and bright, . Clean pages. With the book plate of the Natural history author Bryan Sage Dust jacket has some light edge rubbing slightly faded spine, not price clipped. Now in protective sleeve. Previous owners name .A Very Good+ copy in Very Good dust jacket.

PEREGRINE BOOKS, 1993. SECOND EDTION, FINE COPY IN FINE DUSTWRAP. THE AUTHOR GIVES A FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE BIRD, DEALING WITH SUCH TOPICS AS HABITS AND HABITATS IN SCOTLAND, NESTING HABITS, DISTRIBUTION NUMBERS AND MOVEMENTS, WHICH COVER ALL ASPECTS OF THE LIFE OF THESE SELDOM SEEN AND LITTLE KNOWN BIRDS, AND SUMMARISES, EXCELLENTLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT NOT ONLY FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE BUT FROM RELEVANT LITERATURE.

Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1966. xii + 316pp + 14 plates, 1 in colour. Cloth boards, little bumped. Slightly soiled d/w, extremities little frayed and rubbed. 23x15cms.