Search Results: wings of the wild by michaelis h von

(Cape Town: Central News Agency, 1953). Small 4to; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 107; colour plates; line drawings in text. Dustwrapper rather foxed and a little edgeworn; tape marks to dustwrapper flaps and endpapers; some foxing to endpapers and edges. Good condition. "Even without the many delightful and masterly executed illustrations, the heroes of this book, birds of divergent nature, spring into life in a plastic and convincing manner, holding the reader's sympathetic attention from the first to the last page." .

(no place, 1953). Small quarto, original red cloth, pp. 108, line illustrations, colour plates. Endpapers very slightly foxed. .

Central News Agency, Capetown 1953 Hardcover with clipped dust jacket Masterly executed illustrations. Endpaper have 'shadows' from jacket. Jacket edges very battered, torn, gapped. VERY GOOD book in FAIR dust jacket Red cloth-bound hardcover, 10" x 7.25", with gold type to spine, illustrated endpapers, 3 colour plates, dozens of exquisite bird drawings. Artist-writer's second book on birds of divergent nature, presenting wild life as it is, not as we might wish it.