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Collins, London. 1956. Collins, London. 1956. First edition. Hardback with DW. Illustrated. Green cloth boards bumped at head and tail of spine and browned around edges. Wrapper is price clipped, browned and worn and torn around edges with some loss. Back flap is torn with a large portion missing. Pages browned. A nice copy of this SCARCE book.

London: Collins, 1956. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 256 pages, b/w photographs. Dust jacket near fine, no loss, old tape residue to the reverse of the top and bottom of the spinenot price-clipped, now protected in a clear removal archival sleeve. Contents clean and tight, signed in pen by "Robert Gillmor January 1956". An extraordinary account of how the author befriended garden birds and won their trust; this book features the remarkable great tit Star and "is living proof that bird intelligence can reach heights quite unrealised by the authors of conventional text-books". An obituary in the May 1973 issue of British Birds read "Miss Len Howard, who died on 5th January, was known personally to few ornithologists, though many were familiar with her two books, 'Birds as Individuals' (1952) and 'Living with Birds' (1956). Possessing an extraordinary ability to tame the wild birds in her garden at Ditchling, Sussex, so that they (and especially… Read More