Search Results: the pheasants of the world by delacour jean

Country Life, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor. 0x0x0. Illustrated with 32 plates and 21 maps and diagrams. Light corner wear. Foxing to end papers. Interior pages and unmarked. Dust Jacket, is tattered, has light soiling. First edition. Oversize/Overweight: additional postage may apply.

London, United Kingdom: Country Life Limited, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 9" x 11 1/4. Harrison, J.C. ISigned. GOOD / DUST JACKET FAIR. Signed by author at half-title page. 351pp. Text clean and unmarked. Top edge red. Illustrated with 16 full color plates and 16 monochrome plates throughout the text. Light green cloth boards with red compartments at front and spine, bordered and lettered in gilt. Boards lightly age-toned, corners rubbed, top corners bumped, spine top and tail rubbed. Dust jacket protected in library dust jacket cover, slightly toned and soiled, spine toned, top of spine chipped, with a repair and a small area of loss. Joints and hinges good, binding firm.

1957. Country Life limited edition. Hardcover, 4to., 351 pp. Illus. with 32 color plates and 21 maps and diagrams. Very good in very good dust jacket. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Light edgewear to DJ.

Spur Publications / World Pheasant Assn 1977 (Second Edition). Quarto, red faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, upper page edges stainied red, frontispiece, 395pp, illus, VG+ (v. slight bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to page lower corner edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, some creasing to spine extrems, light tanning)

Spur Publications, 1977. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Country Life, 1964 32 plates by J.C. Harrison, 16 in colour; 2 text illustrations; 19 maps; Foreword by William Beebe; Hardback: light grey cloth, red lettering-pieces, decorated in gilt, top edge red, title-page printed in red and black, large quarto; A few spots from old damp to 1 of the lettering-pieces, else near fine in used g dustwrapper.

London: Country Life, 1965. Fourth Impression.. A few faint rub marks on the spine, a bright and clean copy in near fine condition.. Pp. 351, 32 full page plates after paintings by J. C. Harrison – 16 are in full color, 21 distribution maps and diagrams. Red cloth in simulated leather style, lettered in gilt on the spine label, 4to. This is the fourth impression of the first edition published in 1965. The title page is signed by the author, Jean Delacour. Name stamp of Ron Sauey Memorial Library on front and rear endpapers and the top page edge, blank paper pocket on the rear endpaper, no other institutional marks to the text or cloth binding. Ron Sauey was co-founder of the International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, Wisconsin.

Country Life Books, 1965-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1st 1951 HB Country LIfe; good in good jacket which has a long closed tear on jacket hinge; inside clean

London: Country Life Limited, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1951. First Edition. A very good hardcover in a chipped dust jacket. A seasons greeting card from Delacour (not signed) with a photo Le Chateua de Cleres laid in. 32 plates, 16 of which are in color. Maps.

Liss: Spur Publications, 2005. 3rd imp.. Nice copy. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket 395pp., col. frontis., col. & b/w pls., maps, bibliog., index,

Country Life Limited. 4th impression,1965. Good/Good hard cover. small 4to,cloth,351pp,illus with 32 plates by J.C. Harrison & 21 maps & diagrams. small tears,chips,tanning,foot price clipped,light soiling,dust jacket now in protective covering. light shelfwear,some color leeching top front,cover. light ripple,edges tanned,slight yellowing,stress at gutter page 128 else tight,clean,text. wild animals.

Spur Publications, January 1977. Hardcover. Good - Cash/Good. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed with some creasing. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Unmarked pages. There is some spotting to the top edge of the text block. The DJ edges and corners have yellowing and rubbing. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

SLC: Allen Publishing Company, 1957. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 343pp. Very good hardback in a darkened and rubbed ajcket that has some minor loss at the extremities and a few splash marks on the rear panel. Signed by Delacour on the half title page.

Hardback. Very Good.

England: Spur Publications; The World Pheasant Association, 1977 . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 11.5" by 9". J. C. Harrison; R. David Digby . The revised second edition of this significant ornithological work by Jean Delacour in the original dust wrapper. Second edition of The Pheasants of the World by Jean Delacour in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Revised edition by Spur Publications and The World Pheasant Association. First published in 1951. Densely illustrated with thirty two colour plates by J. C. Harrington and twenty one maps and diagrams, including the colour frontispiece by R. David Digby. Collated, complete. Jean Delacour was a French-American Ornithologist best known for discovering some of the rarest birds in the world. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. There is some slight wear to the extremities of the dust wrapper, including some small creases and light marks. To the binding, there is… Read More

Hindhead : Spur Publications [for] the World Pheasant Association, 1977. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 395 p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm. Notes; Previous ed.: London : Country Life, 1951. Bibliography: p.383-388. - Includes index. Subjects; Pheasants. Phasianidae. Genre; Illustrated.

London & New York: Country Life Limited, 1951. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 11.5" by 9". J. C. Harrison. A smart first edition of Jean Delacour's study into pheasants from across the globe, illustrated with plates in colour and monochrome by J. C. Harrison. Covering such majestic creatures as blood pheasants, gallopheasants, true pheasants, crested argus, peafowls, junglefowls, koklass and cheer pheasants, amongst others. Written by prominent ornithologist known for discovering and rearing some of the world's rarest birds. Amongst his discoveries was the imperial pheasant, which was found to be a hybrid between the Vietnamese pheasant and the silver pheasant. Illustrated with thirty-two plates by J. C. Harrison including those in colour, as well as twenty-one maps and diagrams. Collated, complete. With a loosely inserted illustration in colour of three pheasants.Acquired from the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, an English socialite and the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward… Read More

1964. London, 1964. 4to. Orig. full cloth. Part of wrappers pasted in. 351 pp., 32 fine colourplates.

Spur Publications, 1977-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Howell Book House, 1983. Large hardcover in very good + condition with near fine dust jacket. Small name embossed on front end page, otherwise clean. 2nd Edition.. 2nd Edition.. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine.