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London: Country Life, 1951. Book. Illus. by Paul Queneau, Photographer. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Blue cloth boards with gold flying geese on cover. Sunning to spine and board edges. Tiny spot of wear to one upper spine corner. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages are clean with red top-stained upper page edges, clean map-illustrated endpapers. Lovely color frontispiece illustration of Ross's Geese on the Breeding Grounds at Lake Arlone (by the author). Illustrated throughout with photographs by Paul Queneau, drawings by the author. 254 pages with Index..

Country Life, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1951. First Edition. 254 pages. Red pictorial dust jacket over green cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Photographs by Paul Queneau. 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. The clipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges.

London, Country Life Limited, 1951.. 8.75" x 5.5". First Edition hardback, 254 pages. many black + white photographs and illustrations. fading to spine + partial fading to boards otherwise a very good copy. V.G. .

Country Life, 1951-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. First CL edition on green slightly faded cloth

GB: Country Life (Charles Scribner), 1951. Green cloth, gilt. In very good, clean, tight condition BUT some spotting to prelims, end papers and text edges. Spine and top and bottom edges of covers faded. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is entire BUT back cover is stained. In loose polythene protector.. 1st Edition. Hardback. VG-/VG- DW.

Country Life, 1951-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1951 Country Life / Boots Edition on blue cloth + stamp to end paper

Country Life Ltd, London, 1951. First Edition. Green Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illustrator: Photo's & Drawings. gilt titles spine; gilt vignette (geese in flight) front; map endpapers (in green) showing route of expedition; col. frontis (pair of Ross's Geese); illustrated throughout by 36 b/w. photo's.; 2 further b/w. maps & numerous b/w. line drawings; "among the world's waterfowl - the ducks, geese and swans - there are several species which have become so greatly reduced in numbers that they face early extinction unless steps are taken at once to avert it. Much more needs to be discovered about the birds themselves before we know where, when and how best to take those steps. The beautiful little Ross's geese, whose nesting colonies were found for the first time in 1938, are among those which are threatened, for their world population is probably no more than 5,000, possibly much less. It was for this specific reason that the Perry River Expedition of 1949 was… Read More

London: Country Life, 1951. 254, col frontis, b/w plates, text figs. . HB. Binding slightly worn.. .

London: Country Life, 1951. 254, col frontis, b/w photos, text illus. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Good in d/w (some edge wear).. .

London: Country Life, 1951. 254, col frontis, b/w photos, text illus. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, edges spotted. Good in d/w (price-clipped; spine faded; some edge wear).. .

Good. Blue cloth with gilt tooling and titles. Cover partially sunned. Light foxing to pasteboards and endpapers. Dustcover with rubbing and edgewear.

Country Life Limited, 1951. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition; 254pp, illustrated, coloured frontispiece, b/w plates, drawings in text, maps, map end papers. Original green cloth covers with gilt geese decoration to front cover and titling to spine, no dustjacket. The Perry River lies in the North-West territories of Canada includes references,eskimos,list of birds seen. "among the world's waterfowl - the ducks, geese and swans - there are several species which have become so greatly reduced in numbers that they face early extinction unless steps are taken at once to avert it. Much more needs to be discovered about the birds themselves before we know where, when and how best to take those steps. The beautiful little Ross's geese, whose nesting colonies were found for the first time in 1938, are among those which are threatened, for their world population is probably no more than 5,000, possibly much less. It was for this specific reason that the Perry River… Read More

London: Country Life, 1951. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 220x145x30mm. Contains, Illustrations. 220x145x30mm+574g . . 500g Postage Incorrect see below for 1kg . . Country Life. London. 1951. First UK Edition. 1st Printing. . Ex-Parliamentary Library, stamps to half title page, reverse frontis, title page, reverse endpaper, page 145. library sticker to corner front free endpaper, library number in white to spine. Pp254, green cloth hard boards with gilt lettering and decoration, map endpapers. Slight foxing, fading to head of front spine and back boards. The book is illustrated from photographs by Paul Queneau and drawings by the author: Image is ALWAYS of the ACTUAL BOOK: Book and or Jacket may have names. dedications. marks. tears. foxing. browned pages. creasing and losses unless otherwise noted.. . . Australia_Post_Zoned_International_Shipping_Rates_FOR_THIS_PARCEL . . AP-Zone1_NZ:_AU$28.20 . . AP-Zone3_Canada_USA:_AU$45.20 . . AP-Zone4_UK_Europe:_AU$51.40 . .… Read More

Photographs by Paul Queneau. London: Country Life Limited, 1951 8vo. 254pp. coloured frontispiece and numerous monochrome plates, text-illustrations, 3 maps, biblio., index, chipped dw. "The principal object of the expedition was to study the birds of a region difficult of access and hitherto unvisited by a party of scientists." A good copy of the first edition in the publisher's cloth with the dust-wrapper. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[B]