AUSTRALIAN ANIMALS AND BIRDS
Illustrated by Sheila Hawkins
Published by Angus & Robertson Ltd.. 1st. 1962
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. A book on Australian nature, concentrating on the most curious or charming of all these creatures for illustration. Everything from Great Kangaroos to the exquisite Feathertail Gliders; from the koala and its 'near relation' the wombat to the prickly echidna which likes to eat raw eggs through a hole in the shell... Pictorial cloth boards. Green two-tone illustrated endpapers. Colour & b/w illustrations. 64 pages.
Boards bright. Foxing to top edge of text block. Name and date in ink to colophon page else contents beautifully clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is edge-worn, 2" split to top of front fold (no loss), scuffed.
Stock no. 1831550
- Categorised in:
- CHILDRENS
- NATURE (CHILDRENS)
- AUSTRALIA
