RICA ERICKSON: A NATURALIST'S LIFE
Written by Rica Erickson.
Stock no. 1829857
Published by University Of Western Australia Press. 1st 2005. Very good condition.

Western Australia is rightly famous for its unique plants and animals. Among those who have studied them is Rica Erickson. This is Rica's own account of how she became intereested in natural history, who were her guides, mentors and associates, and how she did her research. Interspersed with reproductions of some of her writings, drawings and paintings from the 1940s, '50s and '60s. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations, a few in colour. xv and 144 pages including index. ISBN: 1920694277. A few marks to contents but generally a nice copy.

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THE TWILIGHT OF INDIA'S WILD LIFE
Written by Balakrishna Seshadri.
Stock no. 1829581
Published by John Baker. 1st 1969. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The wild life panorama in India in the years after WWII has changed so drastically as to become unrecognisable. Gone are the vast, unbroken stretches of forest and tropical jungle, and with them the teeming animals. Only a fraction of both remains. The author gives a personal perceptive account of the background to this change, traces its disastrous course, and describes the perilous state that has been reached. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine and publisher's vignette to front. B/w photos. 212 pages including index. Text block and endpapers lightly browned. Front boards is slightly bowed. Contents clean. Yellow pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby, edge-rubbed and scuffed.

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AN ANGLER'S ENTOMOLOGY
Written by J.R. Harris.
Stock no. 1329302
Published by Bloomsbury Books. 1st thus 1990. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w photos. New Naturalist reprint series. Cream boards, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 1870630499. Minimal bumping to spine and corners. Foxing to page edges and endpapers. Dustwrapper is slightly edge creased.

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SALAR THE SALMON
Written by Henry Williamson.
Stock no. 1329242
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1st 1935. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

The story of a five-year-old salmon and his friends, beginning when they come into the estuary in early spring, a crescendo of adventures, excitements and endurances. Brown cloth with gilt title and small vignette to spine. Blue maps for endpapers. 7.5 x 5". Spine and corners bumped. Covers slightly edge rubbed. Inscription in ink to front fly-leaf. Pale page browning to endpapers. Top edge of textblock (which is dyed pink) has partially faded. Dustwrapper is edge worn with small chips and a larger tear to lower edge of rear panel. Verso of wrapper is lightly browned/foxed.

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TRAVEL DIARIES OF A NATURALIST (3 VOLUMES)
Written by Peter Scott.
Stock no. 1329190
Published by Collins. 1st 1983. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Edited by Miranda Weston-Smith. Each volume covering different regions. Blue boards, gilt titles to spines. Colour and b/w photos and illustrations. Each volume is a first edition, published 1983, 1985 and 1987 respectively. Spines slightly bumped. Dustwrapper spines are sunned and edges are slightly rubbed.

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HOW TO SEE INSECTS
Written by Eric Fitch Daglish. Illustrated by Eric Fitch Daglish.
Stock no. 1329189
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1934. Very good condition in a poor dustwrapper.

The Children's Nature Series. Beige boards. Black titles and small vignette. B/w illustrations. Spine and cover edges browned. Lower front corner bumped. Top 2" of front free-endpaper has been neatly cut out. Some light foxing to contents. Remains of dustwrapper is tucked into the back of the book (the wrapper is in two pieces and the spine is missing).

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HOW TO SEE POND LIFE
Written by Eric Fitch Daglish. Illustrated by Eric Fitch Daglish.
Stock no. 1329188
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.. 1st 1934. Almost very good condition.

The Children's Nature Series. Beige boards. Black titles and small vignette. B/w illustrations. Spine and cover edges browned, slight loss to base of spine. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper.

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NATURE ABOUNDING
Written by E.L. Grant Watson. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Stock no. 1329183
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 1951. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

New Edition. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 384 pages. B/w illustrations. Endpapers lightly browned, foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is heavily foxed with slight edge chipping. Tiny hold to spine which is also browned.

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A BEAST BOOK FOR THE POCKET
Written by Edmund Sandars.
Stock no. 1329128
Published by Oxford University Press. 1st 1937. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Small format. Grey cloth. Colour illustrations. Spine slightly bumped and browned. Pencil annotations and newspaper clippings stuck into book. Light foxing/page browning to edges. Price-cut wrapper is foxed on verso, is edge worn with a tear to lower edge of rear panel and is slightly scratched on rear panel.

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THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION
Written by Charles Darwin.
Stock no. 1829278
Published by John Murray. 6th 1910. Almost very good condition.

Popular Impression of the corrected copyright edition, Sixth Edition. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxi and 432 pages including index plus 4 pages publisher's advert for Murray's Shilling Library and another two unpaginated pages to rear. Spine faded and browned. Boards lightly faded and marked. Text block browned. Endpapers browned. Some foxing present. Binding tight.

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THE EYE OF THE WIND
Written by Peter Scott. Illustrated by Peter Scott.
Stock no. 1829277
Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1961. Very good condition.

Autobiography. Colour & b/w illustrations. B/w photos. Blue pictorial endpapers. xxii and 679 pages including index. Second impression. SIGNED and dated (1985) by the author to half-title page (no dedication). Spine faded and creased with use. Boards just slightly grubby, lower edges rubbed. Text block browned with some minor foxing. Pencil erasure mark to front endpaper. A few foxspots to contents.

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OUT WITH ROMANY
Written by G. Bramwell Evens. Illustrated by Reg Gammon; G. Bramwell Evens.
Stock no. 1328961
Published by University of London Press Ltd.. 1st 1937. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Green cloth, black titles and vignettes. B/w photographic plates and b/w text illustrations. 184 pages. 7.5 x 5.25". Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Some foxing and page browning. Dustwrapper is chipped, browned and grubby and has large section of spine missing.

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