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LICHENS (NN 86)
Written by Oliver Gilbert.
Stock no. 1326801
Published by Harper Collins. 1st 2000. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 86. A look at how lichens have been used throughout history in medicines, dyes, food and perfumes. What they are and how they grow and reproduce. Colour and b/w photos. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 0002200813.

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GALLOWAY AND THE BORDERS (NN 101)
Written by Derek Ratcliffe.
Stock no. 1326798
Published by Collins. 1st 2007. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist Series 101. Colour plates plus b/w photos and drawings. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. ISBN: 9780007174010.

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THE FULMAR (NMN 6)
Written by James Fisher.
Stock no. 1827275
Published by Collins. 1st thus 1984. Very good condition.

New Naturalist Library Limpback Reprint. New Naturalist Monograph. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos. The colour plates (including one by Peter Scott) of the original hardback are reproduced in b/w in this edition. ISBN: 0002190656. Edges lightly rubbed. Text block slightly grubby along the bottom. Contents clean.

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PARTRIDGES (NN 121)
Written by G.C. Potts.
Stock no. 1827271
Published by Collins. 1st 2012. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist series 121. A complex and fascinating story, with a heady mix of hunting, farming, predation, parasites, disease and climate change. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour photos and charts. Blue endpapers with repeating NN logo. ISBN: 9780007418701. Very minor foxing to top edge of text block else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is very lightly scuffed to rear panel.

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WOODLANDS (NN 100)
Written by Oliver Rackham.
Stock no. 1827269
Published by Collins. 1st 2006. Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

The 100th volume in the New Naturalist series. How trees and woods behave, for example by how they copice and pollard, how they are affected by storms and fire, the function of tree roots, the life and growth of trees and how and why they decay. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Colour photos and b/w maps and sketches. Green endpapers with repeating NN logo. ISBN: 0007202431. Foxing to top edge of text block, foxspot to rear pastedown, else a lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is a little grubby to rear panel.

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GRASSHOPPERS & CRICKETS (NN 120)
Written by Ted Benton.
Stock no. 1827268
Published by Collins. 1st 2012. Slightly better than very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

No. 120 in New Naturalist Series. A comprehensive account of the appearance, variations, behaviour, habitat, life-cycles and distribution of all the native British species of bush-crickets, groundhoppers and grasshoppers. Green cloth gilt title to spine. Colour photos. DVD to rear featuring many aspects of the behaviour of nearly all British species, including song, conflict, courtship behaviour, sex-role reversal and egg-laying. Dark green endpapers with repeating NN logo. ISBN: 9780007277230. Minor foxing to top edge of text block else a lovely copy. DVD present to rear (unknown if it is in working order or not...). Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at top of spine, rear panel is very slightly scuffed.

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THE LAKE DISTRICT (NN 53)
Written by W.H. Pearsall; Winifred Pennington.
Stock no. 1827267
Published by Collins. 1st 1973. Almost very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist series 53. An excellent book for general naturalists, walkers, botanists, geologists, zoologists, archaeologists and historians, covering the natural and human history of The Lake District and surrounding areas, from pre-history to the present day on the evidence of the archaeologist, the historian and the conservationist. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0002131331. Ex-lib with usual library stamps, and marks to endpapers where labels have been removed. Boards clean. Contents browned. Pencil annotation to page 275. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper has had mylar cover removed leaving glue stain (clear) to verso.

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SLUGS AND SNAILS (NN 133)
Written by Robert Cameron.
Stock no. 1827266
Published by William Collins. 1st 2016. Fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist Series No. 133. An introduction to this remarkable group of gastropods. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Yellow endpapers with repeating NN pattern. Colour photos and diagrams. ISBN: 9780007113002. A lovely copy. Pictorial dustwrapper is very slightly scuffed to rear panel.

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BRITISH TITS (NN 62)
Written by Christopher M. Perrins.
Stock no. 1326723
Published by Collins. 1st 1979. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist series. Green boards, gilt title to spine. A study dealing with seven species of tit, including their social lives, intelligence, adaptiveness as well as the general behaviour and biology of these most popular of British birds. 16 b/w photos plus numerous diagrams. 304 pages includes index. ISBN: 0002195372. Spine slightly bumped. Foxing to textblock, mainly at top. Dustwrapper is edge worn, slightly grubby to rear (white) panel and lightly browned to spine.

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THE SNOWDONIA NATIONAL PARK (NN 47)
Written by William M. Condry.
Stock no. 1326722
Published by Collins. 1st 1966. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalists Series. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. 11 colour photographs, 52 photographs in b/w and 9 maps and diagrams. Sticky marks to covers from residue of old tape. Name in red ink to front pastedown. Crease to lower corner of front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is wrinkled but bright and complete.

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PLANT GALLS (NN 117)
Written by Margaret Redfern.
Stock no. 1326721
Published by Collins. 1st 2011. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

No. 117 in New Naturalist Series. Much needed insight into the variety of galls of different types caused by a wide range of organisms including fungi, insects and mites. Green cloth gilt title to spine. Colour photos. ISBN: 9780002201438. Foxing to top edge of textblock. Dustwrapper is just a tiny bit rubbed at edges and ever so slightly faded to spine. Rear panel of wrapper (white) is a tiny bit grubby.

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LAKELAND (NN 92)
Written by Derek Ratcliffe.
Stock no. 1326720
Published by Harpercollins Publishers. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition in a fine dustwrapper.

The wildlife of Cumbria. New Naturalist series no. 92. Colour and b/w photos. Green cloth boards with gilt title to spine. ISBN: 000711303X. Foxing to top edge of textblock else a fine copy in a fine wrapper.

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