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A GUIDE TO THE BIRDS OF SUSSEX
Written by G. Des Forges; D.D. Harber.
Stock no. 2127599
Published by Oliver & Boyd. 1st 1963. Almost very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Green cloth with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Damp marking to covers. Bookplate to front pastedown. From the personal library of Bryan L. Sage, distinguished naturalist and author. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with a faded spine; couple of tear repairs to verso.

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THE BIRDS OF SUSSEX THEIR PRESENT STATUS
Written by Michael Shurbb.
Stock no. 2127597
Published by Phillimore. 1st 1979. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Main habitats in the county and species found in them, together with a systematic list of species and their current status. B/w photos. ISBN: 0850333261. Bookplate to front pastedown. From the personal library of Bryan L. Sage, distinguished naturalist and author. A few marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few marks.

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ECOLOGICAL ISOLATION IN BIRDS
Written by David Lack. Illustrated by Robert Gillmor.
Stock no. 1816492
Published by Blackwell Scientific Publications. 1st 1971. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Brown cloth. A critical and new assessment of the importance of ecological isolation between species in nature. Line drawings, diagrams & maps. Top edge orange. ISBN: 0632068701. Bookplate of Bryan L. Sage (distinguished naturalist) to front pastedown. A few minor foxspots. Green pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased, and browned at spine.

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THE BIRD AND ITS ENVIRONMENT
Written by J.M. Winterbottom.
Stock no. 1816489
Published by Maskew Miller. 1st 1965. Almost very good condition.

Yellow pictorial cloth boards. Based in Africa. 121 pages. Name and date in ink to front endpaper. Heavy foxing throughout.

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VARIATIONS AMONG BIRDS (CHIEFLY GAME BIRDS)
Written by Masauji Hachisuka.
Stock no. 1816485
Published by The Ornithological Society Of Japan. 1928. Very good condition.

Supplementary Publication No. XII. Heterochrosis, Gynandromorphs, Aberration, Mutation, Atavism and Hybrids. Brown cardwraps. Colour & b/w plates. Slight loss to lower corner of front cover. Bookplate of Bryan L. Sage, distinguished naturalist, to verso of frontispiece. A few grubby marks to contents.

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THE BIRDS OF HERTFORDSHIRE
Written by Tom W. Gladwin; Bryan L. Sage. Illustrated by Peter Walton.
Stock no. 2127544
Published by Castlemead Publications. 1st 1986. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

A complete review of the status and distribution of all the species and subspecies recorded in the present administrative county since Sage's earlier work published in 1959. Brown boards, gilt title to spine. B/w distribution maps and illustrations, a few colour photos. ISBN: 0948555017. Couple of small marks to covers. Bookplate to front pastedown. From the personal library of Bryan L. Sage, distinguished naturalist and author. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with a few marks.

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THE BREEDING BIRDS OF HERTFORDSHIRE
Written by K.W. Smith; C.W. Dee; et al.
Stock no. 2127543
Published by Hertfordshire Natural History Society. 1st 1993. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 0952168502. Bookplate to front pastedown. From the personal library of Bryan L. Sage, distinguished naturalist and author. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased.

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BIRDS IN SURREY 1900-1970
Written by Donald Parr.
Stock no. 2127542
Published by B.T. Batsford Ltd.. 1st 1972. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An authoritative survey of Surrey's birds. Mottled blue boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. 293 pages including index. ISBN: 0713403292. Bookplate to front pastedown. From the personal library of Bryan L. Sage, distinguished naturalist and author. Browning/foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with some fading to spine; edge browning.

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THE BIRDS OF NORTH-EAST SCOTLAND
Written by S.T. Buckland; M.V. Bell; N. Picozzi. Illustrated by Keith Brockie.
Stock no. 2127536
Published by North-East Scotland Bird Club. 1st 1990. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, gilt title and vignette to spine, gilt vignette to front. B/w illustrations, distribution maps. 473 pages including index. ISBN: 018368911. Bumping to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. From the personal library of Bryan L. Sage, distinguished naturalist and author. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is a bit creased with some browning to spine.

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BIRD MIGRATION
Written by Thomas Alerstam.
Stock no. 2127535
Published by Cambridge University Press; Press Syndicate Of The University Of Cambridge. 1st thus 1993. Slightly better than very good condition.

Large format. Card wraps. B/w diagrams. ISBN: 0521448220. Some light creasing to cover corners. Bookplate to inside front cover. From the personal library of Bryan L. Sage, distinguished naturalist and author.

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BRITISH THRUSHES (NN 63)
Written by Eric Simms. Illustrated by Robert Gillmor.
Stock no. 1816300
Published by Collins. 1st 1978. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

New Naturalist series. Dark green cloth, gilt title to spine. 24 b/w plates. Maps, diagrams and text figures. A detailed research into the six true species of thrush breeding in the British Isles; including a chapter of Britain's vagrant thrushes and a further substantial chapter on the seven species of small chat-like thrushes of the British Isles, including the Nightingale and the Robin. ISBN: 0002196700. Heavy foxing to top edge of text block but contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine and has clear laminate attached causing slight bleeding of text and image.

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BRITISH WARBLERS (NN 71)
Written by Eric Simms.
Stock no. 1816243
Published by Collins. 1985. Very good condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

New Naturalist No. 71. 2nd state - light green boards, square spine, originally produced as 500 paperback copies and then turned into hardback. One of the scarcer titles in the series. ISBN: 000219810X. Second state. A few small marks to boards. Foxing to text block especially top edge. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine (as is usual with this series).

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