edgar chance (11 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1940. First Edition. 207 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout with illustrated frontispiece and colour plate to final page. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Spine is in good condition. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Marking to rear panel.

Zustand: Good. 1940. First Edition. 207 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Occasional thumb marks to pages edges. Binding has remained firm. Inscription to front endpaper. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slight forward lean to text block. Boards are slightly bowed. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Protected by plastic wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-xvi, 207 pp, frontispiece, 36 photographs by the author, colour plate of cuckoos eggs, 2 maps. Original cloth a little marked, some spotting to the closed edges and some browning to a few pages but generally a good to very good copy of a classic study. Signature of Dr James M Harrison author of "The Birds of Kent" on the front paste down and the stamp of The Harrison Zoological Museum on the front free paper.

XVI, 207 págnas. Ilustrado con 38 láminas fotográficas fuera de texto. Encuadernación editorial en tela con sobrecubierta impresa levemente fatigada. Buen estado de conservación. 22,5x14,5 cm.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Dustcover worn. Pages great. Year 1940. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> At once common and legendary, are exhibited in a detail that brings to light a hundred hitherto unknown factors, and prove a most fascinating study and one whose interests even Mr. Chance's meticulous methods are far from exhausting. To those who read this extraordin-ary book it will be no longer merely a bird with a cry eagerly welcomed and soon wearied of, a bird around which many legends have grown up and of which many ugly things are told. How is it to be accounted for that the cuckoo's egg in very many instances copies in coloration those of her unwilling-or willing-hosts? Why does every cuckoo choose, unless faced with the direst difficulties, one particular species as foster-parents for her progeny? Does the hen cry "Cuckoo" and does the cock suck eggs? How did Mr. Chance and his band of observers evolve a technique by which they could foretell exactly at what nest and on which day a certain cuckoo would lay, and have they proved con-clusively that sh.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. The book looks at the Cuckoo's way of life by experimenting with decoy nests and removing or exchanging eggs. There is some foxing inside and the Jacket has a large piece torn off on the front and tape on the edges.

Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

1st edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked, blind-bordered cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiv, 239 pp., 12 unnumbered leaves of plates, portrait frontis, illustrations, map, plans, 21 cm. Subjects; Cuckoos. Parasitic birds. Documentary films. 1 Kg.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.