grabham michael comport (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. First edition (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), xi, 100pp. Several plates. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. Foxing to the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block; overall, the book is in good plus condition. The dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (edges trimmed).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Bound in navy blue cloth with gold lettering to the front cover. Dated 1926 on the title page. 100 pages. Good condition. Binding is snug and square. Some faint sunning and bumping to the spine. No rubbing or major wear. Pages toned, with foxing to the endpapers. An ex-library copy from the Ship's Library. Ex-library markings to the fore-edge and front endpapers. A library reference card pasted to the front free endpaper. No other notes or writing to be found. Overall good condition. This book is from the collection of Thomas Lovejoy. Dr. Lovejoy was an influential ecologist, field biologist, and activist; former head of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, World Wildlife Fund, and advisor to the United Nations and Smithsonian Institution. He is credited with introducing the term 'biological diversity' to the mainstream environmental movement. In addition, he was a passionate collector of books on the natural world. He died in 2021 and we are very excited to present a selection of his books. Please browse the entire catalogue here on ABE or contact us for instructions on how to get to it. Thomas Lovejoy's name is not written in this copy. It will come with a card stating provenance, with a picture of Lovejoy. Please email with questions or to see any photos.

First Edition. Original dark green, sand grained cloth, with gilt title lettering to the front, with the excellent, unclipped dust-jacket. No internal markings or old inscriptions. [xii], 100 pp. 3 photographic plates. A Fine copy all round. A guidebook for the tourist to Madeira with much information on the island's spectacular array of flora. Book.