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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Reprint . With an introduction by Julian Huxley. Gift inscription written by the previous owner. Complete with all plates. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 332 pages. There is gilt on the spine and on the front cover. Frontispiece. The boards are a touch edge worn and a minor tear on the spine of the book. There is foxing on the block of the book. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Zustand: Good. 1963. First Edition Thus. 332 pages. Paperback book with red cover. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and visible foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to first page. Paper cover has mild edge wear with mild corner curling. Moderate sunning to spine. Mild water stains and droplets to boards. Notable creasing to covers and spine.…

Hardcover. 1948. 21.5cm, xvi,332p. frontis & 33 plates, 4 maps, brown cloth, very good (S3.4) The author describes two threatening problems, giant fruit-eating bats know as flying foxes and soil drift.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 2nd Edition. pp.xii+332. 21.5cm. Frontispiece & 36. 4 maps. Hard cover in dust jacket. The jacket defective and with tape repairs. A good clean copy of the 'School Edition'.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. pp.xvi+332. 21.5cm. Frontispiece. 36 black and white photographic illustrations. 3 maps. Hard cover (no dj). A good clean copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No edition stated, presumed first American edition. 341pp. Bookplate removed leaving glue residue on front fly, foxing on page edges and cloth, small stains on topedges, about very good lacking the dust jacket.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. 3rd Impression. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Good Dustjacket - now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. Price clipped DJ is chipped at spine ends (with some loss to the top) and upper corners, it also has some mild wear to edges. Tiny abrasion to front pastedown. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Introduction by Julian Huxley. 341 pages. A lively and convincing picture of the prewar Australian bush. The author looked at flying foxes in Queensland during 1929 to 1931 and then spent time on his return to Australia in 1935 he worked on such problems as wind erosion, termites and rabbit control. He was also a founder of the Australian Conservation Foundation. He was deeply interested in the places and people he met and this is brought out in this very popular account of the Australian bush.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1953/ 1951 (school edition)/ January 1938. Octavo, xii, 332 pages plus a map and 18 plates. Pictorial papered boards ([printed red on grey) lightly sunned and bumped, with a light crease to the printed paper on the front over; edges and endpapers a little foxed; a very good copy with the very good price-clipped dustwrapper slightly chipped and rubbed. The introduction is by Julian Huxley.…

First Edition, Third Impression. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked taupe cloth boards, with endbands slightly rubbed. Contemporary reader autograph to front free endpaper. Text edges faintly foxed, with the interior remaining tight, bright and clean. A well-preserved example overall. Physical description; 341 pages : maps, plates ; 23 cm. Notes; Introduction by Julian Huxley. Subjects; Natural history. Australia. Description and travel. 20th century. Illustrated. 1 Kg. …

The adventures of a biologist in Australia. With an Introduction by Julian Huxley. Sydney 1951. XII, 332 pp + Plates. Cloth.[#27238].