First edition, first printing. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the Robert Gillmor illustrated dustwrapper. With 16 pages of colour plates and over 60 photographs and drawings in black and white. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the spine faded dustwrapper that is otherwise bright and without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£27.50 to the lower front flap).
Title number 80 in Collins' popular The New Naturalist series.
Stock code: 26912
£100