First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on a bookplate. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photographs. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£20 to the front flap).
Signed by David Attenborough in blue ink on a bookplate fixed to the half title. Accompanying the BBC Radio 4 series broadcast in 2009 in which Attenborough gave a series of short talks on different subjects related to the natural world.
Stock code: 25547
£100