Francis Ratcliffe (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: 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.…

Condition: 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. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Condition: 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.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. owners name front endpaper, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ: some wear Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. 1st Reprint of This Edition. School Edition, 1951, Reprint 1953. A firm straight book. Internally spotless. No dust jacket, spine badly damaged, pieces missing top and bottom. Covers have lightly bumped corners, little edge wear. Julian Huxley. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Binding has edgewear and rubbing; corners bumped; tight, text clean. 124 p., illustrated. Size: 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches. [b 824].

Hardcover. Condition: very good. School edition. Brown octavo with brown spine title; brown and yellow pictorial jacket; x, 332 pages: illustrations, map; 22 cm. "Although Mr. Ratcliffe is a biologist, and although his Australian vagabondage was strictly professional, Flying Fox and Drifting Sand is far from being a scientific journal or a piece of popular natural history. The author was just as much interested in places and people as he was in creatures and problems which he had to investigate; and from his book there emerges a lively and convincing picture of the Australian bush." --Jacket. A very good (+) copy with clean pages, solid binding, some slight edgewear; Australian bookshop sticker on front pastedown; DJ is very good (-) with small closed tear near top of DJ spine and a few small chips around edges.…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Reprint. Cloth, x, 332pp. A nice copy in a very good d/w/. part of the book describes an expedition in 1929-31 to the eastern coast to study the giant fruit eating bats known as flying foxes; the other part describes the outback of central Australia.

Hardcover. Condition: 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.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Sirius Books Edition. xvii, 332pp, bw ills. Or red cloth in jacket. Sirius books edition. Offset toning to endpapers, minor rubbing to jacket. Account of two expeditions for the CSIRO by the author- the first in 1929-31 in the jungles and mangrove swamps of Queensland to investigate flying foxes; the second in 1935 when he travelled inland, from South Australia up the Birdsville Track into Queensland, to study erosion. Size: 8vo.…

Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), 341 pp. Very Good, with light edgewear. Natural History, Bats, Australia.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1953 printing. Solid hardcover No marks inside except owner name on front fly. General light rubbing to cover. Red decorations and titles are still clear. No dust jacket. Book.

Hardback. Condition: 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. Condition: 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Aust? edition. 1st Aust? edition. 22cm. VG h/c in chipped, much repaired DJ, inked name top FFEP. 332 pages, 37 mono photographs Relates the experiences of a British biologist researching and wandering in Australia between the World Wars. First published in Britain in 1930. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very Good In A Good Protected Jacket With Frayed Ends Pp 341, Frontis , 31 Plates And 4 Maps.

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. …

Hard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Pages clean and bright, boards tidy, wear to dust jacket with rubbing, chipping and some closed tears. Size: 8vo.

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

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. …

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Great condition for age, some discolouration on textblock, one loose page (279), missing dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Hard cover, 8vo, in tan cloth, titles in blue to spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket, 341pp. Printed by R.& R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh. Printed on laid paper, with frontispiece and many other illustrations and maps. Condition: Very Good in a Very Good, un price-clipped d/j. Outer rear joint shows some staining in the gutter; matched by browning along corresponding interior rear hinge--could be from gluing during manufacture? (Not seen on the front joint or hinge.) Text block edges a bit dusty, just a hint of foxing to top outer edge and fore edge of text block. Interior with mild age-toning. D/j with minor crimping, one half-inch closed tear, and a couple of marks to rear portion.** As much a travelogue as a scientific work, this highly readable title helped bring the topic of conservation to the consciousness of the Commonwealth.**Indian-born zoologist, entomologist, and early conservationist Francis Ratcliffe, OBE (1904-1970) was best known for his work on the giant fruit-eating bat, or "flying foxes." He conducted this scientific survey on behalf of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, beginning in 1929. The first part of this book deals with his observations on their behaviors in the various environs of eastern Australia, and their detrimental effects on commercial farming. The second part of the book discusses the effects of erosion on the environment and quality of life of the people living in "the Stony Desert" of Queensland. The Introduction is written by Professor of Zoology at Oxford University, Dr. Julian Huxley, under whom the Author studied in the 1920's. (ADB) Rare with the dust jacket. OCLC 423982. Book.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 234. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1908 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 234.…