Bourne Arthur C (3 results)

Paperboard. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Pictoral binding. White and black print on front cover and spine. Sound and unmarked. 22 pages. This book is an album of collected tabs available as product promotion. Collection is 100% complete. WARD, Richard; RIPPER, Charles L. (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 326, [1] p. ; (part col.) 25 cm. ; ISSN: 0459-6137 ; LCCN: 63-24447 ; OCLC: 1783015 ; Serial Publication : Periodical ; stiff paper wrappers with color illustration ; ex-lib, stamps, label, date due pocket ; Contents: Breeding biology of two Cuckoos and their hosts in South West Africa / Rolf A C Jensen and C F Clinning -- The Plumbeous Heron of the Galapagos / Barbara K Snow -- Breeding biology of Swallow-Tailed Kites in Florida / Noel F R Snyder -- The Red-Billed Toucan in Guyana / Godfrey R Bourne -- Bird diversity and abundance in Amazon forest communities / Thomas E Lovejoy -- Acoustic behavior of the Northern Jacana / Donald A Jenni, Roger D Gambs, and Burr J Betts -- The evolution of clutch size and mal chauvinism in the White-Bearded Manakin / Alan Lill -- The Antarctic Terns of Anvers Island / David F Parmelee and Stephen J Maxson -- Social structure and reproductive behavior in the Greater Rhea / Donald F Bruning -- Patterns in the life histories of Storm Petrels on the Farallon Islands / David G Ainley, Steve Morrell, and T James Lewis -- The authors and artists briefly noted -- Staff, administration board, research collaborators, field-collaborators, and Arthur A Allen Medalists -- Members of the Laboratory of Ornithology ; illustrators, Martin Glen Loates, William C Dilger, John P O'Neill, Arthur Singer, Frederick Kent Truslow, Rolf Jensen, Robert Gillmor, Donald L Malick, Orville O Rice, Tony Angell, John A Gwynne, Jr., Albert E. Gilbert, Don Radovich ; crease to page 146-147 ; VG. Book.…

1p., 12mo. Air mail letter on blue paper, addressed to Arthur Bourne, Academic Press Inc. (London) Ltd, 24-28 Oval Road, London, NW1 7DX, England. In good condition, lightly aged and creased. Clarke begins by thanking Bourne for his letter, and informing him that he has 'sent a card of thank [sic] to Dr. Allan Cottey'. 'I am now happily retired with the completion of my last and best novel "The Fountains of Paradise" (Playboy January and February - HBJ; Gollancz, January). I expect to be back in England in August to attend the World S. F. Con at Brighton and to wind-up my affairs - after which I hope to do all my "travelling" via INTELSAT.' He informs him that the 'underwater business' (which he conducted with with a Ceylonese partner, Hector Ekanayake, brother of his boyfriend Leslie Ekanayake, who had died in a motorcycle accident in 1977) is 'now very active', but that he has 'little to do with it', although he hopes 'to start some modest diving again'. He ends with the news that Bill Jovanovich of his American publishers Harcourt Brace Jovanovich has 'persuaded me to join the Board of Sea World and perhaps one day I'll go to one of its meetings at San Diego'. Scan on application. …