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Published by COUNTRY LIFE LMT, LONDON, 1951
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
HARD BACK TAN. Condition: FAIR. illustrated with thirty-two plates by J. C. Harrison and twenty-one maps & diagrams, bookplate to inside front cover, pages browned around edges, green felt pen writing to front end page, covers bumped, rubbed & darkened, page corners bent at bottom, spotting to end pages, DATE PUBLISHED: 1951 EDITION: 347.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Illustrated with 32 plates and 21 maps and diagrams. Light corner wear. Foxing to end papers. Interior pages and unmarked. Dust Jacket, is tattered, has light soiling. First edition. Oversize/Overweight: additional postage may apply.
Published by Country Life Limited, 1957
Seller: RPL Library Store, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. GOOD / DUST JACKET FAIR. Signed by author at half-title page. 351pp. Text clean and unmarked. Top edge red. Illustrated with 16 full color plates and 16 monochrome plates throughout the text. Light green cloth boards with red compartments at front and spine, bordered and lettered in gilt. Boards lightly age-toned, corners rubbed, top corners bumped, spine top and tail rubbed. Dust jacket protected in library dust jacket cover, slightly toned and soiled, spine toned, top of spine chipped, with a repair and a small area of loss. Joints and hinges good, binding firm. ISigned.
Published by Country Life Limited, 1965
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Oversized hardback book (351 pages) signed by author on title page. Illustrated with 32 color and b/w plates (all present) and 21 maps/diagrams (all present). Fourth impression 1965. Boards show moderate soiling/scuffing - hinges cracked but still holding - same with gutters between several pages which has weakened binding - would rate a good reading copy. INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL CHARGE. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-Stlcabinet-File #1-Bottomdrw) rareviewbooks. Signed by Author(s).
Published by London : Country Life, 1964
Seller: Wissenschaftliches Antiquariat Köln Dr. Sebastian Peters UG, Köln, Germany
Condition: gut. 351 S., 32 Taf., 21 Karten und Abb., 28 cm, Leineneinband fleckig, Bibliotheksexemplar, erst ca. 20 Seiten am unteren Rand mit Wasserfleck. Sprache: Englisch.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Country Life, London, 1965, fourth printing. Illustrated with color and b&w plates by Harrison, and maps. 8.5" x 11.25". Tan cloth. 351 pp. A highly detailed monograph, supplementing Beebe's work, but with Delacour's ".incomparable experience in breeding the rarer species in captivity and thus adding immeasurably to our knowledge of the life histories of these pheasants" (Beebe). Very good in very good wrapper.
Published by Spur Publications / World Pheasant Assn 1977 (Second Edition), 1977
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Association Member: IOBA
Quarto, red faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, upper page edges stainied red, frontispiece, 395pp, illus, VG+ (v. slight bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to page lower corner edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, some creasing to spine extrems, light tanning).
Hardcover. Condition: Good. J.C. Harrison (illustrator). Description and photos on demand.
Published by Spur Publications, England, 1977
ISBN 10: 0904558371ISBN 13: 9780904558371
Seller: Richard Booth's Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Book
HardBack. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. J.C. Harrison; R. David Digby (illustrator). 395pp. Ed. 2nd. Illustrations by J.C. Harrison R. David Digby. Unmarked text. Dustjacket is bright clean with some small tears. Priceclipped.
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Published by Country Life Limited. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York., 1951
Small tear to top of dj near spine. Name in pencil to free front endpaper. Exlibris to front endpaper. Illustrated with thirty-two plates by J. C. Harrison and twenty-one maps and diagrams. A beautiful copy. Fine copy. Few small tears to bottom of dj. Publisher's cloth in dj. 347pp.
Published by Country Life Ltd., London, 1964
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. J. C. Harrison (illustrator). 1st Edition. This copy is in fine, unmarked condition bound in grey cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to red panels on the upper board and the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper has some edge wear and two small areas of loss to the bottom edge so best described as very good condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Jean Théodore Delacour (26 September 1890 ? 5 November 1985) was an American ornithologist and aviculturist of French origin. He was renowned for not only discovering but also rearing some of the rarest birds in the world. He established very successful aviaries twice in his life, stocked with birds from around the world, including those that he obtained on expeditions to Southeast Asia, Africa and South America. His first aviary in Villers-Bretonneux was destroyed in the First while the second one that he established at Clères was destroyed in the Second World War. He moved to the United States of America where he worked on avian systematics and was one of the founder of the International Committee for Bird Protection (later BirdLife International). One of the birds he discovered was the imperial pheasant, later identified as a hybrid between the Vietnamese pheasant and the silver pheasant. As a young boy John Cyril Harrison showed an outstanding gift for drawing and his later sketch books reveal a rare talent for accurate observation and draughtsmanship. J.C.Harrison studied at the Slade School of Art and improved his knowledge of anatomy through the practice of taxidermy. After that he moved to Norfolk where he became a keen supporter of the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Although most of his pictures depict the Norfolk countryside with its birds, he was a frequent visitor to Scotland where he spent time studying, sketching and painting Golden Eagles, Ptarmigan and Capercaille. He also lived for a short while in Africa and enjoyed a limited time painting the wildlife there. John Cyril Harrison had a peerless reputation for painting birds in flight, indeed it was Aylmer Tryon himself who remarked that he thought that John Cyril Harrison?s birds in flight surpassed even those of Archibald Thorburn. His drawings were remarkably accurate and he was blessed with a wonderfully fluent style which gave him the ability to combine realism with a hint of impressionism. That rare combination gave life and movement to his subjects, something which many collectors say no other bird artist has quite been able to match. For this reason many bird art enthusiasts rate his finest work as second to none. Ref Z 1.
Published by Country Life, London, 1964
Seller: Bookfare, Ambleside, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. J.C. Harrison (illustrator). 32 plates by J.C. Harrison, 16 in colour; 2 text illustrations; 19 maps; Foreword by William Beebe; Hardback: light grey cloth, red lettering-pieces, decorated in gilt, top edge red, title-page printed in red and black, large quarto; A few spots from old damp to 1 of the lettering-pieces, else near fine in used g dustwrapper.
Published by London: Country Life, . Fourth Impression., 1965
Seller: Natural History Books, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
Pp. 351, 32 full page plates after paintings by J. C. Harrison 16 are in full color, 21 distribution maps and diagrams. Red cloth in simulated leather style, lettered in gilt on the spine label, 4to. This is the fourth impression of the first edition published in 1965. The title page is signed by the author, Jean Delacour. Name stamp of Ron Sauey Memorial Library on front and rear endpapers and the top page edge, blank paper pocket on the rear endpaper, no other institutional marks to the text or cloth binding. Ron Sauey was co-founder of the International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, Wisconsin. A few faint rub marks on the spine, a bright and clean copy in near fine condition.
Published by Country Life Books, 1965
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, Bucknell, SHROP, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st 1951 HB Country LIfe; good in good jacket which has a long closed tear on jacket hinge; inside clean.
London 1964, 351 pp, plates and maps(code V-46).
Published by Country Life Ltd., London, 1964
Seller: Blue Dragon Books, Glenbrook, NSW, Australia
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Third impression: quarto; hardcover, full cloth with gilt spine and upper board titles on red labels; 351pp., top edges dyed red, with maps, diagrams and 32 monochrome and colour plates. Mild wear; spine heel softened; text block edges lightly toned; some mild offset to the endpapers. Price-clipped dustwrapper is rubbed and edgeworn with some light chipping to the spine extremities; a tear along the top hinge near the spine head (now repaired); some lacquer-lift to the spine panel head; now professionally protected by non-adhesive polypropylene film. Very good.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1951. First Edition. A very good hardcover in a chipped dust jacket. A seasons greeting card from Delacour (not signed) with a photo Le Chateua de Cleres laid in. 32 plates, 16 of which are in color. Maps.
Published by London: Country Life, (1964, 1964
Seller: Andrew Isles Natural History Books, Prahran, VIC, Australia
reprint).Quarto,351 pp.,32 colour plates by J. C. Harrison, crinkled and price-clipped dustwrapper.
Published by Allen Pub. Co; Salt Lake City; 351 pp.; DJ; F/VG-; 1957/1957, 1957
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first American edition of this monograph on pheasants. _____ Illustrated with full page plates in black & white and full-color. _____ The jacket is soiled and missing a 2" piece from the spine heel. _____.
Published by 1951 (1st ed.), 1951
Seller: Hermann L. Strack, Loguivy Plougras, France
London, Country Life, 1951 : in-4°, cartonnage éditeur édition originale, 347 pp., 32 planches dont 16 en couleurs par J.C. HARRISON, 19 cartes de répartitions, dos très légèrement fané, sinon très bon exemplaire de la rare édition originale de ce grand classique sur les faisans d'ornements Très bon état, Couv. fraîche, Dos impeccable, Intérieur frais.
Published by Spur Publications Liss 2005, 2005
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
3rd imp. hardback with dust jacket Nice copy large octavo 395pp., col. frontis., col. & b/w pls., maps, bibliog., index,
Published by Allen Publishing Company, SLC, 1957
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 343pp. Very good hardback in a darkened and rubbed ajcket that has some minor loss at the extremities and a few splash marks on the rear panel. Signed by Delacour on the half title page.
Published by Spur Publications; The World Pheasant Association, England, 1977
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. J. C. Harrison; R. David Digby (illustrator). The revised second edition of this significant ornithological work by Jean Delacour in the original dust wrapper. Second edition of The Pheasants of the World by Jean Delacour in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper.Revised edition by Spur Publications and The World Pheasant Association. First published in 1951.Densely illustrated with thirty two colour plates by J. C. Harrington and twenty one maps and diagrams, including the colour frontispiece by R. David Digby. Collated, complete.Jean Delacour was a French-American Ornithologist best known for discovering some of the rarest birds in the world. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. There is some slight wear to the extremities of the dust wrapper, including some small creases and light marks. To the binding, there is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Near Fine. book.
4to in eights. 351[1]pp, 32 coloured and b/w plates after J.C. Harrison, 21 maps and diagrams. Original cloth with d/w covered with library glassine. Ex-library with usual external evidence but internally only to title-page verso and fpdep. Sl wear to spine extremes.
Published by Surrey: Spur Publications, (1982, 1982
ISBN 10: 1852591382ISBN 13: 9781852591380
Seller: Andrew Isles Natural History Books, Prahran, VIC, Australia
Book
second edition).Quarto,395 pp.,colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Widely acclaimed as the most comprehensive and authoritative work published on pheasants. Covers 49 species of pheasant and includes life habits and distribution as well as breeding information. First published in 1951.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. J. C. Harrison (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of Jean Delacour's study into pheasants from across the globe, illustrated with plates in colour and monochrome by J. C. Harrison. Covering such majestic creatures as blood pheasants, gallopheasants, true pheasants, crested argus, peafowls, junglefowls, koklass and cheer pheasants, amongst others.Written by prominent ornithologist known for discovering and rearing some of the world's rarest birds. Amongst his discoveries was the imperial pheasant, which was found to be a hybrid between the Vietnamese pheasant and the silver pheasant.Illustrated with thirty-two plates by J. C. Harrison including those in colour, as well as twenty-one maps and diagrams. Collated, complete. With a loosely inserted illustration in colour of three pheasants.Acquired from the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie, an English socialite and the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. She was featured by Cecil Beaton in 'The Book of Beauty'. Amongst her circle were Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Coco Chanel, Salvador Dali, Winston and Clementine Churchill and Nancy Mitford.An excellent first edition of this work. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally very smart, with just a little bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.
London, 1964. 4to. Orig. full cloth. Part of wrappers pasted in. 351 pp., 32 fine colourplates.
Published by London New York : Country Life ; Scribner, 1964
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Third Impression. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper (price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 347 pages plates (some color) maps 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-339). Subjects; Pheasants. Aves (Sistematica). Galliformes. Phasianidae. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 2 Kg.
Published by London New York : Country Life ; Scribner, 1964
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Third Impression. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper (price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 347 pages plates (some color) maps 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-339). Subjects; Pheasants. Aves (Sistematica). Galliformes. Phasianidae. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 2 Kg.
Published by Country Life & Charles Scribners' Sons, London/New York
Seller: Spafford Books (ABAC / ILAB), Regina, SK, Canada
First Edition
1951, 1st edition. (4to, cloth) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 347pp. Illus. Very lightly worn dust wrapper. Previous owners name very small to front free end-paper. Illustrations by J.C. Harrison.