The Birds and Their Story by Lodge R B (15 results)

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 288 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with decorations. Colour illustrated frontispiece with black and white photographs throughout. Newspaper clipping about bird inserted to front free endpaper. Moderate cracking to hinges and gutters, with exposed netting, pages slightly loose. Pages and photographs have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining to some pages, text remains unaffected. Sticker to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Undated edition. Firmly bound, decorated, red cloth boards. Peeling and fading on the spine, Marks on covers. Fluid marks on the end papers. No jacket. Top three quarters of back edge of the spine split with tear across.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Presumed First Edition. No obvious date but looks 1930s. NO DUSJACKET. Colour frontispiece and B&W illustrations wihtin text. Light green with darker green illustration and titles to front board and spine. Some wear to spine-ends and boards' corners and rubbing to spine-junctions. Aged sellotape and marks to inner front hinge of preliminary pages, page-edges lightly greyed, light foxing to early and late pages o/w pages clean and tidy.

Hard back binding in publisher's original tawny brown cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, brown titles to the front. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 288 pp with monochrome illustrations and photographs and 8 colour plates throughout. Foxing to the end papers, prize plate to the front paste down dated 1933 and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ORNITHOLOGY.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 288pp. HARDCOVER. Clean copy internally. No inscriptions. Some foxing/browning apparent to endpapers, but o/w a lovely clean copy. External cloth clean & bright with strong binding. Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall. Book.

Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st edition. Spine sunned, front boards spotted, boards sl. warped; prize bookplate (for regular attendance at Sunday School, 1921) by M. & S. Ltd, London, with stylized leafy design. Illlustrated with some fine colour photographs (early for the period, if not hand-coloured monochromes) and plates of colour paintings by the author. The book deals with Birds of Prey, Seed Eaters, Insect Eaters, Waders, Freshwater and Seabirds, finishing rather appropriately with Flightless Birds. The author has travelled widely in search of photographic subjects, and the book is aimed at the rather older enthusiastic 'young folk" rather than the beginner. Weight: 1 Language: English Publisher's cloth, impressed design.

Unknown Binding. Condition: Good. Green cloth cover with decoration in blind and gilt shows minor wear and rubbing. Bookplate of former owner on the front free endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and clean. With 8 color illustrated plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Name of the previous owner. Frontispiece in color. No date or edition stated, C1924. Publication of 288 pages. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. The cloth on the spine of the book is slightly frayed. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding has been repaired. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Very Good. 288, 8 col plates, b/w photos. . HB. 8vo, orig. green cloth, rubbed, blocked in black to front board, black and gilt to spine; endpapers browned. Vg. First edition. Reginald Badham Lodge (1853-1937) was a British ornithologist and early bird photographer, who wrote several works on birds and bird photography, and was the first ever recipient of Royal Photographic Society award for Nature Photography.Mullens & Swann p. 356.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Charles H. Kelly (undated). Hardcover. A couple of loose pages / plates and Wesleyan Methodist giftplate on opening endpaper. On the whole this book remains in remarkably good condition with gilt-edged pages and gilt-embossed cover boards and spine. Some beautifully illustrated colour plates. Dispatched from UK within three days.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, undated but we understand the Epworth imprint was used in the 1924 printing, bound in full navy calf with gilt dot raised bands and compartments stamped with a device in gilt, scrolled gilt rules to the boards, edges and endpapers marbled, gilt title on red morocco to spine, a very good tightly bound copy, brief gift inscription to a previous owner on the second front blank, the text clean and unmarked illustrated, colour plates, 285pp.

Hard covers. Condition: V.g. No Jacket. 1st edition. Owner's ink stamp, foxing to tissue guard of frontispiece, ends of spines bumped. Weight: 1 Language: English.

pp.288 with 8 coloured plates and b/w. photos., throughout. 8vo. Hardback. AEG. Neat signature dated 1940. Ffep. carefully removed. Contents nr. fine. Original, gilt decorated green cloth boards just gently rubbed o/w. in fine condition. R.B. Lodge 'devoted his attention chiefly to photography of bird life' (Mullens and Swann) with this book containing excellent examples of his work.

pp.288 with 8 coloured plates and b/w. photos., throughout. 8vo. AEG. Decorative end papers. Minor spotting, a little darkening to half-title and last page of index o/w. contents fine. Original, gilt decorated green cloth boards in nr. fine condition. A superb copy. R.B. Lodge 'devoted his attention chiefly to photography of bird life' (Mullens and Swann) with this book containing excellent examples of his work.

Octavo. Raised lettering at foot of titlepage "sample copy". Color frontispiece, 188pp., illustrated in color and in black and white depicting various birds and their habitat. Bound in green cloth pictorially stamped and lettering in gilt, spine lettering and all edges gilt previous owner's name and inscription, tiny tears to head. A very good copy.