Yellow Wagtail by Stuart Smith (56 results)

Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ex-library copy with usual marks,clean and tight but for library marks,green boards,no dust jacket, faintly dented lower corners. INV#J-45.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. True first British printing. No jacket. The New Naturalist monograph number four. Index. Profusely illustrated. Green boards with (faded) gold lettering to spine are very good with a little pushing/bumping to corners, fading, the odd very small mark, the odd small bump/rub to edges and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Neat gift inscription in pen to front end-paper. Pages bit tanned. Inside boards/end-papers have the odd small mark/minor foxing. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Published 1950. Formerly of the University of Minnesota Museum of Natural History, thus usual library markings. Binding is tight and sturdy, fading to spine. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. No Dustwrapper. 1st. pp 178. Cloth sl faded. Foot of spine sl bumped. End papers very slightly spotted. Card loosely inserted from the publisher for information.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. No 4 in the New Naturalist monograph series. pp xiv, 178, with 8 colour plates Edward Bradbury, b/w photographs, maps and diagrams & text figures. There was only one book published in 1950, but later jackets were produced as more books were released for sale. Dust jacket, (priced 90p) clean and bright with no fading. Green buckram binding fine, gilt bright. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions. Bradbury, Edward (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (Ref.L3 ) Green cloth boards with faded gilt spine titles. Yellowed spine. Previous owner's name to top of ffep. No DJ. Main contents generally good and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. pp XIV, 178. 1st printing. A new Naturalist Monograph. DJ complete, shows very slight use.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 178 pages plus pkates both book and Jacket vg to near fine condition but slight foxing to end papers only.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Ilustrated, small octavo, pp xiv, 178, slightly age-toned, fore-edge and endpapers slightly foxed, green cloth very faded and mottled; the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it is very slightly worn and frayed, but rather age-toned and a bit foxed.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. xiv, 178pp. Illus. 1st edition 1950. Gilt titles to spine. Ex-library with usual library markings. Sound library binding. A little wear to extremities. Sound reading copy. (q6).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This book looks at the Wagtails Breeding, Territory, Nuptial Display and much more. There are 26 Paintings, 11 black and white photographs 4 line drawings and 4 maps. There is a small book sticker inside the front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Discovered in original packaging.No 4 in the New Naturalist monograph series. pp xiv, 178, with 8 colour plates Edward Bradbury, b/w photographs, maps and diagrams & text figures. There was only one book published in 1950, but later jackets were produced as more books were released for sale. Dust jacket, (priced 90p) clean and bright with no fading. Green buckram binding very good, gilt bright, cloth dulled on the rear board possibly due to earlier damp . Contents clean and tight, as new and unopened. Two brown paper packages discovered with multiple Smith's Wagtail never handled since printing.[Collecting the New Naturalists - M4B First Edition, Second state Dated 1950, sold 1971- 75?]. Bradbury, Edward (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stuart Smith 1950. First edition, first printing. The Yellow Wagtail. New Naturalist volume 4. A slim volume, but one of the rarer NN volumes. Original green cloth binding with slightly dulled gilt stamp titles enclosed within a complete but quite stained and foxed dustwrapper. Internally virtually unmarked and in good order, endpapers a little foxed and text pages a little foxed and age toned, but clean and tight otherwise. xiv preliminaries, pp178 including index. One of the scarcer NN volumes. Seller Inventory #002255.…

Condition: New. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). 1950 1st edition. Small 8vo (138 x 206mm). Ppxvi,178. Colour paintings by Edward Bradbury, b/w photographs, b/w line illustrations, maps, bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt. Slight fading to spine, slight browning to edges, much underlining of bird names. Good, lacks dust-wrapper. This is a detailed description of the life, the biology and the behaviour of the yellow wagtail in the British Isles and the Channel coast of the continent. Chapters include:- The bird and its breeding distribution; Winter quarters and migrations; Nuptial display; The nest; The clutch; The brood; The final phase; The story of a name; The yellow wagtail group. Appendices on breeding distribution in Europe and Britain and the parasites of the wagtails. Excellent plates of paintings by Edward Bradbury. New Naturalist Monograph No. 4. .…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. Some spotting to fore-edges of text block and to endpapers o/w. a fine hardback in thor. vg. dw. No inscriptions. Price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The jacket is edgeworn and marked.A little foxing.Mild tanning.No inscriptions.Well bound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: New. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). 1950 1st edition. Small 8vo (138 x 206mm). Ppxvi,178. Colour paintings by Edward Bradbury, b/w photographs, b/w line illustrations, maps, bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt. Cloth faded, slight spotting to prelims but good copy. Lacks dust-wrapper. This is a detailed description of the life, the biology and the behaviour of the yellow wagtail in the British Isles and the Channel coast of the continent. Chapters include:- The bird and its breeding distribution; Winter quarters and migrations; Nuptial display; The nest; The clutch; The brood; The final phase; The story of a name; The yellow wagtail group. Appendices on breeding distribution in Europe and Britain and the parasites of the wagtails. Excellent plates of paintings by Edward Bradbury. New Naturalist Monograph No. 4. .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. 178pp. Green buckram with gilt spine lettering. Boards lightly spotted and sunned, spine sunned and bumped at the head and foot, clean throughout and the binding tight. Dust jacket sunned around the edges and spine, with nicked corners and spine ends, and a short closed tear to the lower edge of the front cover. First printing. Illustrated. New Naturalist Monograph Series Number 4.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (12s 6d). Index. Profusely illustrated. The New Naturalist monograph number four. Jacket has faults - namely edge/shelf wear, a little patchy browning (including to spine), the odd small mark, one very small patch of loss to front bottom edge, a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners, one small (approx. 1cm) tear to back, a little creasing/rubbing/odd spot of foxing to front/back inner flaps and is in only good condition. Boards are near fine (having been well protected by the jacket) with a little pushing/bumping to corners, the odd small mark and a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages are a bit tanned. Small mark inside front board. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to top edge of pages. Very occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.…

Condition: New. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1950). 1950 1st edition. Small 8vo (138 x 206mm). Ppxvi,178. Colour paintings by Edward Bradbury, b/w photographs, b/w line illustrations, maps, bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt. Slight fading to cloth, bookplate to front paste-down. Slight spotting to end-papers but good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. This is a detailed description of the life, the biology and the behaviour of the yellow wagtail in the British Isles and the Channel coast of the continent. Chapters include:- The bird and its breeding distribution; Winter quarters and migrations; Nuptial display; The nest; The clutch; The brood; The final phase; The story of a name; The yellow wagtail group. Appendices on breeding distribution in Europe and Britain and the parasites of the wagtails. Excellent plates of paintings by Edward Bradbury. New Naturalist Monograph No. 4. .…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. Nr. fine hardback in thor. vg. dw. No inscriptions. Price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. pp xiv, 178, with 8 colour plates Edward Bradbury, b/w photographs, maps and diagrams & text figures. There was only one book published in 1950. Dust jacket, not price-clipped, a little foxed on the spine, a little rubbed on front fold, otherwise clean and bright with no fading. Green buckram binding near fine, gilt bright. Contents clean and tight, Birthday inscription to the front free endpaper, a few spots to the endpapers. A very good book in a very good jacket. Size: 8vo. Bradbury, Edward (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This copy is in fine, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper has some typical spotting to the lower dustwrapper fold but still in fine condition, it has now been covered in clear, removable, brodart, protective film. 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. This was the fourth volume in the New Naturalist monographs and is a very good book on the Yellow Wagtail, with lots of information on their breeding habits and the various sub-species. Written in a very readable style. Illustrated with 26 paintings by Edward Bradbury, 11 black and white photographs and 4 line drawings and 4 maps. Ref MM 5.…

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. In this book, the first New Naturalist Monograph on a species of bird, Dr. Stuart Smith, author of How to Study Birds, has concentrated the result of years of observation and research on the Yellow Wagtail. Dr. Smith writes from his own experience of practical field-studies, his continual hobby and spare-time occupation. Most field-workers have their "own" bird, or birds, and Stuart Smith's favourite is Motacilla flava flavissima, the Yellow Wagtail of the British Isles, a subspecies, practically confined to these islands, of a species which is widely distributed in the Old World. The British Yellow Wagtail in particular, and the Yellow Wagtail species in general, have been deserving of study and monography for many years. Dr. Smith's middle chapters, on territory, display and reproduction, are based on many hours of careful observation in the field, and much careful deduction therefrom. His other chapters give us a statement of the complex systematics and distribution of the species - a statement which was badly needed - for the flava wagtails are in an unstable state from the evolutionary point of view. There is no doubt that this monograph, with its very beautiful and accurate paintings by Edward Bradbury, will be not only invaluable to biologists in their study of the future evolution of the species, but will appeal to ornithologists and amateurs alike by the lively and pleasant quality of the writing, the interesting and extremely informative presentation of the subject, and the learned bibliography. Illustrated with 8 colour and 4 black-and-white plates. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiv + 178. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket worn at edges, small chips and tears, now in archive acetate film protection. Price clipped inside book. Previous owner's signature in ink to fep. Gilt titles spine. green cloth. Includes appendices, bibliography & index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Natural History & Resources; Ornithology; Birds; Wagtails; Britain/UK; Animals & Birds. Inventory No: 4377. Member of the P.B.F.A. …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1950. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. The first New Naturalist Monograph on a single species of bird. 11 b/w photographs taken by the author. Learned bibliography supports this splendid study. 26 paintings by Edward Bradbury. 4 line drawings and 4 maps. Green cloth, gilt title to spine. Minimal bumping to spine. Neat name in ink to front fre-endpaper. Some foxing, slight browning and old tape marks to endpapers. Contained in a later dustwrapper (printed price 90p) which has old tape marks to flaps. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Bradbury, Edward (illustrator).…

London, 1950. XIV,178 pp. 26 paintings, 11 photographs, 4 drawings & 4 maps. Hardcover. (The new naturalist).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book - very good, dust jacket - very good (slightly tanned spine, priced at 90p. net on flap - the dw was a later printing although all books are the original printing bound at a later date).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book - very good (boards faded), dust jacket - very good (light spotting). Not price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Owner's signature. Bumping to bottom corner of front board. Fading to boards.; xiv, 178 + plates. Green cloth boards.; 8vo.

Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). xiv, 178pp + plates. 12 plates (8 with colour).