Isbn: 9780856610462 - the skuas (17 Ergebnisse)

Cloth - Hard Cover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 363 pages. Price clipped dust jacket is otherwise Fine and is now in a clear Brodart protective sleeve. John Busby (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. Calton, England: T & A D Poyser, 1987. Like new except for previous owner's nice rubber stamp on flyleaf. Photos, illustrations, maps, bibliography, index, 364 pages. Early history and classification, distribution and populations, migrations, sexual dimorphism, behavior, food and feeding, kleptoparasitism, plumage polymorphism, breeding systems and behavior, population dynamics, pollutants, skuas and agriculture, conservation. . Hard Cover. As New/New. Illus. by Busby, John (illustrator). 8vo. Busby, John (illustrator) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo, 353 pp, drawings by John Busby, 30 photographs, figures and tables. A fine copy in dust wrapper, price - clipped by the publisher to put an enhanced price on the dust wrapper flap.

First Edition. Fine copy in cloth boards, with a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 363 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Subjects; Skuas, natural history. Seabirds, behaviour and ecology. Stercorariidae. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy with clean and unmarked contents and in a very good pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated, 363pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, a well preserved tightly bound copy with clean and unmarked contents, the pictorial dust wrapper price clipped to the front return flap. Illustrated, 363pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. OUT-OF-PRINT.

Hard covers. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st edition. T.p. excised, otherwise as new. Weight: 1 Language: English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Very lightly used. Dusting to top edge, otherwise very crisp, clean and bright inside and out including DJ. Price-clipped. Busby, J. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards are generally in very good order. No particular bumping or wear to corners or edges. Spine is intact with just a little mild bumping to ends. Textblock is tight, bright and clean. 363 pp. White glazed paper dust jacket with black lettering to spine and front. Dj is in a good condition albeit with some very mild creasing to the edges. Spine area is very slightly age darkened. Not priceclipped. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 857g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 034743:11h) Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" Tall Language: ENG 857 G. BUSBY, John (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book - very good. Dust wrapper - very good. Busby, John (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Signed Copy. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Many birdwatchers may never have seen a skua; those who have will most probably have vivid memories of one or other species flying power-fully past a headland or twisting and diving in pursuit of its piratical intentions towards a food-laden seabird-or, perhaps more memor-ably still, of themselves taking evasive action from the power-diving irate skua whose territory they have unwisely invaded. The full classification of the skuas is still debated, but Dr Furness of the Applied Ornithology Unit, Glasgow University, favours six species, of two genera, with five subspecies, based on current knowledge and his own long and dedicated field studies and research. All of the species are treated comparatively under the following chapter titles: Early history and classification, Distributions and populations, Migration patterns, Reversed sexual size dimorphism, Behaviour, Food and feeding, Kleptoparasitism, Plumage polymorphism, Breeding systems and social organisation, Breeding laying to hatching, Breeding hat.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. Author signed to title page in blue ink. Excellent tight clean crisp hardcover in like DJ, un-price-clipped, free of markings. the usual bleaching of the brown colours of the bird plumage on the spine panel, and a slight stain line at the top edge not affecting page area. Almost new appearance. Size: 8vo. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's hardback in better than very good condition: firm and square, strong joints. Complete with original dustjacket, not showing any tears or chips. Contents tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in very presentable condition.…

Octavo,363 pp.,illustrated by John Busby, fine copy in dustwrapper.

FIRST EDITION, FINE COPY WITH DW. THIS TEXT IS SUPPORTED BY 100 MAPS AND DIAGRAMS, 30 PHOTOGRAPHS AND 65 TABLES. IN ADDITION, JOHN BUSBY CONTRIBUTES 35 EVOCATIVE DRAWINGS WHICH MORE THAN EMBELLISH THIS ERUDITE AND READABLE SUMMARY OF AN IMPRESSIVE AND DIVERSE GROUP OF BIRDS.

Hard. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. DJ has been laminated for protection, price clipped. Previous owner sticker to front pastedown, some tiny dampspots to closed edges, else excellent. Size: 8vo. Busby, John, Mackay, Andrew and Teunis, Bas (illustrator).