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This is a fine, as new, hardcover first edition copy in a VG DJ that has a tape closed tear, cream spine. No slipcase. MEDIA SHIPPING ONLY, much extra for airmail or international shipping.

Copyright is 1977. 406 pages. Foot of spine has been bumped, and there is light rubbing on cloth. Volume is otherwise bright, clean, and intact. Price clipped dust jacket also shows a little wrinkling over spine ends and a very slight smudge over center of spine. Volume is housed in slipcase that the title and library numbers inked on the rear. There are NO library markings on the book or jacket. Extra shipping fees will apply for Priority and/or International shipping due to the weight and size of this book.

Minor shelf wear to book and dust jacket and slip cover. Otherwise a tight, unmarked volume. Color illustrations. Index. xx, 406 pp.

Toronto: M. F. Feheley Publishers Limited, 1977. A near-fine copy, jacket price clipped and with a few small soft creases and soilmarks to spine panel. Folio (14 x 10 inches). Illustrations by J. Fenwick Lansdowne. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket; publisher's plain card slipcase. First edition. With a chapter on fossil species by Storrs L. Olson. An exquisitely designed and printed book, produced in Verona under the direction of Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega.

xx, 406 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 37 cm. Includes: illustrations, maps. Includes indexes. Bibliography: p. 375-389.

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Pages like new. Coffee table book. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Based on the safe ground of anatomy, but due regard being also had to the external characters, habits and other peculiarities of this multifarious group, a monograph might be produced of surpassing interest, and one that in its bearings on the doctrine of evolution would be likely to prove a telling record." The author discusses the general characteristics, distribu-tion, and evolution of this family of birds. He then presents a comprehensive treatment of the one hundred twenty-nine known species of rails, with taxonomic keys, descriptions, life histories, courting behavior, distribution, and status of hundreds of subspecies. Sadly, like many animal groups, the future of these birds is darkened by the shadows of extinct species and the threat of extinction of many living species. They are particularly vulnerable to predation because they do not fly well, if at all; they are fine game birds, and they are losing their habitats as marshlands are filled for development. This monumen

1977. Hardcover. Very Good. (Subject: Books).

Copyright is 1977. 406 pages. Foot of spine has been bumped, and there is light rubbing on cloth. Volume is otherwise bright, clean, and intact. Price clipped dust jacket also shows a little wrinkling over spine ends and a very slight smudge over center of spine. Volume is housed in slipcase that the title and library numbers inked on the rear. There are NO library markings on the book or jacket. Extra shipping fees will apply for Priority and/or International shipping due to the weight and size of this book.

M. F. Feheley Publishers, 1977. Large hardback in fine condition with fine dust jacket.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Large hardback in fine condition with fine dust jacket.