Austin's Antiquarian Books

The Life Of Birds

Dorst, Jean

New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition, (1982); two volumes; octavo; pp. I; (viii), 349 with bibliography; II; (ii), 351-718 with index; illustrated, thirty-eight diagrams and fifteen photographs in black and white; green cloth, gilt; pictorial jackets. Very good; Title page date of 1974 belies the fact that this is the first American edition actually printed in 1982 or assembled from the English sheets of the first British edition with an American title page. The biology of birds from an ecological point of view. Very Good / very good. Item #12368

Price: $45.00