The Badger. The New Naturalist Monograph No 1.First edition. by Neal, Ernest - 1948

London: Collins, 1948. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Fair. Collins London, 1948. First edition with dust jacket. Hardback. xv, 158pp. The first of the New Naturalist Monographs. Studies of the badger have been made by prominent amateur mammalogists and have been published in books and papers, but they have not probed all the mysteries of badger life and have, in many ways, simply shown what a tremendous amount of work there was to be done. Ernest Neal has removed a vast amount of the debris concealing the badger's life. He has overcome, in many interesting ways, the problems of observing a nocturnal and secretive creature. He has made himself a patient watchman, a cunning photographer, an ingenious detective and a careful judge. This Monograph is till a notable contribution to the biology of a noble animal. Illustrated with one colour photograph, 29 black & white photographs and 12 maps and drawings. Jacket design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. Book condition: very good. A little light shelf wear and some slight spotting to endpapers. Dust jacket condition: fair. Jacket price clipped with some slight chipping at head & tail of spine and to corners. Closed tear (approx 12mm) at top edge of front. Four small areas of damage to spine which is slightly discoloured. General light shelf wear and rubbing around the edges. Some light spotting and staining to front, discolouration to rear and light spotting to internal surfaces of jacket.