EXPLORING THE ANIMAL WORLD. Woodcuts by Nora S. Unwin.

HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1933* Publisher: George Allen And Unwin Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Yellow cloth, green title to spine & face. Very slight bumps & minimal edge wear. Slight age to upper & lower edges and to spine. VG* Jacket condition: Illustrated dust wrapper, dark blue titles to spine and face with small vignette of an insect and a thistle. Price clipped, showing no shelf price. Some darkening particularly to spine and rear edges. Considerable shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Long tears to front cover and nicks to head and tail of spine (re-inforced). Now in clear protective wrapper. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Inscription to front end paper "Percy Bourner Christmas 1933". Top edge & end papers aged, otherwise clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: B/w full-page woodcut to frontis & within text by Nora S. Unwin.* Pages: 115 pp. text. vi pp., appendices, advertisements & blank pages at rear.* Description: This book introduces the reader to the fascinating and complex world of animals which exist in every part of the English countryside. It suggests methods of getting to know these animal communities and of studying animal inter-relations. Pasture land, woodland, and the animals that come out at night, are chosen as special examples. It goes on to explain how knowledge of this animal world can be used in the regulation of nature sanctuaries, and how animal populations fluctuate and produce "plagues" some of which are harmful to man.* A NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st/1st thus with some minor faults in a GD protected dust jacket.*