New Naturalist No. 41 DRAGONFLIES by Corbet, Philip S. & Longfield, Cynthia & Moore, N. W - 1960

London: Collins, 1960. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo. pp. [xiv], 260, black and white illustrations, 200 maps and diagrams with key to larvae by A. E. Gardner. Original printed card covers very good with slight wear only, corner tips a little bruised, spine very good without creases. Contents clean and tight, no inscriptions, no foxing, very small mark to the first page. A very good to fine copy. This reprint of the 1960 first edition was intended to be "affordable" and so the original colour photographs were reproduced in black and white, but it proved so popular that it sold out within a month - though the print run was just 1500 copies. Scarce..

London: Collins, 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 260, with 53 colour plates by S. Beaufoy, 16 photographs in black and white, 200 maps and diagrams with key to larvae by A. E. Gardner. Original dust jacket very good, not price-clipped, ex. library with tape residue to the base of the spine, clean and bright, now protected in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Green Buckram binding clean and bright, unfaded. Contents clean and tight, with tape residue lines and remains of lib. tickets, clean stamp to the title page, stamps to the imprint page, no fading, no inscriptions or other marks. A very good library copy [Referenced by "Collecting the New Naturalists" - NN41A].

London: Collins, 1960. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 260, with 53 colour plates by S. Beaufoy, 16 photographs in black and white, 200 maps and diagrams with key to larvae by A. E. Gardner. Original dust jacket fine, not price-clipped, no fading, clean and bright, now protected in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Green Buckram binding clean and bright, unfaded. Contents clean and tight, no toninfg to endpapers, previous owner's neat stamp signature only , F. M. Carpenter, no inscriptions or other marks An exeptionally bright copy . [Referenced by "Collecting the New Naturalists" - NN41A] [Provenance - Frank Morton Carpenter (September 6, 1902 - January 18, 1994) was an American entomologist and paleontologist. He received his PhD from Harvard University, and was curator of fossil insects at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology for 60 years. Entomologists David Grimaldi and Michael S. Engel consider him "the most influential paleoentomologist of… Read More