Animals from Goldring Books

London: Rupert Hart Davis, 1960. A Very Good copy which has a name to front endpaper and age toning to endpapers else unmarked and a near Fine copy.Dustjacket has fading to spine alittle wear and is price clipped. 205 pages. Illustrations by Ralph Thompson. How do you start a zoo? To his own cost, but to our delight,… Read more about this item

Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks: Bradt, 2018. An As New unmarked copy. 192 pages. In 1969, at the height of swinging London, two carefree young Australians - John Rendall and Anthony 'Ace' Bourke - bought a lion cub from Harrod's. It was the start of an extraordinary journey. After raising the cub in their Chelsea flat, and exercising him… Read more about this item

London: Guild, 1987. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. In this unique study, well known psychic investigator Dennis Bardens presents a persuasive body of evidence revealing and explaining remarkable feats of animal telepathy, precognition and long-distance perception. Foreword by David Bellamy. 14 illustrations. 1. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.… Read more about this item

London: National Maritime Museum, 2004. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket. A square format volume. 112 pages. Illustrated throughout with period photographs and art. This charming book draws on the photographic archive and other collections of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich to tell the extraordinary tales of all kinds of animal at sea. Liza Verity… Read more about this item

London: Little Brown, 2005. A Very Good unmarked copy with Very Good dustjacket which is not price clipped. 429 pages. Map endpapers and 4 maps. The author's two year journey through eleven countries in search of the tiger and to ask the question 'can the tiger be saved from extinction in the wild?'. She plunges into leech infested jungles… Read more about this item

London: Lutterworth Press, 1965. Green boards are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges else clean, tight and unmarked however frontispiece illustration is loose. Dustjacket has chipping and wear with a small loss to back and 2 small taped repairs. 224 pages. 48 photographs including 5 in colour. Comprises: Part… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1972. A Very Good clean, tight and unmarked copy which has a prize bookplate to front endpaper with dustjacket which is pride clipped. 221 pages. Illustrations by Edward Mortelmans. Here Gerald Durrell tells of an expedition to Sierra Leone to catch himself a colobus, and another to Mexico in quest of a Volcano rabbit and a Thick-billed… Read more about this item

London: Paddington Press, 1977. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 220 pages. Coloured photographic illustrations throughout. In this world of disappearing and endangered natural species, a phenomenon has taken place that could mark the beginning of a new strain of lions. White lions - not albinos, but normal healthy lions, as… Read more about this item

Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, 1986. A Very Good copy which has age darkening to page edges with VG dustjacket. 192 pages. Numerous colour and black and white photographs and textual drawings. Sharks are among the most ancient groups of fishes and have remained little changed for millions of years. The book sets out to provide the general reader with… Read more about this item

Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1983. A Fine unmarked copy. 180 pages. Colour illustrated throughout. A naturalist's field guide to the identification of European butterflies. The pictograms accompanying each plate enable the reader to discover at a glance all the interesting facts relating to the biology and the behaviour of that particular butterfly and, most importantly, each colour photograph… Read more about this item

Herts: Ringpress, 1992. White title on red boards which have a little shelf wear to lower edge else unmarked. Internally very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is also VG and not price clipped. Foreword by Harry Baxter, International Judge. 160 pages. Illustrated throughout. 3. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to -… Read more about this item

Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1979. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. 187 pages. Illustrated throughout. The book is a history of mankind's war against animals, detailing the hunting to extinction or near extinction of animals, using as examples species or sub-species of whale, fur-bearing animals, buffalo, elephants, birds and big-game animals. … Read more about this item

London: Rivington Books and Andre Deutsch, 1979. A near Fine clean, tight copy which has a small name to front endpaper else unmarked with VG+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. 182 pages. 31 illustrations. 10 figures. 3 maps. The author is the Director of Operations and Chief Naturalist at Tiger Tops Jungle Lodge in Royal Chitawan National Park,… Read more about this item

London: Headline, 1996. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine price clipped dustjacket. A large format volume of 192 pages illustrated with photographs and drawings by the author. The book heralds a new voice in wildlife literature. Engaging, humorous, always passionate, sometimes disturbing, and ultimately deeply moving, Darroch Donald's stories explore the age-old relationship between humans and wild animals. He… Read more about this item

London: Century, 1985. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. 264 pages with illustrations in the text. Foreword by Lavinia, Duchess of Norfolk. An excellent collection of stories arranged in sections on Affection, Triumph, Adversity, Comedy, Obituary, featuring stories by over 80 famous authors, both fiction and true accounts of man's best friend, beautifully… Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head, 1988. Gold title on green boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a little age toning to the page edges else very clean and unmarked. Dustjacket has a very small closed tear to front top corner and is price clipped. A large format volume of 168 pages. 104 coloured photographs… Read more about this item

London: Harper Collins, 1992. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a very small amount of wear to lower spine edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. A large format volume of xvi + 344 page and 58 illustrations. First edition, First printing. In the book Lucinda Lambton has gathered together a wealth of anecdotes and… Read more about this item

London: William Kimber, 1963. Gold title on blue boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is some light foxing to closed edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket is VG+ and is not price clipped. 27 outstanding illustrations. In 1959, after November gales had lashed the coasts of… Read more about this item

London: Sceptre, 2007. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. In this eye-opening book, Hattie Ellis traces the chicken's evolution and history in farming, and reveals the grotesque scandal of today's chicken factories. But she also talks to chicken lovers around the world - from British farmers and Italian Slow Chicken afficionados, to the pioneers… Read more about this item

London: Macdonald, 1988. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy which has usual age darkening to page edges with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition. Map of Parc National Des Volcans, Rwanda to front endpaper and schematic of Karisoke Research Center to rear endpaper. 31 illustrations. Deep in the mist shrouded Virunga volcano country of Central… Read more about this item