Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Signed by Robert Gillmor: “R. Gillmor 28.9.53”, see below. pp. 255 with an additional page advertising bird books in the New Naturalist library. With 51 black & white photographs and 58 drawings and diagrams. Dust jacket design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. Very bright and fresh, a little light spotting to fore-edges only, not price clipped, now protected in a removable archival sleeve (see images). Two old small adhesive tape marks inside DJ at head and bottom of spine. Green buckram boards fine, gilt bright. Contents clean and tight. New Naturalist Monograph series.

From the library of Robert Gillmor the artist who designed all the New Naturalist series dust jackets from 1985 to 2021.