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TOM IREDALE. BIRDS OF PARADISE AND BOWER BIRDS. GEORGIAN HOUSE, MELBOURNE, 1950.
Price: US$74.95 + shipping
Description: Hardcover book with a secure binding, clean pages and bumped corner tips. The jacket has chips at the spine ends and some other tears and smaller chips. About 11 x 8-1/2 with 239 plus a fold-out. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Seller: Rose City Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.40 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarto. 239 pages plus a folding map of New Guinea. "With coloured illustrations of every species" by Lilian Medland. Few small marks to the front free endpaper else a fine copy. The dust jacket is chipped to the head of the spine and is now protected in a loose film sleeve. Quarter leather binding with cloth boards. A clean, tight example without names or inscriptions.
Seller: Booklore ., Holt, NORFO, United Kingdom
Iredale, Tom.. Birds of paradise and bower birds.. Melbourne: Georgian House, 1950., 1950.
Price: US$132.89 + shipping
Description: Quarto,240 pp.,33 colour plates by Lilian Medland. Publisher's quarter morocco, lacks dustwrapper, otherwise a very good copy.
Seller: Andrew Isles Natural History Books, Prahran, VIC, Australia
Iredale, Tom. Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds. Georgian House, Melbourne, 1950.
Price: US$132.89 + shipping
Description: Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good in dark green morocco. Gilt to face and spine. Gilt top edge - a little marked. Colour and black & white illustrations by Lilian Medland. Fold-out map to rear. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 239 pages. A standard reference work on Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds. Scientifically the work is progressive and the details accurate.
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Price: US$149.50 + shipping
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xii, 239; illustrated with thirty-three full page coloured plates, numerous line drawings in text, folding map of New Guinea at rear of book, check-list of the birds of paradise and bower birds, bibliography, bound in original quarter green morocco with olive cloth boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket with chips on edges and small piece missing on back edge, bookplate of W. H. Bierman on front endpaper, very good copy.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
Iredale, Tom.. Birds of paradise and bower birds.. Melbourne: Georgian House, 1950., 1950.
Price: US$199.33 + shipping
Description: Quarto,240 pp.,33 colour plates by Lilian Medland. Publisher's quarter morocco, bookplate, very good copy in worn dustwrapper (piece missing from spine).
Seller: Andrew Isles Natural History Books, Prahran, VIC, Australia
IREDALE, Tom. Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds.. Melbourne: Georgian House:, First edition,, 1950.
Price: US$209.88 + shipping
Description: 4to, xii, 239pp, 33 colour plates by Lilian Medland, folding map, orig. morocco backed cloth gilt. A VG+ copy in slightly repaired dustwrapper, else VG.
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom