Birds of the West Indies.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. [Ornithology / Bondiana] FIRST US EDITION THUS. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. With occasional colour plate illustrations and frequent line drawings in-text. Publisher's green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper. Cartographic endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Samuel Bryant, priced at $6. A nice clean copy showing just a hint of spotting to top edge and some light wear to jacket extremities. Near fine. The acclaimed work by the ornithologist James Bond, whose name was famously appropriated for spy fiction's most celebrated hero. This new edition followed two earlier printings in America; Philadelphia (1936) and Macmillan, New York (1947, under the title Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies). Item #68181
Gilbert, page 616.
Price: £475.00
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