Price: £200
Subject: Modern First Editions
Published Date: 1956
Stock Number: 76236
Lack (David)
Swifts in a Tower.
Description: FIRST EDITION, 10 plates and 25 figures (some graphs or maps), pp. [vi], 239, crown 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt with swift decoration in same, free endpapers faintly browned, dustjacket with a design by Ralph Thompson, very gentle fading to the backstrip panel, very good
Publication Details: Methuen, 1956
Notes: A lovely copy of this seminal study in its field; the Oxford Swift Research Project, begun by David and Elizabeth Lack in 1947 and focusing on the colony nesting in the ventilator shafts at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, is still ongoing.
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