Life in the Undergrowth.
ATTENBOROUGH, David.
Life in the Undergrowth.
London: BBC Books, 2005.
Large 8vo., crimson publisher’s boards lettered in gilt to spine; in the original unclipped photographic dust jacket (£20.000), featuring a praying mantis to the upper panel, and a photograph of the author with a scorpion to the lower; pp. [vii], 8-288; containing numerous full-colour photographs throughout; essentially a fine copy, perhaps a little pushed and dinked to the edges of the boards.
First edition, boldly signed by the author to the title page. Published in the same year as the five-part documentary of the same name, Life in the Undergrowth was the fifth of Attenborough’s specialised surveys concerning life on earth, which was preceded by such successful series as Life on Earth. This particular book focuses on the evolution and habits of invertebrates.
ATTENBOROUGH, David.
Life in the Undergrowth.
London: BBC Books, 2005.
Large 8vo., crimson publisher’s boards lettered in gilt to spine; in the original unclipped photographic dust jacket (£20.000), featuring a praying mantis to the upper panel, and a photograph of the author with a scorpion to the lower; pp. [vii], 8-288; containing numerous full-colour photographs throughout; essentially a fine copy, perhaps a little pushed and dinked to the edges of the boards.
First edition, boldly signed by the author to the title page. Published in the same year as the five-part documentary of the same name, Life in the Undergrowth was the fifth of Attenborough’s specialised surveys concerning life on earth, which was preceded by such successful series as Life on Earth. This particular book focuses on the evolution and habits of invertebrates.
ATTENBOROUGH, David.
Life in the Undergrowth.
London: BBC Books, 2005.
Large 8vo., crimson publisher’s boards lettered in gilt to spine; in the original unclipped photographic dust jacket (£20.000), featuring a praying mantis to the upper panel, and a photograph of the author with a scorpion to the lower; pp. [vii], 8-288; containing numerous full-colour photographs throughout; essentially a fine copy, perhaps a little pushed and dinked to the edges of the boards.
First edition, boldly signed by the author to the title page. Published in the same year as the five-part documentary of the same name, Life in the Undergrowth was the fifth of Attenborough’s specialised surveys concerning life on earth, which was preceded by such successful series as Life on Earth. This particular book focuses on the evolution and habits of invertebrates.