The Private Life of Plants. A Natural History of Plant Behaviour.
ATTENBOROUGH, David.
The Private Life of Plants. A Natural History of Plant Behaviour.
London: BBC Books, 1995.
Large 8vo., crimson publisher’s boards gilt to spine; unclipped dust jackets with photographs by Martin Cheek and Michael Pitts; pp. [viii], 9-320; profusely illustrated with colour photographs; near-fine, mildly bumped at extremities; jacket perhaps a trifle touched by sun along the spine.
First edition, signed in blue ink to the half title.
“Plants can see” Attenborough begins boldly in this, his exposition on the hidden world of vegetative life. A fascinating insight into “anything that grows on soil or rock or water, in open country or the smallest garden, [which] suddenly seems quite different: less gentle altogether, in restless motion night and day, locked in the endless competition necessary for survival” (Jacket).
ATTENBOROUGH, David.
The Private Life of Plants. A Natural History of Plant Behaviour.
London: BBC Books, 1995.
Large 8vo., crimson publisher’s boards gilt to spine; unclipped dust jackets with photographs by Martin Cheek and Michael Pitts; pp. [viii], 9-320; profusely illustrated with colour photographs; near-fine, mildly bumped at extremities; jacket perhaps a trifle touched by sun along the spine.
First edition, signed in blue ink to the half title.
“Plants can see” Attenborough begins boldly in this, his exposition on the hidden world of vegetative life. A fascinating insight into “anything that grows on soil or rock or water, in open country or the smallest garden, [which] suddenly seems quite different: less gentle altogether, in restless motion night and day, locked in the endless competition necessary for survival” (Jacket).
ATTENBOROUGH, David.
The Private Life of Plants. A Natural History of Plant Behaviour.
London: BBC Books, 1995.
Large 8vo., crimson publisher’s boards gilt to spine; unclipped dust jackets with photographs by Martin Cheek and Michael Pitts; pp. [viii], 9-320; profusely illustrated with colour photographs; near-fine, mildly bumped at extremities; jacket perhaps a trifle touched by sun along the spine.
First edition, signed in blue ink to the half title.
“Plants can see” Attenborough begins boldly in this, his exposition on the hidden world of vegetative life. A fascinating insight into “anything that grows on soil or rock or water, in open country or the smallest garden, [which] suddenly seems quite different: less gentle altogether, in restless motion night and day, locked in the endless competition necessary for survival” (Jacket).