The Trials of Life.
ATTENBOROUGH, David.
The Trials of Life.
London: Collins/BBC Books, 1990.
Royal 8vo., crimson publisher’s boards lettered in gilt to spine; pictorial dust-jacket showing a killer whale and sea-lion cubs to the upper panel, and a photograph of the author to the lower; pp. [vii], 8-320, copious full-colour photographs; one small dent to upper board, slight compression to spine tips; jacket clipped, with publisher’s price sticker removed from front flap, with some residue, very lightly sunned to spine with minimal loss of colour to red lettering; else near-fine.
First edition, signed by the author in his customary blue ink to the half title.
Released in conjunction with the BBC series of the same name, The Trials of Life explores animal behaviour in greater depth, with each chapter corresponding to each episode of the same title:
Arriving
Growing Up
Finding Food
Hunting and Escaping
Finding the Way
Home-Making
Living Together
Fighting
Friends and Rivals
Talking to Strangers
Courting
and
Continuing the Line.
ATTENBOROUGH, David.
The Trials of Life.
London: Collins/BBC Books, 1990.
Royal 8vo., crimson publisher’s boards lettered in gilt to spine; pictorial dust-jacket showing a killer whale and sea-lion cubs to the upper panel, and a photograph of the author to the lower; pp. [vii], 8-320, copious full-colour photographs; one small dent to upper board, slight compression to spine tips; jacket clipped, with publisher’s price sticker removed from front flap, with some residue, very lightly sunned to spine with minimal loss of colour to red lettering; else near-fine.
First edition, signed by the author in his customary blue ink to the half title.
Released in conjunction with the BBC series of the same name, The Trials of Life explores animal behaviour in greater depth, with each chapter corresponding to each episode of the same title:
Arriving
Growing Up
Finding Food
Hunting and Escaping
Finding the Way
Home-Making
Living Together
Fighting
Friends and Rivals
Talking to Strangers
Courting
and
Continuing the Line.
ATTENBOROUGH, David.
The Trials of Life.
London: Collins/BBC Books, 1990.
Royal 8vo., crimson publisher’s boards lettered in gilt to spine; pictorial dust-jacket showing a killer whale and sea-lion cubs to the upper panel, and a photograph of the author to the lower; pp. [vii], 8-320, copious full-colour photographs; one small dent to upper board, slight compression to spine tips; jacket clipped, with publisher’s price sticker removed from front flap, with some residue, very lightly sunned to spine with minimal loss of colour to red lettering; else near-fine.
First edition, signed by the author in his customary blue ink to the half title.
Released in conjunction with the BBC series of the same name, The Trials of Life explores animal behaviour in greater depth, with each chapter corresponding to each episode of the same title:
Arriving
Growing Up
Finding Food
Hunting and Escaping
Finding the Way
Home-Making
Living Together
Fighting
Friends and Rivals
Talking to Strangers
Courting
and
Continuing the Line.