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; near-fine, very slightly bruised to spine tips; endpapers and half title very lightly offset; jacket clipped, and one small closed tear to the upper panel; retaining, unusually, all of the red colour to spine, however.
First edition, inscribed by Attenborough ‘To Sandra’ 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; near-fine, very slightly bruised to spine tips; endpapers and half title very lightly offset; jacket clipped, and one small closed tear to the upper panel; retaining, unusually, all of the red colour to spine, however.
First edition, inscribed by Attenborough ‘To Sandra’ 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; near-fine, very slightly bruised to spine tips; endpapers and half title very lightly offset; jacket clipped, and one small closed tear to the upper panel; retaining, unusually, all of the red colour to spine, however.
First edition, inscribed by Attenborough ‘To Sandra’ 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.