The Cuckoo and other bird mysteries.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1944. first edition), Octavo, map, bookplate of Dominic L. Serventy, publisher's bright green cloth, a very good copy. More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1944. first edition), Octavo, map, bookplate of Dominic L. Serventy, publisher's bright green cloth, a very good copy. More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings. Beloved by people as the herald of spring, for many birds the cuckoo is a signal of doom. Known for being a notorious cheat, cuckoos across the world have evolved extraordinary tricks to manipulate other species into raising their young..... More
London: A & C Black, 2012. Octavo, colour illustrations and photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. This authoritative handbook, part of the Helm Identification Guides series, looks in detail at the world's cuckoos, couas and anis - the family Cuculidae. Famed as brood-parasites of other birds, the cuckoos include a...... More
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, Bulletin 265, 1968. Octavo, signature, softcover. More
Washington: Academy of Sciences, Monograph No. 1, 1948. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's green cloth, fine copy. More
Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1993. Oblong format, paperback, colour photographs. A photographic essay on this ground dwelling member of the cuckoo family. Also available in hardcover. More
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2008. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. Bill Oddie is utterly candid in this unconventional autobiography, in which he shares his many highs as a comedian in Goodies, and more recently as a wildlife presenter, and explores the crippling lows he has suffered as a result..... More
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 2004. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 57. More
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1981. Octavo, two monochrome plates. Publisher's wrappers, a fine copy. Zoologische Verhandelingen, No.187. More
Cape Town: David Philip, 1983. Octavo, colour plates, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Pymble: Angus and Robertson, 1994. Quarto, colour photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. National Photographic Index, number nine. More
Lusaka: Government Printer, 1962. Octavo, minor spotting of wrappers, sound inside, very good copy. More
London: B T Batsford, 1981. Octavo, colour photographs, illustrations, good in dustwrapper. More