Near Fine Hardcover Lexington, Stephen Greene Press, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Color illus. boards. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise about as issued. Former owner's armorial book plate mounted inside front cover. 1st U.S. edition. 400 pp., illus. w/ 63 color plates..
A date when i finished this book? I never have. I bought this book when I was getting ready for my first job and have never "finished" it. After graduation i stumbled into a teaching post in Malawi and this book was one of the resources I took with me. It has bene with em ever since and deep in the British Peak District I still turn to it almost on a weekly basis...there will be something, some antelope, a reference to a monkey, a thought of elephant-shrews and Haltenorth and Diller still serve the goods