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David Attenborough – Life on Earth – First UK Edition 1980 – SIGNED by the author and with ephemera
£275.00
First edition thus, first impression. Published by Reader’s Digest in London, 1980. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper, outlining that this is a ‘special edition’, has one major tear to the right-hand edge, which casts this from near fine. It has not been price clipped. The boards are tight, and fabulously bound in pictorial paper. The text blocks are bright and clean throughout. Accompanied by two ‘Mawson, Swan & Morgan, Supper with David Attenborough’ tickets, as held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1980. The authors signature is present on the full title page, inscribed in black ink ‘To the Crooks, wish best wishes’. Overall, this is a very good (or better) copy of a nice title, with accompanying provenance.
In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from the emergence of tiny one-celled organisms in the primeval slime more than 3,000 million years ago to apelike but upright man, equally well adapted to life in the rain forest of New Guinea and the glass canyons of a modern metropolis. Told through an examination of animal and plant life today – with occasional juxtapositions of extinct fossil forms to reveal the origin of living creatures – “Life on Earth” is an astonishing pageant of life, with a cast of characters drawn from the whole range of living animals the world over.
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First edition thus, first impression. Published by Reader’s Digest in London, 1980. This is a very good (or better) copy. The dust wrapper, outlining that this is a ‘special edition’, has one major tear to the right-hand edge, which casts this from near fine. It has not been price clipped. The boards are tight, and fabulously bound in pictorial paper. The text blocks are bright and clean throughout. Accompanied by two ‘Mawson, Swan & Morgan, Supper with David Attenborough’ tickets, as held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1980. The authors signature is present on the full title page, inscribed in black ink ‘To the Crooks, wish best wishes’. Overall, this is a very good (or better) copy of a nice title, with accompanying provenance.
In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from the emergence of tiny one-celled organisms in the primeval slime more than 3,000 million years ago to apelike but upright man, equally well adapted to life in the rain forest of New Guinea and the glass canyons of a modern metropolis. Told through an examination of animal and plant life today – with occasional juxtapositions of extinct fossil forms to reveal the origin of living creatures – “Life on Earth” is an astonishing pageant of life, with a cast of characters drawn from the whole range of living animals the world over.
