Some Common Birds of West Africa. With Coloured lllustrations

by W. A Fairbairn, died 1984

£35 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

Lagos: Church Missionary Society Bookshop, no date 1933 . Ornithology FIRST EDITION. Sextodecimo 16 x 12cm , pp.xii; 112. With a fine colour illustration of each bird. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Light spotting to endpapers. Very light rubbing to cloth with a few marks to lower board. Near fine. A small book on the bird-life of West Africa intended for schools, with a view to fostering an interest in conservation. Item

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