Animal Twilight: Man and Game in Eastern Africa. [With ALS on pamphlet laid-in]
by Cloudsley-Thompson, J. L
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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About This Item
[Chester Springs, Pa.]: Dufour Editions, 1967. First Printing of First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. x, 204 p. (including apendices, bibliography and index): ill. ; 23 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original orange cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: wear to the extremities with light creasing, small closed tears, and areas of abrading. Laid in is a pamphlet by Cloudsley-Thompson, an offprint from The Entomologist's Record, Vol. 80, entitled "Some Aspects of the Fauna of the Sahara", the ffep of which contains an Autograph Letter Signed (or a very long inscription) by Cloudsley-Thomson, dated 28, December, 1968 to an unnamed party. Items signed by Cloudsley-Thompson are scarce to the trade. From Wikipedia: "John Leonard Cloudsley-Thompson DSc CBiol FSB FRES FZS (23 May 1921 - 4 October 2013) was a British naturalist renowned for his work on desert fauna. He was a tank commander during the Second World War. After the war, Cloudsley-Thompson returned to Cambridge to complete his studies, gaining his MA and PhD. He then became a lecturer in zoology at King's College London...In 1960, he became professor of zoology at the University of Khartoum, and keeper of the Sudan Natural History Museum. Following a short spell in 1969 as visiting professor at the University of Albuquerque in the deserts of New Mexico, (mention in the above referenced ALS) he returned to London in 1972. He was appointed professor of zoology at Birkbeck College, University of London, and remained with the university until he retired in 1986, when he was made emeritus professor. Cloudsley-Thompson was also a former chairman of the British Naturalists' Association between 1974-83, and the recipient of the Association's highest honour for outstanding services to the understanding of natural history, the Peter Scott Memorial Award in 1993. By the time of his death in October 2013, he had written over 50 books on desert fauna and the adaptations used by its wildlife such as spiders and scorpions.
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- Bookseller
- DuBois Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004713
- Title
- Animal Twilight: Man and Game in Eastern Africa. [With ALS on pamphlet laid-in]
- Author
- Cloudsley-Thompson, J. L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing of First American Edition
- Publisher
- Dufour Editions
- Place of Publication
- [Chester Springs, Pa.]
- Date Published
- 1967
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