A Bird Book for the Pocket by Edmund Sandars
1949. Third Edition. 245 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Contains colour plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Sticker and scuffing to front pastedown. Thumb-marking present. Notable creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Black marks to boards. Textblock is shaky.