First edition. 256pp, with colour illustrations throughout. In brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Bright yellow endpapers. 8vo. Cloth very slightly puhsed at spine base else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its orignal glossy, illustrated dust jacket, slightly rubbed at corners, very gently bumped at edges.
Follows the fascinating story of species now extinct, including the dodo, the sabre-toothed tiger, the mamoth and the great auk.
