A Natural History of Zebras
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1976, 1st, nl; white boards with black zebras, black cloth spine; in white jacket with same zebras.and zebras standing together on back; 6.25 x 9.3; 134 pp incld 10 pp of Further Reading and Index. Juvenile Hardback.
A scientist looks at the evolution of the three different kinds of zebra, their wild relatives, their predators, their habitats and behavior, as well as the recently extinct quagga. Ugo Mochi 's "remarkable pictures, each cut of a single sheet of paper with a knife, combine, design, action, and three dimentional form." The zebra and the giraffe (in the award winning companion album) provide a perfect subjects for his artwork. Not really a children's book, but accessible and interesting to middle school animal lovers,
CONDITION: Fine in Near Fine jacket; no names, tight and clean; in lightly toned jacket with edge lightly scuffed near spine; unclipped 7.95. Item #22882
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