Andrew Swales
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He wont get a better offer than this, and should jump at it!
...would save them from being vandalised too!
Zoo guidebooks
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...would save them from being vandalised too!
I've never had problems sourcing UK guidebooks from Ebay - I had a very nice old London guide from 1937 arrive in the post a week or two ago, for instance. In fact, usually one finds that US guidebooks are few and far between there - this week there are more than usual due to one particular seller, mind you.
Either way, I think you'll have a hard time finding anyone selling only the front coversand an even harder time buying any other guidebooks if it got around you just want to remove the front covers!
Don't want to buy just the covers don't know where that came from but again it looks like people jump to conclusions without asking as I never said I wanted to buy any guide books other people did.
Would like to check front covers for Chester, Birdland, WMSP & CWP to see which ones I are missing from my collection.
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If you just want a checklist to see what guides are missing from your collection, then you should refer to the Bartlett Society's useful zoo guidebook catalogue.
See the link below for details.
The Bartlett Society - Zoo guidebooks
Many thanks thought you had to be a member but this will help greatly,
Again many thanks
Andrew Swales
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Not really - as it was you who said you'd checked on eBay and it was 'useless' as it just had American adverts. eBay is a sales web-site.
It was your post ref eBay being 'useless' that TLD (and I) responded to.
Yes I did but only as reference to looking on the page for guide books, I take it by the way you answered that everybody who visit's e-bay must buy and not look.
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Andrew Swales
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Probably better to have mentioned then, that you were not actually looking for guide-books, only front covers - and did not want to buy them...
Bib Fortuna's offer seemed a very good one to me, but not of course if you dont want to pay for his time...
If you want just front covers, then Google is quite a good place to start. If you enter 'Zoo Guide Books' into the search box, the first web-site to come up is www.zooguides.org.uk which has many front covers illustrated.
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Another good option - and rather more complete - is the catalogue of guidebooks provided at the following site.
Les Zoos dans le Monde - Base documentaire
This site is still missing quite a few guides, of course, as it represents the personal collection of one individual.
Thanks TeaLovingDave for advertising my website! ;-) I have indeed all my library gathered and showed here with all books and guidebooks having a scanned front cover. All of it is sorted zoological institution by zoological institution. At the current stage, there are 1,126 guidebooks from British collections shown as well as 6,420 guidebooks in total. Enjoy!
Out of nowhere, I managed to find a guidebook of Banham Zoo from 1991. It was found in one of the public bathrooms of all places.