The Last Panda

Pp. xx, 291; 27 color photographs, some text-figures and maps.  Publisher’s original one-quarter pale green cloth, lettered in dark green on the spine, over green paper-covered boards, color pictorial dust jacket, 8vo.  The author and his Chinese colleagues were the first to make detailed studies of the Giant Panda in the wild.  This book recounts the ground-breaking research on the panda in its dwindling native habitat and in the midst of political problems as troubling as any natural threat.  No ownership marks and no signs of use.