Sharpe’s Birds of Paradise Agatha Christie subsequently the editor of Parenthesis

subsequently the editor of Parenthesis

signed by both the author and artist Anna Mill on a limitation label affixed to the FFEP

Edition statement

one or two spots of foxing to edges and light cocking to spine

Sharpe’s Birds of Paradise Agatha Christie subsequently the editor of Parenthesis"With their extravagant, sweeping plumage and glorious iridescent colours, birds of paradise appear almost mythical: indeed it was once thought that they lived entirely in the air, only falling to the ground when they died. Their plumes have been exchanged as currency and worn in sovereigns crowns, and they played a part in helping Darwin, together with A . R. Wallace, formulate his theory of evolution. At the end of the 19th century, Richard Bowdler