- Seller Inventory #: 000104
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Fine
- Jacket condition: Very Good
- Illustrator: Thorn, Erik
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: John Murray
- Place: London
- Date published: 1960
- Keywords: Animal Topics; History; Dionysos, Tursiops, Oppian, Dolphins; Riding Dolphins; Pliny the Younger; Gilbert Islands; Death of Dolphins; Bottlenosed Dolphin; Aristotle; Arion;
London: John Murray, 1960. Starts with the Dolphin tales of the Greeks and Romans; then with description of the dolphin today; Polynesian legends, and the true story of a famous dolphin Pelorus Jack. 147 pages. Index. 12 illustrations. Dust jacket not price clipped, has creases at top of spine. Inscription by previous owner on front free . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Thorn, Erik. 215mm Tall, 8vo.