London: Reader's Digest Association/William Collins/BBC, 1985

Oblong 4to, pp. 368. Original photographic boards, lettered in silver on black to spine. Grey endpapers. Photographic dustwrapper. Top edge a little marked, but a near fine copy in a very good dustwrapper with some chipping to top front corner and head of spine.

Revised, enlarged edition. First published in 1984. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO BOB 'BLOCKBUSTERS' HOLNESS: 'for Bob, with many thanks for such a sympathetic interview, David Attenborough March 1985'.

From 1975 to 1985, Bob Holness co-presented a morning radio show on London's LBC, and over the years amassed a large collection of inscribed copies of books whose authors had appeared on the show. From 1985 to 1997 he presented similar shows on BBC Radio 2.