Pp. 222; 156 illustrations (73 color photos and 83 black and white photos and fine line-drawings). Publisher's original green cloth, lettered in white on the spine and with a blind-stamped inset of a white snake on the front cover, color pictorial endpapers, color pictorial dust jacket (illustrating the Kanburi pit-viper on front and Bush viper on rear), in the original gray card-cover slipcase, 4to. This is the first edition in English. The first edition in German was published in Leipzig, Germany in 1981. This volume describes snake evolution, anatomy, physiology, behavior, diversity and systematic classification. Special coverage is given to coloration, locomotion, sense organs, venoms, diet and feeding, courtship, mating, brood care, adaptation, history and lore. No ownership marks and no signs of use. - from Amzon