Vintage hardcover with illustrated dust jacket art by Hanif Hassan, The Mockery Bird by Gerald Dirrell published by Collins, London in 1981 is the book set on the fictional island of Zenkali. The story follows a humorous, satirical battle between modern development plans and the preservation of the local ecology.Book overall in very good condition with extreme minimum foxing and these mainly on the front and back pages, most likely due to the dust jacket. See photo.