Published by Robert Hale, 1978

Hardback 1st edition. Very good in a very good price-clipped d/w. Green boards with brown and gilt title panel to spine. A scarce title from the collectable Hale Portrait series.

Published by Faber & Faber, 1951

Hardback new edition. Black cloth boards appear to have gotten a little damp at some time but generally very good although the gilt to the spine has faded. Unclipped d/w is faded at the spine and a little soiled but very good. There are a couple of closed tears but minimal loss. Illustrated by C. F. Tunnicliffe

Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1990

1st thus, hardback. Second edition reprint re-issued here by Bloomsbury. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in very good condition. There are no previous owner names.

Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1990

1st thus, hardback. Third edition reprint re-issued here by Bloomsbury. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in very good condition. The dust wrapper has a small nick at the bottom of the spine. There are no previous owner names.

Published by John Murray, 1978

Hardback 1st UK edition. Nr fine book & unclipped d/w. 352 pp, with numerous contemporary illustrations including colour plates, index. This is a comprehensive and authoritative study of the work of naturalists in North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Published by J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd, London, 1923

Hardback 1st no d/w. No date [c1923], green cloth boards with gilt print & decoration, general wear & wrinkled spine. Foxed edges and prelims. Prev owner name & inscription to fep, a little grubby but generally good+. 84 b+w photos by the author. Includes sections on Borneo, East Africa, South Africa and the Congo, India, Canada and the American Rockies.

Published by Collins, 1973

Two hardbacks in very good condition as are there respective jackets. Vol. 1; 256 pages; Illustrated with 136 colour photographs. A comprehensive guide to European finches, thrushes, tits, starlings, crows, sparrows, larks, swallows and martins, nightjars, swifts, rollers and woodpeckers. Vol. 2; Water and marsh birds, ducks gees and swans; divers, grebes and gulls herons pelicans and flamingos - birds of prey, eagles hawks and falcons...

Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1958

Hardback very good d/w, slight foxing, price clipped, very good book little dusty, red edges faded, illus Thomas Bewick.

Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1990

1st thus, hardback. Third edition re-issued here by Bloomsbury. Both book and unclipped dust wrapper are in very good condition. The dust wrapper has a small nick at the bottom of the spine. There are no previous owner names.

Published by Jonathan Cape, London. 1995

1st edition hardback in fine condition. There are no previous owner names or marks. The dust wrapper is not price clipped. The MacCaskill's have been nurturing foxes for many years. This book fits together a number of fox encounters into one continuous story and describes the creatures with which they share the wild glens and hills, namely the golden eagle, the pine martin and a very special wild cat.

Published by Seeley, Service & Co, 1954

Hardback, no d/w. No date but previous owner inscription dated 1954. Brown cloth & gilt. Back cloth scuffed and scratched (a bit of a mess) of an otherwise fine book. Foreword by Eric Parker.

Published by Seeley Service & Co, 1947

Hardback 1st edition. Near fine book in a very good unclipped scarce d/w which is a little rough around the edges with some small areas of loss. A gamekeeper's observations & discoveries.

Published by David & Charles, 1991

Hardback, a reprint. Fine in a fine d/w. Packed with info and keepering anecdotes, some dating back to the eighteenth century, profusely illustrated with photos and engravings, capturing a rich heritage of country life before it fades into history.

Published by David & Charles, 1993

1st edition hardback in fine condition. The jacket is also fine. This is a second anthology in which a group of countrymen recall their lives, detailing personal trials and triumphs, from fighting in the trenches during the Great War to receiving the long-service medal from The Queen. Along the way, these characters have met the wealthy and famous, and been party to great sporting occasions, but above all they have been fired by a love of the outdoor life. They record their encounters with wildlife, and also family life as it used to be, with few luxuries but a real sense of community in the countryside.

Published by Batsford, 1937

1st edition hardback, no d/w and the boards show some wear but generally a good copy. One of the Face of Britain series, companion to English Downland. This is a survey of limestone England from the Dorset coast to Lincolnshire, and is an interesting, well illustrated guide to Cotswold Country. The reader will find invaluable information, and beautiful photographs of some spectacular scenery, as well as churches, manors and other buildings. The author's states that he does not believe that there is another area, of the same size and covering a single geological formation, so rich in interest in the entire world.

Published by Collins, 1968

Hardback, 2nd edition. Very good book in a very good dust wrapper. Comprehensive look at British Mammals, including rodents, bats, seals, deer, whales and more.

Published by Longmans, 1962

1st edition hardback, very good book in a very good slightly edge worn, unclipped d/w. Green boards decorated with gilt. The shortened and more difficult to find children's version of 'Ring of Bright Water'.

Published by David & Charles, London. 1979.

Hardback. 2nd impression in fine condition. There is a small closed tear at the rear dust wrapper fold otherwise both book and unclipped jacket would be fine. An excellent guide to the mysteries, legends and folklore of the North York Moors.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1942

Hardback reprint. Very good in slightly rubbed and chipped, price-clipped d/w. Small loss front/spine top, otherwise very good. A volume from the famous county guides to England edited by Arthur Mee, many in the series first published before the Second World War. Illustrated with bl/wh or sepia photographic plates. Map of the county at the back of the book. Index to people and places. Frontis + 108 further pictures. 221places described. 338 pages.

Published by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto. 1977.

1st thus, new edition hardback in fine condition. The dust wrapper is very good being price clipped and a little rubbed and chipped at the edges and tips. A PLEA TO STOP THE SLAUGHTER NOW...When an 80-ton Fin Whale became trapped in a Newfoundland lagoon, conservationist Farley Mowat rejoiced: here was the first chance to study at close range one of the most magnificent animals in creation. Some local villagers thought otherwise. They blasted the whale with rifle fire and hacked open her back with a motorboat propeller. Mowat appealed desperately to the police, to marine biologists, finally to the Canadian press. But it was too late. Ravaged by an infection resulting from her massive wounds, the whale died.

2244. Nethersole-Thompson, Desmond: The Dotterel

Published by Collins, London. 1973

1st edition hardback. A very good book in a very good dust wrapper. The dust wrapper is only very slightly rubbed with a couple of small tears at the top of the spine but no loss and it's unclipped. No previous owner names or marks. Having studied these birds for many years and knowing them and their ways better than any ornithologist alive, Nethersole-Thompsons's book is both a description of the dotterels in their remote habitat and a definitive account of all aspects of their life history.

2243. Newton, Ian: Finches: New Naturalist 55

Published by Collins, London. 1972

1st edition hardback. A fine book in a very near fine dust wrapper. The dust wrapper a little creased along the top edge otherwise fine and unclipped. No previous owner names or marks. An excellent book covering every aspect of finches, including feeding mechanisms, roosting, breeding behaviour, moulting and migration. Such a wealth of information has been put together in this volume that it is bound to remain a standard work on the finches for a long time to come. As comprehensive and well organised as one would expect of the excellent New Naturalist series.

Published by Bloomsbury, London, 1990

Hardback book in good condition, cream boards with gilt lettering to spine, bottom boards edges slightly stained, grubby marks to page edges, actual contents in good condition, dust wrapper in good condition, rubbing to spine edges and extremities, small 2mm closed tear to front near spine. The dust wrapper has not been price clipped and still retains the £12.95 net price. One of the Bloomsbury facsimile reprints of the Collins New Naturalist series. 256 pages with index of bird names, general index, biblio, list of scientific names

416 PERRY, R.

AT THE TURN OF THE TIDE

1973 CROOM HELM