peter scott bratby (29 risultati)

Condizione: Good. 1941. First Edition. 127 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

Condizione: Good. 1941. First Edition. 127 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations and photographic plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking.

hardback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. hardback, blue cloth lettered gilt, no dust jacket. Cloth lightly soiled and faded to the spine. The binding remains tight, foxing to the pre-lims and lightly to the text, b&w plates and illustrations, 127pp.

hardback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. hardback, medium quarto, blue cloth lettered gilt, lacking dust wrapper, a tightly bound copy but with scattered foxing & thus good only, b&w plates, 127pp.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. For extra pictures of the more valuable books, please press the 'Ask Bookseller A Question' button. A first edition in good condition. Many black and white photographs and illustrations. Size: 7.5" - 10" Tall.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 127, [1] pages frontispiece, illustrations, plates 26 cm. Subjects; Birds Folklore. Birds Migration. Geese. Sailing. Birds. Birds Migration. Geese. Sailing. Birds Migration. Geese. Sailing. Birds Legends and stories. Genres; Folklore. Illustrated. 3 Kg.

Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Good condition book. First edition. Fading and slight splitting to the spine. Slight gaping to the binding. A good reading copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Book - good (some foxing throughout), dust jacket - good (tatty, minor loss).

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. For extra pictures of the more valuable books, please press the 'Ask Bookseller A Question' button. A first edition in very good condition. Black and white photographs Clean inside - a little bit of foxing on the endpapers. Dust wrapper in fair condition. A small amount missing from the top of the spine. A large tear on the front cover - some other tears. 127pp. Size: 7.5" - 10" Tall.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Author has been watching various kinds of wildfowl which live either as residents or migrants in the British Isles.He also used to spend winter months looking for geese and ducks.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition with torn but scarce dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Condizione: Good. First edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 19cm), 128pp. Frontispiece and 20 plates. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. There is some foxing to the endpapers and the edges of the text block; otherwise, the book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good condition (edges chipped). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 127, [1] pages frontispiece, illustrations, plates 26 cm. Subjects; Birds Folklore. Birds Migration. Geese. Sailing. Birds. Birds Migration. Geese. Sailing. Birds Migration. Geese. Sailing. Birds Legends and stories. Genres; Folklore. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

1st edition, 1941. Foxing throughout. Slight fading to endpapers. Binding tight. Pale blue cloth slightly browned on front board and spine; corners a bit bumped; a little wear to spine head & foot; repaired split in front joint. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

First Edition. 1st edition, in blue cloth with gilt; B&W & line illustrations. Some foxing, quite heavy in places; a little wear at head & foot of spine, with repaired split in cloth Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1941 First edition without jacket on blue cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.

Unknown Binding. Condizione: Very Good. First edition without jacket on blue cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1941). 1941 1st edition. 4to (189 x 253mm). Pp127,ill. B/w photographs, illustrations by Peter Scott, pictorial end-papers. Blue cloth, spine and upper board titled in gilt. Good-plus in rubbed dust-wrapper. Chapters include: The wild geese arrive; The marsh in April; Dinghy sailing; Grey geese, blue geese and black geese; The herons; The shelducks; Bill, the green-winged teal; This and that - a talk with Peter Scott; "Tracks in the Snow" - a talk with David Haig-Thomas; George and Ann - the story of a pair of pink-footed geese; Dinghy sailing - a talk with John Winter; Sea-gulls; Dinghy sailing - the International Dinghy Championship. To-morrow in the country; Sea-swallows; Annabelle and Barnacle Bill; The marsh in winter; Birds of the seashore; Pink-footed geese; The padre and the wren. .

1st edition. Small 4to. [128pp.] B/w. illustrations from photographs and drawings. Some occasional foxing, ownership inscription to front pastedown. Original blue cloth. Pictorial b/w. illustrations lettered in blue, rubbed and chipped with minor loss to edges. US$15.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Scott, Peter (illustratore). First edition. 1st 1941. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Adventures With Wild Fowl, and Small-Boat Sailing. Blue cloth, gilt titles. B/w photos. B/w illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Heavy foxing to textblock and to preliminary pages. Dustwrapper is edge chipped with slight loss and a little browned to spine. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Blue Cloth. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Peter Scott (illustratore). First Edition. 234pp illustrated with a colour frontispiece and pen and ink vignettes by Peter Scott, plus 16 black & white photos, light spotting to edges, some patches of heavier spotting within, free endpapers tanned, ink gift inscription dated 1939 and name of previous owner to front free endpaper, blue cloth, gilt spine lettering, spine a little sunned, slight damp staining to bottom corners, not that noticeable, no dust jacket. Size: 8.5 x 7 Inches. Natural History.

Condizione: Very Good. First edition, November 1941. HB. Blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and front, and photo-illustrated dustjacket. 127pp, quarto. With 21 b&w photos in plates, and many line drawings to chapter headings and tail-pieces by Peter Scott, and to the blue endpapers. The themes of sailing and geese and ducks are linked by the sea; both authors sailed and watched (and shot) wild fowl; photos include trips to Iceland and the Arctic to see geese on their breeding grounds, as well as dingy sailing. The texts were originally broadcasts on BBC radio. Very Good book in Good+ jacket. Occasional light foxing spots, heavier to closed page edges and leaves at the ends; gift inscription on front free endpaper, 1941. Jacket clean but has loss top spine over part of title, and is price-clipped.

1st edition. Pale blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front board under illustrated dustwrapper. 10ins x 7.5ins, decorated endpapers, 128pp plus frontis and 20pp plates. Also line drawn illustrations within the text by Peter Scott. Four line gift inscription (in pencil) to top of front free endpaper. Dw chipped with loss to head of s[ine and top rear corner. Rubbed to edge of spine and has a closed tear to rear cover. VG / G.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. J.C.Harrison (illustratore). First Edition. Dust jacket unclipped in a clear protective sleeve, closed tears, minor loss. 5 coloured plates by J.C.Harrison.pp 18. clean and tight. The text of this book has been written to accompany Mr. J. C. Harrison's plates, which were most kindly given to the Severn Wildfowl Trust by their owner, Mr. Colin McLean. Its purpose is to provide a guide to some of the tame waterfowl at the New Grounds, and to enable visitors to identify them rather more easily than is at present possible with the books at their disposal. The beautiful drawing of a Mandarin drake on the dust jacket was specially drawn by Mr. J. C. Harrison. Size: Obl 4to.

Hardback, 10 x 7.5 inches. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front. In very good condition. Some minor handling marks to cover, some faint soiling to front corner. Some minor light foxing spots to endpapers. No penned inscriptions. Else inside pages all clean and tight. Many b/w ills. by P. Scott , and num. photo. plates. 127 pp.

Condizione: Good. Flat signed by Peter Scott. 1st edition. Light wear to boards. Content has even toning. Good DJ has chips/tears and is price clipped.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Scott, Peter. (illustratore). 1st Edition. A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST EDITION IN A SIMILAR DUST JACKET : Illustrated with photographs by the author, and a colour frontispiece and pen-and-ink decorations by Peter Scott. Clean and tight, clean square copy, pages excellent, in a price clipped dust jacket, minor rubs at the extremities (small neat repair to spine head) Handles and presents well.234 p., [17] pls. : ill. ; 22 cm. { colour and B/w }.

Condizione: Sehr gut. First Edition. 24 x 18 cm. 127 pages. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by Peter Scott, including 20 original drawings in blue ink, of which one is a full page drawing. All drawings are signed or initialed. Blue Morrocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London. Gilt line decorations and gilt title on spine. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Very good condition. Some rubbing and bumping to binding. Minor material losses to lower front board. Internally dust dulled and foxed. Text block clean. Inscribed by Michael Bratby 'To the Field Marshal'. 20 original drawings by Peter Scott. Provenance: From the Library of Sir Alan Francis Brook, Field Marshal Alanbrooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke. Peter Scott (1909 - 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. Scott was knighted in 1973 for his contribution to the conservation of wild animals. He had been a founder of the World Wide Fund for Nature, founded the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (November 1946), and was an influence on international conservation. He received the WWF Gold Medal. and the J. Paul Getty Prize for his work.

pp.127 with b/w. photos. & illus. Large 8vo. Neat ownership signature dated 1942 to ffep. Spotting to fore-edge of text block, to ends and to blank margins o/w. contents fine. Original blue cloth boards showing some sunning, o/w. thor. vg. in thor. vg. dw. Signed by Sir Peter Scott to title-page (dated 1980). Furthermore, an original b/w. photograph (8in x 6in) of Sir Peter Scott kneeling with three Hawaiian Geese is loosely inserted. A collection of what were originally broadcast talks on the radio, here augmented with black and white photographs and some of Peter Scott's sketches - he took part in some of the broadcasts. Sir Peter Scott (1909-1989) was fundamental in bringing the Hawaiian Goose back from the brink of extinction through the breeding program at WWT Slimbridge. From there, the Hawaiian Goose was later reintroduced into the wild in Hawaii.