Published by King Penguin Books, Edinburgh, 1951
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good DJ. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes 16 full page color plates (each of a different species of duck). Increasingly hard to find in presentable condition. Ownership signature at the ffep, hint of sun at spine, else tight, bright, and unmarred. DJ priceclipped, light sun at the spine and foredge, else bright and clean. Color pictorial paper boards. 12mo. 34pp plus np plate pages. Illus. (color and b/w plates).
Published by Penguin [A King Penguin Book], London, 1955
Seller: Muir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books], PERTH, WA, Australia
Boards in d.j. Illus. Peter Shepheard (illustrator). Octavo, illustrated boards, illustrated dustjacket, 16 colour plates, 31 pages of text plus the plates. Very good condition in like (price-clipped) dustjacket. An attractive King Penguin book, illustrated to the boards and dustjacket with a repeated pattern of owls. The colour plates are by Peter Shepheard (1913 - 2002), later Sir Peter Shepheard, the British artist, architect and landscape architect.