Observers Book Pond Life by John Clegg, First Edition (4 results)

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor DW. 1st Edition. Printer code 864.1055. Name of owner at front of book. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. Price clipped DW is worn and bit damaged,

Light Blue Cloth. Condition: Very Good (AVERAGE). Dust Jacket Condition: NEAR FINE (NEAR NEW). With 32 Plates in Full Colour and 16 Plates in Monochrome By Ernest C. Mansell and 42 Photographs By the Author (illustrator). Third Reprint 1974. Dustwrapper price clipped and protected.Please Email for further details or Direct Enquiries Tel : 01822 810108 Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾". NOT SIGNED OR INSCRIBED. HARDBACK.

Frederick Warne, London. 1956. First edition. OB number 24. DW. Measuring aid to lower board and inside of rear flap of wrapper. Pages browned otherwise a clean and sound copy in wrapper that is slightly soiled and worn and also rubbed and chipped to edges. Portion torn from head of spine but still present. 5/- price to front flap.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Facsmile of original publication of 1956. Individually print worked by Stephen Gill with plant pigments and pond-water. Cloth covered boards (hardcover) with dust jacket, 127 pages, 64 pages of plates : illustrations (partly color) ; 15 cm + 1 print (signed and numbered by Gill). Series: Edition Ex Libris, Nr. 33. Limited edition of 100 numbered and signed copies. "The Observer s Book of Pond Life by John Clegg was a book I discovered as a child in a public library in Patchway, Bristol, around 1979. I kept borrowing and renewing it over long periods of time. The images it contained suggested a parallel world invisible to the one that surrounded me. Pictures of water beetles, water mites, and dragonflies struck a chord along with the more graphic images of diatoms and other single celled animals more abstract in appearance. It was an astonishing book for me and made me curious to know if my small garden pond was also teaming with such life. This led to a new obsession of spending hours peering into microscopes often whilst listening to my parent s 7 records. As a kid exploring the vastness within a single drop of water was like travelling into space. The printed measuring rule in inches and centimetres on the back book cover has remained in my mind all these years later. Stephen Gill". Signed by Author(s).