BEASTS of Fact and Fable

BEASTS of Fact and Fable. R. A. Marchant. Illustrated by David Pratt. Phoenix House, London 1962 First Edition 152pp Illustrated Hardback. This copy has a small neat signature to the f.e.p. but is otherwise unmarked, bright, white, tight and square. The publisher price clipped dust wrapper has one rub to the front panel but is still very good. Platypus, tatzeleurm, kraken, abominable snowman, roc; from the known to the probable, the probable to the possible, the possible to the improbable and the improbable to the impossible; here are the facts and fancies behind the world's oddest creatures, some surviving today, some buried in legend. Ref HH2.