Peter Scott Nigel Sitwell (4 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. 367 pages. complete with slip case, cover worn, name ffep, edges of text tanned.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. Slight browning to edges of pages through age. Small mark to edge. This book is a portrait of Peter Scott culled from hiw own conversations, articles and broadcasts. There are many faascinating pieces, including thoughts on the ethics of shooting, expeditions to Lapland, skin-diving, the Arctic swans, The American Cup, Conservation and Africa, Salvadori's Duck, Britain's canals and much, much more. An unusually interesting anthology the pages of which can be turned again and again, each time revealing something new. With 16 pages in full colour of Peter Scott's Paintings. Illustrated. 367 pp. .(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. EX library paperback covered in plastic, usual stamps/markings. C/W illustrated slipcase. Published in 1967 by Sphere, London. Slipcase is very worn, covers are a little worn/creased otherwise a clean, sound copy. All 16 colour plates intact, clean & free from markings. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-5C*.

Hardcover. JONES, Henry (1838-1921) - OLNEY, Peter J.S. - SCOTT, Sir Peter. - SITWELL, Nigel. The Wildfowl Paintings of Henry Jones. London: Threshold/Harrap, 1987. Oblong folio (13 4/8 x 17 4/8 inches). Frontispiece and 60 colour plates tipped-in. Publisher's original half blue morocco, blue cloth, gilt; preserved in original blue cloth clamshell case. AS NEW Limited edition, one of an unspecified unnumbered copies of a total edition of 350, signed by Olney and Scott. Jones was an accomplished but mostly unknown artist, who bequeathed his sketchbooks to the Zoological Society of London. After a career in the Army, mostly posted in India, Jones returned to Welling, near Woolwich in 1881 and seems to have become a habitue of the bird room at the British Museum (now of Natural History) in Kensington. "Of the many hundreds of birds which he painted, he could have seen only a limited number in the wild. Most of his likenesses were produced from skins in the Bird Room of the Natural History Museum, and it is all the more remarkable that they should have been so lifelike" (page 13). Signed by Author(s).