Animals Splendour by Grant Watson (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. B0000CNHJC Dust jacket shows light shelf wear at edges. Small ding at cover edge. Some yellowing at beginning page and last page. The text pages are very good. No highlighting. No underlining.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Complete DJ with some edge wear and a little toning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Blue hardcover cloth binding clean, square and tight. DJ clean and crisp. Price-clipped. 153 pages. Author well known for writing on nature and philosophy wirtes about common animals with an innocent eye to describe them in their mystery and beauty. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Berlin, Sven (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. pp.153 Learn the mythology, folktales, zodiac meaning and other about animals. clean tight copy freckles to top edge minuscule edgewear to top edge of d/j Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1967). 1967 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 223mm). Pp153. Full page b/w illustrations by Sven Berlin. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight spotting to end-papers, water damage to boards, smells slightly musty, else very good in dust-wrapper. "Few people today are able to perceive animals with unspoiled eyes: we either sympathise too much or we accept them passively as a footnote to a man-made world. To find wonder and mystery at all we have to turn to the exotics, the lions and the leopards. But Grant Watson, well known for his writing on nature and philosophy, turns an innocent eye on the common animals and creatures all round us; and he lights up their splendour and mystery, their separateness. .He tells of many. animals in myth and splendour (and, under man, in decline), from stallion to ox, from boar to fox, from hare to ram, from swan to cock, but not only with these attractive beasts but with the wonderful (and even beautiful) lives of toad, snail, worm, snake, salmon and crab." Chapters include:- The horse; The dog; The cat; The ox; The pig; The goat; The sheep; The hare; The fox; The swan; The hawk; The raven; The fowl; The tortoise; The fish; The toad and the frog; The crab; The flies and scavengers; The earthworm; Slugs and snails; The serpent. . …

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 153 pages - owners name inside front cover.

Condition: Good. 1967. First Published. 153 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and illustrations are lightly tanned throughout. Tear to title page. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Spine is in good condition. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Pen inscription to front flap. Water staining to inside panels. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Light rubbing to edges of D/J.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. COUNTRY BOOK CLUB - A very good hardcover an about good dustjacket. Book is in clean beige boards bumped to the spin ends and corners, no writing or stamps, pages slightly toned and foxed to the text-block edges. Dustwrapper faded to the front panel and tanned and foxed to the edges and spine, creased/rubbed to the edges with several small chips and closed tears - supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.…

Condition: Very Good. 1968. Hardback. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good. . . . .

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1967). 1967 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 223mm). Pp153. Full page b/w illustrations by Sven Berlin. Blue cloth, spine titled in gilt. Slight spotting to end-papers else very good in dust-wrapper. "Few people today are able to perceive animals with unspoiled eyes: we either sympathise too much or we accept them passively as a footnote to a man-made world. To find wonder and mystery at all we have to turn to the exotics, the lions and the leopards. But Grant Watson, well known for his writing on nature and philosophy, turns an innocent eye on the common animals and creatures all round us; and he lights up their splendour and mystery, their separateness. .He tells of many. animals in myth and splendour (and, under man, in decline), from stallion to ox, from boar to fox, from hare to ram, from swan to cock, but not only with these attractive beasts but with the wonderful (and even beautiful) lives of toad, snail, worm, snake, salmon and crab." Chapters include:- The horse; The dog; The cat; The ox; The pig; The goat; The sheep; The hare; The fox; The swan; The hawk; The raven; The fowl; The tortoise; The fish; The toad and the frog; The crab; The flies and scavengers; The earthworm; Slugs and snails; The serpent. .…

Condition: Very Good. 1968. Hardback. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. VG+ DW. 1st Thus. Book and dustwrapper/dustjacket are in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.

First edition, first printing. Illustrated by Sven Berlin and signed by him on the title page. Very good with some mottling to the blue cloth boards with a clip to the front free endpaper in very good dustjacket.