Eye Wind by Peter Scott (101 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. book is tight with no markings, light tanning to page edges, dj has light rubbing and fading some curling/creasing along the edges, nice copy.

Condition: Fair. 1966. 5th Impression. 315 pages. No dust jacket. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. First U.S. Edition in clean dust jacket. Clean green cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean. Small previous owner name at top corner of front free endpaper - no other marks. Decorated endpapers. Full page frontispiece photo portrait of the author. Foreword by the author. Beautifully illustrated with full color art, black and white drawings by the author, photographs. 679 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is price clipped, has slight age-toning to rear panel edges, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Autobiography of an Englishman who was a great naturalist, painter, sportsman, explorer and adventurer; he also commanded small ships on daring raids on the coast of France during World War II, and was decorated twice for bravery and once for inventing a highly successful method of camouflaging warships.…

Condition: Good. 1966. Revised Edition. 316 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Condition: Good. 1966. 1966 Reprint. 315 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1961 Eirst Edition. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1961 First Ed. Hard Cover. Book Condition : Very Good, Text clean and bright, . Superb paintings by author. Heavy book may require extra postage. Bookseller Inventory #002806. Peter Scott (illustrator). N/A.

Condition: Good. 1966. Revised Edition. 315 pages. No dust jacket. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Condition: Fair. 1961. Third Impression. 679 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Plates are bright and clear. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards are bowed. Cloth has moderate damp and dust stains. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Sunning to spine.…

Condition: Fair. 1961. 679 pages. Green pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. The clipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.…

paperback. Condition: As New.

Condition: Good. 1961. Second Impression. 679 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable tanning, rubbing and marking. …

Condition: Good. 1961. Third Impression. 679 pages. Pictorial jacket over cloth. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.…

Condition: Good. 1961. Second Impression. 679 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains colour illustrated plates throughout. Pages are mildly tanned. Notable cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front endpapers. Boards have notable edgewear with corner crushing and heavy marking and visible stains to boards. Heavy sunning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.…

First Edition. Good cloth copy only in a somewhat torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxii, 679p., 40p. of plates : ill. (some col.), frontis., ports. ; 23cm. Subject; Scott, Peter 1909-1989. 1 Kg. …

Condition: Very Good. Houghton Mifflin Co 11/19/61 Binding: Unknown dj in mylar price unclipped; The autobiography of the painter, ornithologist and traveller, glider pilot, naval officer and broadcaster; 679pp. index, illus. bw, color plates Illustrator: b&w Photos PublishPlace: Boston, MA Size: 8 vo.…

Condition: Good. 1961. First printing. 677 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout by author. Black and white photographs. Pages remain bright and clean. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with some small tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces. …

Condition: Good. 1963. Fifth Impression. 679 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations and plates. Clean pages, illustrations and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Moderate tanning, water and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3rd impression. Boards are clean. Content is clean with light toning on the outer edge pages. Hinges are a bit cracked. Good DJ with some tears and marks.

First Edition. Good cloth copy only in a somewhat torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxii, 679p., 40p. of plates : ill. (some col.), frontis., ports. ; 23cm. Subject; Scott, Peter 1909-1989. 1 Kg. …

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1977). (1961) 1977 revised edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Pp256. 16 b/w plates, b/w vignette illustrations to chapter headings. Mauve boards, spine titled in gilt. Ex-library copy with associated faults. Working copy only. Scott's autobiography. Oundle, fowling, painting, decoys and punt-gunning, sailing, WW II, Sutton Bridge and Slimbridge, gliding, travelling and collecting wildfowl. . …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Brockhampton Press 1968 8vo. 245 pages. blue cloth boards. binding tight. light tearing to front of dust jacket. dust jacket in protective mylar.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Peter Scott (1909 - 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Robert Falcon Scott, he was knighted in 1973 for his contribution to the conservation of wild animals. He had been a founder of the World Wide Fund for Nature, founded the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, and was an influence on conservation. DJ. DJ in mylar cover, taped to the pastedowns. 246 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 680 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Spine a bit sunned. Corners and spine ends bumped. DJ has wear to edges w/ light insect damage to edges of rear panel. Approx. 3/4" closed tear from bottom edge of rear panel. Spine and edges a bit darkened. Illust. w/ b/w photos.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Square, tight and unmarked in full blue cloth binding. 679pp. Many photos and illustrations. Good only jacket is toned and dampstained along spine. Offered now in a new mylar cover. Autobiography of a great naturalist, sportsman, nature artist and adventurer. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in Near-Fine condition in a very good dust jacket, 8vo, pages: xxii,679. Blue cloth with facsimile signature on front and spine titles in gold, monochrome illustrated end-papers, illustrated head-pieces, black-and-white plates, 4 color plates, index. Light wear, upper front tip lightly bumped, dj lightly edge-worn, dj not price clipped ($10.00). Bookseller accession no.: 19297. Sir Peter Markham Scott, 1909-1989 was a British naturalist, ornithologist, and artist. This heavy book might require extra postage for international delivery.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Fair condition hard cover, with fair condition jacket, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Condition: Good. 1963. Fifth impression. 679 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographs and colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Some mild marks and staining to surfaces. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine. Some rubbing and water marking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and facsimile signature to front board, 225 x 155 mm approx. Illustrated end papers, xxii + 680 pp Portrait frontis + 28 pp of b/w mainly photo plates + 4 full page colour illustrations by the author together with chapter head and tail vignette line drawings, First Edition 1st printing 1961. Autobiography of the son of Scott of the Antarctic who served with distinct as a Naval Officer in WWII, had a distinguished career as a naturalist and many interests, probably best known for founding the Slimbridge Wildfowl sanctuary/Wetland Centre and his bird paintings.Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good/ Good( Moderate to heavy shelf wear to cloth, A little dust soiling to top edge of book block,mild sporadic foxing to prelims. no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- handling rubbing to spine edges and general shelf wear and soiling, red title to spine faded, non price clipped - cover 42s. In a removable proprietary protective sleeve. Offered and priced as a sound reading copy).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book condition: VG. Dust jacket condition: G. Internally clean, crisp, and tightly bound. There is a publishing defect on the title page. The dust jacket is torn and ripped at the top of the front cover. It is worn along the edges and spine. Mostly intact with just a small amount of the cover art obscured near the top. It is in a mylar cover to keep it protected from more damage. KRM/Autobiography/naturalists.…

Hardcover. Condition: Worn, Brown Edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn - Torn Edges. Fourth Impression. A heavy book - extra postage may apply. Peter Scott and Others (illustrator).