Wild Chorus by Peter Scott (88 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback in good condition with jacket. Pages in good clean condition. Glassine cover. Slight tear to jacket.

Condition: Fair. 1949. Reprint. 118 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. B&W and colour illustrations throughout. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's large inscription in red pen to front endpaper. Frontispiece partly detached. Some gutter cracking. Moderate wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with splitting to spine ends. Minor sunning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Please note some stock images show a jacket, this copy does NOT include a jacket. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. London: Country Life, 1946. 20 color & 48 black and white plates along with many illustrations, all by Peter Scott. . Cover is much faded with some edge wear and bumped corners. Inside has occasional foxing. Still a reasonable copy, much loved but clean, with great art. 122 pages. Hard Cover. Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book and dust jacket are in good condition. 120pp with b/w illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Boards have little wear and a few marks, Pages tonned with spotting.

Condition: Fair. 1947. Reprint. 119 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are mildly tanned with heavy foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have mild edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Boards are mildly warped.

Condition: Good. 1941. Reprinted. 118 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout by Peter Scott. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.

Condition: Good. 1941. Reprint. 121 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and tearing to ends. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Reprint. Fair Copy in green cloth on boards with gilt titles on cover and on faded spine. Spine worn at head/foot with much fading around cover margins. Previous owner's inscription on FFE. Coloured frontis with attractive colour and b/w plates.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Aceptable. . (illustrator). London. Edit. Country Life Limited. Imp. Robert Maclehose and CO. Ltd. 1949. 29x22 cm. 118 págs. Láminas a color de las pinturas del autor. Tela edit. Texto en inglés. # arte.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. 9 x 12 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and spine ends bumped with light wear, a few small paint spots. Binding tight and text unmarked. Nat. RGR.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Peter Scott (illustrator). Country life Ltd, 1941. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good.Dust jacket condition: No dust jacket 1941. Green/Blue cloth boards. Slight rubbing. Gold lettering. Tightly bound. Clean slightly tanned pages. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1939 country like edition with frontisplate loose otherwise good with scarce dust jacket and a tight binding.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1938). (1938) later reprint. 4to (227 x 291mm). Ppx,120. Colour & b/w by the author. Green cloth, spine and upper board titled in gilt. Various minor faults, stained and rubbed, good only. Lacks dust-wrapper. "At my home, which is a lighthouse, standing upon a sea wall at the mouth of an east coast river, live several hundred wild geese and ducks. Without their co-operation many of the pictures in this book could not have been painted, and many of the chapters would not have been written." Chapters include: The chorus of the geese; Anabel - the story of a wild goose; Brogden - a marsh; Barnacle Bill; Great occasions; Twelve hours afloat; The railway bridge; Broadcasting; A broadcast; The wild geese of Hungary; To Roumania; The Delta and the Black Sea; The return journey; The Lesser Whitefronts; A flare, a gong and a net; More about the Caspian shore; Fabulous birds; The Shelducks; The lighthouse birds; Beware!; The magic spell. .

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Highly collectable no dust jacket on green boards a little stained reprint but somewhat damaged by water plates are buckled but the text remains bright and clean. Acceptable reading copy and still collectable will post 1st class post.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 4to, hardback bound in Original Cloth, ix + 118 Pages, Colour Illustrations, Top & Bottom of Spine & Corners Bumped, Cloth has some Marks mostly to Rear Board and Age Related Wear, End Papers Lightly Browned, Overall A Good - Very Good Copy. Extra Postage Costs may apply to Overseas Orders.

Lg quarto hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G-) very scruffy jacket, heavy foil residue to pgs 68-69- text block mostly covered; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Peter Scott (illustrator). Reprint. Green Mcloth bds with gilt lettering to spine and upper panel, minor marks to text block edge, small split to head of spine and corners, with a little fraying, rubbing to tail of spine, with 2 sl nicks near to head of spine, sl rubbing to some edges, small dedication to ffep. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall ; 118 pages.

Condition: Good. Every year a number of birds come into the Lighthouse enclosure, where they find others of their kind living a sheltered life with plenty of food and no dangers. The frequent coming and going of these wild birds has given the Author the opportunity to watch them and write this book. There is a pen inscription inside and the cover is a little worn around the edges.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1938). (1938) later reprint. 4to (227 x 291mm). Ppx,120. Colour & b/w plates by the author, b/w illustrations. Browning to end-papers, preliminaries and edges but good-plus. Lacks dust-wrapper. "At my home, which is a lighthouse, standing upon a sea wall at the mouth of an east coast river, live several hundred wild geese and ducks. Without their co-operation many of the pictures in this book could not have been painted, and many of the chapters would not have been written." Chapters include: The chorus of the geese; Anabel. The story of a wild goose; Brogden - a marsh; Barnacle Bill; Great occasions; Twelve hours afloat; the railway bridge; Broadcasting; A broadcast; The wild geese of Hungary; To Roumania; The Delta and the Black Sea; The return journey; The Lesser Whitefronts; A flare, a gong and a net; More about the Caspian shore; Fabulous birds; The Shelducks; The lighthouse birds; Beware!; The magic spell. .

1949 reprint in tight binding with numerous colour and B&W illustrations by the author. Dust jacket not price-clipped with discolouration, wear, tear and losses to edges and corners. Scattered foxing to page fore-edges and endpapers; page edges yellowed with some discolouration spots scattered throughout; owner's name on front free endpaper; otherwise, a good, tidy copy. Used - Good. Good hardback in Fair dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint; Third Printing. Clean, large format hardback bound in green cloth with gilt titles, head of spine has been reattached, cloth rubbed at corners and spine ends, spine and edges tanned, no inscriptions. 120 pages, colour and black & white illustrations on plates plus drawings in the text by the author, illustrated endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Peter Scott (illustrator). Reprint. Reprint 1949 very good hardback, bottom right corner bumped, foxing and browning to page edges and endpapers, in a good dust wrapper, corners and edges rubbed, small closed tears, small pieces missing to top and bottom of spine and piece missing to top edge of front wrapper, foxing outside cover. Contents bright and clean. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. Not price clipped. 120 pages. 20 colour plates and 48 sepia plates. Illustrations.

Reprint Edition. Condition: vg+/vg. vg+ reprint Country Life Limited 1949 edition hardcover with vg dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

HARDCOVER. 1951. Reprint. A near fine copy bound in green cloth with gilt lettering. Lightly rubbed to the spine ends, a previous owners name to the front pastedown and a lovely gift inscription to the front free endpaper. No d/w.

Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 118pp. 1939 third impression (second trade edition). 4to. A clean, tight, very good copy in original publisher's green cloth - gilt embossed to the spine and to the front board. 20 colour plates - all as called for and numerous sepia plates (also as called for) and line drawings by Peter Scott illustrate the text. An ex-libris bookplate to the front endpaper - not filled in. No inscriptions.A bump to the lower rear board corner and a bump the front lower board corner with associated bumps to the text block corners - not heavy. A little rubbing to the cloth at the head and tail of the spine with some slight loss to the tail. Slight spotting to the rear endpapers.A very good copy of what is an early impression.

Condition: Good. x, 120, 20 col and 48 sepia plates. . HB. 4to, orig. cloth. Some foxing. Gift inscription to front endpaper. Short closed tear to bottom margin of a couple of pages, one neatly repaired with japanese tissue. Good in rather worn/repaired d/w, with loss to rear panel. Seventh impression (first published 1939).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. (x) 119pp. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to front and spine. Author's dated signature to ffep together with dated ownership inscription. Boards sunned with foxing to spine. Textblock and illustrations clean bright and tight.