Frances pitt ed (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. No edition remarks. 384 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Contains colour illustrated plates throughout. Heavily tanned with heavy foxing to endpapers. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Mild thumb-marking present. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Moderate tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Mild cracking to joints. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.…

1st ed. Binding tight; spine a little faded & worn; gilt dull. Used - Very Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Very Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

1st ed. Tidy copies in tight bindings; blue cloth with gilt titles; spines slightly yellowed, & little bumped at head & foot. Illustrated throughout with B&W photographs (all present). This is a set of heavy books (about 5.8kgs packed); additional postage may be required Used - Very Good. VG hardbacks (no dust jackets) Used - Very Good. VG hardbacks (no dust jackets).…

Cloth. Zustand: Good. A four volume set of Country Life's Romance of Nature; colourfully illustrated volumes concerning British wildlife. A four volume set in the publisher's original cloth binding. 6 colour plates to volume I. 3 colour plates and 3 photogravure plates to volume II. 1 colour plates and 5 photogravure plates to volume III. 1 colour plates and 5 photogravure plates to volume IV. Numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Collated, complete. A comprehensive four volume study from the Country Life magazine of the wildlife of the British Isles, with colour illustrations and photogravure plates of many birds and animals. Country Life is a British magazine which reports on rural life, pursuits and communities. This set is edited by Frances Pitt (1888-1964), a British naturalist, author and a pioneer of wildlife photography. Undated, dated through copies held at the British Library. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, fairly smart, with fading and shelf wear to the spines and extremities. Cloth to rear joint of Vol I is splitting to the head of the spine; cloth is lifting. Cloth to the front joint of Vol IV has split, and there are marks to the rear board of this volume. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Good. J. C. Harrison; Scott Langley; Roland Green; et al. (illustrator). book.…