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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Good in Good dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Slightly Worn and Soiled With Tear at Top and Bottom Spine. .

Boston/Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company/The Riverside Press, 1961. 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.. Hard Cover. Good+ to Very Good-/Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

first edition first printing (U.S., but on British sheets) hardcover in dust jacket; no prior owner marks; little age tone to text pages; sound binding; clean cloth cover, bright gilt titling, little fade to spine cloth, little rub to corner tips; dj edge wear: rubbing, few small nicks, small chips; flap price present B14

Houghton Mifflin, 1961. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Houghton Mifflin, 1961. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Robert F. Scott founded the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, He was a sportsman and won the Distinguised Service Cross during WW2. Dust jacket has moderate shelfwear, darkened spine and flap edges, price is intact, several small tears/creases at edges. Cover has very slight shelfwear. Pictorial endpapers. Pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Very nice copy.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 679 pp. Tightly bound. Four corners lightly bumped. Text is free of markings. Gift inscription on title page. Good price clipped dust jacket. Bumped at heel of spine. First Printed 1961. First Edition. Please consider as a "acceptable to good" reading copy.

679pp. 1st. printing. With dust jacket. Shelf-worn but a very good copy. FB015

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photograph Frontispiece. Out of print. In a Mylar cover.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/NF-. Near fine in very good, price clipped dustjacket. Inscribed by Scott to an American collector "Inscribed to Hugh McMillan by Peter Scott October 1965" on the title page with a finely articulated open-winged goose in flight drawn in blue ink, plus a small archive of correspondance between the American collector and Scott and his staff at The Wildfowl Trust, founded by Scott. Three letters from the staff on Trust airmail stationery responding to the collector's letters to Scott and a gift of the book The Living Bird. Most consequential is Scott's personal response to the collector - an ANS dated 17 July 1965 on Trust letterhead in stamped airmail envelope - in which he acknowledeges gratefully the books and articles sent to him by the collector, comments on Eye of the Wind ("endless" "altogether too long" "(requiring) a good deal of perception on the part of the reader") and finally noting the amount of time he is spending on… Read More