Publicado por Fulcrum Publishing, 1995
ISBN 10: 1555912044 ISBN 13: 9781555912048
Librería: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, Estados Unidos de America
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Condición: Very Good. 1st. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
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Publicado por Faber And Faber Ltd., 1994
ISBN 10: 0571161464 ISBN 13: 9780571161461
Librería: zeebooks, Foley, AL, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Some edge wear to the dust jacket. Ex-library.
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Publicado por Faber & Faber 03/10/1995, 1995
ISBN 10: 0571171699 ISBN 13: 9780571171699
Librería: AwesomeBooks, Wallingford, Reino Unido
Condición: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .
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Publicado por Faber & Faber Limited, London, United Kingdom, 1994
ISBN 10: 0571161464 ISBN 13: 9780571161461
Librería: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. Hardcover in jacket.
Publicado por Faber & Faber. London. 1993, 1994
ISBN 10: 0571161464 ISBN 13: 9780571161461
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
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Condición: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1993 ). 1993 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxx,361. Colour & b/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Green boards, spine titled & decorated in white. Slight spotting to edges, some plates slightly stuck together, but a new unread copy in dust wrapper. "Son of the Antarctic explorer Captain Scott, [Peter Scott] fulfilled many times over his father's dying wish that he should become 'a strenuous man'. A championship-class skater, dinghy-racer and glider pilot as well as an accomplished painter, Scott's abiding passion was for wildlife. .He gave up shooting to found the Wildfowl Trust [Slimbridge] and later co-founded the World Wildlife Fund. .Behind Scott's charm and single-mided devotion to his chosen causes lay a complex character, driven by his father's legend and by an unconventional and dominating mother." Chapters include: Son of a legend; 'Here I am, send me'; Owls and Oundle; Cambridge and the Fens; Apprentice painter; Duck decoys and racing dinghies; Morning flight; Searching for redbreasted geese; HMS Broke; The Battle of the Narrow Seas; End of a marriage; The birth of the Wildfowl Trust; Travels in North America; Rescuing the ne-ne; Faraway look; The ocean of the sky; Tortoises, family life and Bewick's swans; The World Wildlife fund; Nessie and Antarctica; Saving the whales; The Wildfowl trust spreads its wings; No pot of gold in Arabia; Finale. PREVIOUS PRICE £17.50.
Publicado por London: Faber & Faber (1993)., 1993
Librería: Austwick Hall Books, Austwick, Reino Unido
First edition in very good condition with dust wrapper.
Publicado por Ulverscroft, 1996
ISBN 10: 0708935729 ISBN 13: 9780708935729
Librería: Fleur Fine Books, Port Neches, TX, Estados Unidos de America
HARDCOVER. Condición: Used; Good. Used; Good. 27-C-02 Ulverscroft Large Print Books 1996 Hardcover. No dust jacket. This is a former library book, with library markings. Text itself is clean and unmarked. Covers have bumping on edges, other light wear. Book Condition; Good . 1996. HARDCOVER.
Publicado por Faber & Faber. London. 1993, 1994
ISBN 10: 0571161464 ISBN 13: 9780571161461
Librería: Coch-y-Bonddu Books Ltd, MACHYNLLETH, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Original o primera edición
ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1993). 1993 1st edition. 8vo (160 x 240mm). Ppxx,361. Colour & b/w photographs, illustrations, bibliography. Green boards, spine titled & decorated in white. Very good copy in dust-wrapper. "Son of the Antarctic explorer Captain Scott, [Peter Scott] fulfilled many times over his father's dying wish that he should become 'a strenuous man'. A championship-class skater, dinghy-racer and glider pilot as well as an accomplished painter, Scott's abiding passion was for wildlife. .He gave up shooting to found the Wildfowl Trust [Slimbridge] and later co-founded the World Wildlife Fund. .Behind Scott's charm and single-mided devotion to his chosen causes lay a complex character, driven by his father's legend and by an unconventional and dominating mother." Chapters include: Son of a legend; 'Here I am, send me'; Owls and Oundle; Cambridge and the Fens; Apprentice painter; Duck decoys and racing dinghies; Morning flight; Searching for redbreasted geese; HMS Broke; The Battle of the Narrow Seas; End of a marriage; The birth of the Wildfowl Trust; Travels in North America; Rescuing the ne-ne; Faraway look; The ocean of the sky; Tortoises, family life and Bewick's swans; The World Wildlife fund; Nessie and Antarctica; Saving the whales; The Wildfowl trust spreads its wings; No pot of gold in Arabia; Finale. .
Librería: N. Fagin Books, Chicago, IL, Estados Unidos de America
1993, Natural History, History of Science, Fulcrum Publishing, 326 p., fine boards and dust jacket.
Publicado por Faber and Faber, London
ISBN 10: 0571161464 ISBN 13: 9780571161461
Librería: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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[0-571-16146-4] 1993, 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good plus in near fine dust jacket. 361pp. Chronology, black and white and color photographs and illustrations, notes, index. A previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. "Behind Scott's charm and single-minded devotion to his chosen causes lay a complex character, driven by his father's legend and by an unconventional and dominating mother. Elspeth Huxley has written a wonderfully rich and readable biography - one as generous, many-sided and packed with incident as the life of her subject". Biography of Peter Scott. Introduction by David Attenborough. (Biography, Natural History, Nature, Painting, Wildlife).
Publicado por FABER
Librería: Book Cupboard, PLYMOUTH, DEVON, Reino Unido
1993 1ST INSCRIPTIONS 1993 / 2012 O/W FINE /FINE.
Publicado por Faber & Faber, London, 1993
Librería: Peter J. Ayre's Books, Somerset, Reino Unido
Hardback. Condición: Very Good. not Africa although Peter Scott did visit Lake Rudolf; Binding: Orig. green cloth with pictorial dust wrapper; Condition notes: V. Good; Illustrations: 44 colour & B/W photos; Pages: xx + 361; Edition/printing: 1st.
Publicado por Faber & Faber, London, 1993
Librería: Peter J. Ayre's Books, Somerset, Reino Unido
Hardback. Condición: Very Good. not Africa although Peter Scott did visit Lake Rudolf; Binding: Orig. green cloth with pictorial dust -jacket; Condition notes: V. Good; Illustrations: 44 colour & B/W photos; Pages: xx + 361; Edition/printing: 1st.
Publicado por Faber & Faber, UK, 1993
ISBN 10: 0571161464 ISBN 13: 9780571161461
Librería: powellbooks Somerset UK., Ilminster, SOM, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Described by David Bellamy as the 'father of conservation' and by David Attenborough as its patron saint, Peter Scott led a crusade for endangered wildlife which captured the imagination of an entire generation.
Publicado por London: Faber and Faber. 1993., 1993
Librería: Offa's Dyke Books, LUDLOW, SALOP, Reino Unido
Ejemplar firmado
Signed by author, Introduction by Sir David Attenborough, tall 8vo. (242x160mm), pp: [i-vi],vii-xx+1-361[1], 44 photos on 16 plates, complete, inscribed by author to titlepage 'For Tommy and Diana with/very best wishes/Elsbeth Huxley/25 October 1993', green cloth, very good in dustwrapper with sl. wear to extremities, otherwise very good. Inscribed to Tommy Johnstone. Thomas Sidney Johnstone known affectionately as Tommy Johnstone, son of Dr. Johnstone of Peterborough, married Miss Diana Marie Baillie in Belfast early February 1944 & honeymooned in Dublin at the Gresham Hotel. He had served in the Ambulance Service in Northern Ireland where Diana was serving in the WRNS. On being demobbed & not having the funds to persue medicine, he saw an article in Country Life and wrote to Peter Scott asking if there was any chance of making a living with birds? He, Diana and recently arrived Carol went down to Slimbridge and he became Assistant Curator of the Wildfowl Trust and soon the Curator, staying for nearly 30 years.
Publicado por Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1993
ISBN 10: 0571161464 ISBN 13: 9780571161461
Librería: Karen Jakobsen (Member of the PBFA), Sturminster Newton, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Introduction by Sir David Attenborough. Green hardcover with title in white on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers and some bumping to outer corner of front and rear covers, with corresponding creasing to top corners of first and last few pages of text. Light vertical crease to front endpaper and first four pages. Edges of pages lightly browned throughout. Some light foxing to text. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear, more so around the outer corners of front and rear covers (corresponding to bumping to cover corners previously mentioned). Loosely inserted is a short letter from Sir Peter Scott to the author (Elspeth Huxley) dated 13th March 1988. 361pp. 44 b/w illustrations.
Publicado por Faber, [1993], 1993
Librería: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición Ejemplar firmado
8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, and numerous coloured and monochrome plates; green cloth, backstrip blocked and lettered in white, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SIGNED BY PHILIPPA SCOTT ON HALF-TITLE. 'The Scott partnership put conservation on the map, at a time when conservation was not a word that most people understood' (Sir David Attenborough). Cross & Perkin A48.