Buy this book on-line WILLIAMSON**, HENRY: : The HENRY WILLIAMSON Animal Saga - Tarka the Otter, Salar the Salmon, Brock the Badger, Chakchek the PeregrineLONDON.MACDONALD,1960. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp. FINE-/VG. No owner inscrptn,no clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - possibly an export edn, generally believed to be issued before the trade issue in it's country of origin.Bright,clean, matt green background with 3 or 4 colour block illustrations of the subjects to the front panel and with b/w lettering, colour vignetted (Peregrine) illustraion and white letters,black letters in a white panel,rear panel with author's contemporary b/w portrait photograph on a lightly spotted white background.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing and chipping - mainly to top edges of dw/dj,an approx. 1.5cm closed tear on front's top edge,rubbing with minimal chipping or loss at head of spine/backstrip,top corner tips rubbed with miniscule loss,similar to front lower corner too.Described hard but fairly and honestly - reads worse than actually is - probably too much detail! Top+fore -edges with light toning with faint,minimal, sporadic spotting but still fairly bright; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - text body virtually foxing-free and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean and unblemished, sharp-cornered,original plain beige cloth boards with a green panel with bright,crisp,blocked gilt title lettering,clean plain white endpapers with minimal off-setting from dw/dj inner flaps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp,viiixpp+13-477pp [paginated] includes author's foreword and four especially written pieces for the edn preceding the individual stories; Tarka, Salar, Brock and Chakchek respectively; plus [unpaginated] 2pp blanks,half-title page,b/w line illustrated design repeated from dw/dj front illustration by W.S (Stein) title page,individual title separator pages each with a different dedication to its reverse - the first 2 stories to William Henry Rogers,Esq.,late Tutor at Eton and both T.E. Lawrence and V. M. Yeates for the 2nd story respectively,and to the rear,2pp blanks.
First edn,2nd imp of this collection of four Williamson animal stories,comprising new texts of 'Tarka the Otter' and 'Salar the Salmon'; and revised versions of 'The Epic of Brock the Badger' and 'Chakchek the Peregrine'.
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