Author: HENRY WILLIAMSON.
Title: The Phasian Bird.
Description: Faber, London, 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition the subsequent cheap issue, bound in boards not cloth and without the top edge stain. 8vo. 341pp. Blue boards lettered and ornately ruled in gold at the spine. Top edge very lightly spotted and with a hint of partial toning to the front free endpaper. A very good copy in the attractive Mildred Eldridge-illustrated dust wrapper, clipped and re-priced by the publisher (this cheaper issue was retailed at '5s net' instead of the original 10s. 6d.), lightly dust soiled at the rear panel and with a little chafing to the top edge and a hint of chipping to the spine panel ends. An extended nature story involving an oriental pheasant hatched in the nest of a native British bird, set in the context of rural England during the Second World War. Very Good/Very Good.

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