Author: LOCKLEY Ronald M.
Title: Letters from Skokholm. Illustrated by C. F. Tunnicliffe. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Description: Dent,, 1947. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous illustrations and maps in the text, and endpaper maps, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Wonderful collection of letters written by Lockley from his island home to his brother-in-law, the naturalist John Buxton (subsequently author of the New Naturalist monograph on the Redstart). Buxton was languishing in a POW camp having been captured on active service with the commandos. With splendid illustrations by Tunnicliffe. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Keywords: natural history, illustrated books, lockley, ronald lockley, tunnicliffe, charles tunnicliffe, skokholm, john buxton, new naturalists


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