Author: Young, E.Hilton (Lord Kennet of the Dean)
Title: Bird in the Bush
Description: Country Life 1936 148, col frontis, 20 b/w illus. . HB. 4to, orig. two tone cloth, gt. Light marginal wear. Light foxing to endpapers. No.492, singed by Baron Kennet and Peter Scott. Vg.. Illustrated by Peter Scott. Autographed edition limited to 550 copies. Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet, (1879 1960) was a British politician and writer, serving in the Royal Navy during the First World War. In 1922 he married Kathleen Scott, widow of famous explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott, and became stepfather to Kathleen's son, the naturalist Peter Scott. Lord Kennet wrote about the birds of the Kennet valley. The dust jacket states, 'His step-son, Peter Scott, has already won fame by his wildfowling pictures. He shows himself here as acute an observer of the humbler birds of our hedgerows and fields'..
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Title: Bird in the Bush
Description: Country Life 1936 148, col frontis, 20 b/w illus. . HB. 4to, orig. two tone cloth, gt. Light marginal wear. Light foxing to endpapers. No.492, singed by Baron Kennet and Peter Scott. Vg.. Illustrated by Peter Scott. Autographed edition limited to 550 copies. Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet, (1879 1960) was a British politician and writer, serving in the Royal Navy during the First World War. In 1922 he married Kathleen Scott, widow of famous explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott, and became stepfather to Kathleen's son, the naturalist Peter Scott. Lord Kennet wrote about the birds of the Kennet valley. The dust jacket states, 'His step-son, Peter Scott, has already won fame by his wildfowling pictures. He shows himself here as acute an observer of the humbler birds of our hedgerows and fields'..
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Price: GBP 85.00 = appr. US$ 121.38 Seller: Pemberley Natural History Books
- Book number: S53911
- Book number: S53911
See more books from our catalog: Zoology,Birds