Morning Flight, a book of wildfowl by Peter Scott - 1950

Country Life Ltd., 1946. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1946. 8th Impression. 137 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white and colour illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Small tears to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning, tape and water staining to spine and edges. Foxing overall.

Country Life., 1937. 1st. Ed. 3rd. Imp.. pp.xiii, 138 with colour and b/w. plates and line drawings. 4to. Hardback. Minor foxing o/w. contents fine. Original blue cloth boards with gilt lettering in vg. condition plus condition.

London: Country Life Ltd. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover lightly rubbed. Spotting to fore edge. 1936. Reprint. Blue hardback cloth cover. 300mm x 240mm (12" x 9"). xiii, 138pp. .

London: Country Life, 1942. 6th imp.. Nice copy. quarto. orig. cloth xiii + 138pp., colour frontis., colour & b/w plates, Illustrated by the Author. Fine colour plates. Spine faded o/w a nice copy

London/ New York: Country Life/ Charles Scribner's, 1936. 'First ordinary edition' (1935-limited ) . Blue Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 23 Cms x 29 Cms. half-title with drawing of ducks+f/piece (col.self-portrait)+xiv+138, 15 further col.plates ex-pagination, 46 back & white plates also ex-pagination, occasionaly woodcut endpieces; tanning to end-papers and pastedowns, slightly also to half-title and final leaves and marginal spots of same occ. throughout and textblock edges, 1952-dated gift inscription to front endpaper, final endpaper creased and back gutterpaper split exposing netting but quite secure; covers clean but spine and joitn ends rubbed and slightly split, bottom spine chipped, corner rubbed, joints and corners faded. What saves this is that as Scott's first publication, with some quite brilliant coloured illustrations, it marks the debut of its later very famous author (and collaborator with Sir David Attenborough), in addition none of the listed copies appear to have jackets and are in… Read More

Country Life,, [1947]. 8vo., Ninth Impression, with coloured frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title-vignette, 15 fine coloured plates and 46 plates in monochrome; handsomely bound in dark green crushed half morocco, green cloth boards, back with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled with flying wildfowl in gilt, gilt top, green endpapers, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. First published as a limited edition in 1935.

, xiii [2] 1-138 pages, number 673 of 750 copies, contains 16 colour plates and 48 black and white plates, neat pencil signature on limitation page