Romances of the Wild by Batten, H. Mortimer - [1922]

Paperback. Very Good.

Blackie & Son Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Stated. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.

Blackie & Son Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 159 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper. Water staining to some pages, text remains unaffected. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges. Splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed. Dent and water staining to rear board. Marking to front board.

Glasgow: Blackie & Son, Limited, n.d. [ca. 1922]. Large octavo, illus. upper cover, 159 pp. Wonderfully illustrated. Good, with speckling to covers, light foxing; interior bright and tight. ‘...I give my assurance that these stories aare true to the lives of the creatures with which they deal, as I have seen and known them, and beyond the occasional founding of a plot, round which to weave the fabric of their ways and characters, no liberty has been taken. And if they add one jot to the understanding sympathy of my readers, my object will have been achieved.’ Contents: Negeet of the Blue Underworld; The Waif of Prairie Hollows; The Flotsam of Fate; The Coming of the Curlews; Redrib; The Death-Leap; The Forest of Hidden Runways; Ruddle Lug; Drifts of Winter; The Gentleman Hobo; Kings of the Infinite; Whitefoot of the Deadland Trail; Unk-Wa; Banska the Grizzly; Blood Relatives; Yellow Tooth, the Trespasser; Firepoint.

BLACKIE & SON LTD. hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Blackie first edition illustrated by warwick reynolds on grey illustrated cloth split down main spine board seam

London: Blackie, 1976. 4th Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Warwick Reynolds. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: Blackie, 1964. Repr . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Warwick Reynolds. 11 full page b/w plates + text ills by WARWICK REYNOLDS, dj has a few short edge tears, top of spine lightly rubbed. Prize plate on front endpaper, page edges browning, vg. 8vo, 256pp.

Blackie, 1964. Hardcover. Acceptable.

London: Blackie & Son Ltd. nd c(1922). Small 4to, pp. 156, b/w fronts., b/w plates, b/w ills., orig dec cl bds., minor wear to head and tail spine, v.g A naturalists collection of wildlife tales, a very well-maintained copy Cloth Boards.

Glasgow : Blackie, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Hinges starting. Physical description: 256p. Subjects: Animals ; Anecdotes. Genre: Animals. Language: English.