Wild Lone: The Story of a Pytchley Fox by 'B B' - 1938

Paperback. Acceptable.

Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1938. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1938. First Edition. 268 pages. No dust jacket. Green and light brown cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Small hole to some pages, text remains readable. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Small holes to rear board. Wear marks overall.

Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1944. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1944. Reset & Reprinted. 181 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Very slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to front panel. Foxing overall.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1941. 1st (2nd reprint). h/b. Very good, 1941 reprint of 1938 original, no d/j, green clothbound boards with cream spine (some scuffing & chipping) & gilt spine titling; text block firm, pages crisp, some foxing (appropriately enough) on edges and endpapers.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Denys James Watkins-Pitchford (1905-1990) was a British naturalist, an illustrator, art teacher and a children's author under the pseudonym ""BB"". He won the 1942 Carnegie Medal for British children's books. Written on the eve of the Second World War, the novel follows the life of a young fox named RufusÑand while it does stick to the conventions of the genre in this regard, it does so quite capably, painting a beautiful picture of the idyllic pre-industrial English landscape and its wild inhabitants.

U. S. A.: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1938. First American Edition. Hardcover. Clean, tightly bound book, endpapers tanned, no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is chipped and creased at the edges, with minor loss at the spine ends and 2 short closed tears at bottom of front cover. xviii + 268 pages, author's scraperboard illustrations throughout .

Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1947. Reprinted. 182 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Dust jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Large tear to spine. Moderate tanning, wear and water marks to jacket.

The Country Book Club, 1951-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. First edition thus. 1951 complete with rare dust wrapper.