ONE MAN'S ISLAND; A Naturalist's Year
by Brockie, Keith
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060153601
- ISBN 13
- 9780060153601
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Keith Brockie. 4to, light gray cloth, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with color illustration of a nesting bird by Keith Brokie, 150 pages of illustrations (sketches in pencil & crayon, watercolor; also photos, & a hand-drawn map of the island of May) executed brilliantly by Keith Brokie--the author-illustrator--in color and black & white, tinted endpapers, unpaginated preliminaries & introduction [xx] + 150 pages. Artist-naturalist Keith Brockie's studies made after a decade of detailed observations on the island of May in the Firth of Forth, Scotland. The exquisitely detailed drawings in the book represent a decade of Brockie's observations devoted to this important wildlife centre. Â <br/> <br/> This Harper & Row first printing was published in the same year, 1984, as the J. M. Dent & Son, Ltd., First British Edition.
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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1884
- Title
- ONE MAN'S ISLAND; A Naturalist's Year
- Author
- Brockie, Keith
- Illustrator
- Keith Brockie
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition, 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060153601
- ISBN 13
- 9780060153601
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Scotland, birds, illustrated, watercolor, pencil, life cycles, sea birds, habitats, eggs
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