London: Collins, 1967. Uncommon first edition of J A Baker's obsessive and compelling study of the peregrine falcon. The book is an ex-library copy, rebound in clean blue library cloth, remnants of a lending label on the first flyleaf, small stamps on title page and reverse; a couple of marks to the text but mostly clean and fresh. Two labels to final endpapers. The jacket is very good, having been protected for most of its life, with no library marks at all, sunned to the spine but retaining quite good colour to the front panel and not price-clipped. As Robert Macfarlane puts it 'Baker's extraordinary book is an elegy in part for the peregrines, and in part for the landscape through which he and they both moved.' Such was the author's regard for his subject, and his own privacy, that in place of the customary authorial photo there is a picture of a peregrine on the rear flap of the jacket. Collates: [8] pp 9-191 Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1967

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J. A. Baker is also the author of The Hill of Summer. He was a native of Essex, England. Robert Macfarlane ’s Mountains of the Mind (2003), about wilderness and the Western imagination, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian First Book Award, among other prizes.

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Seller: Christian White Rare Books Ltd. (GB)
Seller's Inventory #: 7762
Title: The Peregrine [first edition]
Author: J A Baker
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Collins
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1967
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First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Rebound: A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.