Letters from Skokholm
( C.F. TUNNICLIFFE, illus. ) LOCKLEY, Ronald M.
Illustrated by C. F. Tunnicliffe.
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Dent, 1947
Stock code: 48889
Price: £40.00
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, numerous illustrations and maps in the text, and endpaper maps, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
Wonderful collection of letters written by Lockley from his island home to his brother-in-law, the naturalist John Buxton (subsequently author of the New Naturalist monograph on the Redstart). Buxton was languishing in a POW camp having been captured on active service with the commandos. With splendid illustrations by Tunnicliffe. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.