ppint. 6th Jun 2022
| | sphere books limited p/b first printing, first edition
cover art unsigned, uncredited (may be a painting by peter scott, front cover; and a photograph with side photo of him, head & shoulders against a background of swans on a lake, back cover)
cover price (none printed)
368pp. including eight pages titles, indica including list of sphere books ltd.'s agents around the world°, two blocks of eight colour plates upon 8pp. much higher quality paper each, take the total extent of this p/b to 384p. including one blank end p.
° - thomas nelson & sons ltd. in east, south and west africa, australia and in canadada, calypso distributors in the bahamas, hodder & stoughton ltd. in new zealand, western publications distribution agency (hk) ltd. in - surprisingly - hong kong, marican & sons (malaysia) (sdn) berhad in malaya, the pramuansarn publishing house in thailand, kingstons (north) ltd. in zambia, dar alruba universal distribution co. in iraq, steimatzky's agency ltd. in israel, international publishers representatives in lebanon, progress press co. ltd. in malta, hellenic distribution agency ltd. in, amazingly enough, greece, distropa buchvertrieb in (presumably west) germany, importbokhandeln in scandiwegia, sven gade in denmark (prob'ly with a little help, besides - betides),_van ditmar in holland (and prob'ly in groeningen also), the downright pedestrian librairie hachette in france, comercial atheneum, s.a., in spain, and the zappy-sounding electroliber limitada in portugal...
no table of contents, nor index, save of the colour plates; though nigel sitwell, who made the selection of items from peter scott's conversations, articles, interviews and books, provides a preface, and is accorded the honour of recognition upon the front cover with ''edited by nigel sitwell''. |