Description
Letters from Skokholm
R M Lockley
FIRST EDITION
R M Lockley’s study of the flora and fauna of this remote Welsh Island. The letters were written to solace his brother-in-law, poet and naturalist John Buxton who was captured in Norway in 1940.
Hardback with dust jacket. Pieces missing from jacket at top edge. Blue book cloth with title in gilt lettering on the spine and image of a seabird in gilt on centre front. Reg Vallintine book plate on inside front cover. Front endpaper tanned along spine and leading edge and inscribed ‘Kit Asher’. Exquisite illustrations by Charles Tunnicliffe
243 pages
Black and white illustrations
142 mm x 216 mm (approx. 5.75 in x 8.5 in)
1947, J M Dent & Co Ltd, London