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NATURE ABOUNDING
Written by E.L. Grant Watson. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Stock no. 1329183
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 1951. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

This is a book of Nature showing how living things on the earth and under the earth, in the air, and in the water, have been appreciated by naturalists, physicists, explorers, sportsmen, novelists, essayists, gardeners, and farmers, and also by mere ordinary men and women who stand and stare in wonder. New Edition. Black boards, gilt title to spine. 384 pages. B/w illustrations. Endpapers lightly browned, foxing to endpapers and textblock. Dustwrapper is heavily foxed with slight edge chipping. Tiny hold to spine which is also browned.

TALES FROM EBONY
Written by Harcourt Williams. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Stock no. 1325082
Published by Nattali & Maurice Limited. 1st thus 1947. Good condition.

Red cloth. Gilt title and decoration. The new edition. Colour plates and b/w chapter headers & footers. Spine and corners bumped and worn. Covers damp stained. Small booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Front hinge split between frontispiece and title page but binding is tight. Some foxing and fingermarks to contents. Endpapers are lightly browned and foxed.

HOW TO DRAW FARM ANIMALS
Written by C.F. Tunnicliffe. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Stock no. 1323340
Published by The Studio Limited. 1st 1947. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Small fromat, 6.75 x 5.25". Green cloth. B/w drawings throughout. Advice on drawing the animals as well as factual notes on each breed. 64 pages. An uncommon little book. Spine very slightly bumped. Endpapers lightly browned. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is slightly worn at spine with some foxspots to base of spine and also front panel of wrapper. Dustwrapper is browned on verso.

WANDERING WITH NOMAD
Written by Norman Ellison. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Stock no. 2124492
Published by University of London Press. 1st 1946. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Norman Ellison is known by countless listeners to the B.B.C. Northern Children's Hour as Nomad the Naturalist; and his fortnightly walk into the country with his schoolboy nephew, Dick, has become one of the highlights of broadcasting. In this story Dick is spending his holidays at Nomad's home - an old smuggler's cottage on the cliff-top; and what holidays they prove to be! Whether they are going down the quarry face on a rope, warding off the attack of a wild cat or hunting for pearls among the mussel beds, Nomad holds the reader's attention by the same charm and fascination he displays when broadcasting. Green cloth boardsz, black title to spine and vignette to front. Photo frontis. B/w illustrations. 179 pages. Spine and over edges are browned. Some bumping to corners. Lengthy inscription in pencil to front pastedown. Foxing to outer page edges. Top corners of pages have a bit of creasing. Wrapper is foxed with edge-tears and chips; some loss.

RIVERMOUTH
Written by Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Stock no. 1711670
Published by Eyre & Spottiswoode. 1st 1949. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Detailed studies of estuary birds. B/w illustrations. Green boards, black title to spine. Boards clean. Minor foxing to top edge of text block. Endpapers browned. Else contents clean. Dustwrapper chipped at corners and unevenly browned.

SALAR THE SALMON
Written by Henry Williamson. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Stock no. 820486
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st thus 1936. Almost very good condition.

Pale grey/blue silk moire covered boards. Silver title and vignette to spine. Green pictorial endpapers. First printing of the edition with 16 full page colour illustrations by country Artist CF Tunnicliffe plus b/w chapter headers and footers. Spine browned, covers unevenly browned. Name in ink to verso of half-title page. All plates present. Contents creased diagonally across top half of page. Still a reasonable copy.

BEASTS ROYAL
Written by Richard Patrick Russ; Patrick O'Brian. Illustrated by C.F. Tunnicliffe.
Stock no. 591740
Published by Putnam. 1st 1934. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Blue cloth, white titles. Colour frontis. 8 b/w plates. Written when Russ was 19 years old, he later wrote under the pseudonym of Patrick O'Brian. Superb Tunnicliffe illustrations. REDUCED PRICE. Top and tail of spine slightly faded. Spine slightly bumped. Last few pages lightly foxed else contents fine. Original brown wrapper with pictorial onlay is price-cut and very slightly nicked at top and tail of spine. A lovely copy of this rare title.