1952 1st edition. Collins. Folio. Pp94. 12 colour plates plus b&w line drawings by Hugh Monahan. Blue cloth. Good-plus in torn, faded dust-wrapper. Signed by the author.
Notes: This is Aylmer Tryon's account of his adventures on the foreshore, fen and marsh, with many b/w sketches amongst the text, and twelve plates of colour paintings. The colour plates show; wigeon flighting at high water; last of the open water - Aberdeenshire; pale brent over Sligo Bay; Greenland whitefront leaving at sunset, Roscommon; barnacles over the island; garganey coming into a Cambridgeshire fen; the deserted shore - the Wash; greylag and goslings - pinkfeet, Solway; wigeon at ebb tide; a haunt of teal. A handsome book.
