A BOOK OF BRITISH WADERS. By Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald.

1939 1st edition. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Pp180,xxv. B/w photograph plates. Green cloth, spine titled in silver-gilt.

Nature notes and identification hints on the British waders. Chapters include: October; December; February; The grey phalarope; The red-necked phalarope; The avocet; The woodcock; The common snipe; The jack snipe; The knot; The little stint; Temminck's stint; The purple sandpiper; The dunlin; The curlew; The sanderling; The ruff; The common redshank; The spotted redshank; The greenshank; The common sandpiper; The green sandpiper; The wood sandpiper; The black-tailed godwit; The bar-tailed godwit; The curlew; The whimbrel; The golden plover; The ringed plover; The kentish plover; The dotterel; The green plover; The turnstone; The oyster-catcher; The stone-catcher; Some other British waders.