AND CLOUDS FLYING: A BOOK OF WILD FOWL. By Ian Pitman. With illustrations from paintings and drawings by Peter Scott.

1947 1st edition. Large 8vo (157 x 255mm). Pp152. Colour and b/w illustrations by Peter Scott. Turquoise cloth, spine titled in gilt and silver-gilt.

Written while the author was a prisoner-of-war in Germany. Mostly wildfowling on the east coast of Scotland. Chapters include: Part I - Introduction and list of duck and geese - an introduction to myself, to wildfowling and to this book, British duck and geese, field characteristics of British duck and geese; Part II - Mallard - introductory, morning flight, morning flight inland, morning flight on the coast, evening flight on the coast, evening flight inland, teal; Part III - Widgeon - introduces a new type of flight, ebb tide, flood tide; Part IV - Geese - introductory, Black geese; Grey lag, Pinkfooted geese, Pinkfeet - the influence of the moon on their flighting, Pinkfeet - new moon, first quarter and last quarter, full moon, a conclusion.