Description

Wahlstrom & Widstrand, Stockholm, [Published Date: 1980]. Hardcover, 119 pages. Text in English. Translation by Walstan Wheeler. No other printings listed. Good+ in good dust jacket. Oversized (11.74 x 11.5") blue texture Paper over Boards with silver lettering on front and spine. Light bumping, scuffing and fading to edges of covers. Binding tight. Light spotting to edges of text block and end papers. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked. Dust jacket has a 1" tear to the paper over the top edge of the front cover and a few other smaller nicks and tears and creasing along edges. light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Color illustrations on most pages; some black-and-white illustrations.With his superbly evocative paintings and drawings, Swedish artist Gunnar Brusewitz has,captured the birds, the wildlife and the atmosphere of the landscape of northern Europe.. . . Cranes, Black-throated Divers, a Kingfisher, a Woodcock the size of a match head, a badger walking through the snow, a swimming grass snake, and the displays of Great Snipe: these and many more images are brought to life stunningly. The text complements the illustrations.