The Art of Robert Bateman by Bateman, Robert; Derry, Ramsay; Introduction By Roger Tory Peterson - 1981

Toronto: Allen Lane Penguin Books, 1981. Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 179 pages including "---eighty-two colour plates---" and many black-and-white illustrations;---signed by Bateman on the title page without inscription;---very gently used, very clean and unmarked throughout, but there is a thin line of sun fading along the cover edges, and a tiny hole on the back rubbed through the navy blue cloth (see below regarding same anomaly); DJ has two short tears to front, one long tear to back plus a strange tiny hole rubbed through to the book cover. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] See also our listings for a collection of postcard-sized illustrations by that other great Canadian nature artist Glen Loates: titled simply Glen Loates [ISBN 0920016065], and for Glen Loates' Birds of North America.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good -/Good.