Peter Scott; James Fisher — A Thousand Geese

London, Collins, 1953. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this account of Sir Peter Scott and James Fisher's expedition to study the pink-footed goose in Ireland. The first edition. In the original publisher's cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. With a full colour frontispiece, vignettes, maps and 8 monochrome plates. Collated complete. This work documents the expedition to Iceland undertaken by noted ornithologists Peter Scott and James Fisher, in search of the Pink-Footed Goose. During the trip the team managed to catch and mark 1151 geese and goslings which greatly aided their study of the animal. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent with only light bumping to the head and tail of the spine with very slight discolouration to the head of the spine. The wrap is very smart with light handling marks to the rear, minor chipping and the odd small closed tear. A two inch closed tear to the front joint of the fly leaf. The odd minor spot to the verso with offsetting to the spine. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with the odd spot only. Plate '1a' mis-bound, facing page 32 instead of page 31. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Peter Scott. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.