The Peregrine

New York: Harper & Row, (1967). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 191 pp. Original full black cloth-covered boards, stamped in gold, in original unclipped ($4.95) dust-jacket. Almost fine. Faint edge wear, particular to spine ends and corners. Handling and shelf wear very minor. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Light handling wear present. Corners mildly bumped, curled. Interior clean and unmarked.

Dust Jacket: Near Fine

Hardcover: Near Fine

“Robert Macfarlane deemed The Peregrine to be "a masterpiece of twentieth-century non-fiction" in his introduction to the New York Review Books edition of the book. On the back jacket cover of the same edition, James Dickey states that the book "transcends any 'nature writing' of our time," while Barry Lopez declares the book to be "one of the most beautifully written, carefully observed and evocative wildlife accounts I have ever read." Werner Herzog called it the "one book I would ask you to read if you want to make films," and said elsewhere "... it has prose of the caliber that we have not seen since Joseph Conrad."