HARDBACK " AUTHOR SIGNED & INCLUDES PROMOTIONAL COLOUR PHOTO POSTCARD," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 2nd. Printing.* Date of Publication: 2001* Publisher: Stomforce Publications.* Binding and cover condition: Dark slate blue cloth, gilt title to spine and face. Gilt illustration to face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £14.99. Slight shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Colour illustrations to end-papers. Author signed with best wishes to title page. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Numerous colour & b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 217 pp. text. xxiii pp. afterword. acknowledgements and picture credits at rear.* Description: 'The dramatic and true tale of one of Britain's rarest and most beautiful mammals, a bitch otter called Storm. Rescued from a windswept lane on Exmoor before dawn in winter by a postman, she weighed just one pound seven ounces.' Stormforce is a touching and illustrated account of an otter's rescue and struggle for survival and is told in the form of conversations with the creature herself. David Chaffe is a vet in Bideford, N.Devon and this is based around his experiences with the rescued otter. * A NEAR FINE author signed copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4955
Title: Stormforce, an Otter's Tale
Author: Chaffe, David Ronald John
Illustrator: Cooksley, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - F/F/VG++
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition 2nd.Imp.
ISBN 10: 0953467600
ISBN 13: 9780953467600
Publisher: Stormforce Publications
Place of Publication: St, Ives Cornwall. UK 216
Date Published: 2001-04-06
Size: 21.4 x 15.4 x 3 cm

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