No signatures. 2" tear to top of front free endpaper. Some splitting to front hinge. Front board knocked. 2" tear with adhesive tape repair to tail of dust wrapper spine. 3/8" chip to front fold of dust wrapper. 1/4" x 1/2" chip missing at head of dust wrapper spine. 1/4" x 3/8" chip at head of rear fold of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; 111 pages. Illustrated. Green boards. "My regard for the peregrine dates from the day when, a young lad, I lay on my back and watched a dark speck hurtling high above Manchuria's black precipices. Red-beaked choughs were its prey, and as falcon talons struck on of their number lifeless and the falcon's battlecry rang across the peanut fields, I vowed one day I would own just such a winged terror as this." - opening paragraph.; 12mo 7" - 7" tall