Title: The Art of Robert Bateman: 25th Anniversary Edition
Binding: Hard Cover Book Condition: Fine Jacket Condition: Fine Size: Square (Approx. 12" X 12") Publisher: Petaluma, CA Pomegranate Communications 2006 ISBN Number:0764937650 / 9780764937651
Seller ID: 003105
Fine hardcover book in fine dust jacket; never having been read and as new, the book is clean, tight, square, and free of any markings showing only very light rubbing to the board edges; unclipped dust jacket is in similarly fine condition; book now protected by newly applied Brodart clear cover; 179 pages; profusely illustrated with 77 full-color plates along with additional black & white drawings as well as a 14 page selection of both color & B&W sketches from the artist's sketchbooks; Introduction by Roger Tory Peterson; Text by Ramsay Derry; originally published in 1981, this is the newly redesigned 25th Anniversary edition of that earlier work. The artist's "astonishingly detailed and carefully composed paintings of birds and mammals" are beautifully presented alongside the artist's own commentary about the paintings and the circumstances surrounding the wildlife encounters.