THE BUCK OF LORDENSHAW: THE STORY OF A ROE DEER. By Henry Tegner.

(1953) 1955 BC edition. Small 8vo (130 x 200mm). Pp174. B/w illustrations by Maurice Tulloch. Green cloth, gilt titles and leaf motif to spine.

The story of a Northumberland roe buck. Well written and excellent natural history. Chapters include: The doe travels; The fawn is born; Death of the doe; The fawn is found; Lordenshaw; Autumn; The hunt; Spring; Cragside; The rings; Fagging; Travelling; Back to Cragside; Winter; The song of the blackcock; The fight; The time of the fawning; Does and fawns; Fire on Cragside; The rings again; The calling of the bucks; Lordenshaw again; Cubbing; The trapped doe; Winter; The lichen stone.