Kestrels in the Kitchen: The Story of Bob and Pat Ratcliffe

First edition, first impression.  184pp, plus black and white plate illustrations.  Brown cloth boards, gilt titles.  8vo.  Cloth gently rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends.  Gift inscription inked on the front free endpaper else neat. clean, bright and tight. In its original slightly toned dust wrapper, a little bumped on edges, Bob and Pat Ratcliffe kept kestrels, gulls, buzzards and other birds in their very ordinary Manchester home.  Kestrels in the Kitchen, their story as told to Meg Atkins, gives the enormous pleasure of spending time in their home and experiencing their practical, humourous and absolutely unsentimental approach to bird keeping, each of which they aimed to rehabilitate.