Publication: Published by J Horace McFarland Company, 1928, Harrisburg
First edition. 8vo. Green cloth, titles and decoration stamped in black on the front cover and spine, ix [blank], 169 pp., color frontispiece (Baltimore Orioles, male and female), prefatory note, introductory, illustrated with 175 drawings by the author, list of species, index of bird names. This book describes 258 species of birds with pen-and-ink drawings, so carefully done that even a beginner can easily recognize the bird he is anxious to identify. There are delightfully written biographies abounding in information for each species. Fine bright copy in a bright dust jacket internally reinforced on the verso at a few points with cellophane tape, with light wear to the spine ends and corners and a few tiny nicks and closed tears along the extremities. An attractive copy.
Inventory Number: 51931