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BIRDS OF A FEATHER. Unpublished letters of W.H. Hudson.
Edited and introduced by Dennis Shrubsall. Wood engravings by Marcus Beaven. Bradford-on-Avon:Moonraker Press. (1981). 108pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows some light wear and mild soiling but otherwise in very good condition. Binding shows some gentle shelf-wear. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, a very good copy.
$20.00
FRANCIS LEE JAQUES. Artist of the Wilderness Worls. Foreword by Roger Tory Peterson.
Garden City: Doubleday. 1973. 370pp. With 64 paintings and dioramas in full color. Appreciations by Sigurd F. Olson and Harriet G. Buchheister. An introduction by Roger Tory Petrson and three new appraisals of Jaques work by Florence Page Jaques; Jerome P. Connolly and Robert G. Larson. An over-size book with slip-case. Hard cover. A very good, tight, clean copy. Slip-case covered with medium foxing. Base of spine lightly cracked. TS003.
$85.00
ARIZONA AND ITS BIRD LIFE. A Naturalist's Adventures with the Nesting Birds on the Desserts, Grasslands, Foothills and Mountains of Southeastern Arizona
Cleveland, OH:The Bird Research Foundation. 1951. 725pp. Decorated end-pages. Desert scene front and map in rear. Illustrated in color and black and white by different artists, including Roger Tory Peterson. Inscribed and signed by author on half-title page. (Included are 4 christmas greeting cards (1952-1955) from author and wife to person inscription is directed to). Book in very good, clean condition with a light bit of foxing to verso of half title; and a bit of off-setting to rear end-pages from dust jacket flap. Dust jacket is in good condition with edgewear and small chips and tears.
$150.00
YELLOWLEGS
New York:St. Martin's Press. (1980). Limited, signed edition, #94/250 copies, numbered and signed by the Author with an additional plate (also numbered and signed) laid in. Bound in white covered boards, lightly soiled, with decorations in gilt on spine, with a white slipcase. The book is in very good, clean condition. The slipcase is slightly shelf-worn, but soiled and lightly foxed as well.
$35.00