first edition
1936 · New York
by Rourke, Constance; [Audubon, John James]
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1936. First edition. Very good in good jacket.. First printing of this account of the famed naturalist, with 12 beautiful color plates reproduced from his famed elephant folio BIRDS OF AMERICA - a 1937 Newbery Honor book. 8.75'' x 6''. Original blue cloth boards. Original unclipped (no price) blue dust jacket. Color pictorial frontispiece with 11 color plates. 342 pages, including index. Bookplate of Flora D. Henning to front pastedown. Ownership stamps of the Uptown Chicago Boys Club to front and rear pastedowns (no other ex-library markings). Jacket with edgewear, some chipping and closed tears; some rubbing and paint marks to front panel. Boards with a bit of bumping to corners and spine ends, a touch of toning. Interior clean and bright.
(Inventory #: 35390)