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Early printing. Hard cover, 8vo, in green cloth, titles blocked in gold to spine, in the original pictorial dust jacket now in mylar, "First printed in 1948," color frontispiece, 158pp. Condition: Very Good in a Very Good D/j. One corner clipped on ffep. With the bookplate of a noted American naturalist and mammalogist, and pencilled note as to the purchase and reading of the book in dated 1970 on the front pastedown. The five monographs advertised on the back of d/j describe them as a more detailed study of select species the amateur naturalist, meant to accompany the popular "New Naturalist Series," which began publishing in 1945, and continued to at least 2015. Dates on rear of dust jacket suggest this is at least an early printing, as it advertises other books in the series to be released 1948 and 1949.
Ref: NATH 8942
$45.00