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Hard cover, 8vo in red buckram, bound including the original printed paper wraps, 466pp. Illustrations and plates. Author's signature to title page. Raymond E. Hall (1902-1996) was an American mammalogist at UCLA's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology from 1938-1944. At UCLA Hall studied under biologist Joseph P. Grinnell (a distant relative of George Bird Grinnell, founder of the Audubon Society.) Hall would later work at the University of Kansas. This volume culminates a career of twenty-five years on study of the weasel. "Hall starts out by giving a concise paleotological history of the genus "Mustels." This is followed by short discussions of the skeleton and teeth, a rather longer account of variations in the group (age, sexual, individual, seasonal, coloration and molt, and variations of taxonomic worth), distinction and speciation..." CONDITION: Very Good. Some foxing to text block edges. Spine a bit faded. Ex libris mammalogist Larry C. Watkins, with his bookplate and name stamp on prospectus.
Ref: NATH 9408
$40.00