Description

Hardcover, Collector’s Lifetime edition bound in genuine red leather lettered and decorated in gold. All edges gilt. 349 pages. Contains three appendices and three indices. Bound-in silk ribbon marker, smyth sewn binding and archival quality paper mark this as quality Eastern Press book. Illustrated with color paintings of 247 species by Marjorie Statham and 232 photographs by Florence Longworth. Fiftieth Anniversary edition, first printing thus. Special blank, unused Easton Press book-plate, especially produced for this edition, tipped in loose. No previous ownership marks. Corners sharp, gilt bright and covers tight and sound, A clean, fresh, unread and like new copy. Fine.