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New York, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1908. 1908 . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A.W. Mumford (Colored Plates). 1908 Publication. Text/VG w/sporadic page discoloration, Green linen boards/VG w/light rubs to corner tips & some color loss to white lettering. DJ/None. Frontispiece: Passenger Pigeon/Half life-size color plate. Weak front & rear hinges; distracting child's pencilling to blank pages lightly erased. First published 1898; first copyright for Color Plates, 1900. This 1908 Edition carries 48 color plates & 16 half-tone plates. Written by an early ecologist, naturalist, avowed bird lover, and one well acquainted with the contributions of Audubon.G.O. Shields, author of the Introduction, was president of the League of American Sportsmen and repelled by ruthless slaughter. Text in 4 parts: I, Water Birds; II, Wading Birds; III, Gallinaceous Game Birds; and, IV, Birds of Prey. Strong copy of a book nearing its centennial.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin/The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1941. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Roger Tory Peterson (Author-Illustrator). Text/As New. Vintage 1941, First Edition, 19th Printing. Illustrated green linen boards/NF w/light edge rubs & surface. Frontispiece: Color Guide to 18 Jays, Thrushes & Tanagers. DJ/None. Light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to upper text block & leading edge. Classic, and now historical, field guide to birds of western United States (from the Pacific, through the Rockies to western parts of the Great Plains) written & illustrated by Roger Tory Peterson's (1908 - 1996). 240 pgs, illustrated b/w in full & line drawings.