Limited Edition Book 1940 - Audubon's America

Books : Author Signed, Inscribed

 

REDUCED: Audubon's American, the narratives and experiences of John James Audubon, authorized and edited by Donald Culross Peattie, illustrated with facsimiles of Audubon's prints and paintings.

This is a Signed Edition by, Donald Culross Peattie..... is limited to 3,025 autographed copies of which 3,000 were for sale. The text was printed at the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Mass. and the plates were printed at the Lakeside Press in Chicago and at the Pudor Press in Boston, in August, 1940. No slipcase with this volume.

Contents: What Audubon Knew, Biographical Note, Audubon as a Witness, Kentucky Days and Nights, Hunter's Tales, Pioneer Types, Deep South, Four Proud Fowl, Down East for Birds and Subscribers, Out West with Buffalo and Indians.

319 pages, Book and binding tight. Top edge gold gilt pages, Linen hardback. with gold embossed birds and black book plate with Audubons America on cover. Cover has natural staining and aging on the exterior. Interior is good with some tanning of pages. Pages have raw edges.

Measurement: 8" x 11-3/4" - 1-1/2" Thick. Original Signature

Item ID: CB-138

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