AUDUBON
by Constance Rourke
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1936. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. James MacDonald (Illustrator). Text/As New. Vintage 1936, First Edition, First Thus. Silver embossed blue linen boards/VG; w/discoloration to spine & light ink smudges to back. DJ/None. Book plate removal scars to front cover verso. Text illustrated by James MacDonald, and, 12 colored plates from original Audubon prints. LAID-IN: Book-of-the-Month Club review by Henry Seidel Canby. Biography of French-American naturalist John James Audubon (1785 - 1851), known for his great illustrated work, The Birds of America (1827 - 38), and whose name the North American organization for the study and protection of birds honors. Constance Rourke (1885 - 1941) both graduated from and taught at Vassar; she was particularly interested in the American scene. This volume, written in 1936, is one of the fused, historical, biographical, and critical studies for which she is known.
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Details
- Seller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 003880
- Title
- AUDUBON
- Author
- Constance Rourke
- Illustrator
- James MacDonald (Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Biography, Historical Novel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nature; Ecology;
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