How to Make Friends with Birds by Ladd, Niel Morrow - 1926

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1926. Hardcover. 48mo - 8 x 13.5 cm (oblong); 228 pp. First published in 1916, this is a later edition. Title continues: "What to Do to Make One's Home Grounds Attractive to Bird Life. From Nesting Boxes to Winter Feeding. More than 200 illustrations." Ladd was President of the Greenwich Bird Protective Society and Member of the Linnaen Society. Black cloth over thin and flexible boards with gilt decoration and lettering on the front and spine, comes in a fitted box that has a paste-down label with information about the book. The book spine is faded with mild edgewear to the boards. The text is clean and the binding is solid. The fitted box is quite worn and in a poor condition. .