Twelve Months with the Birds and the Poets by Harper, Samuel A - 1917

MP3 Audio CD. A Robin's Nest, from Twelve Months with the Birds and Poets (in LibriVox 12th Anniversary Collection ) Twelve Months. With employ mud in their nest building, frequently wait a day or two after the nest is finished before laying their eggs, which action might be attributed to instinctive solicitude for the future family, but this practice is not peculiar to birds who use mud in their nests, so that the delay is more likely due in each case to the fact that the egg is not mature. Mr. Burroughs relates a story of a creeping warbler whose egg became ripe before the nest was finished. After excavating the site for the nest, the bird laid the egg, and then finished the nest over it. So that if instinct sometimes errs upon the one side and fails to prompt the bird to build its nest in time, it may easily err on the other side and urge nest building too soon. But, to return to our nest on the window ledge-whatever the reason may have been for her four days' absence, at the expiration of that… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. A Robin's Nest, from Twelve Months with the Birds and Poets (in LibriVox 12th Anniversary Collection ) Twelve Months. With employ mud in their nest building, frequently wait a day or two after the nest is finished before laying their eggs, which action might be attributed to instinctive solicitude for the future family, but this practice is not peculiar to birds who use mud in their nests, so that the delay is more likely due in each case to the fact that the egg is not mature. Mr. Burroughs relates a story of a creeping warbler whose egg became ripe before the nest was finished. After excavating the site for the nest, the bird laid the egg, and then finished the nest over it. So that if instinct sometimes errs upon the one side and fails to prompt the bird to build its nest in time, it may easily err on the other side and urge nest building too soon. But, to return to our nest on the window ledge-whatever the reason may have been for her four days' absence, at the expiration of that… Read More

Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1917. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Brown boards with a blue spine and gilt decorations. Lovely flight of gilt birds on the cover. Cover is worn and somewhat soiled as is the spine. Corners and edges are chipped and bumped. End paper has previous owners name in pencil. "This study of birds and poets is divided into twelve chapters one for each month of the year, beginning with April, the opening of the birds' year.

Unknown Binding. Fair. Signed and inscribed by Samuel A Harper on the foreword page. Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co., 1917. No edition stated, presumed first edition. Hardcover. 8vo - 6 x 8 ½. 295pp. Fair. No dust jacket. Moderate rubbing and soiling to the exterior. The binding is cocked. Related 1917 book review newspaper clipping inserted in the front endpapers with tanning. Two small tears to the fore-edge of the front free endpaper. Senior center stamp on the title page and foreword page. The text is unmarked and the binding is solid.

Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Ralph Fletcher Seymour. Corner tips somewhat worn but mendable. Tear in middle of endpaper, where bookplate was removed. Out of print and scarce. Binding is cloth/boards.