{"product_id":"our-amazing-birds-robert-s-lemmon-1952-book-club-edition","title":"Our Amazing Birds by Robert S. Lemmon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOur Amazing Birds (Book Club Edition in Illustrated Dust Jacket)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle-Known Facts About the Private Lives of 102 North American Birds, Illustrated by Don R. Eckelberry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBibliographic Specifications\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Our Amazing Birds: The Little-Known Facts About Their Private Lives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Robert S. Lemmon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e The American Garden Guild and Doubleday \u0026amp; Company, Inc., Garden City, New York\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1952\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e None Issued (Pre-ISBN Era)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition Details:\u003c\/strong\u003e Book Club Edition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Publisher's two-tone cloth hardcover with red spine and grey boards, black osprey illustration printed on the front board.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePhysical Format:\u003c\/strong\u003e Octavo-size hardcover, roughly 210 x 140 mm. Illustrated with 102 black and white bird paintings, including full-page plates.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOfficial Condition Report\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Book:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very Good (VG)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExterior \/ Boards:\u003c\/strong\u003e The red cloth spine strip and grey front board are clean and bright, with no visible damage. The black osprey illustration on the front board is crisp. The head of the spine shows slight rubbing or fraying.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterior:\u003c\/strong\u003e The pages are clean and unmarked, with some light toning at the page edges. The binding is sound.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rainbow-and-sun bookplate label reading 'from the library of James W. Gow' on the front pastedown, partly covered by the dust jacket flap.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Dust Jacket:\u003c\/strong\u003e Present and protected in a durable archival-type plastic cover. The jacket is toned, and the spine is sun-faded and tanned. The spine head has a ragged, chipped top edge. There are small chips and nicks to the outer edge and fore-edge of the front flap, creasing and edge wear along the top edge of the back panel, and light spotting and soiling to the back panel. Overall a used, worn jacket.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSynopsis \u0026amp; Historical Value\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur Amazing Birds, by Robert S. Lemmon, gathers 102 short chapters, each devoted to a single North American bird. The subtitle promises the little-known facts about their private lives, and the text delivers on it, covering habits, breeding, range and behaviour in an easy, warm and humorous voice written for general readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach bird is accompanied by a black and white painting by Don R. Eckelberry, with a number of full-page illustrations. The book goes beyond the standard field-guide entry, offering readable stories about how birds live rather than only how to identify them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the Book Club Edition, published in Garden City, New York, in 1952 by The American Garden Guild and Doubleday \u0026amp; Company. It is an attractive, affordable collectible copy for bird lovers, naturalists and collectors of mid-century nature writing and illustrated natural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Profile: Robert S. Lemmon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Stell Lemmon, born in 1885, was an American writer and naturalist. His early books were about dogs, beginning with Training the Dog in 1914 and The Puppy Book in 1924, before he turned increasingly to birds, trees and gardening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis later nature titles include How to Attract the Birds (1947), The Birds Are Yours (1951) and The Best Loved Trees of America (1952). In the 1950s he also wrote a series of National Audubon Society Nature Program books for Nelson Doubleday.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur Amazing Birds Robert Lemmon · Robert S. Lemmon bird book · Don R. 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