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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, 1928. Cloth hardcover, 310 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, light soiling or age-toning to the pages and page-edges, some soiling to the covers, rubbing and wear to the edges of the covers including some fraying to the spine-ends, no dust jacket.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. In blue cloth with light rubbing. .

New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1928. 310 pages. Volume remains tight and clean, showing only slight signs of use and age. Dust jacket shows chips and tears along edges, with a one by two inch loss of paper at the top edge over the front cover. There are also a few fairly slight scuffs affecting the jacket. Dust jacket is now in a clear Brodart protective sleeve.. First Edition. Cloth - Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. Illus. by Lang Campbell .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Hardcover. very good. 1st edition. 310pp. Octavo. Illustrated with drawings. Original blue cloth with red lettering on front cover and spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Covers slightly rubbed. very good 1928

NY: Scribner's, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. A local association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper in the year of publication: "For my eternal friend, Walter D. Daskam. Dear Walter: -  When you get tired of Men, men, men, try these blooming animals, for a change, and charge the time to the account of yours truly, W.T. Hornaday, Stamford, Oct 25, 1928." Uncommon signed.  Walter Daskam lived in Stamford, CT, like Hornaday, and was the president of Stamford Trust Company, thus the joke about "charging" the time. Among other endeavors, he was on the board of trustees for The Agassiz Association for the study of natural science.  This book is series of stories in which the narrator, who is Hornaday, visits with and interviews animals who talk and give testimony. As he writes in the preface, "The author disclaims all responsibility for the opinions of his animal friends who knock on the moral quality of the alleged lords of creation, and for the use of the outdoor language that… Read More