This is a scarce and highly collectible:

" The Book of Birds", Birds of Town and Country, The Warblers, and American Game Birds.

First Edition, First Printing - Published in 1927 by The National Geographic Society.

IN FINE CONDITION !!

CONTENTS:

Foreword: by Gilbert Grosvenor, President and Editor

Common Birds of Town and Country: by Henry W. Henshaw, Formerly Chief of the U.S. Biological Survey.

Friends of our Forests -- The Warblers, Industrious Woodland Songsters Constitute an Innumerable Army Defending our Trees against Destructive insects: By Henry Henshaw, Formerly Chief of the U.S. Biological Survey.

The World Record for our Feathered Friends

How Birds can take Thier own Portraits: By George Shiras, 3rd.

The Game Birds of North America: By Henry W. Henshaw

Encouraging Birds around the Home: by Frederick H. Kennard

Our Greatest Travelers---Migratory Birds: by Wells W. Cooke

Bird Banding, the Telltale of Migratory Flight: by Edward W. Nelson

Index to Illustrations and Bird Biographies

The AMAZING PLATES: 331 Color portraits of North American Birds from paintings from life by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. 129 illustrations in black & white ( photos). Printed on high quality glossy paper.

There is not enough room here to show all the plates, so the photos below represent but a scant few and do not do justice to the incredible amount of wondeful plates this book is teeming with.

The VAST list of beautiful Color Plates include (not including subspecies!!): Avocet, Baldpate, Beach Bird, Beetle-head, Brewer's Blackbird, Crow, Red-winged Blackbird, Yellowhead Blackbird, Blue-bill, Eastern, Mountain and Western Bluebird, Blue Pap, Bobolink, Bobwhite, Black Brant, White Brant, Bristle-thigh, Brown Back, Bufflehead, Indigo Bunting, Lazuli Bunting, Bush Tit, Butcher Bird, Turkey Buzzard, Cacique (Giant Tropical Oriole), Calico-back, Wild Canary, Canvasback, Cardinal, Carpenter, Catbird, Cedar Bird, Yellow-Breasted Chat, Cherry Bird, Chestnut-bellied Scaled Quail, Chewink or Towhee, Black-capped Chickadee, Carolina Chickadee, Oregon Chickadee, Cock of the Desert, California Condor, Coot, Double-crested Cormorant, Cottontop, Cowbird, Brown Crane, Sandhill Crane, Whooping Crane, Creeper, Black and White Creeper, Brown Creeper, Common Crow,  Rain or Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Bristle-thigh Curlew, Eskimo Curlew, Hudsonian Curlew, Jack Curlew (Hudsonian Curlew), Long-billed Curlew, Blue Darter, Dough-bird (Eskimo Curlew), Ground Dove, Mexican Ground Dove, Mourning Dove, Sand Dove, Turtle Dove, Long-billed Dowitcher, Duck - (Baldpate, Barrow's Golden-eye, Black, Bufflehead, Bull Neck, Butterball, Canvasback, Deaf, Dumb Bird, Eider, King Eider, Spectacled Eider, Steller's Eider, Florida Black, Fool, Gadwall, Golden-eye, American Golden-eye, Barrow's Golden-eye, Harlequin, Labrador, Mallard, American Merganser, Hooded Merganser, Red-breasted Merganser, Old Squaw, Pintail, American Pintail, Raft,  Redhead, Ring-necked, Rook, Ruddy, Greater Seaup, Lesser Seaup, American Black Scoter, Surf Scoter, White-winged Scoter, Sea, Sea Pheasant, Shoveler, Spine-tail, Blue-winged Teal, Cinnamon Teal, Green-winged Teal, Fulvous Tree Duck, Whew or Whewer, Whistler, European Widgeon, Wood), Dumb Bird, Bald Eagle, Golden Eagle, King Eider, Spectacled Eider, Steller's Eider, House Finch, Lark Finch, Purple Finch, Flicker, Red-shafted Flicker, Black or Phainopepla Flycatcher, Great-crested Flycatcher, Fool Hen, Gadwall, Florida Gallinule, Purple Gallinule, Hudsonian Godwit, Marbled Godwit, Pacific Godwit, American Goldfinch, Arkansas Goldfinch, Eastern Goldfinch, Gossander or American Merganser, Goose - (American White-fronted, Blue, Brant, Black, Cackling, Canada, Emperor, Snow, White-fronted), Goshawk or Cooper's Hawk, Boat-tailed Crackle, Grass Bird, Black-headed Grosbeak, Bue Grosbeak, Pine Grosbeak, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Grouse - (Blue, Dusky, Franklin's, Ruffed, Sharp-tailed, Spruce), Gull - (American Herring, Franklin's, Herring, Kittiwake), Hawk - (Cooper's, Fish or Osprey, Hen, Marsh, Red-shouldered, Red-tailed, Red-throated, Sharp-shinned, Sparrow), Heath Hens, Heron - (American Black-crowned Night, Black-crowned Night, Great Blue, Great Gray, Yellow-crowned Night), Hummingbird - (Ruby-throated, Rufous), Jay - (Blue, Blue-fronted, California, Steller), Jove's Bird, Carolina Junco, Slate Colored Junco, Kildeer, Arkansas Kingbird, Gray Kingbird, Kingfisher, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, American Knot, Krieker, Horned Lar, Meadow Lark, American Magpie, Black-billed Magpie, Yellow-billed Magpie, Mallard, Martin, Purple Martin, Meadowlark, American Merganser, Hooded Merganser, Red-breasted Merganser, Mocking Bird, Mexican Motmot, Mud Hen, California Murre, Nighthawk, Florida Nighthawk, Nuthatch, White breasted Nuthatch, Old Squaw, Baltimore Oriole, Baltimore, Oriole, Bullock's Oriole, Ginat Tropical Oriole, Orchard Oriole, Osprey or Fish Hawk, Ovenbird, Owl - (American Barn, Barn, Barred, Burrowing, Great Horned, Monkey-faced, Screech, Snowy), Partridge, Peabody Bird, Peacock, White Pelican, Wood Pewer, Phainopepla or Black Flycatcher, King-necked Pheasant, Phoebe, Pigeon - (Band-tailed, Passenger, Wild), Plower - (American Black-bellied, Chicken, Golden, Pacific Golden, Upland), Potato-bug Bird, Poule d'Eau (Coot), Prairie Chicken, White-tailed Ptarmigan, Willow Ptarmigan, Quail - (Bobwhite, California, Chestnut-bellied Scaled, Florida, Gambel's Mountain, Sealed, Valley), Rail - (California Clapper, Clapper, King, Sora, Virginia), Raven, Redhead, Redpoll, Redstart, Redwing, Reedbird, Road Runner, Alaska Robin, American Robin, Rook, Sage Hen, Sanderling, Pectoral Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Greater and Lesser Scaup, American Black Scoter, Surf Scoter, White-winged Scoter, Sea Pheasant, Shoveler, Loggerhead Shrike, Pine Siskin, Snake Bird, English Snipe, Robin Snipe, Wilson's Snipe, Sora, Sparrow - (Chipping, Desert, English, Field, Fox, Lark, Song, Tree, Vesper, White-crowned, White-throated), Old Squaw (Duck), Starling, Black-necked Stilt, Stork, Swallow - (American Barn, Bank, Barn, Chimney, Cliff or Eaves, Sea, Tree, Violet-green), Trumpeter Swan, Whistling Swan, Chimney Swift, Scarlet Tanager, Western Tanager, Blue-winged Teal, Cinnamon Teal, Green-winged Teal, Tern - (American Black, Arctic, Black, Caspian, Common, Royal), Thistle Bird, Brown Thrasher, Thrush - (Alice, Hermit, Louisiana Water, Northern Water, Russet-backed, Varied, Water, Wood), Tip-up, Titmouse, Tufted Titmouse, Towhee or Chewink, California Brown Towhee, Wild Turkey, Black Turnstone - Common or Ruddy, Veery, Red-eyed Vireo, Yellow-throated Vireo, Black Vulture, Black Florida Vulture, Turkey Vulture, Warbler - (Audubon, Bachman's, Bay-Breasted, Black and White, Black and Yellow, Black-cap, Black-throated Blue, Black-throated Gray, Black-throated Green, Blackpoll), Blackburnian Warbler - (Blue-winged, Calaveras, Canada, Cape May, Cerulean, Yellow-breasted Chat, Chestnut-sided, Connecticut, Golden-winged, Hooded, Kentucky, Kirtland's, Louisiana Water Thrush, Macgillivray, Magnolia, Maryland Yellow-throat, Mourning, Myrtle, Nashville, Northern Water Thrush, Orange-crowned, Ovenbird, Palm, Parula, Pine, Prairie, Prothonotary, Red-faced, Redstart, Swainson's, Tennessee, Water Thrush, Wilson, Wood, Worm-eating, Yellow, Yellow Palm), Bohemian and Cedar Waxwing, Whippoorwill, White Head, European Widgeon, Willet, Woodcok, California Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Red-headed Woodpecker, Wren - (Bewick's Carolina, House, Parkman's, Texas Bewick's, Vigor's), Yellow Bird, Maryland Yellow-throat, Yellowhead, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs.

This book is in Excellent,  Fine condition.

The covers exhibit virtually no shelfwear of any kind, the gold gilt on the front titling is just a bit worn, the gilt on the spine is bright with no loss. The corners are not rubbed or worn. The Endpapers are clean and white with no cracking or writing. BEST of all-- There is no writing or marking in this book !!, the hinges are strong, the corners are straight and true, The plates are all present and the text is clean, white and firmly bound, Nothing is cracked, loose, or coming loose. No foxing or browning evident in text or plates.

A Highly presentable copy that would make a prized addition to any library!!

THIS COPY IS NEARLY PRISTINE CODITION FOR ITS AGE!!!!

This book is NOT ex-library and has NO remainder marks.

Here is your chance to own a VERY scarce, highly collectible piece of literary history listed for much more elsewhere online. This book is an excellent investment which has been steadily increasing in value and will continue to do so.