Snakes of the World (in Dustjacket)

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. The November 1931 1st edition, IN ITS UNCOMMON ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. Solid and VG in its green cloth, with very light spotting along the panels and 2 pgs. of offsetting (pgs. 92-93), where a newpaper had been laid-in. And in a crisp, price-intact, VG example of the fragile dustjacket, with chipping along 2/3 of both flap-folds and chipping as well to the spine ends (including 1" of loss at the foot of the spine). Quarto, 84 crisp black-and-white photos at the rear, following the text. A legendary survey book in the field of herpetology, "the first extensive book to be devoted to the snakes of the world". Authored by Raymond Ditmars, the Curator of Mammals and Reptiles at the New York Zoological Park.