Song of Wild Laughter [*SIGNED*]

New York: Simon and Schuster. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [very slight bump to lower front corner, no other discernible wear to book; the jacket has a bit of wear along the top and bottom edges, a couple of tiny closed tears at the bottom of the front panel and another at the lower rear flapfold, an itty-bitty puncture wound in the middle of the front hinge, and some soiling to the rear panel]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "To Bob Dickson, / with warmest regards, / Jack Couffer / Victoria 1966." A book about animals by a man who spent much of his career filming them, "the director and cameraman for the brilliant Walt Disney wildlife productions," in which capacity he was largely responsible for such films as NIKKI, WILD DOG OF THE NORTH and THE LEGEND OF LOBO. He also was one of the cinematographers for Joseph Strick's experimental documentary THE SAVAGE EYE (1959), directed and wrote a couple of feature films, RING OF BRIGHT WATER (1969) and THE DARWIN ADVENTURE (1972), and earned an Academy Award nomination for his cinematography on JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL (1973). The inscribee was a film historian and filmmaker whose 1965 short documentary FELICIA was selected for the National Film Registry in 2014. Signed by Author .