An American Bestiary

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975. Hardcover. Linda K. Powell. SIGNED. 287pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Natural cloth covered boards with red ink stamped titles. Near fine. The edges of the covers are ever so slightly bumped. The dust jacket is in very good condition. The jacket is ever so slightly soiled. The spine and edges of the front panel are sun faded. Signed by Jack Schaefer on the title page. From the jacket- "The book is packed with a thousand bits of information, much of it surely unfamiliar even to the well-read naturalist: the special conditions of a bat's pregnancy, the subterranean architecture of the gopher, the seasonal frustrations of the solid porcupine.