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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Percy Reeves (Color picture) / Walter Alois Weber (Cover Art & Interior Line Drawings) (illustratore). Here is a Lovely Vintage Children's Picture Book from 1938 about domesticated animals. It is a clearly-written, engaging book written for upper levels of elementary schools. The author, who worked in the Field Museum of Natural History, talks about domesticated animals, their uses, their interaction with humans, their personalities, etc. For each animal discussed, Mr. Schmidt gives a historical account of the animal's zoological ancestry. It's a bit of science, but easy, comfortable science. Animals and their various breeds discussed are dogs, cats, horses, cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, donkeys. It's a fine text with wonderful pictures. The color plates are lovely. TITLE : Our Friendly Animals and Whence they Came (ON COVER: "Friendly Animals") AUTHOR : Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890 - 1957) Schmidt was one of the foremost herpetologists in the world. INTERIOR COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS : by Percy Reeves COVER PICTURE, END-PAPERS & TEXTUAL BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS : Walter Alois Weber IMPRINT : Donohue & Company PLACE : Chicago - New York COPYRIGHT : (1938) ISSUE DATE : [1947 - as per OCLC - World Catalog] EDITION : Reprint PHYSICAL DETAILS : Oversize hardcover; Approximately 10" x 12" (quarto) hard cover in color pictorial boards with cloth spine; 64 pages; 12 full-page color plates, numerous line vignette drawings; line-pictorial end-papers printed in brown against a buff background. With Full-Page Color illustrations by Percy Reeves, and Cover Picture, End-papers, and Textual Line Drawings by Walter Alois Weber CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following details noted :: EXTERIOR : Two or three small, transparent water drop spots display on the front cover; mild surface creasing to rear board -- else pictorial boards are bright and clean; moderate edge wear and bumped corners, with attendant splitting to corner tips; spine displays slight fraying at extremities, else clean. BINDING : Solid INTERIOR : Clean with bright colors throughout. no writing or marking.