Russell peterson illustrator (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. First edition. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To the Bowles on their anniversary, with my very best wishes, Marjory Bartlett Sanger, Driftwood, 15 January 1966." An uncommon book in general and scarce signed. Marjory Bartlett Sanger was a mid-century naturalist writer from Florida. She was an ornithologist (a member of the AOU and many other bird organizations) with a specialty on herons and the author of 11 books, most of them about birds and their habitats along with one interpretive biography of William Bartram. Her other nonfiction books on ecology includeCypress Country, World of the Great White Heron, Checkerback's Journey: The Migration of the Ruddy Turnstone, andForest in the Sand.She graduate from Wellesley College and was the editor of Mass Audubon'sBulletinbefore she moved back to Florida, where she was an administrator and teacher at an Audubon Society camp in addition to her writing. Mangrove Islandis her first nonfiction book, slim at 80 pages, that explores mangrove ecology with a focus on one unnamed (composite or imagined) island, a work for both adults and young adults. With a short index. Beautifully illustrated by Russell Francis Peterson, a mammalogist and explorer. A wide octavo in mustard cloth. Fine apart from slight toning to pages; in a very good jacket with edge wear, including some small wear through the front flap fold, but it presents great, is very vibrant, under mylar.…