Autobiography of a Bird-Lover

Pp. xxi, 420; 4 color plates from paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, some line-drawings by Fuertes, numerous black-and-white photographs by Frank Chapman.  Publisher’s original dark blue ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine with printed signature of Frank Chapman in gilt on the front cover, 8vo.  This autobiography chronicles Chapman’s life before he joined the American Museum of Natural History in New York as Curator of Birds.  It also documents his museum career.  Bookplate of ornithologist Frederick Louis Ott on the front pastedown.  On the top page edge, there is the name stamp of Ron Saucy Memorial Library of the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin.  Ron Saucy was co-director of the International Crane Foundation.