Color Illustrations of Birds

Pp. (1), 157, (4); 475+ color illustrations on 70 color pages, numerous other black and white illustrations and photographs, some two-color illustrations. Color pictorial laminated boards (hardcover) with color illustrated endpapers, in matching color pictorial card slipcase, sm 4to. Picture Book Series for Children, no. 4. From the research library of ornithologist Oliver L. Austin (past Director of the Austin Ornithological Research Center in Wellfleet, Massachusetts and past Curator of Ornithology at the Florida Museum of Natural History), with his rectangular Japanese/English name-stamp seal on the title page. The volume is also warmly inscribed by Kuroda to Dr. O. L. Austin on title page.