signed Hardcover
1938 · Washington
by PEATTIE, Donald Culross
Washington: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase with a touch of sunning to the backstrip. Asa Cheffetz. Large octavo (7-1/8" x 9-1/4") bound in full spring-green linen with a tree stamped in black at the center of the front cover and gilt decorations surrounding it, 340 pages. A beautiful edition of this famous work with a new introduction by the author and wonderful wood engravings by Asa Cheffetz. AN ALMANAC FOR MODERNS, the day-to-day observations and reflections of a sensitive naturalist, was awarded the Gold Medal of the Limited Editions Club. One of 1500 numbered copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. (Inventory (truncated)