Wild Bird Guests by Baynes - 1915: How to Entertain Them

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1915. First edition. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. 326 pages with index, illustrated with a tissue protected frontispiece and 50 photogravure illustruations from photographs. Preface by Theodore Roosevelt. "With chapters on the destruction of birds, their economic and aesthetic values, suggestions for dealing with their enemies, and on the organization and management of bird clubs." Brown cloth binding with blindstamped borders on front cover, gilt woodpecker decoration on front cover, gilt titles on front cover and spine, gilt top edge. Gilt faded on spine but bright on front cover with a little wear to top lettering, light edge wear, a little spotting, corners and spine ends a bit bumped, splits in end papers at hinges, interior pages clean and lightly tanned, a few small corner creases at bottom of a few pages, binding tight.

Measures 6 x 8 1/2 inches.