The Brook Book

This is a richly illustrated nature book, "THE BROOK BOOK ~ A First Acquaintance with the Brook and its Inhabitants Through the Changing Year" by Mary Rogers Miller. 1902 1st edition; Doubleday, Page & Company; New York. Nicely illustrated with full-page photographs and drawings throughout. Contents include Beech Woods in May; A Living Carpet; Slough Creek and Meadow Brook; An… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Signed by the author on the title page. The first of two books written by Mary Farrand Rogers Miller (1868-1971), the American writer, naturalist, and educator. A graduate of Cornell University, she was married to noted landscape architect Wilhelm Tyler Miller, with whom… Read more about this item

William Heinemann Ltd, 1903. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1903. No Edition Remarks. 241 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. The Dainty Nature Series. Contains black and white photographic plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding, causing boards to be slightly loose. Minor pencil inscription to front pastedown. Binding… Read more about this item

Good. New York, 1902; green cloth covered boards; no dust jacket; some bumping at corners of cover; edge wear, particularly at edges of back strip; toning on back strip and around edges of cover; some denting on cover; book plate on pastedown front endpaper; writing on free front endpaper; Interior clean and unmarked; 8vo - over 7 3/4"… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1904. Book. Good+. Hardcover. Reprint. A nice reader's copy with some edge-wear to boards. Light fraying to lower edge of front boards. Spine lightly rubbed. First sixteen pages corner creased..

Published by Wm. Heinemann, London, 1903, 1st edition. ""The Dainty Nature Series"". Green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front board, no dustwrapper. 8.5ins x 6.5ins, xvi, 241pp plus frontis and 15pp plates. Also many line drawings within the text. Top corner of index pages torn off - text not affected. Front endpapers replaced. Spine darkened, gilt… Read more about this item

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.