22.00 USD
An Introduction To Birds by John Kieran
Illustrated by Don Eckelberry
1950 Garden City Books
This vintage guide to all things birds is in good condition for its age. There is a little wear on the green hardcover and the binding is slightly cracked. The pages and texts are nice and the illustrations are rich with color. Also included in this book is a flyleaf newspaper article clipped from March 23, 1986, "Common Florida Shore Birds". This book would make a perfect gift or addition to a bird watching collection!
From the Introduction:
"This is a book for beginners and has been made as simple as possible. It is offered as a help in learning to know the more common birds of our lawns, our fields, our woods, our waterways and our ocean shores. The way the birds are described in this book is not the way in which a scientist would describe them, nor is the order in which the bird pictures are shown the order in which a scientist would place them. There is a reason for that. Sometimes in a theater program the names of those in the cast are listed in order of their appearance on the stage. That's about the way it is with the birds in this book. They are listed more or less in the general order in which you might expect to see them if you stepped outside the door and began to look around for common birds."