Cypress Country (signed)
Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the front free endpaper by Sanger, and thus uncommon. A lovely book that tells of one day in a Southern cypress forest. With pen and ink illustrations and a handsome jacket by Christine Price. Marjory Bartlett Sanger was a mid-century naturalist writer from Florida. She was an ornithologist (a member of the AOU and many other bird organizations) with a specialty on herons and the author of 11 books, most of them about birds and their habitats along with one interpretive biography of William Bartram. Her other nonfiction books on ecology include Mangrove Island, World of the Great White Heron, Checkerback's Journey: The Migration of the Ruddy Turnstone, and Forest in the Sand. She graduate from Wellesley College and was the editor of Mass Audubon's Bulletin before she moved back to Florida, where she was an administrator and teacher at an Audubon Society camp in addition to her writing. A wide octavo in cypress green cloth, with a red illustration on the front board; 64 pages including an index. A very good book with offsetting to the front free endpaper and light, sporadic foxing to some margins in the interior. In a near fine jacket with toning, the spine slightly misaligned with the book. Would pair well with our copy of Sanger's first book, Mangrove Swamp. Very good / Near fine. Item #2093
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