Author: Krutch, Joseph Wood; compiler.
Title: The World of Animals: A Treasury of Lore, Legend and Literature by Great Writers and Naturalists from the 5th Century B.C. To the Present. Compiled with Commentary by Joseph Wood Krutch.
Description: NY: Simon and Schuster, 1961. 1961. - Square 8vo, brown cloth backed black cloth (very lightly bumped) titled in gilt within red rectangle with vignette of winged serpent in gilt on spine & image of lion stamped in white on front cover, in dw (lightly chipped & soiled; dw spine & extremities darkened). 508 & [1] pp. (tiny creases to front edges of a few rear pages). Profuse illustrations in B&W & black & cream, many full-page, from drawings, woodcuts, prints & paintings. Very good in good dw.

First edition.

From the library of Leonard Bernstein [Sotheby's Sale 7070, Lot #144].

A collection of natural history writings on a wide variety of topics by authors from Homer, Virgil and Pliny the Elder to Audubon, Thoreau, Darwin and John Steinbeck. Very good .

Keywords: NATURAL HISTORY; LITERATURE; FICTION; LEGEND; SPORTING; HUNTING; EVOLUTION; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; ANTHOLOGY; JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH; ILLUSTRATIONS; COMPOSER; CONDUCTOR; AMERICAN; LEONARD BERNSTEIN; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

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