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1912 WALTER KING STONE illustrations (Berkshire Hills, animal tracks, winter)

$ 13.19

Availability: 100 in stock
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  • Condition: Article carefully disbound from original 1912 publication. Minor tanning due to age, minor edgewear, and gutter staple-holes. Please see the scans.

    Description

    This is an article carefully removed from original 1912 publication.
    10 pages; 9 WALTER KING STONE illustrations (one of which is full page).
    Pages are a
    pproximately 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches.
    This is Walter Prichard Eaton's nature study, "Neighbors of the Winter Night," as originally published.
    Good condition. Minor tanning due to age, minor edgewear, and gutter staple-holes. Please see the scans.
    The scans here do not show well enough the
    beautiful blue tint
    of these illustrations. Eaton writes of tracking animals in the winter night, in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.
    Illustrations:
    A Belated Snow Had Fallen
    We Come to an Old Neglected Orchard
    There is Still a Light in the Farmer's Window
    Pawing up the Snow Under the Gnarled Trees
    A Shadowy Statue of Eternal Vigilance
    Once More in the Woods, We Come Upon Cotton-Tail Tracks [full page]
    Unlike the Cottontail, He Changes to White in Winter
    Slinking Through the Night, He had Heard the Call
    Dual Tracks Zigzagging Toward a Ledge of Rocks
    Packaged with archival protective sleeve and cardboard backing.
    SKU #HA1912_12-04