The Passenger Pigeon in Pennsylvania: Its Remarkable History, Habits, and Extinction, with interesting side lights on the folk and forest lore of the Alleghenian region of the old Keystone State
By French, John C.
SKU# 19927
Pp. 257, frontis photo of the author, 26 full page photo-plates, some text-figures. Publisher’s original tan ribbed cloth, lettered in black on the spine, 8vo. This work was essentially privately printed as the author owned the book’s publisher, the Altoona Tribune Company. Very likely the rarest monograph published on the passenger pigeon. The preface states “no other single publication contains as much intimate and firsthand personal observation on the Passenger Pigeon throughout the year.”
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Publisher |
Altoona Tribune Company |
| Publisher Place | Altoona, PA |
| Date Published | 1919 |
| Date Published Estimated | No |
| Edition | First edition |
| Number of Volumes | 1 |
| Reprint | No |
| Condition | Near fine |
| Condition Description | A near fine copy. |
| ISBN | |
| Limited Edition |