| 1. | (Burroughs, John; Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Dugmore, A. Radclyffe). COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA. A Magazine for the Home-maker in the Country. Volume X: May, 1906, to October, 1906. (6 issues bound in one volume).
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906.
- Folio, 14-1/4 inches high by 10-1/4 inches wide. pictorial tan cloth titled with an elaborate cover illustration stamped in colors on the front cover. The covers are bumped, rubbed and slightly stained and the spine is faded. 720 pages, profusely illustrated throughout in color and black & white, including several full-page color plates, and with the original elaborate color pictorial covers bound in. There is a short tear to the inner edge of the overall title page. There is a short tear to the edge of one page and some soiling and creasing to the endpapers. Very good. Six issues, comprising Volume 10, number 1 through volume 10, number 6 of this periodical. A wonderful nature periodical, with much on natural history, farming and gardening as well as sporting, interior design, architecture and travel. Includes pictorial ads for early automobiles, greenhouses, real estate, pianos, cigarettes, horse saddles, firearms and hunting, horses, dogs and cats. Among the kennels advertising in some of these issues are Pinehurst Kennels, breeders of Setters, Pointers and Beagles; Mac-o-chee, and Greystone kennels, breeders of Collies; Locust Farms, breeders of Great Danes; Willowmere Farm, breeders of St. Bernards; Squantum Kennels, Rob Roy-Presto Kennels, and Baden Kennels, breeders of Boston Terriers; John M. Sutton, Colne Kennels, and Moorestown Kennels, breeders of Airedale Terriers; etc., etc., etc. This superb nature periodical includes contributions on "Fishing for the Golden Trout" by A. Radclyffe Dugmore, "Love and War Among the Bluebirds: A Tale of Double Mating and a Double Duel - A Sympathetic Naturalist's Study of Our Beautiful Spring Birds" by John Burroughs, "An American Author's English Ha-Ha" by Frances Hodgson Burnett. This volume also includes the "Annual House-Building Number" (October 1906), with articles on architecture and decoration.
Price: 250.00 USD |
