New York: The Modern Library, (1925).
Price: $325.00
Hardcover. First Modern Library edition. 16mo. 297pp. Foreword (reprinted from the *New York Times*) by Theodore Roosevelt. Toledano binding 4 with the Bernhard torchbearer. Brown leatherette stamped in gilt with Brodzky endpapers (the last title to use these endpapers). Binding slightly cocked with a bit of wear, near fine in a good dust jacket with a chip along the front topedge neatly repaired on the verso, as well as a repaired tear on the rear panel, leaving a 2" chip affecting some text; spine lightly toned with a tiny nicks at the crown. Dust jacket titles accurately reflect the ones for 1925 and include Dumas', *Camille* but not Anderson's, *Poor White*.
American naturalist Charles William Beebe was a pioneer in the field of ecology. He was known for his many expeditions and here he tells of his experiences in World War I and his important ecological works in British Guiana and Pará, Brazil. The very first title to be published in the new Modern Library company under the ownership of Cerf and Klopfer. "The Modern Library, No. 30."
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