Louis Agassiz Fuertes and the Singular Beauty of Birds

A good+ hardcover in dust jacket. Small creases and tears to dust jacket; 1" tear at top back of the spine. Non-authorial inscription and ink stain on title page. Shelf worn, binding a bit loose.

First edition. Foreword by Dean Amadon. Introduction by Roger Tory Peterson. Biographical Essay. Extracts from his letters accompanied by drawings. Sixty full-page color plates of Fuertes paintings.