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The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life / Charles G.D. Roberts

Book
316 pages, plus advertisements. Tissue guarded frontis, black and white illustrations. Contents: The summons of the North.- The last barrier.- Answerers to the call.- The prisoners of the pitcher-plant.- The prowlers.- A stranger to the wild.- When the logs come down.- A duel in the deep.- The little tyrant of the burrows.- The Ringwaak buck.- The heron in the reeds.- In the deep of the silences.- On the night trail.- When the tide came over the marshes.- Under the ice-roof.- The terror of the air.- In the unknown dark.- The terror of the sea caves.
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2015.7.283

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

AnimalsAnecdotes1900s

8 in

Charles G.D. Roberts

Charles Livingston Bull

Boston

Massachusetts

United States

North America

1905

1918

Publisher's Binding

Charles Livingston Bull

Bound in olive green cloth with a triple gilt ruled decoration to the front cover depicting a polar bear in an arctic landscape. Design is stamped in gilt, blue, white and black and attributed to Charles Livingston Bull. The spine is decorated with a gilt stamped animal head. Deckled page edges. Illustrated end papers. Monogram "CL Bull" underneath polar bear's paw, on last section of white stamping. Note: rubbing wear to the areas that are stamped in white; a common problem with books that were stamped in white, a pigmentation that easily flaked and rubbed.

6th impression, Feb 1918.

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