Jungle Animals

Description: The paper quality and style of the illustrations date this vintage book to 1945, but the colors remain vibrant and colorful despite the paper quality and age. Every other page includes either a beautiful color or black & white full page, intext, or two page spread illustration of a mammal, bird or reptile collected from somewhere in the world. Buck began his writing career in 1930 with the book “Bring ‘em Back Alive” and went on to co-author numerous books with Ferrin Fraser, this being his eighth and last. Condition: Decorative, unpriced clipped dustjacket has a bright matt illustration to the front that wraps around to the rear with slight wear to the corner tips, small tears, creases mainly to the top front cover and stain and sunning to the inside. The hardbound boards have the same matching illustration & text as the dust jacket but showing only minimal wear at the top and bottom of the back strip and some rubbing to the bottom of the front board. The corners are sharp with slight wear at the tips. Spine has a slight slant but is firm, with no cracking to the decorative endpapers. Text block is solid. Slightly darker along the outside of the page edges with overall age tanning throughout. Interior pages are in excellent condition with no tears, cracks, or previous owner marks. Illustrated with full page and intext color or black & white drawings per each story. 56 pages. Dimensions: H – 11-1/4” W – 8-1/2 Frank Howard Buck (1884 – 1950) began making expeditions into Asia in the 1910’s for the purpose of hunting and collecting exotic animals, bringing over 100,000 live specimens back to the United States and elsewhere for zoos and circuses. He went on to co-author eight books chronicling or based on his expeditions, was a film actor between 1932 to 1943 starring in seven adventure films based on his exploits, a director, and producer. In his hometown of Gainesville, Texas the Frank Buck Zoo is named after him. Ferrin Fraser (1903 – 1969) was a radio scriptwriter, author of more than 500 short stories plus collaborating with Frank Buck on his radio scripts and five books. Roger Vernam (1912-1992) created the lavish illustrations but is more well known for his eight book “Little Indian Series”.

Price: 46 USD

Location: Fort Collins, Colorado

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