Birds From My Homeland. With notes from W. H. Hudson's Birds of La Plata. Ten Hand-Colored Woodcuts

by Antonio Frasconi

$995 · Offered by The Veatchs Arts of the Book

1958. 11 x 8. 15 leaves Frenchfold with ten fullpage woodcuts of South American birds. Each hand colored bird faces a paragraph of text. Blue boards printed across both covers with a woodcut of migrating birds in flight. A bit of pinpoint foxing on the fore edge; all else fine. A delightful book. Item #18358 Through fortunate circumstances, I have always settled near the seashore. In my homeland, there was the view of

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