Description
The first edition, first printing of Moths Of The Limberlost, inscribed by Gene Stratton-Porter to a close friend.
Small quarto, xiv, 369pp, [1]. Brown pictorial cloth, title stamped in dark brown on front cover and spine, illustrated endpapers. Complete with color plates and numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations from life by the author. Light soiling to cloth boards, wear at head and heel of the spine. Internally clean. Lacking the scarce dust jacket.
Inscribed on the second free endpaper: “For Margaret / with love from her friend / Gene Stratton-Porter.”
(MacLean, 236)
A nature study of moths observed in the Limberlost region of Indiana, including chapters on cocooning, caterpillars, moth behavior, and individual species. Gene Stratton-Porter was a novelist, naturalist, and photographer, best known for Freckles and A Girl of the Limberlost.
