Field-Days in California

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913. First Edition. 234pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Green cloth with the titles gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Collection of essays about the author's time birding in California. Bradford Torrey (1843-1912) was an ornithologist who wrote 13 books of nature writing, these books are mainly collections of essays he wrote for the Atlantic Monthly. Torrey was among the most popular of the Houghton and Mifflin Company's travel and "outdoor" writers at the end of the 19th century.