Year on Muskrat Marsh

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Unpaginated. Oblong octavo [19.5 x 24cm]. Bound in beige cloth with title stamped in brown ink on spine. Illustration stamped in brown ink on front board. Spine ends gently bumped. Dust jacket a bit toned and soiled with a handful of closed tear along the edges. A charming chronicle of life in the marshlands.

Peter Parnall is perhaps best known as the illustrator of Byrd Baylor's Caldecott Medal-winning children's books. He also illustrated the first edition of Edward Abbey's "Desert Solitaire.