Cooper, Merian C. — Grass

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Second Printing, from April of 1925, the true First Edition having come out the month prior. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in blue cloth, sharper and more distinct gilt lettering to front cover, rubbed at spine. Forward cock to spine, bumping to, scuffing of spine head and foot. Previous owner's inscriptions inside front flap, neatly rendered, but who has added "An astounding drama of migration, with its sights and sounds crystalized." Foreword by William Beebe, Charles William Beebe (July 29, 1877 – June 4, 1962), who was a pioneering "naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author," "remembered for the numerous expeditions he conducted for the New York Zoological Society, his deep dives in the Bathysphere, and his prolific scientific writing for academic and popular audiences" (Wikipedia). Augmented with sixty-four illustrations from photographs by Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack who accompanied the author, Merian C. Cooper on a documentary journey to accompany the nomadic pastoralist people the Bakhtiari, a very large "tribe" in anthropological terms of 50,000 nomadic pastoralists who move their animal herds up and down and across various montane pastures. They made other doccos, too, singly and together, before eventually joining together in 1933 to write, produce and direct "King Kong!" The author became a movie mogul following its success and others. Now Ankara, Turkey, the lengthy trek traversed Turkey, Persia (now Iran) and modern-day Khuzestan. The eventual film was preserved by the Library of Congress, so great and fascinating was it, and the author and photographer were accompanied by Marguerite Elton Harrison Blake (1879–1967), who was an American socialite but also a geographer, spy, explorer and filmmaker. Early on, she founded the Children's Hospital School near Baltimore and, many decades later, the Society of Woman Geographers (Wikipedia). Frontis matter, xx, 1 [1], 2-362 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good