Stratton-Porter, Gene — Morning Face

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. Hardcover. Turquoise cloth/boards with gilt/teal cover illustration. 129 pp. with 80 bw illustrations and 1 color plate. A lovely book of poetry, stories, and photographs of nature (mostly flowers and birds but also other flora and fauna), as charmingly explained to "Morning Face", the pet name of the author's young grand-daughter. Stratton-Porter was, in addition to a famous author, a well-known naturalist and photographer. Fair (Ex-Library with white sticker on lower spine and inside rear cover; boards are heavily worn/scuffed/smudged; minimal pencil markings to interiortextblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; inner hinges are cracked; pages are loose; interior is clean, but lightly toned, with occasional smudging or foxing; some pages are creased.) .