Book club edition. In full navy cloth-covered boards and titling in gilt on spine. With numerous full-color plates taken from some of the finest representations of bird art to have been published during the span of time covered by this volume. Includes descriptive bibliographies of these books as well as the birds themselves. With peach-colored dust jacket which has sunned on front and spine to a pink tone; and with toucan illustration on the front and spoonbill on the back. With faint smudges, front free endpaper, else clean and bright interior. In removable mylar protector. A gorgeous representation of birds and bird art. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 180 pages