Number#4 (Flights; or a Hydroplane Round-up) in the Vintage boy's adventure series featuring the Bird Boys. (This series was also published as the Aeroplane Boys.) This features their adventures with hydroplanes.
Hardcover
(M.A. Donohue & Company, March 15, 1934)
A beautiful old children's book on animals by Karl P. Schmidt, former curator at the Field Museum in Chicago. Beautiful illustrations by renowned artist Walter A. Weber, the first artist to win two federal duck stamp illustration contests. ( amazon customer review)
Covers feature color image of blue jay with acorn in its beak on both front and back. In blue quarter cloth, with no lettering on spine. With moderate edgewear and chafing at corners. Interior features 12 full-page, full-color illustrations as well as numerous b&w drawings by Walter Alois Weber. Dated 1933 on publisher's page; possibly published later than that date. The focus of this work is migration; but the illustrations steal the show
This book is illustrated with a single, full page, black and white line drawing frontispiece that is facing the title page. The book has illustrated boards covered in light blue paper that has a linen-look -- The front cover has a drawing of girls around a campfire and the spine is decorated