Marshall Saunders
My Pets: Real Happenings in My Aviary
Hardcover
(The Griffith & Rowland Press March 15, 1908)
, 1st edition
6 BEAUTIFUL COLOR ARTWORK PICTURES INSIDE AND NUMEROUS BLACK AND WHITE PICTURES. MARSHALL WRITES IN THE FRONT TO HER NUMEROUS FANS STATING THAT THIS BOOK IS A TRUE ONE AND IS OF THEIR WISHES. SHE WROTE THIS FROM HER HEART AS YOU WILL SEE. A WONDERFUL BOOK FROM A LOVER OF ANIMALS. (1861-1947). Born in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia, the daughter of an eminent Baptist minister, and educated in Halifax and for one year in Edinburgh and Orléans, France, Margaret Marshall Saunders returned to teach and write in Halifax. Saunders' forte was writing books for children. After the turn of the century she produced a long list, including the very popular 'Tilda Jane; an orphan in search of a home (1901); Beautiful Joe's paradise; a sequel to Beautiful Joe (1902); The story of the Gravelys; a tale for girls (1903); Alpatok; the story of an Eskimo dog (1906); and My pets; real happenings in my aviary (1908), a series of essays still admired by naturalists. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.
- Pages
- 283
- Weight
- 16.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 5.0
in.