The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life / Charles G.D. Roberts
Entry/Object ID
2015.7.283
Description
316 pages, plus advertisements. Tissue guarded frontis, black and white illustrations.
Contents: The summons of the North.- The last barrier.- Answerers to the call.- The prisoners of the pitcher-plant.- The prowlers.- A stranger to the wild.- When the logs come down.- A duel in the deep.- The little tyrant of the burrows.- The Ringwaak buck.- The heron in the reeds.- In the deep of the silences.- On the night trail.- When the tide came over the marshes.- Under the ice-roof.- The terror of the air.- In the unknown dark.- The terror of the sea caves.
Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Lexicon
Search Terms
Animals, Anecdotes, 1900s
Dimensions
Height
8 in
Book Details
Author
Charles G.D. Roberts
Illustrator
Charles Livingston Bull
Publisher
L.C. Page & Company
Place Published
City
Boston
State/Province
Massachusetts
Country
United States
Continent
North America
Date Published
1905
Date Printed
1918
Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding
Binding Designer
Charles Livingston Bull
Binding Notes
Bound in olive green cloth with a triple gilt ruled decoration to the front cover depicting a polar bear in an arctic landscape. Design is stamped in gilt, blue, white and black and attributed to Charles Livingston Bull. The spine is decorated with a gilt stamped animal head. Deckled page edges. Illustrated end papers.
Monogram "CL Bull" underneath polar bear's paw, on last section of white stamping.
Note: rubbing wear to the areas that are stamped in white; a common problem with books that were stamped in white, a pigmentation that easily flaked and rubbed.
