THE FIVE BLACK COUSINS
Written by J. Murray Allison
Illustrated by John Austin
Published by Jonathan Cape
in 1924
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- CHILDRENS
- BIRDS (CHILDRENS)
- RHYME
THE FIVE BLACK COUSINS
Written by J. Murray Allison.
Illustrated by John Austin.
Stock no. 1504459
1st.
1924.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
And Other Bird Rhymes. White cloth covers with gilt vignette and titles to front cover. 7.75 x 5.5". Small b/w illustrations. 63 pages. Some page edges uncut. SIGNED by author to front endpaper, with dedication and date. A little bumping and wear to spine and corners. Covers slightly grubby with light stains along top edge of front cover. Endpapers browned. Some foxing and a very odd fingermark to contents.
Front cover
Contents
- The Corncrake
- The Bearded Tit
- The Puffin
- The Golden Eye
- The Stonechat
- The Whinchat
- The Five Black Cousins
- The Plovers
- The Crossbill
- The Nightjar
- The Long Tailed Tit
- The Oystercatcher
- The Ptarmigan
- The Great Crested Grebe
- The Gannet
- The Woodpeckers
- The Ruff and the Reeve
- The Golden Crested Wren
- The Wagtails
- The Chiff Chaff
- The Dipper
- The Wheatear
- The Red Backed Shrike
- The Common Guiillemot
- The Black Guillemot
- The Great Tit
- The Cuckoo