Snow Crystals
New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1931.
First edition, first printing. ix, 227pp. Bound in publisher's dark blue buckram stamped in gilt; lacking dust jacket. Very Good, cloth marked and soiled, lightly tanned at spine. Former owner bookplate to front pastedown and liberal use of rubber ownership stamp to various places including textblock edges, front and rear endsheets, half title and title page. Several page edges chipped. A scarce monograph of Vermont meteorologist, farmer and photographer, Wilson Alwyn Bentley, affectionately called "Snowflake" Bentley. Copiously illustrated with whimsical fractal-like photographs of snowflakes, dew and frost. Truly magical.
Price: $4,500