DURAND AND REED, AMERICAN WILD FLOWERS, 1926-1927, 2 Vols., Field Guides, Botany, Color Plates

Herbert Durand, My Wild Flower Garden; New York and London, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1927; publisher’s blue cloth in dust jacket; photographic illustrations. Accompanied by Chester A. Reed, Flower Guide: Wild Flowers East of the Rockies; Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926; oblong sextodecimo; publisher’s flexible dark cloth with gilt lettering and decoration; color illustrations. 2 vols.

Sound used copies; Durand dust jacket shows surface abrasions to front panel, edge chips, and tears at spine head and corners; Reed guide exhibits rear cover vertical creasing, split to inner front hinge, and light corner wear.