Babcock, Flambeau Publishing, (1953). "Not until one has finished reading does he realize there has been no single reference nor any trace or sign of man." Winner of the John Burroughs Medal, and the first work of fiction to win that award. Grange was Wisconsin's first Superintendent of Game. This book, a tour of four seasons in a forest from the perspective of the forest animals, is blurbed by conservationist and naturalist Herbert L. Stoddard, Sr., and this copy is inscribed by Stoddard to his friend, ornithologist Alex Sprunt, Jr., in the year of publication. Sprunt cut much of the text of the jacket and pasted it to the endpapers: an intact jacket has been supplied. Top edge stains and wear to cloth; a very good copy in a good, sunned dust jacket with small chips to the corners and spine ends. Uncommon in jacket, and an exceptional association copy. [#033386] SOLD