Songs of Wild Birds, [With 2 Ten-Inch 78 RPM Phonograph Records].

B & W photos; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 91 pages; New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1934. First edition. Large near-square format. 91 pp. Illustrated with b&w photographs and figures. With two 10" 78 rpm records in the publisher’s rear pocket (recordings of bird songs). Issued as an early sound-education "book + records" set, describing the then-developing methods used to capture and reproduce bird song, with notes on the individual species represented on the recordings. Brand was closely connected with the early Cornell bird-sound recording effort of the 1930s. Green cloth lettered in black; light fading at spine and a hint of blanching to upper board. Pictorial dust jacket with an inch chip at crown of spine panel; moderate toning and light shelf-soiling to panels. Records in the original pocket at rear. Record #2 appears very neat and playable. Record #1 has some lift to the wax surface side B amd appears to have some thin loss along the outer edge of Side B and may have issues on play quality. A notable early meeting point of field science and popular ornithology: a book-length introduction to recording bird song paired with contemporary 78 rpm audio examples. Records visually inspected; not play-tested. VG+/VG.…