The Sprite The Story Of Red Fox Baynes, Ernest Harold Foxes: Fact & Fiction

5th Reprinting, hardcover in green cloth covered boards, with a gilt title and sepia photo of a fox affixed to front board. Spine ends lightly brushed, tips remain sharp. 134pp glossy text is crisp and clean with no markings, highlighting or soil inside, save for previous owner gift dedication, "Mary Marshall.Christmas 1930" on FEP along with PON on affixed stamp. Professionally reproduced dj is unclipped with some tiny chips, displays well in new mylar. He was brought up by people who are not only kind to animals, but who have knowledge of what is needed for their welfare. And the result was a very tame and loveable animal, that was also a wonderful specimen of his race. An old New Hampshire fox hunter who had been shooting and trapping all his life, said of The Sprite: "He is the most perfect fox I have ever seen." Best of all he lived under conditions which enabled him to show his true nature. He was neither all saint nor all sinner, but a real fox, and this intimate account of his life is not only a delightful, poetic story, but a most interesting and reliable study in natural history.