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Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, Published date: 1950. Hardcover with dust jacket; x, 239 pp plus 16 unnumbered pages of plates; 22 cm. Second printing, July 1955. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates, pen and ink drawings, and maps; maps on lining papers.
In very good condition with an acceptable dust jacket. Original illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth boards; light shelf wear to edges; binding sound. Interior pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a 1 inch tear to the paper over the top edge of the front cover near the spine, along with a few other small chips and short tears, light creasing, general waviness, and age toning. Now in an archival quality removable Brodart cover. Popular natural history work on North American desert fauna, based on decades of field observation, describing mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, and other wildlife of the Mojave, Sonoran, and related desert regions, with attention to behavior, adaptation, and habitat. From jacket flaps: For more than forty years, Edmund C. Jaeger has explored our North American deserts. On foot, on burro back, and by aid of auto he has visited its remotest areas and made friends with the wildlife. Our Desert Neighbors is a series of attractive sketches of the lives of desert animals. It is based on scientific fact and the personal observations of Mr. Jaeger. On the creosote bush plains, along the margins of saline lakes, and on desert mountains with their dwarf trees, meets spotted skunks, road runners, midget gnatcatchers, desert hares, lyre snakes, and all manner of little-known denizens of the arid wilderness. His sympathetic treatment of them again deserves the review of the Quarterly Review of Biology: "The name of Edmund C. Jaeger on the title page of any volume is an adequate certification of its excellence."