AMERICAN SPIDERS  1949   
  FROM W.J. Gertsch 
 FIRST EDITION   SIGNED
                                    
                                      Included is a PERSONAL LETTER  

 A great book on the natural world. This 1949  
 It does have a few flaws to show for its age. The dust jacket shows rip paper on top and fading, The hardcover There is a nicely scripted aotograph on the second page; the book is very clean and strong.The green fabric hardcover is clean with good corners and a nice bit of gilding on the spine and cover. Inside is just as clean. No  writing, no stains, no tears, no folds. Nice bright paper.The spine is tight and strong.  detailed illustrations
 in both color and black & white, and immeasurable data on America's spiders. A most comprehensive volume. 

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INCLUDED IS ;
A LETTERS WRITTEN BY WILLIS J. GERTSCH TO;
 Mr. Hutchinson a wealthy businessman from, California 
 A FRIEND & COLLEGUE OF  GERTSCH.  

Willis John Gertsch (October 4, 1906 – December 12, 1998) was an American arachnologist. He described over 1,000 species of spiders, scorpions, and other arachnids, including the Brown recluse spider and the Tooth cave spider.

Gertsch was born in  Idaho, on October 4, 1906. He earned a M.S. from University of Utah in 1930, working under Ralph V. Chamberlin and in 1935 a PhD from University of Minnesota, although he had by then taken on a job at the American Museum of Natural History, and so earned his doctorate in absentia.