The Flamingo Feather

Edité par Harper & Brothers January 1926 [Code A-A], New York, 1926

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Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, pp. vii, 222. Illustrated with frontis and 9 colour plates by Frank Shcoonover. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Born in a log cab near Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, his youth was spent on the frontier, after which his family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where he attended school until he was sixteen. In 1876, Kirk Munroe was hired as a reporter for the New York Sun. Three years later he became the first editor of Harper's Young People magazine; he resigned in 1881. From 1879 to 1884, he was the commodore of New York Canoe club. During this time he helped found the League of American Wheelmen with Charles E. Pratt on May 31, 1880. Munroe was the Wheelmen's first Commander. He married Mary Barr, daughter of Amelia E. Barr on September 15, 1883. The couple settled in Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida in 1886. Mary accompanied him on several cruises on the Allapata, a thirty-five foot sharpie-ketch sailboat designed by Ralph Middleton Munroe. While in Florida, Munroe became a noted member of the Florida Audubon Society, and recommended a family friend Guy Bradley to the position as game warden in southern Florida. Bradley was later killed by plume hunters while on duty in the Everglades. Munroe builds a tennis court on his property. It is the first tennis court in Miami-Dade county. Munroe helped in establishing what is today called Ransom Everglades School. In quite good condition. Spine is sunned. …

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Titre
The Flamingo Feather
Auteur
Munroe, Kirk and Frank E. Schoonover
Éditeur
Harper & Brothers January 1926 [Code A-A], New York
Année de publication
1926
Jaquette
No dust jacket
Reliure
Hardcover
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