Game Management de LEOPOLD, Aldo - 1937

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering and front board gilt decoration. xxi, 481pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, numerous tables and maps. Very good. Binding mildly edgeworn and a tad rubbed; endpapers age toned and rear inner hinge expertly, archivally strengthened, thus tight; text block tight and clean; 1963 ownership signature inked tiny at upper left of front pastedown -- same owner inked his initial "Q" near spine base and inkstamped last name on top and bottom page edges. A tight and decent later printing of the first book by the "father of wildlife ecology," the famed forester, philosopher and conservationist (1887-1948) whose conservation classic "A Sand County Almanac" was published the year after his death. This interesting copy bears two unusual features: Front pastedown bears huge ownership signature of JAMES W. STUBER, who adds "Vandalia / 4-25-39." Stuber (1890-1966) was the noted president of the Ohio Fish and Game Inspectors' Association. The summer 1916 (Vol. 1, No. 1) issue of "The American Angler" describes him: "Mr. Stuber is a well known sportsman, and is one of the most active men in Ohio in the interests of game conservation. Mr. Stuber is also a champion of the Federal migratory bird law, and a writer of authority on the out-of-doors as well as wild life conservation. He has been associated with the Ohio Fish and Game Department for a number of years and has been active in organizing wild life protective associations in many parts of Ohio. By profession he is an editor, and game conservation is his hobby." In addition to this, affixed to the rear pastedown is a fine and relevant artist-signed First Day Cover, 6½" X 3½", cancelled in Seattle, Washington on 9 November 1956 and with "First Day of Issue" so noted. Single 3-cent "Wildlife Conservation" stamp at upper right and filling the leftmost third a superb engraved Art Craft cachet celebrating the first of this 4-stamp series and its subject, the King Salmon. In the sweet spot at center (this envelope never addressed) it is signed boldly by "Bob Hines / stamp's designer" in blue ballpoint. Robert W. Hines (1912-94) was a prolific wildlife artist long associated with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This was his first U.S. postage stamp design; he also illustrated his friend Rachel Carson's book "Under the Sea Wind," Sigurd F. Olson's "Runes of the North," Peter Matthiessen's "Ducks, Geese, and Swans of North America" and many other notable bird books. Unique copy of this scarce title.