FALL 2024 QUARTERLY EDITION Birds and Trees of North America

“THE BIRDS AND TREES OF NORTH AMERICA” EDITION

Our 64th Quarterly Edition is “The Birds and Trees of North America” Edition, featuring the artwork of Rex Brasher (1869–1960). We’ve added a third 3-Pack to the series and are restocked with the original two.

Rex Brasher’s artistic talent, love of nature, technical expertise, and persistence offer an inspiring story that should be better known by anyone with an interest in birds, nature, or art. From a young age, Brasher committed to visiting all of America’s bird species in their natural habitats. He spent a lifetime traveling, collecting notes and drawings, writing personal, insightful descriptions, and painting and re-painting birds.

By the late 1920s, Brasher — nearly 60 years old — was finally satisfied with his paintings, and set out to publish a collection of his work. Unhappy with color printing options at the time, Brasher had the paintings reproduced in black-and white, then hand-colored all 87,000 pages of the nearly 100 sets of twelve volumes of The Birds and Trees of North America, which he completed in 1932.

We’ve carefully reproduced nine of Brasher's colorful illustrations for three 3-Packs of Field Notes Ruled Memo Books. Covers are a lovely felt-textured 100#C Mohawk Via “Pure White,” bound by three stainless steel staples. The bodies are 60#T Domtar Lynx Opaque Ultra, ruled with pale gray lines. The first two packs are available again, by popular demand, and we’ve introduced a third pack to add to your collection:

“Pack A” features:
Rocky Mountain and Mexican Screech Owls (Wild Plum)
1915, Volume 6, Plate 373e 373f
Blue Jay (Swamp White Oak)
1911, Volume 8, Plate 477
Brewer Sparrow (Cassie)
1912, Volume 9, Plate 562

“Pack B” features:
Pine Grosbeak (Oldfield Pine)
1911, Volume 9, Plate 515
Baltimore Oriole (Crabapple)
1912, Volume 8, Plate 507
Sulphurbelly Flycatcher (Ironwood)
1911, Volume 7, Plate 451

“Pack C” features:
Painted Redstart (Birchleaf Mountain Mahogany)
1912, Volume 11, Plate 688
Cardinal 
1912, Volume 8, Plate 507
Redshoulder Hawk 
1912, Volume 10, Plate 593

Sales of this edition will help the Rex Brasher Association open Brasher’s Kent, Connecticut property to the public as a museum and nature area dedicated to the artist’s life and work.

Press Proofs

We also have 300 stamped-and-numbered Press Proofs of this edition available for sale, featuring the covers of packs A, B, and C. They are bright and beautiful, ready to be framed and displayed.