Walt Disney's Worlds of Nature by Rutherford and similar items

Walt Disney's Worlds of Nature by Rutherford Platt the Staff of The Walt Disney Studio (1957 Hardcover without Dust Jacket) Illustrated by Photos: 39 named organizations and people. Drawings: 4 named artists. True-Life Adventures is a series of short and full-length nature documentary films released by Walt Disney Productions between the years 1948 and 1960 (12 by 1957.) This book groups selected material from those films into 7 chapters. Hundreds of real-life characters populate the chapters--beavers, musk ox, polar bears, bobcats, seals, bees, and ants. The setting is the whole, wide, wild, world of nature itself. Actions abounds with creatures swimming, flying, running, fighting, reproducing, gathering food, making homes, and struggling to survive. And the action doesn't stop with the animal world. The plants are on the move too as they sprout from seeds, grow to maturity, produce leaves, seeds fruit and food, compete for space, sunlight, and nutrients, and give the animals shelter and food. Ex-Public Library with usual markings, stamps et. al. Interior is complete and text is mostly unmarked. There are stray pencil markings in text. Binding is complete, but beginning to loosen. Some pages are torn and repaired with tape. Hardcover has gray cloth boards reinforced with blue tape. Permanent black ink lettering, but no DJ. Cover shows wear with cloth worn through at spine edges. Copyright 1957. Printed in U.S.A. No ISBN, LCCN nor MSR.