And there was Aaron Klopstein. Who ever heard of him? He committed suicide at the age of 33 in Greenwich Village by shooting himself with a blowgun, having published two novels entitled Once More the Cicatrice and The Sea Gull Has No Friends. — Raymond Chandler

Birds of the Neighborhood

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Published by the Shetland Press in 1933, Birds of the Neighborhood is made up of an introduction by Susan Eagleton-Smith and then twenty-five small essays (studies, meditations) by P Marcel Moore on the topic of the Birds of the Neighborhood. Each of his entries is faced by an engraving. It's a handsome book, though I can't find a scrap of information about the Shetland press, who were located in Philadelphia. Much more bizarre than the packaging itself, however, is the surprise of Moore, and his obsessive, tangled, devotions to his birds.

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