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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1928. Limited First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. Four 4to volumes; in publisher's tan buckram stamped stamped with animal heads and double-ruled in gilt, backed in brown buckram, titled in gilt; xxxvii, [2], 640 pages, including Index; xxvii, [2], 746 pages, including Index; xix, [2], 780 pages, including Index; xxii, [2], 949 pages, including Index; illustrated throughout with 50 maps and 1500 illustrations by the author; "This edition is limited to one hundred and seventy-seven sets, signed by the author, of which this is no. 136; with Seton's signature and cat's paw dated 1886 on the frontispiece. There are glue spots on the pastedowns from where a bookplate has fallen off; there is still a bookplate on the pastedown of Volume III in the style of Aubrey Beardsley, with a name penned at the bottom.~~A massive undertaking, Volume I encompasses "Cats, Wolves and Foxes"; Volume II is "Bears, Coons, Badgers, Skunks, and Weasels";… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925-1928. First edition. Limited to 177 copies, signed by the author on the frontispiece of volume I and with usual cat's paw. This set being number 100. Illustrated with 50 maps and 1500 illustrations. Frontispieces with tissue guards. Four quarto volumes (10 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches; 273 x 206 mm). Volume I covers "Cats, Wolves, and Foxes", Volume II covers "Bears, Raccoons, Badger, and Weasels", Volume II covers "Deer, Antelope, Buffalo, Sheep, and Peccary" and Volume IV covers "Squirrels, Rabbits, Armadillo, and Opossum." Uniformly bound in quarter brown cloth over tan cloth. Front boards double-ruled in gilt with animal head gilt central device. Spines lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Overall near fine, which is unusual for such a large heavy set. Ernest Thompson Seton was a naturalist, artist, writer, and lecturer and also one of the key founders of the Boy Scouts of America, authoring their… Read More