Add this copy of Life Histories of Northern Animals; an Account of the to cart. $295.00, like new condition, Sold by Artis Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Calumet, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1974 by Arno Press.
Add this copy of Life-Histories of Northern Animals: an Account of the to cart. $750.00, good condition, Sold by Book Alley rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pasadena, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1909 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Signed. First Edition. SIGNED; signed and inscribed by author Ernest Thompson Seton on front flyleaf of volume one. Two volume set. Good gilt-stamped tan cloth with leather spine labels; light scratching to boards; chipping to spine labels; volume one has newspaper clippings about Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton glue down; front flyleaf is damaged below signature with rippling and tearing, possibly from the removal of a bookplate, previous owner's bookplate present. Bookplate on ffep of volume two; overall a clean and br.
Add this copy of Life-Histories of Northern Animals. an Account of the to cart. $1,250.00, very good condition, Sold by Charles Agvent, ABAA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fleetwood, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1909 by Charles Scribner's Sons.
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Paper splitting to the front joint of the second volume; rubbing to spine labels. Near Fine with a superb inscription. Two quarto (7-3/4" x 10-1/4") volumes in brown buckram with decorations on the front covers and gilt-lettered leather spine labels. The first volume is about Grass Eaters and the second about Flesh Eaters. Illustrated with 68 maps and 560 drawings by Seton. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page of the first volume "To James Carleton Young/These two volumes are my attempt to/tell everything that is known about the/home life of the 59 Species treated. /These are the facts on which my stories/are founded--Cordially yours/Ernest Thompson Seton." He has followed his signature with two DRAWINGS: a small bear track and a larger bear head. According to Seton's preface, 60 species, not 59, are treated. James Carleton Young (1856-1918) was a bibliophile who collected inscribed books and who was known as "the King of books." This set was lot 840 in the 1916 Anderson Galleries sale of his collection.
