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Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 Volumes Complete, Maps And Illustrations. Professionally Restored By Hand, Original Leather Label Laid Down On New Cloth, New End Papers, Previous Owners Stamp O/W Sound. An Overweight Set Which May Require Additional Postage At Cost.
Seller: Alexander Books (ABAC/ILAB), Ancaster, ON, Canada
Price: US$601.42 + shipping
Description: SETON, Ernest Thompson. Life-Histories of Northern Animals : An Account of the Mammals of Manitoba. With 68 Maps and 560 Drawings by the Author. Volume I.- Grass-Eaters. Volume II.- Flesh-Eaters. N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Pp 1267. Lg 8vo, tan cloth, leather labels to spines. Rubbed, spotting to fore-edge of cloth (especially of vol.2), else a very good, solid set. The two volumes for 800.00
Seller: John W. Doull, Bookseller, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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 bright set. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: 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. Paper splitting to the front joint of the second volume; rubbing to spine labels. Near Fine with a superb inscription
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a rare set of "Life-Histories of Northern Animals ~ An Account of the Mammals of Manitoba" by naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton that contains an original, signed pen & ink drawing, as well as a signed inscription by Seton. 1909 1st edition; Charles Scribner's Sons; New York. Complete set in two volumes. The set is profusely illustrated with 68 maps and 560 drawings by Seton. Gilt top page edges. Volume I - Grass-Eaters; Volume II - Flesh-Eaters. Massive set with 1,267 numbered pages in all. There are 60 mammals covered in all, including deer, moose, caribou, buffalo, chipmunk, bear, beaver, porcupine, antelope, dog, hare, bat, cattle, etc. The front end paper of volume I contains a wonderfully detailed, original pen & ink drawing of a moose by Seton. The drawing is signed, as follows: "Original sketch by Ernest Thompson Seton" with his customary "paw print" signature. The drawing was created on a separate, heavier stock of paper and has been affixed to the end paper. Below the drawing is an original, handwritten inscription by Seton in ink, as follows: "To R. Clifford Black, this sketch with compliments of Ernest Thompson Seton. (paw print signature) hoping further that he may have as much pleasure in reading this book as I did in creating the material. E.T.S." From the Preface: "This aims to be a book of popular Natural History on a strictly scientific basis. In it are treated some 60 quadrupeds that I have known and studied for many years. Although I have limited the scope to the 60 species that are found in Manitoba, this takes in all the large land Mammals of the United States, except about a dozen, including five of the big game. Having followed these 60 into all parts of their ranges, I have virtually included the Continent from Labrador to California. Thirty years of personal observations are here in set forth; every known fact bearing on the habits of these animals has, so far as possible, been presented, and everything in my power has been done to make this a serious, painstaking, loving attempt to penetrate the intimate side of the animals' lives - the side that has so long been overlooked, because until lately we have persistently regarded wild things as mere living targets, and have seen in them nothing but savage or timorous creatures, killing, or escaping being killed, quite forgetting that they have their homes, their mates, their problems and their sorrows - in short, a home-life that is their real life, and very often much larger and more important than that of which our hostile standpoint has given us such fleeting glimpses." Condition: The set is in overall Very Good- condition. The primary condition issue is with the spines and spine labels: the volume I spine has a strip of cloth missing along the top edge, and has a 4" cloth tear at the top-right edge where the cloth meets the label; the volume II spine label has a piece missing at the top-left corner. Both spine labels have soiling/staining with partial fading to the gilt lettering. Light soiling to the covers. Both volumes are tightly bound with no cracks and no loose pages. All covers are firmly attached. Nice interiors - the pages of both volumes are in excellent condition.clean with only a few random, light smudges found. Bright gilt top page edges. The front end paper of volume I has an original drawing by Seton affixed to the page, with his handwritten inscription in ink below it. Some pages are still attached at the outer edge.
Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.