BY A THOUSAND FIRES: Nature Notes and Extracts from the Life and Unpublished Journals of Ernest Thompson Seton
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Frontispiece photograph, with illustrations by Ernest Thompson Seton. Collection of previously unpublished notes, essays, diary entries, poems, and articles by Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), compiled by his second wife Julia, that serves as a sort of informal biography of the beloved writer and illustrator best known for his popular books of animal stories. Seton was also a prominent naturalist in his time and, as one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America, wrote the first Scout Manual. Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Julia M. Seton on the half-title. A crisp, near fine copy in a lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #58696
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Price: $75.00