text drawings ernest thompson seton (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good, Spine Slightly Sunned. Over Two Hundred Drawings, Mostly Text Illustrations (illustrateur). Reprint, Sixth Impression. Copyright Date: 1901 Octavo, 1908, Pp.360, Hardcover, Gilt and Decorated Containing A True Account Of The Doings Of Five Quadrapeds & Three Birds.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First impression, stated. Small octavo bound in green cloth with gilt lettering & borders and dark green decorations. B&W illustrations. Condition: spine a bit sun-faded; inked name & date on 1st free endpaper; else near fine. 361 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. [181] pages. 21 cm. (8vo.). Red cloth with green floral and gilt letterings to front board. Text in red. Illustrations (b/w marginal and some full-page drawings). First Canadian edition. States "Published April, 1905. First Impression April 15, 1905" on the copyright page. Ernest Seton Thompson (1860-1946) was an English born author, artist and naturalist who was reared in Canada where he won a solid reputation for his books on animals and wildlife; deeply concerned with the future of the Prairie, Seton fought to establish reservations for Native Americans and parks for animals threatened with extinction. To provide children with the opportunities for nature study, he founded the Woodcraft Indians organization in 1902, and later was chairman of the committee that established the Boy Scouts of America. CONDITION : Ex-library book ("Negro Community Centre" red stamping on front end-page). Handwritten "Summerlea United S.S." on front end-paper. Binder small label on rear end-paper. Soiling to boards and spine. Else a bright and clean book.

First Impression April 15,1905. 181 Pp. Design for cover, title -page , and general make-up were done by Grace Gallatin Seton Very good with slight wear to cover edges. Paper slightly darkened at edges. Inscribed by author "To Frank H Bain(?) with kind regards of Ernest Thompson Seton 31 Oct.1905 The day of the woodchucks 'goodbye" with delightful paw print drawing by Seton Red cloth with gilt and green titles and decorations to front and spine.