Search Results: the trail of the sandhill stag by seton thompson ernest 1860 1946

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New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1899.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in original light olive green pebbled cloth binding, with a small decoration of a stag, borders and titles in gilt on a green panel. Top edge gilt. Bookplate, some rubbing to the lettering and sides of the spine, corners slightly bumped.. First printing - (stated "First Impression. October 12,1899"). An early book by this writer who was one of America's most famous naturalists as well as being influential in the Boy Scout movement. A story of tracking and hunting the great stag, although at the end Yan is not able to kill such a beautiful creature. Illustrated with a colored frontispiece and seven other full-page illustrations, with small decorations or drawings on almost every page. It notes that "the designs for title-page, cover, and general make-up, and also literary revision, were done by Mrs. Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson." 93 pp. (stated "First Impression. October 12,1899").