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[The Birch Bark Books]. Collection of privately printed books of Adirondack tales

[The Birch Bark Books]. Collection of privately printed books of Adirondack tales by ABBOTT, Henry

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Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts
Title
[The Birch Bark Books]. Collection of privately printed books of Adirondack tales
Author
ABBOTT, Henry
Seller
Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
Some occasional chipping to extremities, generally in very good plus to fine condition
Description
New York, 1932. First edition. Some occasional chipping to extremities, generally in very good plus to fine condition. 17 volumes, 12mo. Illustrated with woodcuts and maps, photographic plates tipped onto leaves; six volumes include folding maps. Bound in faux birch bark paper over boards. Phillips, pp. 11-12; Plum, Adirondack Bibliography (1956) 7236 & Supplement (1973), p. xxxiv; Bruns A11-A29; Heller 1:665-683; Litchfield sale (2001), lot 1. The famed Birch Bark Books of Henry Abbott. Complete sets are very rare of the books and are known to be in the collections of the Adirondack Museum and the Owen D. Young Library, St. Lawrence University; and in two private collections. This set lacks two of the 19 titles: The Anxious Seat (1914) and Old-Bare-Back and Others (1917). Each volume is signed in pencil on the front free endpaper with a Christmas greeting. Comprising: Lost Pond, 1915 Camping at Cherry Pond, 1916 Camps and Trails, 1918 Fish Stories, 1919 The Chief Engineer, 1920 Cold River, 1921 Muskrat City, 1922 On the Bridge, 1923 Anthony Ponds, 1924 Fishing Brook, 1925 Wild Cat Mountain, 1926 Pioneering at Rowan-Wood, 1927 Tirrell Pond, 1928 North Bay Brook, 1929 Psychology of the Lost, 1930 Raquette River, 1931 Pine Brook. 1932.

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