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Seton, Julia M.

BY A THOUSAND FIRES. Nature Notes and Extracts from the Life andUnpublished Journals of Ernest Thompson Seton.

1967 1st Frontispiece photograph, with illustrations by Ernest Thompson Seton. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1967. First edition. Collection of previously unpublished notes, essays, diary entries, poems, and articles by Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), compiled by his second wife Julia, that serves as a sort of informal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, fine copy in a very lightly shelfworn jacket.

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