ABBOTT, HENRY | A complete collection of Abbott's "Birch Bark" Christmas gift books, with 17 duplicate volumes. New York: Privately Printed, 1914-1932

Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson
ABBOTT, HENRY
A complete collection of Abbott's "Birch Bark" Christmas gift books, with 17 duplicate volumes. New York: Privately Printed, 1914-1932

36 volumes, 12mo (5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.; 147 x 96mm). In text woodcut illustrations and maps, photographic plates tipped onto leaves, folding maps (Anthony Ponds, Fishing Brook, Wild Cat Mountain, Tirrell Pond, Raquette River, Pine Brook); one or two instances of minor dampstaining, minor offsetting, one or two stray spots. Original birch bark pattern paper covered boards, each signed by Abbot on the front free endpaper; rubbing to extremities, some nicks to heads and tails of spines.

A complete set of Abbott's charming "Birch Bark" books, each signed or inscribed by Abbot, with another 17 titles present, making nearly another full set. The collection includes the following: The Anxious Seat, 1914 (1); Lost Pond, 1915 (2); Camping at Cherry Pond, 1916 (2); Old Bare-Back and Others, 1917 (1); Camps and Trails, 1918 (2); Fish Stories, 1919 (2); The Chief Engineer, 1920 (2); Cold River, 1921 (2); Muskrat City, 1922 (2); On the Bridge, 1923 (2); Anthony Ponds, 1924 (2); Fishing Brook, 1925 (2); Wild Cat Mountain, 1926 (2); Pioneering at Rowan-Wood, 1927 (2); Tirrell Pond, 1928 (2); North Bay Brook, 1929 (2); Psychology of the Lost, 1930 (2); Raquette River, 1931 (2); Pine Brook, 1932 (2).

Group lots not subject to return.

REFERENCE:
Litchfield 75, 76, 78-82, 84-89; Phillips 11-12

PROVENANCE:
Henry Abbott (pencil signature to front free endpapers)

Condition Report:
Condition as described in catalogue entry.