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First American Edition. (Copyright and inscription1889.) Hard cover, 8vo, in tan cloth blocked with pictorial cover of owl in flight in moonlight, with foliage, done in black and green ink with titles in gold to front board and spine. Moose vignette to spine. Top edge stained olive green. Glazed chocolate endpapers. Copyright listed 1889. Engraved tissue-guarded illustrated frontispiece plus more than one hundred additional black and white illustrations, some of the best being by Harper Brothers staff artist A.B. Frost, (perhaps more famous for his work on the Uncle Remus books by Joel Chandler Harris.) [6], [i]-x, 1-277 pp., plus 2 pp. advertising catalogue titled" Interesting Books for Boys." CONDITION: Very Good. Two small splits to cloth at foot of front joint. Very Mild soiling to boards, darkening to spine. Small losses to cloth at head and foot of spine, as seen. Christmas gift inscription to ffep. dated 1889 in old ink. The stated purpose of the book is to warn young people how to behave responsibly in the woods, including respectful treatment of indigenous people (this was Abenaki land.) It can also be viewed as promotional material for the club, and for responsible outdoor adventure. **AUTHOR Henry Parkhurst Wells (1842-1904) was both a founding member and Secretary of the The Parmachenee Club, a private fishing and hunting club created on pristine paper land in Maine's Oxford County in 1890. Said to have been created by a group of wealthy New York lawyers during the "gilded age," the Parmachenee Club issued membership stock certificates, (one seen signed by the author, in his capacity as club Secretary in 1896.) Henry P. Wells, also invented the "Parmachenee Belle," said to be the first commercial fishing fly, often imitated, for the pursuit of brook trout and inland salmon stocked for sport. Wells dedicated this book to his guide and preceding explorer of the region, John S. Danforth, who along with Fred Barker, wrote the first guide to the area. Refs: See N. Noble, Maine Historical Society article. W. Reed, pp.53,54.
Ref: ILLUS 9416
$50.00