ABBOTT, Henry

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

New York: 1914-1932. First edition. 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. Some occasional chipping to extremities, generally in very good plus to fine condition. Item #407534

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.

Price: $4,000.00