The Biography of a Grizzly.

"He was born over a score of years ago, away up in the wilderness": First edition of Ernest Seaton-Thompson's The Biography of a Grizzly

The Biography of a Grizzly.

SETON-THOMPSON, Ernest.

Item Number: 96114

New York: The Century Co, 1900.

First edition of Seton-Thompson’s biography of a Grizzly Bear. Octavo, original pictorial cloth, illustrated with 75 drawings by the author. Signed by the author on the second free endpaper, “With best wishes of Ernest Seton-Thompson.” In very good condition. First editions are uncommon signed.

Naturalist and wildlife artist Ernest Thompson Seton was one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America, particularly the appropriation and incorporation of what he believed to be Native American elements into the traditions of the BSA. A prolific writer and artist, several of his works have been adapted for television and film including the 1989 to 1990 Japanese Seton Animal Chronicles.

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