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Lot 90
SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON Lives of Game Animals. An Account of those Land Animals in America, north of the Mexican Border, which are considered "Game," either because they have held the Attention of Sportsmen, or received the Protection of Law...
Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1925-1928. First edition, one of 177 signed copies (signed on the frontispiece), of which this is copy 161. Four volumes, publisher's pictorial tan cloth with brown spines, top edges gilt. 10 3/4 x 8 inches (27 x 20.5 cm); with 1500 illustrations and 50 maps showing distribution, signed by Seton on the frontispiece of volume I. One spine with a three-inch split at head, covers somewhat soiled and dulled, some leaves carelessly opened.
Approximately 100 animals are described in detail, with Thompson's fine drawings featuring prominently in the work.
This 4-volume set was owned by Nicholas Drahos, an avid outdoorsman and lover of nature. He was the principal photographer for the New York State Conservationist Magazine through 1969 and then moved to the island of Guam where he completed his professional career as a wildlife biologist.
Nick is most known for his college football career at Cornell Universtiry, where he was voted All American in 1940-1941. In 1981, he was inducted in to the College Football Hall of Fame.
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