Up The North Branch; Or, A Summer's Outing

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Hardcover. 12mo (7.5" x 5"), blue-green cloth, with color illustrations at front-cover and spine. 332 pp. [6] pp. of ads., illus. Front endpaper inscribed in pencil, "Christmas 1903. DeForest from Auntie." CONDITION: Good, spine cocked, fading to spine, light wear to covers; contents good with occasional small stains. An American Boy's Series edition. Up the North Branch is the fourth and final volume of Capt. Farrar's four-book series on sport and adventure in the Maine wilderness, the first three titles being Eastward Ho!, Wild Woods Life, and Down the West Branch. These works feature a "party of Boston boys" who are members of the "Lake and Forest Club." The most prolific 19th century writer on the Maine woods, Farrar began his literay career in 1876, with the publication of his Guide to Rangeley, Richardson, Kennebago, Umbagog, and Parmachenee Lakes, written to promote his Richardson Lake properties and commercial transportation company. REFERENCES: Williamson, A Bibliography of the State of Maine, #3276; Thompson, Edward V. Important Maine Maps, Books, Prints and Ephemera. Orono, 2003. N° de ref. del artículo 6184

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