Ernest Thompson Seton — Johnny Bear; Old Silver Grizzle the Badger; Billy

London, Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1925. Cloth. Three uniformly bound volumes of short animal stories by Ernest Thompson Seton, with charming illustrations. A set of three volumes uniformly bound in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.Illustrated by the author with eight plates to Johnny Bear, seven plates to Old Silver Grizzle the Badger, and four plates to Billy. Collated, complete.Three volumes from Ernest Thompson Seton's collections of short stories. Each story presents a message about the importance of the relationship between humans and animals.Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) was an author and wildlife artist. Each book is illustrated throughout.The set comprises: Johnny Bear and other stories from Lives of the Hunted; Being the Personal Histories of Johnny Bear, Tito, Why the Chickadee Goes Crazy Old Silver Grizzle and other stories from Wild Animals at Home; Being the Personal Histories of The Squirrel, The Rabbits and their Habits, Bears of High and Low Degree, the Cute Coyote, The Prairie-dog, Sneak-cats Billy and other stories from Wild Animal Ways; Being the Personal Histories of Billy, Atalapha, The Wild Geese of Wyndygoul, Jinny In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, smart. A little bumping to the extremities. Faint marks to the front boards of 'Johnny Bear' and 'Silver Grizzle&apos. Light shelf wear to the front board of 'Silver Grizzle&apos. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the fore edge and occasional page. Loss to the half title page of 'Silver Grizzle'; one of the plates to this volume is also detached but intact. The title page and several of the vignette illustrations to the text have been neatly coloured in to 'Silver Grizzle&apos. Very Good . Ill.: Ernest Thompson Seton. Very Good .