[SETON], ERNEST THOMPSON. WILD ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN. Illustrated by the author. 8vo, original pictorial cloth, gilt-lettered, a little faded

at edges; rear hinge cracked; bookplate; 1/4 morocco folding case. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898 FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED on the front flyleaf: "To John Stuart Groves/ This copy is the first issue of the first edition of my Book "Wild Animals I have Known" It is distinguished by omission of the phrase "the Angel whispered Don't go"" (p.265) --I wanted it to read. "The Angel of the Wild things whispered "Don't go."" But there was not room to insert that. With best wishes of Ernest Thompson Seton [with his characteristic paw-print signature]. 6. Sept. 1932/Seton Village S.7." Morocco bookplate of the recipient. Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod, pages 106-07. Laid in --An Autograph Note Signed, to Miss Sophie Lehrman. One page, 12mo. New York, 16 August 1900; and a Typed Letter Signed, to John Stuart Groves, responding to the collector's request of him to sign this copy. 1 page, 8vo, on personal letterhead. Santa Fe, 24 August 1932.