Camp-Fires and Guide-Posts: A Book of Essays and Excursions

Title: Camp-Fires and Guide-Posts: A Book of Essays and Excursions

Author: Van Dyke, Henry

Publication: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921.

Description: A collection of essays by Henry Van Dyke in a binding designed by Margaret Armstrong (unsigned; see Gullans, C.B. Margaret Armstrong and American trade bindings, entry 288). First edition. Some chapters previously appeared in Scribner's Magazine. Six plates with captioned black-and-white photo illustrations. Frontispiece from a photograph by Mathilde Weil. Title page in red and black. In publisher's binding of full navy cloth stamped in gilt, green, and red-brown, depicting a campfire, birds, pine cones, and lilies. 7.75 x 5 inches; [2], ix, [3], 319, [3] pages, [8] leaves of plates. Some gatherings remain unopened at the fore-edge. Light edgewear and gilt faded on the spine, endpapers foxed, ink inscription and bookseller's label on front free endpaper, spots of soiling to a few leaves and top edge, but an exceptionally bright and attractive front cover. Very Good.