Adirondack Tales (Five Volume Set)

Springfield, MA: Self Published. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, corners rounded, owner . signature in two volumes. Some uncut pages.. 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. [Springfield, MA: Springfield Printing and Binding Company], 1897-98. In five volumes uniformly bound in burgundy cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spines. First four volumes have same photograph portrait of the author. Vol. I: The Story of The Man Who Didn't Know Much; Vol. II: The Story of the Man Who Missed It, The Story That the Keg Told Me, and Who Were They?; Vol. III: Mamelons and Ungava, with Supplementary Notes; Vol. IV: Stories of Description and Humor; Vol. V: Sermons, Lectures and Addresses. A compilation of "Adirondack Murray's" writings, covering both his fictional tales set in the Adirondacks and Labrador Peninsula, some favorite sermons from his years as a Congregationalist minister in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and stories featuring "John Norton the Trapper". Murray's writings helped popularize the Adirondacks as a health and vacation destination. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .