Headley, J. T. The Adirondack; or Life in the Woods. New York: Baker and Scribner, 1849. First Edition. [10808]
Green publisher's cloth decorated in blind, gilt title to spine, rubbed with a little fraying to the corner tips and ends, 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches, some soil to the binding. 288 pages plus all of the plates; light foxing in most sections, darker at the first and last several leaves. This book has all eight plates with tissue guards; one tissue guard is loose. Good. Hardcover.
Plum, Adirondack Bibliography, no. 1003. This is the true first edition and one of the earliest books on the interior regions of the Adirondack mountains.
The plates are Distant View of the Adirondack, Lake Sanford, Lake Colden, Adirondack Pass, Lake Henderson, View on Forked Lake, Raquette Lake, and Lake Schroon.
Accounts of trout fishing, deer hunting, mountain climbing, camping, moose, wolves, bears, storms, crossing lakes on horseback, Mitchel the Indian Guide, "musquitoes" and black flies, &c.
Joel Tyler Headley (1813-1897), born at Walton, NY, the son of a Presbyterian minister in what was then the backwoods of central New York State. Joel graduated at Union College and studied at Auburn Theological Seminary, and entered the ministry at Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He soon retired for reasons of health, and devoted himself to writing. He became associate editor of the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley. In the 1850's he was a member of the New York State Assembly, and was New York Secretary of State for two years. Headley was a popular writer, and published several valuable biographies and histories.
