Journey into America Hardcover - 1943

NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Ward, Lynn. Association copy, inscribed on half title page: "Cordially inscribed for Jean Hersholt by Donald Culross Peattie." Uncommon signed. Hersholt (1886-1956) was an actor best known for starring on the long-running radio series *Dr. Christian* and in the film *Heidi.* He served as the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and he was also a book collector: some of his books, particularly his Hans Christian Anderson collection, are now held in the Library of Congress. This book has his signed bookplate on the front pastedown. Peattie is best known as a naturalist-author, but this book, a kind of travelogue through time in America, likely represents his wartime patriotic effort (indeed, the rear flap is printed with a small "For victory, buy United States war bonds and stamps" advertisement); still his interest in the wilds persists in his profiles of pioneering types like Daniel Boone, Jim Bridger, and Kit Carson, and in a visit with the son of John James Audubon. Jacket, endpaper, and title page illustrations by Lynn Ward. A very good book that would be about near fine except there's a tear to acknowledgments page; in a very good jacket with some chipping to spine crown primarily..