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[EXPLORERS CLUB] JOHNSON, CRAWFORD. Hunters of the Moon. Portland, ME: The Mosher Press, 1931. First edition. Original parchment-backed printed boards, glassine (likely original), housed in blue morocco backed slipcase. 6 1/2 x 4 inches (16.5 x 10 cm); with photographic portrait frontispiece, hand-colored illustration of the Explorers Club flag, initials throughout and several leaves ruled in orange, [62 pp.]. A very fine copy, bookplate of J. William Kilbreth . Crawford Johnson had just been elected the youngest member of the Explorers Club when he died in a motorcyle crash at 20 years old. The intrepid young man had just returned from an expedition to the Yucatan with Robert R. Bennett and was carrying the manuscript to this narrative about the expedition in his pocket when he died. An uncommon and elegantly designed Mosher title; we trace no copies at auction. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson