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GUN DOGS AFIELD ;
Illus. by Lynn Bogue Hunt. 277 p. Mild shelfwear and front lower corner bumped; foxed on edges and mildly throughout, o/w very good in a fair dj. FB078
$20.00
INCIDENTS OF A COLLECTOR'S RAMBLES IN AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, AND NEW GUINEA
Boston:Lee and Shepard Publishers. 1889. 1st edition. ix+272pp. Illustrated by Author. Hardcover. Brown boards with decoration in gilt to front cover and title in gilt to spine strip soiled, with some spotted stains (not affecting gold-embosssed center illustration) to the lower-left quadrant, as well as general mottling to front cover and spine strip and light wear along edges, spine ends and edge points gently bumped and worn. Internally in very good condition. A previous owners inscription to 2nd free end-page with some offset to opposite page, otherwise a very good clean copy. The binding is tight with hinges intact..
$65.00
OH, SHOOT! Confessions of An Agitated Sportsman.
With illus. from Photographs taken by the author. NY:Harper & Brothers. [1921]. 280pp. Minor fraying at ends of spine, o/w a very good copy. S003.
$35.00
THE CAMP-FIRES OF THE EVERGLADES OR WILD SPORTS IN THE SOUTH.
Edinburgh:David Douglas. 1891. 1st edition. xi+298pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Green boards lightly soiled, rubbed and shelfworn, with gilt on front cover and spine strip slighlty dulled and wear along edges, spine ends and edge points worn to boards. The top of the spine strip has dime-size chip and both bottom and top edge have started to fray. The top page edges are gilt with fore-edges and bottom edges roughly cut. Internally, red end-pages with the remains of what looks to have been an old bookplate or article which was glued to the inside front boards. Otherwise pages are free of previous owners marks or signatures. Two pages (210/211) have darkened at top edge, as if an newspaper article has been left to long. Only the frontispiece has a tissue guard and a few of the plates have off-set to opposite page. The binding is tight with hinges intact.
$125.00
THE SCI RECORD BOOK OF TROPHY ANIMALS. A book of the Safari Club international awards program containing tabulations of outstanding big game trophies in Africa, Asia, and Europe, North and South America, and Australia and New Zealand.
Tucson, Az. Safari Club International. 1982. 3rd edition, No 2383 out of an edition of 2500. Illustrated. 462pp. Hard cover. Bound in brown imitation leather, with gilt to front cover and spine strip, which is lightly soiled and shelfworn. Internally, a very good, clean copy, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact.
$60.00
A WOMAN TENDERFOOT
New York:Doubleday, Page and Company. 1900. 1st edition. 361pp. Illustrated with full page drawings by Ernest Seton-Thompson, G. Wright and E. M. Ashe, and marginals by S. N. Abbott. Signed and inscribed by author on the 1st free end-page. Hardcover. Green decorated boards lightly soiled with wear to edges, spine ends, and edge points. Internally, author's inscription to first free end-page, otherwise a very good, clean copy. The binding is tight and hinges intact.
$200.00
CAMP KITS AND CAMP LIFE
xii+259pp. Illustrated. 1st edition. Hardcover. Ex-lib. Aside from library markings (stamp to spine, bookplate, some penciled numbers to title page, and remains of envelop to rear board), a very good, clean copy. Binding is slightly cocked but tight and hinges intact. Decorated boards are rubbed and lightly shelfworn at edges. Illustration on the front cover is worn. Internally, pages just slightly age toned, otherwise clean . A good solid copy.
$35.00
HUNTING BIG GAME IN THE EIGHTIES. The Letters of Elliott Roosevelt Sportsman
New York:Charles Scribner's Sons. 1933. 1st edition. x+182pp. With portrait frontispiece and tissue guard. Hardcover with dust jacket. Blue boards lightly soiled but gilt on cover and spine strip still bright. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. A very good clean copy. The dust jacket has done it job well, still in one piece and not price clipped, but soiled and age toned, with chips (missing top inch of spine strip) and tears to edges and folds. Still in good condition.
$225.00
OUR WILD FOWL AND WADERS
New York; The Amateur Sportsman Co., [1910]. First Edition. Hardcover, no dj. iv+207pp+4pp adverts. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Maroon cloth boards moderately rubbed/soiled, with light fraying at extremities, and loss of most white coloring of the embossed titling. Decorative bookplate on front pastedown, with owner info penned to ffep. Light foxing to frontis portrait and its tissue guard. Occasional handling grime but otherwise unmarked. Square and tightly bound. Overall G+. A forward looking work, 'Our Wild Fowl and Waders' provides a framework "for American readers on the practical conservation of game. It deals with the methods of propogation and preservation which are essential to make game abundant and make it plentiful in places where field sports are permitted." (cfm)
$45.00
PHEASANT JUNGLES
New York:G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1927. 1st edition. xiii+248pp. Illustrated with 60 photographs by the author. Inscribed by the author on the 2nd free end-page. Hardcover with dust jacket. Blue boards with gilt decorations lightly rubbed on front board and spine. Internally, illustrated end-papers clean with a booksellers ticket to inside lower edge of 1st free end-page and the author inscription to the 2nd free end-page but otherwise pages clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The dust jacket is in poor condition, in two pieces split along the rear hinge, soiled and quite worn with many chips and tears to all edges and folds.
$50.00
REVERIES OF AN OUTDOOR MAN. Tales of Field and Stream
New York:G. P Putnam's Sons. (1946). 1st edition, No. 151 of a limited edition of 350 copies, signed by the Author on the Limitation page. vii+181pp. Illustrated by Luis M. Henderson. Hardcover. Boards lightly soiled, with some sun-fading around edges and along spine strip. Internally, previous owners name/date is penciled to outside edge of 1st free flyleaf, but otherwise a very good, clean copy.
$50.00
THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES. A CANOE-JOURNEY OF 2,000 MILES IN SEARCH OF THE CARIBOU; BEING THE ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE TO THE REGION NORTH F ALYMER LAKE
New York:Charles Scribner's Sons. 1911. xvi+415pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. In very good condition. Gilt bright on cover but slightly chipped on spine. Light overall shelfwear with several bubbles to cloth on rear board. Several edge points gently bumped. Internally, bookplate to iniside front board but otherwise pages clean and bright. A very good copy.
$75.00
THE OLD FOREST RANGER; or, Wild Sports of India on the Neilgherry Hills, in the Jungles, and on the Plains
London; Jeremiah How, 1845. Second edition. Hardcover, no dj. Top edge gilt. Illustrated. xii+332pp. Half leather. Good condition. Leather a bit worn along the edges and gutters. Owner names penned to ffep and half title. Foxing to endpapers. Some insect nibbling to lower corner of preliminaries to the preface. Foxing to some of the full page illustrations. Otherwise pretty clean. "The kind reception I met with, under the disquise of "The Old Forest Ranger" has encouraged me to reprint , in a connected form, my papers on Indian Field Sports, which have appeared, from time to time, in the pages of the "New Monthly Magazine"." (cfm)
$125.00
THE RIFLE AND THE HOUND IN CEYLON
London:Longman, Browne, Green and Longmans. 1854. 1st edition. xii+409pp. Illustrated, with 6 full color plates with tissue guards. Hardcover. Bound in 3/4 leather with brown buckram boards and marbled end-pages. The leather along spine edges (gutters), spine ends and edge points worn and scuffed (to boards in places), but with boards still firmly attached. Top page edges darkened with fore-edges stained. Internally, some penciled and ink notes to verso of 1st free end-page, with a previous owners name/date inked to 2nd free end-page. Otherwise, aside from an occasional smudge or age spot, a very good, clean copy. All plates in very good condition, all with tissue guards still in place. The bound in ribbon is still attached with discoloration to pages 402/403 where it has resided. The binding is tight with hinges intact.
$600.00
WINGS, FUR & SHOT. A GRASS-ROOTS GUIDE TO AMERICAN HUNTING
New York:Stackpole Sons. 1936. 1st edition. 199pp. Illustrated by George M. Sutton. Hardcover. Review copy, with review slip still attached to 1st free end page. Boards soiled and rubbed, with title on front cover quite dulled, but brighter on spine. Edges, spine ends and edge points gently worn. Internally end-pages slightly age-toned but free of previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight and hinges intact. A very good copy.
$45.00