hunting

Hardcover. University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 512 pages. Historians, biographers, and scholars of John James Audubon and natural history have long been mystified by Audubon's 1843 Missouri River expedition, for his journals of the trip were thought to have been destroyed by his granddaughter Maria Rebecca Audubon. Daniel Patterson is the first scholar to locate and assemble three important fragments of the 1843 Missouri River journals, and here he offers a stunning transcription and critical edition of Audubon's last journey through the American West. Patterson's new edition of the journals--unknown to Audubon scholars and fans--offers a significantly different understanding of the very core of Audubon's life and work. Readers will be introduced to a more authentic Audubon, one who was concerned about the disappearance of America's wild animal species and yet also loved to hunt and display his prowess in the wilderness. This edition reveals that Audubon's famous late conversion to conservationism on this expedition was, in fact, a literary fiction. Maria Rebecca Audubon created this myth when she rewrote her grandfather's journals for publication to make him into a visionary conservationist. In reality the journals detail almost gratuitous hunting predations throughout the course of Audubon's last expedition.

Hardcover. San Marino CA, The Huntington Library, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, dark blue cloth in a lightly worn dust jacket, 264 pages. 'An expression of thanks from those he has benefited and contributing to our understanding of the colonial era which has been his lifetime interest."

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 120 pages illustrated in color. Since the first report of cave art (at Altamira in 1879), attempts have been made to explain the purpose of the mysterious drawings. Art for art's sake; totemism; hunting, destructive, or fertility magic; and modern structuralist theories have all been proposed. Clottes and Lewis-Williams propose a new theory emphasizing the shamanic aspects of Paleolithic cave paintings. After an unavoidably technical chapter providing the basics of shamanism, the authors examine Paleolithic paintings from across France and Spain, noting the use of animal figures, composite figures combining both human and animal characteristics, and geometric designs that are all common elements of shamanism. The bulk of the book is both fascinating and thought-provoking, and while it is not likely to be the last word on the subject, it is an important contribution to the field. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 6th pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 333 pages, b&w illustrations by Walter Dower.

Hardcover. NY, Privately Printed, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, original two-tone cloth (dark green spines and light green sides). Gilt titles and decorations. Top edge gilt. Memoir of a successful banker and financial businessman. Notable for his his World War 1 recollections and numerous accounts of sporting trips: trolling for lake trout and moose hunting in Quebec, dove shoots in Georgia, trout fishing and elk hunting in Yellowstone, duck shooting in Minnesota, salmon fishing in Newfoundland, grayling fishing in Yukon, black bass fishing in Canada, fishing for sailfish and dolphin off Florida. Clean bright set.

Hardcover. West Chester PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages illustrated in color and b&w. The story of the life and works of an American wildfowl artist. Lem's life is a tale of courage - of a man who overcame a withered arm, lack of formal education, cultural isolation, and severe illness to become one of the founders of American Wildfowl Art. This is a close look at how he and his brother, Steve, grew up together in the marshes along the Chesapeake Bay, how they subsisted as barbers and foragers, how they retained their independent spirits to create birds that pleased them - wildfowl art - while carvers around them were creating decoys just good enough for hunting ducks. Lem's work is described in pictures, accompanied by colorful comments and interesting insights by a collector who became one of the artist's closest friends. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with red and dark blue lettering on the spine and cover, 302 pages. A moving novel of the beginning of the American trek to the west. Toward the close of the eighteenth century, the land west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio River was an unbroken sea of trees. Beneath them the forest trails were dark, silent, and lonely, brightened only by a few lost beams of sunlight. Here, in the first novel of Conrad Richter's Awakening Land trilogy, the Lucketts, a wild, woods-faring family, lived their roaming life, pushing ever westward as the frontier advanced and as new settlements threatened their isolation. This novel gives an excellent feel for America's lost woods culture, which was created when most of the eastern midwest was a vast hardwood forest---virtually a jungle. The Trees conveys settler life, including conflicts with Native Americans, illness, hunting, family dynamics, and marriage. INSCRIBED BY RICHTER on the front fly leaf. A bright, sharp copy missing the dust jacket. Related ephemera laid in.

Hardcover. Memphis TN, Ducks Unlimited, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, horizontal format, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 192 pages. What and where is the waterfowler's world? It isn't Manhattan, and it sure isn't L.A. But it is practically everywhere you go in the heart of duck and goose country. And it's more than geography - it's a lifestyle shared by men and women with an unwavering desire to greet the dawn in the watery realms of ducks and geese. Bill Buckley explores these special places and the compelling experiences they offer the waterfowling devotee. His astounding color photographs celebrate the waterfowler's world, from Canadian prairies, across America, to the Mexican border. Buckley's engaging writing complements his photographs' vivid imagery, providing insightful commentary on the waterfowler's consuming passion. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Wisconsin, Stanton & Lee Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. SIGNED BY OWEN GROMME. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. "SIGNED" sticker on front cover. Dust cover shows wear: some chipping on spine and edges, small tears along edges, light fading. Boards in great shape, only very light fading along bottom edges. From the dust jacket front flap: "...presents the life and art of a man who through eight decades of accomplishment as a naturalist and artist has provided us with a link between the 19th and 21st centuries."

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, reprint, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped with a maroon and gilt design on cover and spine. Tales and studies of outdoor life, hunting, fishing, living in the wilderness, etc. Profusely illustrated with wonderful engravings by the Harper stable of artists: Shepard, W.A. Rogers, Rinehart, Abbey, others. No date on title page so assumed an early reprint. No markings but the rear cover is badly scuffed, light corner wear to corners. Rear endpapers soiled. The interior of the book is tight and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 4th pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 361 pages, color frontis, preface, list of b&w illustrations and maps, prologue, 1. Beaver and Mountain Men; 2. Jedediah Strong Smith: From the Big Lake to the Sea; 3. Kedediah Strong Smith: The End of the Long Trail; 4. To Santa Fe and Beyond; 5. Perils of the Wilderness: The Wanderings of James Ohio Pattie; 6. "Joaquin Yong" and the Men of Taos; 7. From Santa Fe to California; 8. Joseph Reddeford Walker: To the "Extreme End of the Great West; 9. Partisans versus Mountain Men; epilogue, bibliographical notes, index. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clean copy.

Softcover. Huntington NY, Heckscher Museum, 1st, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover,143 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Binding is cracked on page 62. Minor wear to wrappers. Neat, clean copy. This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition The Art of Thomas Anshultz, organized by Randall C. Griffith, Guest Curator; Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York. The exhibition was on view from September 3rd through November 20, 1994. The book contains the monograph Thomas Anshultz Artist and Teacher, 28 color plates, and numerous black and white reproductions of art from throughout Anshultz's career.

Hardcover. Romney WV, self-published, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 460 pages. Large format with many color photos. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author on title page. #314 of 1000 copies.

Hardcover. NY, Countryman Press / A.S. Barnes, reprint, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three hardcovers with dust jackets in a lightly worn cardboard slipcase. Tranquillity (194 pages), Tranquillity Regained (160 pages),Tranquillity Revisited (186 pages). Five thousand copies were printed September 1945, size: 8 1/4" x 5 3/4". B&w illustrations by Arthur Fuller. Dust jacket spines are sun faded otherwise very good. Clean copies.

Hardcover. NY, Forest & Stream Publishing, 5th Ed., 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial gray cloth stamped in black and gold. 187 pages, floral decorative endpapers. Tales of Vermont life back in the day. Chapter headings include: The School Meeting in District 13; Uncle Lisha's Spring Gun; Concerning Owls, Uncle Lisha's Courting; A Rainy Day in the Shop; The Turkey Shoot at Hamner's; Sam Lovel's Bee-Hunting; In the Shop Again; The Fox Hunt; The Coon Hunt; In the Sugar Camp; Indians in Danvis; The Boy out West; Breaking Up; The Departure; The Wild Bees' Swarm, etc. Robinson (1833-1900) was a noted Quaker author from a well-respected and artistic Vermont family whose writings and art captured the dialect, culture and time of pre-Civil War Vermont, set in the imaginary town of Danvis, largely drawing from his the inhabitants and experiences of Ferrisburgh, VT. Name and date on a blank prelim page. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Waseca MN, Herter's Inc., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 6 X 9" booklet, 28 pages illustrated with b&w drawings. Tips on methods of hunting and how to butcher the meat. Laid in is a flyer on the company's famous Scent Holder. Light wear.

Hardcover. Long Beach, CA, Safari Press, 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 187 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket issued. Minor wear to covers, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Long Beach CA, Safari Press, 2nd Ed., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 289 pages. Thirty-five enchanting tales by distinguished experts from 1888-1913--bring back the flavor of incredible shooting from British Columbia, Montana, and Oregon down to Arizona and Mexico.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 2nd pr., 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and design on front cover, 244 pages, b&w illustrations. The author of Bring 'Em Back Alive relates more tales of collecting and transporting wild animals for zoos and circuses. Includes tigers, elephants, spitting cobras, black leopard, miniature deer and much more, mostly done in India and Borneo. Clean copy. Mild shelfwear, clean copy.

Hardcover. Huntington Beach CA, Cahill Publishing, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 343 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Limited edition #114of 150 copies. Pink marbled covers with leather band on spine. Acetate dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1st, 1860, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Hardcover. Stated Author's Edition. Brick colored end papers scarred & chipped. Small discard stamp on title-page - ex-library with few markings. Short tear to page 7 of preface. Original embossed brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine faded. Uncommon book detailing the hunting of Indian animals, including man-eaters, panthers, bears, buffalo and wild elephants.

Hardcover. London, S.O. Beeton, 1st, 1862, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 leather tooled binding with raised decorated bands on spine. 426 pages. Illustrated with woodcuts by Harden Melville and William Harvey. 10 color illustrations from water-color drawings by J.R. Zweker, Harrison Webb, and Harden Melville. Six fold-out maps. Marbled edges. Endpapers with light foxing. Rubbing wear to spine edges, small scuff mark to front leather edge. Corners bumped, worn. A fascinating work of hunting and natural history by journalist and novelist James Greenwood discusses the history, habits and physiology of a number of species of big game, including tigers, elephants, hippos and leopards. The work also offers information regarding the methods of their hunting including weaponry and tactical movements. The work is particularly noted for its discussion regarding deer hunting, with anecdotal evidence regarding the capacity of the white tail deer to heal from extremely serious wounds.

Softcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Cover has minor wear to edges. Inside is bright and clean. Many color plates throughout. A nice copy. This book celebrates the art as well as the poetry of the great English poet William Blake. The Huntington Library has the most extensive collection of Blake's artwork in the world.