Hardcover. Chicago,IL, Rand, McNally & Company Publishers, Early reprint, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 580 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations including full color frontispiece (see image). Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board with navy blue illustration. Soil and light chipping and fraying to spine and bottom edge, as well as top of front cover board (see image). Tanning to pages and boards from age. Very early reprint.
Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Sierra Club, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean tight copy with only minor wear to dust jacket and cover boards.
Hardcover. Minocqua, WI, Willow Creek Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. (SIGNED BY AUTHORS AND PHOTOGRAPHER). In excellent shape. Gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight, clean inside and out.
Hardcover. Exton PA, Schiffer, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages. Black and white and color photos throughout. A detailed history and survey of decoy making and the decoy makers of the Canadian Maritime region, including Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, documenting styles found in the various regions of those areas, as well as notable makers, etc. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Exton PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 271 pages. Black and white and color photos throughout. A history and study of the making and use of duck decoys along the Mississippi flyway, looking at makers in regions such as Canada, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Mississippi and Louisiana.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 129 pages; illustrated with topographic map endpapers; b/w photos by the author; green photographic dust jacket. This book documents the rituals and traditions of hunting season in Vermont's fabled Northeast Kingdom. With 60 evocative photographs of the camps, hunters and life in the woods.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 129 pages; illustrated with topographic map endpapers; b/w photos by the author; green photographic dust jacket. This book documents the rituals and traditions of hunting season in Vermont's fabled Northeast Kingdom. With 60 evocative photographs of the camps, hunters and life in the woods.
Hardcover. West Chester, PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Hardcover with light edgewear to dust jacket. Red leather boards with gilt illustration of duck and lettering on front. light foxing to underneath dust jacket rear. Color pictures throughout. Tight copy. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 249 pages, 97 b&w photographs. Green cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light rubbing to cover corners. Binding slightly weak in some places. Else a nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, JR Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 202 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Signed personal letter from author enclosed. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket has small repaired rip on spine, otherwise very good. Gilt title on spine. There a small bit of staining (food) to a couple of the pages. Binding tight and in excellent shape.
Hardcover. London, England, C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1st Edition, 1902, With 48 illustrations. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt top edge.Green cloth bound cover boards, gilt title and design on front cover and spine. Spine has fading and fraying at top and bottom. Front cover board has fading to top. Cover boards having shipping at edges. Pages and edges have some tanning from age.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 46 pages. Hardcover. Full color illustrations by Bill Peet. Dust jacket with slight darkening to spine, minor edge wear. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Gibbings and Co., 2nd Ed., 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 341 pages. Hardcover with blue cloth covers with black and gilt design. An ex-library but aside from spine stickers and bookplate, a remarkably clean, tight copy. Doesn't appear to be a circulating copy. Tales of hunting throughout the world, but mostly in America, from snipe shooting to wolf coursing. Includes several fishing chapters; salmon in Japan, black and striped bass, grey mullet, brook trout and muskies, with a final chapter on artificial stocking of lakes and rivers.
Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 667 pages. Red cloth, gilt titled spine. Limited to 1000 copies. Good slipcase. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in color by John Leech. Spine faded, slipcase shows edgewear, some fraying.
Hardcover. Amsterdam, Schilt Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 2nd, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 453 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A unique record of a sportsman's year among the northern most tribe. A rousing account of hunting bears, walrus, narwhals, and more in the Polar region of Alaska.. (C) 1910, b&w photos by author. Light stain to bottom front cover, otherwise VG.
Hardcover. Shrewsbury UK, Quiller Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Profusely illustrated with color photographs of fox hunts. Detailing the best of hunting both in Britain and America. Clean, bright copy in an unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED/INSCRIBED on front fly leaf "With all best wishes from Jim Meads/03".
Hardcover. US, Schiffer Pub Ltd, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Extensive color photography throughout. Marbled end papers and fly leaves. Edge wear to top edge. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Exton PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 270 pages. Describes decoys made for some of the seven hundred varieties of ducks, geese, and shorebirds found in New Jersey and offers profiles of major decoy makers
Hardcover. Spanish Fork UT, Hillcrest Publications, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages including an index of illustrations, appendices, text and extensive black and white photographs by Richard M. Grave as well as a section of 15 pages of color photographs. With an introduction by Raymond E. Baldwin. Edited by Ruth Wolfe. SIGNED BY MERKT on front fly leaf. "The first biography to document the life and work of the remarkable Charles E. "Shang" Wheeler (1872-1949), whose prize winning decoys set a standard of excellence equaled by few and surpassed by none." In a dust jacket that has light sun fading to spine.
Hardcover. Long Beach, CA, Safari Press, Inc., 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 281 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Skyhorse, 2nd, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter Publishing, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Ex-Lib with usual markings and stamps on end papers and pages. Light edgewear on cover boards, and dust jacket is covered with plastic. Black and white and color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages, oblong hardcover illustrated in color and b&w. Frank Benson, a pivotal artist of the American Impressionist movement had three great loves in his long and productive life: his family, his art, and the sporting life. As a boy, Benson dreamed of being an ornithological illustrator. In mid-life, after an extremely successful career as a portraitist, he returned to the wildfowl and sporting subjects that were his lifelong passion. Over the next forty years, in etching, lithography, watercolor, and oil and wash, he portrayed birds beloved since childhood, scenes of his hunting and fishing expeditions, and still lives of incomparable delicacy. Whether painting a hunter setting out decoys, a wash of geese by moonlight, a watercolor of a companion poised to gaff a salmon, or an etching of a group of ducks silently gliding in for a landing, Benson conveyed the joy and beauty of a sportsman's life.
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. 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. 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.
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