Hunting

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. Safari Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 254 pages. Great African Trophies is a photographic showcase of some of the greatest game trophies ever taken on the Dark Continent, and it includes elephants, buffaloes, the big cats, spiral-horned antelopes, and dozens of other magnificent animals. The focus is on animals that rank in the top five of each species in the Safari Club International and Rowland Ward record books, but also included are historic, unlisted, and little-known trophies, along with their stories. This book is a feast for the eyes for anyone who loves African wildlife, and it contains the best available historical and modern photos of superlative African game animals, as well as the tales--many never before told--of the hunters who were fortunate to connect with them. The photos are accompanied by a description of where, when, and how the animal was taken, and the book provides, if possible, the details of the hunt and how it unfolded. Clean copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

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. Montezuma IA, F. Brownell & Son, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 496 pages with b&w illustrations. "A Whole New Collection of Fascinating and Widely Varied Shop Kinks, Cures to Problems, Techniques, Jokes and Comments sent by Practicing Gunsmiths from all over the World." Clean copy.

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. Guilford CT, The Lyons Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 296 pages. The importance of fishing in Ernest Hemingway's life was matched only by his passion for hunting. Edited and with an introduction by his grandson Sean, and with a foreword from his son Patrick, "Hemingway on Hunting" chronicles Ernest Hemingway's lifelong zeal for the hunting life, from the plains of Africa to the American West. B&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Nick Lyons Books, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 259 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1960. With a new introduction by the author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Country Life, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt. Color frontispiece and 24 b&w plates by Lionel Edwards. Spine faded. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Dayton OH, A. F. Hochwalt Co, reprint, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in decorated tan cloth, 236 pages, b&w photos. With b/w endpaper illustrations by C.W. Love, ten b/w plates (including a frontispiece) on unpaged leaves, Foreword, and Prologue. Features nineteen chapters titled as: "Your Pointer of Setter Puppy," "Some Suggestions on Feeding," "Care o the Dog," "House Breaking and Teaching to 'Heel,'" "The Bird Dog Breeds," "Avoiding Gun-Shyness," "Retrieving," "Backing," "Teaching to Point," "Steadiness to Wing and Shot," "Bolters," etc. Clean copy.

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".

Softcover. NY, MJF Books, reprint, 1997, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 191 pages plus index. In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyeth, which proceeded to the Rocky Mountains to capitalize on the salmon and fur trade. He would remain there, hunting, trapping, and living off the land, for the next nine years. Journal of a Trapper is his remarkable account of that time as he developed into a seasoned veteran of the mountains and experienced trapper. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Long Beach CA, Safari Press, 2nd Ed., 20ll, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Stone kept a series of journals during his arctic travels from 1896 through 1903 in which he recorded his struggles against raging blizzards, hostile natives, daunting physical risks, and mind-warping loneliness and boredom. B&w illustrations. Still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., National Rifle Association of America, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages plus 6 page reference index. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR KENDRICK SCOFIELD ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Black & white photographs and illustrations throughout. Gilt title and decoration on blue cover. Corner and edge wear and fray, minor foxing throughout. Rubbing along spine and edges of blue cloth covers. Unmarked pages and text.

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

1964, Book: Very Good, Color cartoon by Arno of two moose smiling at smug hunters from behind trees. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Boston, Williams Book Store, reprint, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering, 409 pages, b&w illustrations. A history of American firearms. Begins with a treatise advocating the personal possession of guns and rifles. Then describes hundreds of rifles with their images and technical details from the flint lock to carbines used against us. Also covers present manufacture and manufacturers, rifleman and much more. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Richmind VA, Dietz Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 219 pages. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and marks. No dust jacket. Tan cloth covers with gilt stamping.Primarily covers the era of the early American fur trader, as typified by the white trader and the Indian beaver hunter. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Middleburg PA, Middleburg Post Press, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with cover title label. Two softcover books rebound together in one hardcover volume. First volume 60 pages, second volume is 120 pages, also published in 1915 by The Faust Printing Company in Reading, PA. Many b&w photos in both. Clean and bright copies of 1915 printings.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale green cloth with decorative design and lettering in black. 12 photographic plates. A look into the life of a hunter exploring the South Carolina Plantation region, its changes, and the game that resides there. Clean copy, light shelf wear.