New York: Privately printed for the author at the George Grady Press, 1952. First edition, #483/600 copies. Thick 4to. xxvi, 614 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portraits, facsimiles, tables and charts, several folding, maps, including three folding maps, endpaper maps. Detailed account of all aspects of life in this New..... More
West Hartford, VT: Countryman Press, (c1945). First edition, 1/350 copies signed by the author and illustrator. 4to. xvi, 2134 pp. Illustrated from paintings and line drawings, color plates. Hunting adventures for ducks, geese, snipe, etc. Boscotti, p. 209. Gift inscription on endpaper, small circle stain at head of spine, bookplate..... More
West Hartford, VT: Countryman Press, (c1944). First edition, 1/250 copies signed by the author and illustrator. 4to. xiv, 213 pp. Illustrated from paintings and line drawings, color plates. Hunting adventures for grouse, quail, woodcock, pheasants, wild turkey, prairie chickens, etc. Biscotti, p. 209. Casada 498: "Two chapters deal with turkey..... More
New York: Frank Walters, 1933. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 211 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, illustrated endpapers. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Heller 160: "White sheep, grizzly bear in the Atnarko region of British Columbia, mountain goat in the Kitlope River Country." Biscotti, p. 209: "An..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. 8vo. xxi, (3), 417 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, color frontispiece, map, endpaper maps. Biscotti, p. 210: "An important and thorough work." Heller 164: "Partly in diary form." Very good. Original decorated black cloth, illustrated dust jacket (rather tired and showing wear..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition. 8vo. xxi, (3), 417 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, color frontispiece, map, endpaper maps. Biscotti, p. 210: "An important and thorough work." Heller 164: "Partly in diary form." Very good. Original decorated black cloth. (7290). More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930. First edition (but with the frontispiece in black and white). 8vo. xxi, (3), 417 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, frontispiece, map, endpaper maps. Biscotti, p. 210: "An important and thorough work." Heller 164: "Partly in diary form." Very good. Original decorated rust cloth. (7291)..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906. First edition. 8vo. xvii, (3), 353 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, two maps. Phillips, p. 183. Heller 165: "With a plenitude of mountain sheep and goat hunting, and grizzly bear as well." Very good. Original gilt-stamped blue-green cloth, pictorial paper onlay on upper cover..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908. First edition. 8vo. xix, (1), 365 pp. Plates, color frontispiece, two maps. Results of an expedition to the deserts of southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. Phillips, p. 183: "Pinacate Mountains of Northern Sonora. Sheep and antelope." Heller 166: "The first important work on sheep..... More
London: Rowland Ward; NY: Scribner's, 1929. First American edition. 8vo. 232 pp. Illustrated, plates, maps, one in pocket at rear. Original gilt-stamped decorated green cloth (spine a little faded). Very good. More
New York and Washington: Neale Publishing Co., 1908. First edition. Small 8vo. 318 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, line drawings, portrait of the author. Waterfowl hunting at Currituck and other spots on the coast, fox, quail, and 'coon hunting, a little fishing, etc. Inscribed on the front endpaper in the..... More
Caldwell, TX: The Club, 1897. Advertising circular. Printed invitation, 6 1/2 x 4 inches, printed on light card stock, issued by the Hunting, Fishing, and Mounted Gun Club of Caldwell, Texas, for its annual hunt; below the invitation are listed members of various club committees,"arrangement," "invitation," and "boat and fishing..... More
Lutherville, MD: Chesacroft Kennels, nd [1924]. First edition, apparently the first book devoted solely to the Chesapeake Bay Retriever. 12mo. 31 pp. Illus. from photos; 3-pages of show records from Chesacroft dogs, 1922-1923. Not in Jones "Bibliography of the Dog" (listing only two titles on the Chesapeake Bay Retriever, the..... More
London and New York: Country Life and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First edition. Tall 8vo. 2 volumes: xiv, (2), 301; x, (2), 356 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, line drawings. Volume one explores Africa and Asia, volume two Europe and America; contributors include the major writers of the day on..... More
(Wayne, NJ): Stoeger Publishing Co., (c1997). First edition. Small 4to. (8), 248 pp. Illustrated from photographs and old advertising. With sections on guns and related objects; decoys, duck calls, and duck stamps; fishing decoys and tackle; and advertising material and sporting books. Fine. Color illustrated wrappers. (#7884). More
Potsdam, NY: Elliot Fay and Sons, Printers, 1915. First edition. 8vo. 124 pp. Illustrations from photographs and line drawings, plates. Not in Bruns or Phillips. Heller 698: "Chapters on deer hunting, trout fishing, and building a camp on the St. Regis River, trout fishing on the Grasse River, deer and..... More
Paris: Société des Amis du Muséum, (1934). Small 4to.; 159 pp. Illustrated, photographic plates, folding map. Results of the excavation of an elephant burial ground in Uganda, "Mission Scientifique de l'Omo." Original illustrated wrappers (a little soiled). A very good copy. More
South Brunswick, NJ: A.S. Barnes, (c1975). Revised edition (first published 1966). 4to. 434 pp. [text printed double-column]. Illustrated from photographs, plates, diagrams, tables. Exhaustive work on the arms company. Very good. Purple cloth, silver spine title, illustrated dust jacket. (7323). More
[Camden, NJ?]: Privately printed, 1928. First combined edition (Tarpomania was first published in 1908, Buck Fever in 1911). 8vo. (10), 59 pp. [printed rectos only]. Illustrated from photographs, eight plates, four to each title. Text printed within thin green rule; elaborate colored initial letters. Johnson was the co-founder of Victor..... More
New York: Vantage Press, (c1977). First edition. 8vo. (10), 132 pp. Collection of short hunting and fishing stories, trout fishing, elk hunting, bass fishing in Lake Erie, and nature gone wild in a science fiction tale set in the Dakotas, among others. Inscribed by the author to a family member..... More
Plantersville, SC: Thomas G. Samworth, Small-Arms Technical Publishing Co., (c1936, but published 1943). Reprint. 12mo. (8), 161 pp. Illustrated from photographs and line drawings, plates. Riling 2199: "Seven chapters on rifles used in various types of hunting, including all-around and double-barelled rifles, iron sights, scopes and mounts, with a chapter..... More
Huntington, WV: Standard Publications, 1946. First edition. Tall 8vo. (12), 406 pp. Illustrated from photographs, portrait frontispiece, illustrated endpapers. Inscribed by the author on the half-title in 1950. Heller 185: "Rifle technology and its practical applications, including accounts of hunting mountain sheep and goat, elk, antelope, grizzly, and mule deer."..... More
La Jolla, CA: Safari Publications, (c1968). First edition. 4to. 166 pp. [printed double- column]. Illustrated from photographs, plates, some in color, maps. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Keith's experiences on two African safaris. Very good. Gilt-stamped green cloth, color illustrated dust jacket. (#908). More
Charleston, WV: Charleston printing Co., for the author, (c1961). First edition. 8vo. xiv, (2), 158 pp. Kelly, "an authority on wildlife and the outdoors of his own state," delivers his memoirs of hunting and fishing and "kindred pursuits into each of the fifty states, all of the Canadian provinces, and..... More
Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Company, (c1957). First edition. 8vo. viii, 248 pp. Illustrated from photographs. Hunting the big five with the "dean of active African authorities"; "written at the insistence of Jack O'Connor, renowned American big game hunter, who was guided by Don Ker." Very good. Decorated light green boards, illustrated..... More
