NORTH AMERICAN BIG GAME: A Book of the Boone and Crockett Club. Compiled by the committee of records of North American Big Game. Published with the cooperation of the National Collection of Heads and Horns of the New York Zoological Society and American Museum of Natural History.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. First edition. 8vo. xxii, (2), 533 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, line drawings, maps. Record book for the largest species of various North American big game animals. Contributors to the text include John C. Phillips, Henry Shoemaker, Grancel Fitz, James L. Clark, Jack O'Connor, Carl Rungius, Belmore Brown, and Kermit Roosevelt, among others. Inscribed in the year of publication by Bob Bartlett who contributes the 6-page essay "Hunting the Polar Bear" and the 3-page essay "Hunting the Walrus"; Bartlett (1875-1946) was an award-winning artic explorer who commanded the SS Roosevelt on Robert Peary's attempts to reach the North Pole (cf. Wikipedia for a short biography). Very good copy with an excellent association. Original gilt-stamped decorated rust cloth, illustrated dust jacket. (11266). Item #65519
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