American Big Game Hunting the book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Editors Theodore Roosevelt & George Bird Grinnell - 1901

Boone and Crockett Club, 1986. Limited Edition. Soft cover. Good. 447 pp. Reprint of 1895 Edition. Limited to 500 hardcover and 2000 softcovers. Good condition softcover. Covers edgeworn and rubbed. Ink name on front inside cover, else interior very good, crisp and clean. A nice reading copy.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall Professional bookseller for twenty years. Orders shipped daily in cardboard bookfolds.

light shelf wear, small tear & a few light smudges to DJ; book clean sharp & tight; binding tght; pages pristine; nice copy

New York:: Forest and Stream Publishing, 1906.. Later Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: dark plum cloth with silver text and vignette; embossed address stamp on the contents page (stamp of the Audubon Society); the spine is slanted; top edge darkened; Fair condition. The binding is sound; text all in very good condition.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . List of books written by members, membership list. Description: Includes a frontis portrait plate with tissue guard, plus thirteen additional black and white plates. The title page is printed in red and black. The following is from Heller's American Hunting and Fishing Books (number 135): ''Some of the highlights of American interest are the chapters 'The Labrador Peninsula' by A P Low, with general descriptions of the game; 'Cherry' by Lewis S Thompson, with interesting stories about a sportsman and guide by that name; 'On the Little Missouri' by Theodore Roosevelt, with some pronghorn hunting; 'Bear Traits' by Grinnell, J C Merrill, Roosevelt and… Read More

Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1898. First U.K. Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth binding, maroon endpapers, titles stamped in gilt on spine, top edge gilt, rough cut fore-edge, frontispiece portrait of General B.H. Bristow, 13 plates which include 2 maps, 353 pages. Originally published by Forest and Stream in 1897, scarce in both the American and U.K. printings. Chapters on the Labrador Peninsula, An African Shooting Trip, Wolves and Wolf Nature, On the Little Missouri, Bear Traits, a list of books on Big Game, Constitution of the Boone and Crockett Club with tipped in revision omitting the Wolf from the list of American large game and other interesting chapters. Some spotting to the covers, corners rubbed, short tears to cloth at head and tail of spine. Book now protected by a clear acetate dust jacket.

New-York: Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 1897. Original decorative maroon cloth. 8vo. Original decorative maroon cloth. 355 pages. First edition. Rubbing along covers and spine. White lettering on spine rubbed off. Some spotting to covers. Interior has inked gift inscription on front pastedown; else interior is clean and tight. This 3rd Acorn Series title includes A.P.Low's exploration experiences in Labrador. A well-written account of winter caribou hunting in NE Canada by C. Grant LaFarge. Grinnell writes about wolves and bears. Roosevelt on game the Little Missouri and bear behavior. Henry Stimson describes his bear hunting experiences. And with additional material on the Club's conservation efforts. Very scarce.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.