The Best of Sheep Hunting by Batten, John - 1981

Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1981. Special Edition Printed for FNAWS. Hardcover. Fine/Slipcase VG. FNAWS Ed.. 596 pp, profuse ill. Worldwide sheep hunting with the noted John Batten (author of several other popular hunting titles) along with a chapter on rifles as Batten was a noted and knowledgeable firearms collector. This is the special edition issued for FNAWS (Foundation for North American Wild Sheep). Fine in slightly better than vg slipcase. Lots of great reading fromt he best books ever printed on worldwide sheep hunting.

Clinton, New Jersey: Amwell Press, 1980. Two volumes; Limited & Signed by the Author; Burgundy leatherette, gold spine titles, gold covers vignettes, all edges gold, & decorative pale endpapers / pastedown; A near fine set in slipcase; 596 pages.. Illus. by Gordon Allen & Carl Rungius. 6"x9.25".

Amwell Press, 1980. Hard cover. New. Signed by Author. This 2 Volume set limited to 1,000 copies. Signed on the limitation page of Volume I by John Batten, Gordon Allen, the illustrator, and Jim Rikhoff, President of NSFL. Bibliography: v. 2, p. 567-575. All edges gilt, with gilt spine titles and cover decoration. The books are New Old Stock, which are bright, tight, and unread; the slipcase box is in Near Fine condition. A total of 596 pages including a 9 page bibliography. An anthology of 40 sheep hunting stories by 35 authors, including James L. Clark, William Hornaday, Charles Sheldon, Jack O'Connor, Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt, William Morden, H.F. Wallace, J. Wong-Quincy, Elgin Gates, R.L. Kennion, Prince Demidoff, W.A. Baillie-Grohman, John C. Phillips, Frantz Rosenberg, John Cudahy, J.H. Kidder, H.P. Highton, E.N. Buxton, Clive Phillipps-Wolley, Rashid Jamsheed, F.E.S. Adair, D. MacIntyre, J.S. Stone, Hugh Whistler, C.S. Cumberland, Art and Dick Carlsberg. Hunting all species of wild… Read More

Amwell Press for The National Sporting Fraternity Limited, 1980. Limited Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New. Signed by Author(s). 1980. 1st ed. Ltd ed of only 1000 copies by Amwell Press for The National Sporting Fraternity Limited. 2 volume set; vol 312pp, vol 272pp, plus 11pp of guns and 1p of sheep rifle ballistics. Illus by Gordon Allen and w/ color frontispieces by Carl Rungius and Henry Adamson. Edited by John Batten, himself a world class sheep hunter, these volumes contain stories by the who's who of sheep hunting from around the world, including but not limited to, Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt, Hornaday, O'Connor, Philips, Highton, Gates, Jamsheed, Kennion, Adair, more. Leatherbound, gilt decorated, signed by editor, publisher, and artist, numbered and slipcased. Vf in fine+ slipcase.

Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press, 1980. First Limited to 1,000 Copies. Hardcover. Fine/Orig Slipcase Fine. Allen, G, Adamson, H. 2 volumes totaling 596 pp. Profuse ill. 1,000 signed by Batten, numbered and slipcased sets. Also signed by Publisher and artist. (Allen and Jim Rikhoff, publisher.) Sheep hunting around the world by a man who was one of the first to popularize both US and international sheep hunting. A much in demand set. Fine in like slipcase.