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Mayer. Alfred M., Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters, Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1884, 1st English ed. 2 volumes, 4to. Quarter morocco on paper covered boards, gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Pp448, pp440. Both volumes have tipped in vignette wood engraved proofs on Japan on to title page and 10 others throughout, as called for. Many wood engraved images within text and full page, throughout both volumes. Binding bumped at edges, hinges skillfully strengthened. Some light foxing to prelims, all illustrations and text in clean, strong order. The Japan prints are in excellent condition. A very good illustrated commentary on a variety of country sports including Trout Fishing in the Rangeley Lakes, American Sporting Dogs, North American Grouse, Hunting the Mule Deer in Colorado and Fox Hunting in New England.
Dear John-:, Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey by Evans, George Bird, Ed - 1984
by Evans, George Bird, Ed
Dear John-:, Nash Buckingham's Letters to John Bailey
by Evans, George Bird, Ed
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Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters.
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Hunts with Jorrocks
by Robert Surtees Hodder and Stoughton from Handley Cross
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Spencer Repeating Firearms (ASSOCIATION COPY: William [Bill] B. Ruger)
by Marcot, Roy M.
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Northwood Heritage Press, 1983. Book. Fine-. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Oversize imitation-leather hardcover with copper lettering to spine; pictorial endpapers; 316 pages; many b&w illustrations; front of the jacket laid in. Fine minus condition: tail of spine and lower outer corners of binding are very slightly pushed in. Inscribed and signed to William B. Ruger of the Sturm, Ruger Firearms Company by Huerbert G. Houze, Curator of Winchester Arms Museum. Laid in also is a letter to Ruger from Houze..
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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
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Manuels-Roret. Nouveau manuel pour le Naturaliste Préparatoire.: l'art d'empailler les animaux, de conserve les vegetaux et les mineraux, de preparer les pieces d'anatomie normale et pathologique; suivud un tratie des embaumens.
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Paris:: à la librairie encyclopédique de Roret, 1839. Nouvelle édition. A manual for preparing animals and birds for taxidermy and on preserving plants and minerals. Recent binding with burgundy quarter leather spine and gilt titles. Recent marbled boards. Four large folding plates to the rear. The original soft cover is bound in. The exterior is immaculate, inside there is a little foxing, and the oversized plates have a little edge wear to them. Overall an attractive and well preserved copy. 592 pages + 4 plates. 150 x 100 mm (6 x 4 inches). Nouvelle édition. Un manuel pour préparer les animaux et les oiseaux à la taxidermie et sur la préservation des plantes et des minéraux. Reliure récente avec dos en quartier cuir bordeaux et titres dorés. Plats marbrés récents. Quatre grandes plaques rabattables à l'arrière. La couverture souple d'origine est reliée. L'extérieur est impeccable, à l'intérieur il y a un peu de rousseurs, et les plaques surdimensionnées ont un peu d'usure sur…
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Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters.
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Mayer. Alfred M., Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters, Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1884, 1st English ed. 2 volumes, 4to. Quarter morocco on paper covered boards, gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Pp448, pp440. Both volumes have tipped in vignette wood engraved proofs on Japan on to title page and 10 others throughout, as called for. Many wood engraved images within text and full page, throughout both volumes. Binding bumped at edges, hinges skillfully strengthened. Some light foxing to prelims, all illustrations and text in clean, strong order. The Japan prints are in excellent condition. A very good illustrated commentary on a variety of country sports including Trout Fishing in the Rangeley Lakes, American Sporting Dogs, North American Grouse, Hunting the Mule Deer in Colorado and Fox Hunting in New England.
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Hunts with Jorrocks
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Spencer Repeating Firearms (ASSOCIATION COPY: William [Bill] B. Ruger)
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Northwood Heritage Press, 1983. Book. Fine-. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Oversize imitation-leather hardcover with copper lettering to spine; pictorial endpapers; 316 pages; many b&w illustrations; front of the jacket laid in. Fine minus condition: tail of spine and lower outer corners of binding are very slightly pushed in. Inscribed and signed to William B. Ruger of the Sturm, Ruger Firearms Company by Huerbert G. Houze, Curator of Winchester Arms Museum. Laid in also is a letter to Ruger from Houze..
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Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
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This book has some discoloration inside front cover on first page and same at rear of book. otherwise clean. Pages have deckled edge. Dust jacket is here except for spine area which is totally missing. Slip case has some wear to corners and some fading to front of case. Please see photos.
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Manuels-Roret. Nouveau manuel pour le Naturaliste Préparatoire.: l'art d'empailler les animaux, de conserve les vegetaux et les mineraux, de preparer les pieces d'anatomie normale et pathologique; suivud un tratie des embaumens.
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Paris:: à la librairie encyclopédique de Roret, 1839. Nouvelle édition. A manual for preparing animals and birds for taxidermy and on preserving plants and minerals. Recent binding with burgundy quarter leather spine and gilt titles. Recent marbled boards. Four large folding plates to the rear. The original soft cover is bound in. The exterior is immaculate, inside there is a little foxing, and the oversized plates have a little edge wear to them. Overall an attractive and well preserved copy. 592 pages + 4 plates. 150 x 100 mm (6 x 4 inches). Nouvelle édition. Un manuel pour préparer les animaux et les oiseaux à la taxidermie et sur la préservation des plantes et des minéraux. Reliure récente avec dos en quartier cuir bordeaux et titres dorés. Plats marbrés récents. Quatre grandes plaques rabattables à l'arrière. La couverture souple d'origine est reliée. L'extérieur est impeccable, à l'intérieur il y a un peu de rousseurs, et les plaques surdimensionnées ont un peu d'usure sur…
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Making Duck Decoys
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Shephard Publishing Company, Montreal, 1941, Very Good Softcover, 31 pages, 5" x 7", sticker damage on front cover, short tear on title page, otherwise clean and tight.
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The Sky and the Forest
by Forester, C.S
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Encyclopedia of American Gun Design and Performance: Rifles, Shotguns, Pistols, Revolvers
by Wallack, L. R
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USA: Winchester Press, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Second Revised Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover with blue boards and pictorial dust jacket, second revised edition, 2000gms, 517 pages, blank endpapers. This single volume brings together three of the most significant and useful books covering the whole realm of American firearms. Book 1 is titled Rifles, Book 2 is titled Shotguns, and Book 3 is titled Pistols and Revolvers. Book and boards are in very good condition with only very minor general wear and tear. Dust jacket is in good condition with light shelf wear, scuffing and chipping. Front dust jacket shows old sticker partially removed, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Book weighs 2kg and may incur additional postage..
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Best Wing Shooting in Uruguay, The
by Vigano, Galeazzo; Vigano, Diego
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South End Publishing, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Illustrator: Bedeschi, Francisco (Photographs). 160pp; Loaded with fantastic hunting and landscape photographs from Uruguay; Text written in both English and Spanish; Gift inscription on fep; Otherwise, as new condition; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrator: Bedeschi, Francisco (Photographs). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 - 2 pounds. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Non-English Language::Spanish; ISBN: 9872192723. ISBN/EAN: 9789872192723. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 100703. . 9789872192723
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The Man In The Brown Suit
by Christie, Agatha
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703 ChristieBrownSuit The Man In The Brown Suit. By Agatha Christie. Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1958, Stated Fourth Impression Thus,1970. ISBN 0370006720. Please see our stock photos. EXLIB. Good Condition/Good Original Shakel & Ryder Dust Jacket with Yellow spine, black titling, woman and ship cover art. Protected in mylar wrap. "States new and redesigned Edition, Fourth Impression, 80p. Blue boards with black titling. Our book spine has skinned spot at the word "brown" from removal of scotch tape. Plot Summary: Who is he, the man in the brown suit? He says he is a doctor; but Anne Beddingfield, who witnesses the fatal accident at a London tube station, is quick to notice some curious features about him when he comes to the scene. Her investigation of the accident leads her into the thick of mystery. This novel is more than an ingenious puzzle: It is a gripping suspense story."
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Dead-Eye Dick
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Vonnegut, Kurt. Dead-Eye Dick. 1982, DELACORTE PRESS/SEYMOUR LAWRENCE . FIRST EDITION. Used. VG/G+ Condition. Back DJ photo of author taken by Jill Krementz. Plot Summary: "Deadeye Dick is a tragic tale of "gun nuts and nukes," Vonnegut tells Miller Rudy Waltz, the protagonist, while playing around as a child in his father's upstairs gun room, fires off a round from a high-powered rifle and accidentally kills a pregnant woman as she vacuums her apartment several blocks away."
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European Sporting Cartridges Volume 2
by W. B. Dixon
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EUROPEAN SPORTING CARTRIDGES, VOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN SPORTING CENTERFIRE AMMUNITION FROM 1870 TO 1998Author: Dixon, W.B.Published by Armory Publications, Inc., 2000Seattle, Washington USA 98155
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First EditionOUT OF PRINT and SCARCE. Both the Book and the Dust Jacket are in AS NEW condition still sealed in the Original Publishers Shrink Wrap. An opportunity to own a beautiful copy of a RARE TITLE.226 pages. 9.25" x 12.25". Hardcover with a Dust Jacket. Volume Two covers all of the European Sporting Cartridges ( other than German and Austrian which are covered in Volume One ), including those from Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, France, and Belgium. There are also a number of patent drawings and descriptions of ammunition and magazine designs as well as photographs of a number of German-made double rifles and combination guns.
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The Great Book of Wildfowl Decoys
by Engers, Joe, Editor
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NY: Modern Publishing, 1990. Hard cover in dust jacket. Folio. 10 3/4" x 14 5/8." 320 pp., illus hundreds of color photographs. A beautifully produced book, printed on bright, heavy coated stock. Fine in fine dj.. Hard. As New/Fine. Illus. by Buckner, Bill - Photography. Folio. Coffee Table.
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Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making
by Gibson, W. Hamilton
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New York, New York, U.S.A: Harper & Brothers, 1881. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6. Green cloth with red stamped decorations and gilt titles. Boards are heavily rubbed and edge worn with scuffing and fraying at extremities. Red decoration has darkened and faded, along with some of the gilt. Previous owner's name and address written in pencil in front and rear end papers. Pages are toned from age with scattered foxing and spotting throughout. Binding is sound. 300 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white by the author. Comprehensive hints on camp shelter, log huts, bark shanties, woodland beds and bedding, boat and canoe building, and valuable suggestions on trappers' food, etc. With extended chapters on the trapper's art, containing all the "tricks" and valuable bait recipes of the profession; Full directions for the use of the steel trap, and for the construction of the traps of all kinds; detailed instructions for the capture of all fur-bearing animals;…
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