GAME BIRDS OF AMERICA: Twelve Paintings by Lynn Bogue Hunt
by HUNT, Lynn Bogue. Text by Ray P. Holland, Ernest Hemingway
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- Paperback
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New York: Field & Stream Magazine, ( 1944 ). First Edition. softcover. very Good. Folio & quarto, unnumbered, the paper portfolio has a horizontal tear (not affecting the plates).
Holland was Editor-in-Chief of Field & Stream, and a hunting partner to Lynn Bogue Hunt. In a separate, included, unpaginated booklet, Holland has written a description of Lynn Bogue Hunt, and descriptions of each of the 12 game birds depicted in the accompanying portfolio. The booklet also is annotated to identify various of the birds in the paintings. Also in the booklet are blurbs from various enthusiasts, not least of whom is Ernest Hemingway: "Lynn Bogue Hunt is the finest painter of game birds that we have in Ameica, and all sportsmen will want to have this new portfolio of his paintings. If you do not shoot birds, but only love to watch them, then these paintings are even more for you. ... " [ Unknown to Hanneman's 1st or revised Hemingway Bibliography ].
Holland was Editor-in-Chief of Field & Stream, and a hunting partner to Lynn Bogue Hunt. In a separate, included, unpaginated booklet, Holland has written a description of Lynn Bogue Hunt, and descriptions of each of the 12 game birds depicted in the accompanying portfolio. The booklet also is annotated to identify various of the birds in the paintings. Also in the booklet are blurbs from various enthusiasts, not least of whom is Ernest Hemingway: "Lynn Bogue Hunt is the finest painter of game birds that we have in Ameica, and all sportsmen will want to have this new portfolio of his paintings. If you do not shoot birds, but only love to watch them, then these paintings are even more for you. ... " [ Unknown to Hanneman's 1st or revised Hemingway Bibliography ].
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2021859
- Title
- GAME BIRDS OF AMERICA
- Author
- HUNT, Lynn Bogue. Text by Ray P. Holland, Ernest Hemingway
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Field & Stream Magazine
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ( 1944 )
- Keywords
- game birds hunting america sportsmen ernest hemingway lynn bogue hunt ray p. holland ornithology ernest hemingway
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Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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