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THE STORY OF AMERICAN HUNTING AND FIREARMS - A 400 Year History by The Editors of Outdoor Life - 1959

by The Editors of Outdoor Life

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THE STORY OF AMERICAN HUNTING AND FIREARMS -  A 400 Year History by The Editors of Outdoor Life - 1959

THE STORY OF AMERICAN HUNTING AND FIREARMS - A 400 Year History

by The Editors of Outdoor Life

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New York: Outdoor Life - McGraw Hill Book Company, 1959. 172 pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth on brown marbled boards; small gilt pictorial and gilt lettering on the front panel; lettered in gilt on the spine; presented in a brown marbled slipcase, also with a small gilt pictorial and gilt lettering on the front. Light wear at the corners of both the dustjacket and the slipcase; price intact; no interior markings. Profusely illustrated with full-colour paintings by Ralph Crosby Smith, and with drawings by Nicholas Eggenhofer and Ray Pioch. The Chapters are: The First American Hunters; The First Firearms in America; The Early Settlers and Their Weapons; When New York City Was a Hunter's Paradise; The Battle with the Wolves; The Kentucky Rifle; The Birth of Modern Firearms; When the Grizzly Ruled the West; The Slaughter of the Buffalo; The Golden Age of Big Game Hunting; Shooting Flying; The Good Old Days of Waterfowling; How Market Hunters Massacred the Game; The War Against the Predators; and Hunting Yesterday and Today; followed by an index.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Ralph Crosby Smith; Nicholas Eggenhofer; Ray Pioch;. Folio.
  • Bookseller W. Fraser Sandercombe CA (CA)
  • Illustrator Ralph Crosby Smith; Nicholas Eggenhofer; Ray Pioch;
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Jacket Condition Very Good
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Outdoor Life - McGraw Hill Book Company
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1959
  • Keywords guns; weapons; shooting; killing;
  • Size Folio

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The Story of American Hunting and Firearms

by The Editors of Outdoor Life

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New York: Outdoor Life / McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1963. 5th Printing. Large Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 13x10x1. Smith, Ralph Crosby; Eggenhofer, Nicholas; Pioch, Ray. Fifth printing. A good large hardcover in a good publisher slipcase. Slipcase panels rubbed. Jacket foxed and page ridges foxed. 172 pp. Color plates, woodcuts. Traces the history of hunting from pre-Columbian days and of firearms from the Colonial period.
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The Story of American Hunting and Firearms: A 400-Year History [with Slipcase]

by The Editors of Outdoor Life

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New York: Outdoor Life McGraw-Hill, 1959. Oversized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket and protective slipcase, 172 pages including many line drawings; and full page full colour paintings;---I would blush to call a 57-year old book as new, but it is a pristine, possibly unread copy, tight, and with no blemishes visible to my tired old eyes;---DJ has several very tiny chips, three short tears;---protective cardboard slipcase has a bump and chip at top back corner (not really noticeable when book shelved upright), overall Very Good - condition. See also our listing for Vaclav Krcma's very scarce The Identification and Registration of Firearms.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good -. Illus. by Ralph Crosby Smith; Nicholas Eggenhofer; Ray Pioch;.
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THE STORY OF AMERICAN HUNTING AND FIREARMS

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NY: McGraw Hill, 1959. Folio. 172p, numerous color drawings. A very good hardcover copy in good dustjacket.
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THE STORY OF AMERICAN HUNTING AND FIREARMS : A 400-Year History

by The Editors of Outdoor Life; (Arthur Grahame, Foreword)

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New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1959. First Edition, First Thus . Hard Cover/Slipcase. Near Fine/Near Fine. Ralph Crosby Smith (Paintings); Nicholas Eggenhofer (Illustrator); Ray Pioch (Gun Drawings). SLIPCASE/NF w/light rubs. Text/NEAR NEW & Bright; small soil spot to front cover verso & wrinkle to lower edge of title page. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/light edge wear, and tiny puncture wound to front. Vintage. History of hunting in North America. Commencing with Native American animal/bird traps, spears, bows & arrows, and blow guns, volume traces stages leading up to use of firearms. Well illustrated; the mechanically accurate gun drawings of Ray Pioch are a great contribution. Strong copy despite flaws.
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THE STORY OF AMERICAN HUNTING AND FIREARMS -  A 400 Year History

THE STORY OF AMERICAN HUNTING AND FIREARMS - A 400 Year History

by The Editors of Outdoor Life

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New York: Outdoor Life - McGraw Hill Book Company, 1959. Book. Illus. by Ralph Crosby Smith; Nicholas Eggenhofer; Ray Pioch;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. 172 pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth on brown marbled boards; small gilt pictorial and gilt lettering on the front panel; lettered in gilt on the spine; presented in a brown marbled slipcase, also with a small gilt pictorial and gilt lettering on the front. Light wear at the corners of both the dustjacket and the slipcase; price intact; no interior markings. Profusely illustrated with full-colour paintings by Ralph Crosby Smith, and with drawings by Nicholas Eggenhofer and Ray Pioch. The Chapters are: The First American Hunters; The First Firearms in America; The Early Settlers and Their Weapons; When New York City Was a Hunter's Paradise; The Battle with the Wolves; The Kentucky Rifle; The Birth of Modern Firearms; When the Grizzly Ruled the West; The Slaughter of the Buffalo; The Golden Age of Big Game Hunting; Shooting… Read More
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