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Published by The Derrydale Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 156833138XISBN 13: 9781568331386
Seller: Terrace Horticultural Books, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Book
Paperback. Illustrated By Philip Rickman (illustrator). First Edition As Such. Copyright Date: 1993 Sm Quarto, 1999, PP.48, As New, Both Covers Are French Folded But Miss Matched To Size Of Text Block By A Quarter Inch.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First trade edition. 46 pp, small folio (13 by 10 inches approx.), with 20 vivid and sublime color plate illustrations by Rickman, the foremost British artist of waterfowl in his day. Chapters on grouse and black game, partridges and quail, pheasant, wild turkey, woodcock and snipe, gees and ducks, shooting in the U.K. and America. Some emphasis in the text on the preservation of species at time that toll of overhunting had become apparent. Binding tight. Only the most occasional and lightest of fox marks on otherwise luxuriant thick paper stock. Minor soilage in gutter area and trivial shelfwear in corner. Neat square in front inner fold of dust jacket cut out (price removal).
Published by Published by Eyre and Spottiswoode 15 Bedford Street, London . London 1945., 1945
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Hard back binding in publisher's original brick red cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the upper panel. Folio. 12'' x 10''. Contains [x] 48 printed pages of text with twenty full-page single sided and paper guarded colour plates. Fox splashes to the half-title and front fly paper, without any ownership markings or wear to the cloth covers. Very Good condition book, in Good condition dust wrapper with age tanning of the paper to the spine and spine edges, minor rubs to the tips and corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper without any tears or pieces of paper missing and supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. HUNTS & GAME SHOOTING.