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By: N/A
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Modern Mechanix: 1935
Seller ID: 2204987
Condition: Good
One inch tear to spine head, ink name, pages toned. 1935 Stapled Binding. 154 pp. CONTENTS: Building Stratosphere Air-Liners, by Allan Lockheed; Knock Down Monuments with Feathers, by Nic Sprank in Oddities of Science; American Railroads Challenge Speed Records; Racing Time for News Scoops, by Robert L. Frey; How I Judge Championship Fights, by General J.V. Clinnin; Get Cash for Puzzle Solutions - Furniture Contest Winners Get $125.00; Electrical City Built Without Chimneys, by Grace Kirkpatrick; How to Stain Your Microscope Slides, by Julian D. Corrington; Clipping Dollars from Auto Running E... View more info
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1907
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202227
Condition: Very Good
First edition. No jacket, ink name to front endpaper, pages toned. 1907 Small Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 60 pp. Excerpt from Eben Holden's Last Day A-Fishing 'Always, when our train went roaring into the quiet village, we used to look out of the car-window down across the river and a smooth stretch of fields into the edge of the little town. At a small, familiar opening in the shade trees, almost half a mile from the train, we never failed to see the ?icker of a white handkerchief. It signaled their welcome. And then - well, I doubt if any one may have in this w... View more info
By: Bass, Rick
Price: $10.00
Publisher: University of Texas Press: 2013
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2279908
ISBN: 0292756283
Condition: Near Fine
1st printing. Award ceremony program laid in. An exceptional copy. 2013 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. In November, countless families across Texas head out for the annual deer hunt, a ritual that spans generations, ethnicities, socioeconomics, and gender as perhaps no other cultural experience in the state. Rick Bass's family has returned to the same hardscrabble piece of land in the Hill Country—the Deer Pasture—for more than seventy-five years. In A Thousand Deer, Bass walks the Deer Pasture again in memory and stories, tallying up what hunting there has ... View more info
![Image for Hawking or Faulconry [Falconry]](/assets/images/product/2288971.jpg)
By: Blome, Richard
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Thames Valley Press: 1971
Edition: Facsimile
Seller ID: 2288971
ISBN: 0900294043
Condition: Near Fine
A very nice copy. 1971 Hard Cover. xxxii, 123 pp. Modern facsimile of 1929 edition. Includes fold-out engraving. Falconers will welcome the reappearance of this scarce treatise on seventeenth-century hawking. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Forest and Stream Publishing Co.: 1923
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2203179
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Previous owner's name (Addison P. Wilbur) stamped in gilt on front board. Minor loss from spine foot, page ridge lightly foxed. 1923 Hard Cover. 105, 41, 23, 71, 56, 23 pp. A collection of writings on sporting, compiled by the editor of Forest and Stream, a periodical focusing on outdoorsmanship. Forest and Stream was first printed in 1873 and continued publication through 1930, featuring writings by Nessmuk (George W. Sears) popularizing canoeing, advocating for conservation, and contributing to the foundation of the National Audubon Society and the national park system. Includ... View more info
By: Burns, Eugene
Price: $12.00
Publisher: A. S. Barnes and Company: 1952
Seller ID: 2294920
Condition: Very Good
Small chips to jacket spine head and jacket spine base, jacket edges rubbed, front jacket flap price-clipped with price intact. 1952 Large Hardcover. 96 pp. Photographs by Clyde Childress. ...the book explains the sport of spinning and tells why spinning with fine tackle produces bigger fish. CONTENTS: Part I. Equipment--Spinning Reels, Spinning Rods, Spinning Lines, Productive Lures; Part II. Technique--How to Cast, Retrieve, Spin on a Stream, Spin on a Lake, Spin in Salt Water, Spin with a Bubble, Tie the Strongest Knots for Spinning; Part III. Fishing Trophy Fish; Part IV. How to Build a Sp... View more info
By: Colonel Cook; Wolstenholme, Alken and Others; de Broke, Lord Willoughby
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Edward Arnold and Co.: 1922
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2206358
Condition: Good
First thus, adding color plates to the first work published in 1826. Spine slightly cocked, light scratches to rear board, ink stamp and ink name. 1922 Hard Cover. xv, 144 pp. The work that is now placed in our hands is but little known to the present generation, though a modern Master of Foxhounds would do well to follow every word of advice it contains. The author himself was M.F.H. and carried the horn at the beginning of the last century. A study of his remarkably sound treatise on Foxhunting leaves us with the reflection that the essentials of the sport have changed but slightly since the... View more info
By: Cook, John R.
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Crane & Company: 1907
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2187942
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Top edge of rear board faintly stained, bottom corner lightly bumped causing 1/2 inch tear to cloth revealing board beneath. 1907 Hard Cover. xii, 351 pp. 8vo. Howes C730. A firsthand account of life on the American plains, specifically treating conflict with Native Americans ('Kiowas, Comanches, and Staked Plains Apaches') in Missouri and Kansas, and the rampant hunting of buffalo which led to their near-extinction. The first chapter also deals with the author's youth in Kansas, and provides his memories of time served as a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War, and com... View more info
By: Corbett, Jim; Hallett, Maurice; Lord Linlithgow
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1946
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 2261075
Condition: Very Good
First American edition. Lacks jacket. 1946 Hard Cover. xix, 235 pp. 8vo. Introduction by Sir Maurice Hallett, preface by Lord Linlithgow. Black-and-white photographs, map of man-eater territory in the Kumaon Division of the United Provinces on endpapers. Jim Corbett's own story of his experiences with the man-eating tigers of Kumaon. To the excitement of the chase and the kill, which Lieutenant-Colonel Corbett imparts in a simple and direct but vivid and dramatic style, is added a picture of jungle life that is rare in the history of literature of this kind. His love of nature, his knowledge o... View more info
By: Corbett, Jim; Hallett, Maurice; Lord Linlithgow
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1946
Edition: 6th Printing
Seller ID: 2265407
Condition: Good
6th printing. Lacks jacket. Boards lightly soiled, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1946 Hard Cover. xix, 235 pp. 8vo. Introduction by Sir Maurice Hallett, preface by Lord Linlithgow. Black-and-white photographs, map of man-eater territory in the Kumaon Division of the United Provinces on endpapers. Jim Corbett's own story of his experiences with the man-eating tigers of Kumaon. To the excitement of the chase and the kill, which Lieutenant-Colonel Corbett imparts in a simple and direct but vivid and dramatic style, is added a picture of jungle life that is rare in the history of literature... View more info
By: Dinks; Mayhew, Edward; Hutchinson, W.N.; Forester, Frank
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Geo. E. Woodward.: 1873
Seller ID: 2201092
Condition: Near Fine
Spine faded, ink name on front endpaper. 1873 Hard Cover. vi, 663 pp. Three classic guides to the care of dogs as pets or as sporting companions, collected in one volume with new illustrations by Frank Forester. BAL 8158. View more info
By: Eastman, George; Cameron, Kenneth M.; Mandala, Elias
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201442
ISBN: 0961082410
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Includes publisher's slipcase. 1987 Hard Cover. xxv, [1], 89, [5] pp. 8vo. A follow-up volume to Eastman's popular account of an African safari, compiled from a collection of letters related to his second trip to Africa in 1928. Foreword by Elias Mandala, introduction by Kenneth M. Cameron. Illustrated with photographs by Eastman and fellow adventurer Martin Johnson. George Eastman (July 12, 1854 - March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. The roll film was also the basis for the invention of the mot... View more info
By: Eastman, George; Cameron, Kenneth M.; Mandala, Elias
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2203611
ISBN: 0961082410
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Includes publisher's slipcase. University of Rochester bookplate on front flyleaf reads 'In Celebration of Janis F. and James S. Gleason upon Receiving the Outstanding Philanthropist Award, National Philanthropy Day, November 18, 2003'. 1987 Hard Cover. xxv, [1], 89, [5] pp. 8vo. A follow-up volume to Eastman's popular account of an African safari, compiled from a collection of letters related to his second trip to Africa in 1928. Foreword by Elias Mandala, introduction by Kenneth M. Cameron. Illustrated with photographs by Eastman and fellow adventurer Martin Johnson. George Ea... View more info
By: Eastman, George; Cameron, Kenneth M.; Mandala, Elias
Price: $30.00
Publisher: The Friends of the University of Rochester Libraries: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2278774
ISBN: 0961082410
Condition: Near Fine
1987 Hard Cover. xxv, [1], 89, [5] pp. 8vo. A follow-up volume to Eastman's popular account of an African safari, compiled from a collection of letters related to his second trip to Africa in 1928. Foreword by Elias Mandala, introduction by Kenneth M. Cameron. Illustrated with photographs by Eastman and fellow adventurer Martin Johnson. George Eastman (July 12, 1854 - March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. The roll film was also the basis for the invention of the motion picture film in 1888 by world's first film... View more info
By: Engers, Joe
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Thunder Bay: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2275623
ISBN: 0934429758
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Light general wear. 1990 Large Hardcover. 320 pp. A huge, oversize, fully illustrated look at an American folk-art treasure, complete with hundreds of lavish full-color photographs. View more info
By: Forester, Frank
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Westvaco: 1993
Seller ID: 2299599
Condition: Near Fine
Publisher's slipcase included. Slipcase edge faded. 1993 Hard Cover. 282 pp. Publisher's slipcase included. CONTENTS: The Art of the Gun; The Art of the Dog; The Field; River Fish and Fishing; Bait Fishing; Natural and Artificial Fly-Fishing; Sea-Fishing; The Art of Cooking; Westvaco's American Classics Series; List of Illustrations; Colophon. View more info
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By: Kelley, Michael
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Sandres Newspapers: 1985
Seller ID: 2275138
Condition: Near Fine
Faint smudge on rear wrapper. 1985 Stapled Binding. 59 pp. A second book about and for those who love Fox Hunting in the Genesee Valley. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: The Livingston Republic, Inc.: 1975
Seller ID: 2275137
Condition: Very Good
Pencil mark on front wrapper, pencil scribbles on last page. 1975 Stapled Binding. 133 pp. A book about and for those who love Fox Hunting in the Genesee Valley. View more info
By: Kent, Edwin C.; Lee, W. Creighton
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York: 1933
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 2092787
Condition: Very Good
Limited edition, #18 of 1000 copies, hand-numbered in ink on colophon. Spine & edges toned. 1933 Hard Cover. xii, 194 pp. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece, etched plate by W.J. Schaldach. An account of upland game bird shooting, detailing hunts for woodcock, wild fowl, ruffed grouse, and quail. Also includes sections on Tuxedo Park, salmon fishing, and trips to Florida and other locales. View more info
By: Leffingwell, William Bruce
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Rand McNally & Company: 1888
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2260762
Condition: Near Fine
First edition, an apparent variant with darker cloth and no ads following text. Rear endpapers lightly foxed. 1888 Hard Cover. 373 pp. 8vo. A guide to hunting wild fowl, with chapters dedicated to numerous species, illustrated with black-and-white photographs. View more info
By: Ormond, Clyde
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Outdoor Life / E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1976
Edition: 7th Printing
Seller ID: 2198795
Condition: Very Good
7th printing. Pages lightly foxed. Jacket lightly toned, jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1976 Hard Cover. xli, 336 pp. Edited by Henry Gross. Illustrated by Nicholas Amorosi. The tips, techniques, and projects in this book will teach the reader to use his head and his hands in the woods, to adapt to the outdoors and derive from it the necessities of life, and to use the simplest man-made products as aids in meeting its challenges. The book is divided into eight parts: Hunting How-To; Fishing How-To; Camping How-To; Cooking How-To; Hiking and Backpacking How-To; Photography How-To; Horses and Hors... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1936
Seller ID: 1890738
Condition: Near Fine
Near fine book in fair jacket. Ink name & date on front endpaper, jacket well worn (rubbed with significant loss from corners). 1936 Hard Cover. xv, 284 pp. Printed on laid paper. Includes six color plates from watercolors by Philip Rickman, and eight plates from photographs. A manual on rearing, preservation, and shooting of game birds by the English sportsman and shooting editor of Country Life. View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons: 1910
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2291428
Condition: Good
First thus (W.B. Conkey seal on copyright). Hinges loosening, edges rubbed, pencil gift note and ink date on front endpapers. 1910 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. xxiii, 583 pp. Original olive cloth, gilt titles, safari scene on front board depicting a herd of elephants. One of two binding variants printed by Scribner's in 1910, this often referred to as the Subscriber's Edition, which contains many more illustrations than the simultaneously issued trade edition (over 200, versus 50). Illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and drawings by Philip R. Goodwin... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Harper & Row: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265089
ISBN: 0060137142
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Half-inch tear along top edge of jacket front, jacket faintly toned. Page ridges faintly foxed. 1973 Large Hardcover. x, 490 pp. Giant full-page and double page reproductions in vivid color show many birds in their natural habitats. View more info
By: Scott, Genio C.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: The American News Company: 1875
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 2208363
Condition: Very Good
Second edition. Fore edge corners exposed, otherwise excellent - binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 1875 Hard Cover. xiv, 539 pp. 4-page publisher ad follows text. 8vo. Engraved illustrations throughout. An updated version of the work originally published in 1869. This edition adds sections on southern and miscellaneous fishes, comprising nearly 90 pages. The text discusses both rod and line fishing and fly-fishing, as well as commercial fisheries, fish culture throughout history, and ichthyology. An appendix provides ideas for cooking in the wilderness or on the water, and even mixing c... View more info
By: Scott, Peter
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Country life Limited: 1946
Edition: 8th Printing
Seller ID: 2277969
Condition: Very Good
Eighth printing. No jacket, page ridges very faintly foxed, ink name on front endpaper. 1946 Large Hardcover. xiii, 137 pp. Written and illustrated by Peter Scott. This is a book of pictures. What is written is about the wild geese and ducks and the adventures I have had in a few short years of shooting, catching, taming, photographing, filming and painting the most wonderful birds that fly. View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: The John C. Winston Company: 1915
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 2302236
Condition: Very Good
Second edition. Two light spots on front board. 1915 Hard Cover. 304 pp. 8vo. Frontispiece of polar bear, map superimposing Alaska over continental precedes text, black-and-white photographic plates and maps throughout text. A firsthand account of hunting in the Yukon and the Kenai hunting grounds for sheep and moose, sailing the Bering Sea, hunting sheep in Asia and Siberia. Register of game follows text. View more info
By: Sheldon, Harold P.; Buckingham, Nash
Price: $60.00
Publisher: A.S. Barnes and Company:
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 2266484
Condition: Near Fine
Limited edition, one of 5000 copies. Includes publisher's slipcase. Ink name on front endpaper of each volume, slipcase lightly rubbed. Reissues of the extremely popular accounts of hunting and fishing in New England, Tranquillity and Tranquillity Revisited, together with a new installment entitled Tranquillity Regained, published here for the first time. Includes an introduction by Nash Buckingham and illustrations by Arthur D. Fuller. View more info
![Image for History of the American Whale Fishery from its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876, in Two Volumes [Whaling]](/assets/images/product/2051968.jpg)
By: Starbuck, Alexander; Sherman, Stuart C.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Argosy-Antiquarian Ltd.: 1964
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2051968
Condition: Near Fine
Lacks slipcase. Two tiny spots on spine of first volume, spines lightly toned. 1964 Hard Cover. vii, 407; 408-779 pp. 8vo. 1964 reissue of the work originally published in Part IV of the Report of the U.S. Commission on Fish and Fisheries, Washington, 1878. An edition was also issued privately by the author in the same year. This limited edition of 750 copies includes a new introduction by Stuart C. Sherman. Photographic frontispiece of author, maps on endpapers. Starbuck also wrote a history of Nantucket (not included here), which was an important hub for the whaling industry. Can we also tak... View more info
By: Walden, Howard T.; Weiler, Milton C.; Hackle, Sparse Grey
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Crown Publishers: 1972
Seller ID: 2202194
ISBN: 0517500353
Condition: Very Good
Faint stain to bottom edge of front and rear boards, light brown stain to front bottom board edges, top page ridge lightly foxed. Front jacket flap price-clipped, jacket lightly toned. 1972 Hard Cover. xiv, 297 pp. Howard Walden's two classics, Upstream and Down and the fictional Big Stony, movingly record a fisherman's life and dreams. ...Everywhere in these two books there is a rare reverence for nature--for clear rivers and solitude and quick trout, for all those deep qualities of heart and mind that woods and waters evoke. ...Now both of these classics, with several fine additions, are con... View more info
