Hunting and Fire Arms

St. Louis, MO: F. C. Taylor Fur Co.. Near Fine. 1930. Paperback. Clean soft pictorial covers. Tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with numerous drawings & photos. Includes original mailing envelope. Sports ; B&W Drawing Ills.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 50 pages .

Toronto: Musson, 1912. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Very good, with some wear to extremities, and sunned spine and top of front cover. The front pastedown bears the owneship signature of William M. Halliday, the author of Potlatch and Totem. The Canadian edition is scarce..

LUGDUNI: APUD SEB. GRYPHIUM, 1548. In 16. Dim. 17x11 cm. Pp. 402+(14). Edizione del 1548 di questa nota opera letteraria scritta da Adriano Castellesi (ca 1485-1521) nato a Corneto (antico nome di Tarquinia) detto anche Adriano da Corneto. Castellesi fu grechista, ebraista, autore di poemetti, opere di stile, grammatiche e filosofico-teologiche. Espertissimo di affari, si arricchì enormemente destando in tal modo l'invidia di Cesare Borgia che tentò di avvelenarlo. Andato in esilio e ritornato in patria all'avvento di Leone X, dovette ritornarvi perchè accusato di aver preso parte alla congiura del Cardinale Petrucci. Da questo momento in poi non si sa più nulla di lui: sembra che sia stato assassinato a scopo di furto da uno dei suoi servitori. Il volume è un'opera didattica latina che riporta termini utilizzati in sentenze classiche latine. Alla fine risulta molto interessante il poema sulla caccia organizzata dal Cardinale Ascanio Sforza nei pressi… Read More

West Hartford: Countryman Press, 1945. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Carl Rungius. One of 1275 copies of which 1250 were numbered. This is one of the numbered copies. INSCRIBED, SIGNED and dated 1946 by Carl Rungius on the blank FFEP and SIGNED by Schaldach, the author, on the same page. Copies signed by Rungius are very uncommon. Very good condition with slight fraying spine ends, usual light browning of pages, very tips lower corners rubbed, no previous owner marks or writing on any pages other than the signed inscription and author signature. Original slipcase has 1cm deep loss of cover paper at spine ends, complete cover labels (front and back) that are not chipped, some splitting along one spine edge but connections holding well. The book measures 318mm tall x 245mm, and has 117 numbered pages of text (illustration leaves are not numbered), b/w sketch of bull moose frontispiece, b/w portrait painting of Rungius, 10 full-page color paintings, 18 b/w in-text illustrations… Read More

London: Rowland Ward, Limited, 1904. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Original reddish brown cloth, gilt lettering front & spine, zebra patterned EPs. WITH publisher's rare original printed dust jacket. INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the author on the verso of the FFEP and with author's inscription on the short-title page. The copy in the Brooke-Hitchings collection of books in exceptional condition did not have the dust jacket and was not signed. The book offered here is in very good condition with faint thin streak on front cover (= loss of some sheen but no staining), very slight rubbing bottom edges covers & tips corners, village/county blindstamp on FFEP, other than author's inscriptions and signature there are no owner marks or writing on any pages, solid binding, no foxing, complete with all plates and fold-outs. The rare dust jacket has tiny loss lower rear flap corner, tiny loss lower spine corner, no tears, some minor curling at spine ends, no… Read More

USA: Privately Published By Author, 1949. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. Original red cloth with gilt lettering over a black title patch on spine. The book is in fine condition with no previous owner marks or writing on any pages, solid binding, no foxing, clean covers, no rubbing. The original scarce dust jacket has old cellophane tape stains on the covers and flaps (tape is long gone), minor loss to bottom of spine. The book measures 225mm tall x 158mm and has 180 pages, 29 b/w photos. This book was privately printed by the author to present to friends and associates. It was never for sale. Stimson was Secretary Of War under Taft from 1911 to 1913, a colonel of the 31st Field Artillery in WWI, Governor General of the Philippines, Secretary of State 1929-1933, and Secretary Of War from 1940 to 1949 under Roosevelt. In this book he tells of his ascent of the east face of Chief Mountain in Glacier National Park in 1891 (the 2nd ascent of the peak, the… Read More

Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co (1933) Ltd., 1942. Original (not facsimile) dustwrapper has a 3 inch tear to the top right-hand corner of front panel and a smaller, 2 inch one at the top end of spine, and some smaller tears and creasing to the edges of dustwrapper. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners of blue boards, an old price (16 rupees which would have been 21/4 sterling, or just over a guinea, so quite expensive back then) in pencil at top corner of f/ep and original (or a slightly later) owner's gift message dated August 1946 on same page. Otherwise a good clean tight copy in not so good dustwrapper of this not-very-common hard-cover book. Deals with big-game hunting (tiger mostly, but also leopard, rhino and other animals) in Nepal in the 1930s, based around hunting trips by the hereditary Prime Minister and ruler of Nepal Juddha Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana. 174pp, 12 colour and 31 b&w plates, 2 folding maps.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1869. A Near Fine Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket Issued. Illustrations by Henry Alken.. Jorrocks, the sporting cockney grocer, with his vulgarity and good-natured artfulness, was a great success with the public, these stories originally published in the New Sporting Magazine. Rebound in period leather by Bumpus; five raised spine bands, titles in gilt. Hint of sun-fading on the spine. Minor corner rubs. Original cloth front and spine laid-in at the rear. Top edge gilt. Bookseller notations on Front Free Endpage. Foxing on the preliminaries. Minor foxing on the borders of plates. Bindings tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate handling wear. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Sixteen Colored Illustrations by Henry Alken including frontispiece and vignette title page.. Background Information: The Bumpus Bookshop of Oxford Street, London enjoyed a reputation for handsome bindings in classical styles from its foundation in 1780 until the… Read More

Leipzig: Verlag Karl H. Hiersemann, 1923. Precious Weapons from the Dresden Armory, with 82 illuminated plates, 2 of them colored. Text in German. Bound in original quarter vellum and green leather boards, spine gilt ruled and decorated, and with two gilt morocco labels, boards gilt ruled, upper front cover lettered in gilt, With full page black and white photographic illustrations, text verso. Very Good Plus, small repaired tear to vellum at head of spine, light rubbing to leather boards at the tips. Contents are clean, tight, and unmarked. This over-sized and heavy book will require extra postage from international buyers. . First Edition. Leather. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

PORTLAND, MAINE: FALMOUTH PUBLISHING HOUSE, 1949 BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH A WHITE TEXTURED FRONT AND BACK WITH GREEN SPINE. GOLD PRINT ALONG SPINE. BLACK SLIP COVER WITH NICE TEXTURE ON OUTSIDE. BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION. CLEAN AND TIGHT. LIMITED EDITION 59 OF 500. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE FRONT. GOOD ARTWORK THROUGHOUT BY STANLEY GREENE. SIX STORIES WRITTEN BY MACDOUGALL RELATING TO HIS CHILDHOOD. STORIES WERE FIRST PUBLISHED IN FIELD AND STREAM, SPORTS AFIELD AND OUTDOORS. GREAT BOOK FOR THE FISHERMAN, LOVER OF THE OUTDOORS AND LIFE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: DERBY & JACKSON, 1860 RARE BOOK, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH. BROWN COVER WITH HEAVIER BINDING ON THE SPINE. GOLD PRINT SPINE, OHIO SCHOOL LIBRARY REFERENCED. WEAR ON THE COVER, SPINE SHOWS 2 NICKS MIDWAY AND BOTTOM. MARBLING INSIDE FRONT AND BACK, TIGHT INSIDE, DRAWING OF HEAD IN PENCIL FIRST BLANK PAGE- NO OTHER MARKINGS. FADED MARBLING ON PAGE EDGES. TOWARDS BACK PAGES AND FRONT PAGES SOME LIGHT STAINING DUE TO LIQUID SPILLED. WHITEHEAD DEDICATES THE BOOK TO HIS TRUE FRIEND, CAPTAIN JAMES MC MCINTOSH- UNITED STATES NAVY, A TRUE HUNTER. WONDERFUL BOOK DETAILING INFORMATION ON THE LION, HUNTING AND LIFE OF GERARD. ARTWORK IS GOOD A DETAILED HELP TAKING YOU INTO THE STORIES. GREAT PIECE OF HISTORY FOR THE AVID HUNTER. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

Hardcover no DJ. Spine is sunned. Book a bit sprung. There are 25 color plates on card. Please see photos.

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..

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.

Doyle, A. Conan. The Lost World.1912 Hodder And Stoughton/George H. Doran First U.S. Edition. THE FIRST PROFESSOR CHALLENGER ADVENTURE. RARE. Used. Good condition/ no DJ included. Maroon cloth-covered boards. Titling on spine worn off. Bright pages. Sixteen ochre and white plates (five by 'Maple White' and eleven by Joseph Clement Coll). All plates in nice condition and affixed to binding. 309 pages. 5 3/8 X 8. Summary: "The Lost World"chronicles the adventures of four men who travel to the jungles of South America. There they discover a plateau inhabited by dinosaurs and ape-men. It was Conan Doyle's ambition to write a popular "boy's book", a tale of suspense and adventure.