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Condizione: New. pp. 274.

Condizione: New. pp. 274.

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Hardcover. Condizione: VG+. Hardback in Very Good+ condition, Very Good+ dust jacket. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 262 pages. First Reprint. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st. D.j., 99 pp., frontis., index. Minor stain top corner pp.15-19. Walton came to Austin 1853, enlisted in Co. B., 21st Texas Cavalry, in 1862. Later, this regiment combined with Parson's Brigade, fought in Ark., Mo., and La.

Condizione: D'occasion - Bon état. voir ma photo 0.0 0.0 FRENCH 0.0.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First Edition. 1 of 1000 printed. Nice copy, the jacket spine is toned. One inch blacked out spot on endpaper along with a sticky sticker.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 1965 First Edition. 1 of 1,000 copies. Very Good. Dust Jacket rubbed. Embossed owner's stamp on fly, otherwise unmarked. 99p.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good +. First Edition. Friends of the Austin Public Library Publication 1. Limited to 1000 copies of which 100 were numbered for presentation to the sponsors of this publication. Although this copy is not numbered it does have the printed sheet with the list of sponsers laid-in. Mrs. J. Frank Dobie is listed as a sponsor.

ix+262pp. With fold-out. Cloth binding, gilt lettering to spine. Covers faded o/w a very good hardback.

Condizione: Fine. First edition first printing hardcover limited to 1000 copies unnumbered but for 100 presentation copies Fine in fine dust jacket with few light chips to top edge SIGNED BY KIM TAYLOR WHO DESIGNED THE BOOK ON THE COLOPHON PAGE BEARING HER NAME.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Charles Whymper (illustratore). 2nd Edition. Usual brown decorative cloth. Mild bumping to extremities. Hinges cracking at front and rear, but secure. Front end paper pasted onto inside of front cover. Otherwise clean and tidy throughout, and firm. DSecond edition of Volume II only of the Badminton Library 2 volume set on shooting.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Although tragedy underlies any account of the Civil War, Major Walton's reminiscences are full of humor. The lighter moments of life in an army camp are as realistically described as the battles. This first edition is limited to 1,000 copies as stated on the copyright page. Friends of the Austin Public Library Publications no. 1. Black boards with gold-color lettering, frontis., 99 pp., includes jacket. A book in excellent condition with a slightly worn jacket having a tiny edge tear and chip at top of spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Charles Whymper, J. Wolf, H. Willink (illustratore). 1st Edition. 1894 FIRST EDITION. Two-Volume DELUXE LARGE PAPER LIMITED FIRST EDITION numbered by publisher on printed limitation page. Two volumes complete. Original orange cloth boards with gilt coat of arms on front covers, navy spines and corners with gilt lettering spines, TEG, original dark greenish navy coated EPs, untrimmed fore-edge and bottom edge both volumes. Both volumes have loss of much of the spine covering (see photos), but bindings are very solid and not broken or cracked. This set is an obvious candidate for rebacking. The covers have significant rubbing along edges and corners but the boards are relatively clean and bright with a few faint dark smudges (nothing serious). Each volume has previous owner's bookplate and small bookseller ticket on front pastedown otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, Some fore-edge foxing is present but nearly all pages are completely free of foxing and are clean. Each volume measures 251mm tall x 200mm (compared to 195mm tall for the regular first edition). Volume one has 494 pages, 20 b/w full-page illustrations and photos, 57 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume two has 483 pages, 13 full-page illustrations and photos, 56 b/w in-text illustrations and photos, index. Volume one covers hunting in the arctic (whacking a giant walrus with an ax from a small whaling boat), three chapters on hunting in the Caucasus, a chapter on Mongolia, two chapter on hunting chamois and stags in the Alps, a chapter on elk in Scandinavia, a chapter on big game throughout Europe, hunting in Spain and Portugal, hunting in India tigers, a chapter on travel/camping considerations, a chapter on rifles and ammo, a chapter on taxidermy, a small bibliography. Volume two mostly about hunting in Africa with specific chapters on various types of big game hunting: lions, antelopes, hippos, giraffes, ostriches, rhinos, buffalo, elephants, with several chapters on South Africa including some history, a chapter on travel with Livingstone, some chapters on East Africa including special hunting considerations regarding gear, routes, etc. Volume two concludes with one chapter on big game hunting in North America (bears, wapiti, moose, cougars, bison, deer, elk, caribou, bighorn, mountain goat, antelope mainly in British Columbia, Alaska, Colorado and Pacific NW), and a brief chapter on hunting musk ox. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Major Buck Walton: An Epitome of My Life Civil War Reminiscences. Hardcover with jacket. Published in 1965 by The Waterloo Press: Austin, Texas. Copy number 74 of a limited edition of 100 copies. Jacket has a couple of very small missing chips on the upper and lower edge of the spine. Not price clipped and not a remainder.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Limited to 1,000 copies. Buck Walton came to Austin, Texas in 1835 and died in 1915. He was an esteemed and successful Texas lawyer and he wrote his memoirs in 1914. He wrote very little of his law career, most of this book consists of his service the Confederate Army. He enlisted on March 2, 1862 in Company B, 21st Texas Calvary (also known as the First Lancers) as a private. He spent most of the war scouting Union troops and positions in Louisiana and Arkansas. He was good at scouting and ambushing Federals and was promoted all the way to Major. Walton originally wrote in pencil on legal paper. The manuscript ended up with his Grand-daughter who gave it to the Austin Public Library in 1965 which professionally reviewed the manuscript and had 1,000 copies of the book printed. A list of sponsors of the project is laid into the book. Book is clean and bright, no previous owner marks. Dust jacket is clean and bright with only minor wear. Dust jacket now protected in Mylar. Ships same or next business day well protected in a box. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 99 pages.

Single Issue Magazine. Condizione: Good. Evison, Henry G.; Mills, J. Dewar; Somerfield, Thomas; Reynolds, Warwick; Holloway, W.H. (illustratore). First Edition. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Volcanic Eruption on Ambrim Island in the New Hebrides in 1913 - article with spectacular photos; The Mad Mule - a mine mule turns murderer at the Blue Mountain Mine in Butte, Montana; The Mystery of Crowhurst Aylmer - a remarkable romance from 1890 is narrated by a life insurance manager; Whale-Hunting With A Camera - A fascinating account of the work of scientific naturalist-photographer H.J. Shepstone - the first man to secure a complete set of striking photographs of the various species of whales 'at home' in the water, and being harpooned, at a time when they were already facing extinction; An Accessory After the Fact - An English mining engineer's queer experience in Mexico; Down the Amazon From Source to Mouth - Part I - J. Campbell Besley and his expedition discover the source of the mighty Amazon high in the mountains of Peru and follow it down to the Atlantic, time and again fighting for their lives against savages and forces of nature; The Buried Treasure - the extraordinary experience of travelling salesman R.D. Morrison in North Carolina; The Hermits of the Alps - The lonely life of herdsmen who take their herds and flocks to high mountain pastures each summer - article with great photos; In Search of Adventure - Part III - The Story of a Chequered Cruise; Fighting a Giant Saw-Fish - James Willoughby describes a monster catch and the battle he put up - article with great photo of the fish, 14.5 feet long; A Capture of Dacoits - an account of an exciting day's work in the Punjab; and more. pp. 6 [ads], 482-576, 7-24 [ads]. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy.

WALTON, Buck, [William Martin]. An Epitome of My Life: Civil War Reminiscences. Austin, TX: Waterloo Press, [1965]. 1st ed. 99 pp. Portrait frontis. One of 1000 copies, of which this is one of 100 numbered copies for sponsors of the book. Orig. cloth. Fine in fine d/j. Dornbusch II, 1063C. "A short, very human memoir of service in the 21st Texas Cavalry; throws some light on army life in the Trans-Mississippi theater." Nevins I, p. 174.

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