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Hardcover, no dust jacket. Association copy: From the personal library of William Norman Pittinger. Ex-library, slight ink marks,foxing, very shaken. 265 pp.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. xix, 491-729pp. Small pen notation on front wrapper and in the contents pages, spine cocked, very good. Reviews: "Edgarpoe and Danhoffman" by Charlotte Kretzoi, "Thom Gunn's Cornucopia" by Raymond Oliver, "Sewall's Life of Emily Dickinson" by John Cody, and more. Poetry: "In Memory of W.H. Auden" by George W. Nitchie, and others. Essays: "Hart Crane and Yvor Winters: A Meeting of Minds" by Thomas Parkinson, "Milton in Old Age" by Frank Kermode, and more. Reviews of "Delusion and Her Daughters: John Berryman's *Recovery*" by William Heyen, and more.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Title page. List of contributors: Patricia Redmond, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Barbara E. Johnson, Donald B. Gibson, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortense J. Spillers, Michael Awkward, William L. Andrews, Sandra Pouchet Paquet, Genevieve Fabre, Richard Yarborough, Robert B. Stepto, Eleanor W. Traylor, Housron A. Baker, Jr., Mae G. Hewnderson, Kimberly W. Benston, Cheryl A. Wall, Stephen E. Henderson, Arnold Rampersad, Michel Fabre, Nellie Y. McKay, Robert G. O'Meally. Afterword by Houston AFine blue orange dust jacket with title and contributing . Title on dust jacket pine panel. authors. Baker, Jr. and Patricia Redmond. Index. 246pp. Blue cloth boards with bright silver title on spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. No Jacket. First American Edition Thus. Xxxviii, 520 Pp. Brown Cloth, Paper Spine Label, Black Cloth. Undated But 1907. First American Edition, Undated, Dutton On Title Page Beneath Routledge And In Smaller Print But Opposite Is The Dutton (Not Routledge) Catalogue Of The Library Of Early Novelists; Sheets Printed In Great Britain; No Publisher Shown On Covers. One Of The Great English Satires, The Travels Of A Gold Guinea Coin Circa 1760 Amidst The Farcical Common And Exalted Citizens Of England And Europe. Light Wear, No Marks, No Fraying.

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.