mcaleenan joseph (9 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Limited Edition; #45 of 50. SIGNED and inscribed by author on limitation page to Western author H. H. Knibbs (whom the author affectionately calls 'Old Timer') , #45 of a limited printing of 50; near fine in green cloth with gilt ornamentation, no dust jacket as issued; gentle rubbing to board corners, some minor blemishes to boards towards the bottom else a tight square unmarked copy with gilt top edge; although not referred to by name in the inscription, this copy is from a large collection of books belonging to writer H. H. Knibbs and its provenance is further evidenced by some of the beautiful language within the inscription, for example: 'Your songs of the hills, the stream, the big timber and of the desert have lightened the heart of many.who live and work in the cages of steel and stone that mark the canyons of a city street'; photos on request; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 115 pages; Signed by Author.

First and only Edition. [1],39 pp. Large Octavo. Original half brown Morocco and tan cloth boards. Five raised bands. Title on front board. leather corners to match. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers with original cloth joints. Original presentation bookplate signed by the author on front pastedown. Issued without a printed title page. Hand coloured frontispiece. 32 photographs by the author and others on leaves with printed captions and small vignette drawings in the corner of each illustration. 9 photographic reproductions of drawings by Ed Deming. One original watercolour as the last illustration by Deming. A fine clean attractive copy. Very rare limited edition 13/20 copies of a privately organized hunting/photography expedition organized by McAleenan. McAleenan was from New York, a diamond merchant and appraiser for Tiffany's and at one time owned the Hope Diamond! McAleenan employed Jimmy Simpson, the foremost hunting guide in the rockies to take them out. The group were out in mid September and had mixed weather but overall had a grand adventure. The trip is well documented in Ted Hart's excellent biography of Simpson. The book is truly a great rarity of Canadian Mountaineering and hunting. I have only had two copies in 4 years, this copy having sold 25 years ago and now back in my stock. Copies are only held in two local museums and only occasionally come up in the hunting world. The Deming watercolour shows Simpson skinning a grizzly bear. Each copy had a different watercolour illustration. The book includes a copy of the Simpson Biography.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. [7 (1st leaf blank)], [tissue grarded frontis], [4], xiii-xv, [2], 1-115 pp.[1 blank], [1 (printers information)] Book: TEG. A hint of rubbing at corner tips and head and heel of spine, otherwise fine. This being copy No 9 of 50 copies signed, then inscribed by the author at the top of the limitation page: "Mary: God bless and guard you, Dad". Early Swordfishing off Montauk Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed By Author. Limited Edition.

First edition, 1/50 copies signed by the author, this one additionally inscribed by him. 8vo. xv, (2), 115 pp. Plates. Account of a three-week fishing trip for swordfish off Montauk Point and the nearby waters of the Block Island Sound, with detailed daily entries; the "banner fish" of the trip was a 12-foot swordfish. A typed letter, signed by the author, presenting the book and containing private financial information is laid in, in part: "I usually write up a story of all my trips for a few of my friends . I hope you will enjoy this attempt of an amateur to describe the glories of the off shore wind." Bruns M-91. Very good. Original gilt-stamped green cloth, top edge gilt. (#5170).

Inscribed to "Doctor William L. Ettinger, Superintendent of Schools" and signed by the author: "Joseph McAleenan, February 7th, 1924." From an edition of thirty copies, "produced by a special photographic process. Each of these autographed by the author." This appears to be one of the scarcest of McAleenan's works, all of which were produced in small editions and are highly prized. It bears a pictorial frontispiece "The Bronco" with a verse. The text describes hunting trips in Wyoming, mainly in the Wind River country, between 1895 and 1910, during the period when the author apparently had a Wyoming ranch. Included is a remarkable and bloody account of a battle between grizzlies and hunting dogs, as well as poetry by McAleenan's friend, Joe Magill, and other contributors. McAleenan, a well-known New York diamond dealer, was an avid sportsman and took many trips to the west to hunt and fish, privately printing his accounts of these expeditions in small numbers for the participants and his close friends. Not in Phillips or Heller. HOWES M10 (misdated 1914). 51 leaves. Duplicated typescript, printed on rectos only. Quarto. Sage green cloth, titled in gilt on front board. Cloth spotted. Hinges a touch weak, a few leaves at the rear with closed tears in the foredge. Very good.

Number 30 of just fifty privately-printed copies of an engrossing photographically-illustrated memoir of a swordfishing expedition by noted sportsman and writer Joseph McAleenan. The limitation page is numbered and signed by McAleenan himself, and indicates that the work was "privately printed for the author and his friends." McAleenan was a noted New York diamond dealer and avid sportsman. After several of his fishing and hunting expeditions, he published similar privately-printed books about the trips for the participants, including well-regarded classics of the genre such as Diary of the Wyoming Bear Hunt; A Trip Through Yellowstone Park and an Elk Hunt in Wyoming; Hunting with Rifle and Camera in the Canadian Rockies; Old Friends, Old Scenes, Old Thoughts; and Grand Canyon Trails. The present work prints his diary of a three-week swordfishing trip taken in July 1916 off Montauk Point and Block Island in Long Island Sound. The trip was captained by Dave Patterson aboard his boat, the May F. Patterson. McAleenan's text is replete with vivid descriptions of shipboard activities, the fierce weather conditions, the colorful characters who accompanied him on the trip, descriptions of the natural splendor of the surroundings, battling sharks, sighting whales, and much more. McAleenan dedicates the book to those friends of his "who preferred the sky to any roof, and the song of the wind as it swept through the pines or whined over the pass, to all the talk and music of the stall-fed world." The photographic plates document the fishing activities of the journey. These images include views from the boat, scenes of men on the boat, a shot of a film crew on a nearby boat, hauling in nets full of smaller game fish, the Montauk Point Lighthouse, men setting sails, a harpooned shark, the hauling onboard and hanging up of a 600-pound swordfish, several views of other boats encountered on the trip, and more. Not in Howes or Phillips. OCLC records just four copies, at Clarke Historical Library, the Mariners Museum Library, the Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens, and the National Sporting Library. BRUNS M-91. LITCHFIELD, p.79. OCLC 39005858. Original gilt pictorial green cloth, ruled in gilt, spine gilt, t.e.g. Minor wear to extremities, corners bumped, light soiling to boards. Light even toning to text, a few leaves with tiny chips at corners, faint tideline at upper edge of text. Very good. Untrimmed.

(WYOMING). [MCALEENAN, Joseph]. Diary of the Wyoming Bear Hunt. 16 photographic plates. 59 pp. 8vo. [Brooklyn, N.Y: Printed by P. J. Collison & Co, 1914]. First edition. Brown paper boards with black lettering, brown cloth spine. Ink presentation on title page (somewhat faded), two chips to fore edge of upper cover, else near fine. Bookplate. Quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. Howes W728; Streeter 4130; Litchfield p. 75; not in Phillips or Heller. OCLC: 54200246 (Yale, Brigham Young). An entertaining day by day journal with good photographs. The bear hunt was on the Majo Ranch of Jones Bros. & Magill. Title page with title in a box to the left at top with a vignette of a bear chasing a man at the bottom right; on verso of title page: "Press of/P. J. Collison & Co/Brooklyn-New York" Copies are known in the libraries at Yale ("Presentation inscription to B. Laueiford") and Brigham Young (acquired 1985); the William Beach-Samuel Webb copy; a presentation copy to Harlow Brooks; the Streeter-Litchfield copy; and the present copy. With a (faded) half-page inscription on the title page from the author, New York sportsman Joseph McAleenan, disclaiming any literary merit, to the "My Dear Archbishop".

1st Edition. First edition, no. 19 of 50 numbered copies. Frontispiece and 29 half-tone plates. pp. [i-ii] blank, [iii]-[xvi], [xvii-xviii] half-title, 1-115, [116, blank], [117] printer's notice. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to one of the participants on the cruise, William Ireland Starr: "Dear Bill, may this tale of my friends and stalling sails come back to you as you read, Joe". Bill Starr steps forth from his berth on the May F. Patterson on page two, "radiant in white duck", and figures throughout McAleenan's narrative of the voyage. With a typed note, signed "Billy", conveying the book to a friend at Christmas 1954: "I do not need this diary to recall the pleasant incidents of this foggy cruise so I am offering it as an addition to your marine library". Bruns M-91 (without title or full description); Heller 2:363 Original dark green cloth gilt. Some rubbing to spine ends, a few spots to lower board. About very good Frontispiece and 29 half-tone plates. pp. [i-ii] blank, [iii]-[xvi], [xvii-xviii] half-title, 1-115, [116, blank], [117] printer's notice. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, no. 19 of 50 numbered copies. Signed.

1st Edition. First Edition, one of 50 numbered copies. Frontispiece and 29 half-tone plates. pp. [i-ii] blank, [iii]-[xvi], [xvii-xviii] half-title, 1-115, [116, blank], [117] printer's notice. 1 vols. 8vo. Rare and privately printed account of fishing for swordfish off Montauk Point and the adjacent waters of Block Island. McAleenan was also the author of Hunting with Rifle and Camera in the Canadian Rockies (1916, edition of 20 copies). McAleenan has a flair for writing and writes lovingly of this three week adventure, harpooning swordfish, battling sharks, sighting whales, etc.: " . glad days, cheery companions, and the joy of living . [for] those who have heard the wind in strange places . " (Foreword). Bruns M-91 (without title or full description) Original dark green cloth, covers with gilt borders, upper board with gilt vignette of schooner, lower board with vignette of swordfish, t.e.g. Very slightly rubbing to spine ends, otherwise a fine copy Frontispiece and 29 half-tone plates. pp. [i-ii] blank, [iii]-[xvi], [xvii-xviii] half-title, 1-115, [116, blank], [117] printer's notice. 1 vols. 8vo First Edition, one of 50 numbered copies.