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Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of 13 short stories. Featured are Five Rings in Reno by R.L. Stevens, Starling's Circle by David Ely, Fair Exchange by Edward Wellen, P as in Poison by Lawrence Treat, The Matchwit Club by Francis M. Nevins Jr., A More-or-Less Crime by Edgar Wallace, Something You Have to Live With by Patricia Highsmith, The Weasel by Jack P. Nelson, The Last Cigar by Duffy Carpenter, The Box by Isak Romun, What Really Happened? by William Bankier, License Plate UGC 368M by Michael Gilbert, The Theft of the Wooden Egg by Edward D. Hoch. The Edgar Wallace story is the first American publication. Light edge wear. Slight reading crease to the spine. In good condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Letter "A" below copyright information, indicating First Edition. No dust jacket. Small bit of wear to edges of spine. Light tanning to inside covers and page edges only. Otherwise, the printing is clean, tight, and bright.

Hardcover. Condizione: G-vg. First Edition. 8533 pages. Light red binding with gold lettering on spine. Thirty or so B/W illustrations scattered through the book. Browing to gutter of front and rear endpapers. Some foxing to foredge. Pages 115-118 has four inch crease at bottom corner tip. 20 or so pages lightly creased at bottom corner tips. Photos of book on request.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. 8vo, 533 p., original red cloth with front board and spine stamped in gilt. A handsome copy of this big game book, illustrated with photographs, maps and line drawings throughout. Minor toning to text block; minor wear to spine and spine tips, else clean and bright.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Published with the cooperation of the National Collection of Heads and Horns of the New York Zoological Society and American Museum of Natural History. Clean, unmarked copy, cloth binding with gilt stamped decoration on front board and title in gilt on spine nice and bright, some discoloration on pastedowns, overall a very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. 533 pages. Lean to the spine, light wear; pages yellowed with age; a good sound binding. The dust jacket has some staining, wear and tear; unclipped. A 1939 review slip from the publisher laid in. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sport, Fishing, Hunting, Guns; Inventory No: 230871.

First edition. 8vo. xxii, (2), 533 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, line drawings, maps. Record book for the largest species of various North American big game animals. Contributors to the text include John C. Phillips, Henry Shoemaker. Grancel Fitz, James L. Clark, Jack O'Connor, Carl Rungius, Belmore Brown, and Kermit Roosevelt, among others. Ownership signature of Heyward Cutting on the front endpaper and with his pencil markings in the rear section, noting his three recorded trophies of American brown bears, taken in Alaska in 1917; Cutting (1890-1926), from a well-to-do New York family, earned an early reputation as an explorer and sportsman, but was killed in an automobile crash at 35. Very good copy with an excellent association. Original gilt-stamped decorated rust cloth. (6908).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. 1st. ed. 533p Photos. Maps. Illus. "A comprehensive work with 46 articles contributed by 34 noted naturalists and sportsmen. With 92 pages on tabulations of recorded trophies, and articles both on natural history and hunting. Among the latter are the Coues deer by Jack O'Connor, wapiti by E. Roland Harriman, caribou by Carl Rungius, moose by William N. Beach, mountain sheep by Carrington Weems, Rocky mountain goat by N. Vernon-Wood, pronghorn by Belmore Brown, musk-ox by Peter Freuchen, bison by George G. Goodwin, bear by Andy Simons and others, puma by R. R. M. Carpenter, jaguar by Kermit Roosevelt, and walrus by Robert A. Bartlett. This edition consisted of about 3000 copies." Marginal tears & chip missing at bottom of spine in jacket. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD + COPY.

First edition. 8vo. xxii, (2), 533 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, line drawings, maps. Record book for the largest species of various North American big game animals. Contributors to the text include John C. Phillips, Henry Shoemaker, Grancel Fitz, James L. Clark, Jack O'Connor, Carl Rungius, Belmore Brown, and Kermit Roosevelt, among others. Inscribed in the year of publication by Bob Bartlett who contributes the 6-page essay "Hunting the Polar Bear" and the 3-page essay "Hunting the Walrus"; Bartlett (1875-1946) was an award-winning artic explorer who commanded the SS Roosevelt on Robert Peary's attempts to reach the North Pole (cf. Wikipedia for a short biography). Very good copy with an excellent association. Original gilt-stamped decorated rust cloth, illustrated dust jacket. (11266).

published with the cooperation of the National Collection of Heads & Horns of the N.Y. Zoological Society and American Museum of Natural History. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939. Illustrated with b&w photographs and b&w plates by Carl Rungius. 6.75" x 9.25". 544 pp. Decorated brown cloth. "A prodigious amount of work produced this highly informative, authoritative volume.the list of contributors is most impressive.out of print for many years, and when available fetches a fancy price" (Baker). Articles on natural history, hunting and records of all of the North American big game animals by Frick, Shoemaker, John C. Phillips (on "The Conservation Of Big Game"), Anthony, Fitz, Colby, Chanler, Coolidge, Clark, Webb, Brooks, O'Connor, Harriman, Murie, Rungius, Cabot, Walcott, Beach, Jackson, Seton, Browne, Freuchen, Goodwin, Carpenter, Roosevelt, Anthony and others. Scarce. Very good.