Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red cloth with gilt spine titles; 8vo; 224pp; illustrated with b/w photo frontispiece plus 5 other others; introduction by Kermit Roosevelt. "An autobiography of one who caught over 1000 wolves with his bear hands." (Heller #1) "Jack Abernathy was a rough-and-tumble Texas cowboy who feared nothing. He achieved fame for devising a method to capture live wolves bare-handed. He then sold them to zoos and entertainment companies around the country." This copy in VG condition with mild cover wear, some discoloration of endsheets from binder's paste plus non-authorial inked presentation to front free endpaper. Still, a very nice copy of an uncommon title.
Seller: David Foley Sporting Books, Dallas, PA, U.S.A.
Abernathy, John R.. CATCH 'EM ALIVE JACK. Association Press, New York, 1936.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 224 pages. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Red cloth boards. SIGNED by the author on FFEP. Facsimile dust jacket is nicely done. A very scarce title! Heller#1
Seller: Thompson Natural History&Sporting Books, OAK RIDGE, NC, U.S.A.