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O'Connor, Jack. Game in the Desert. Derrydale Press, NY, 1939.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 950 numbered copies. This is copy 196. A nice, bright copy in an edge worn custom slipcase. ; B&W and color plates; 4to ; 298 pages
Seller: Daedalus Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
O'Connor, Jack. GAME IN THE DESERT. Derrydale Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 4to 11" - 13" tall; 298 pages; Copy #908 of 950. Light stain on lower frontispiece and endpapers, else fine. In a custom slipcase.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
O'Connor, Jack. GAME IN THE DESERT. Derrydale Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4to 11" - 13" tall; 298 pages; Copy #829 of 950. Just a touch of rubbing and wear to covers. Name and date on 2nd free endpaper.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
O'Connor, Jack. GAME IN THE DESERT. Derrydale Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$337.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4to 11" - 13" tall; 298 pages; Copy #650 of 950.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
O'Connor, Jack.. Game in the Desert.. The Derrydale Press., New York., 1939.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Very good, some fading to spine title, bookplate to pastedown, no dust jacket as issued. Illustrated by T.J. Harter. 4to. xx, 298 pp. Hardcover, green faux snakeskin, gilt titles.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
O'connor Jack. Game In The Desert. The Derrydale Press New York, 1939.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Large 8vo volume in a faux snakeskin green binding. 298 pages in fine condition. Number 863 of 950 copies.
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
O'Connor, Jack. Game in the Desert. Derrydale Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$412.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto (25.5 cm), pp. xx, [ii], 298. Faux green snakeskin boards, with gilt-stamped titling. #706 of 950 copies printed. Deckle edge, complete with all black and white photos, color frontispiece and plates by illustrator TJ Harter. Text block has foxing, spine is faded with edge wear, splatter marks on p. 67 and facing plate. Former owner's name on first blank leaf. Absent the box it was published with [Biscotti, p. 320].An Arizona native and long-time celebrated shooting editor at Outside Life, O'Connor "was literate, sardonic, and understated, the only 'gun writer' ever reviewed in The New Yorker," Stephen Bodio writes in A Sportsman's Library, about a later version of the book. "[T]his handsome, entertaining, still-useful volume had been perhaps the most important book for introducing the literate American hunter to the modern, post-Teddy Roosevelt West."
Seller: Elk River Books (ABAA/ILAB), Livingston, MT, U.S.A.
O'CONNOR, JACK. Game in the Desert. , 1939.
Price: US$431.25 + shipping
Description: O'CONNOR, JACK. Game in the Desert. New York: Derrydale Press, [1939]. xx, [2], 298 p. Illus. by T. J. Harter. Cloth (in imitation of snakeskin). Spine lettering a trifle dull, else a very good copy. Bookplate. One of 950 numbered copies. Hunting game in the American Southwest. Siegel 146; Frazier O-1-a.
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
O'Connor, Jack. Game in the Desert. Derrydale Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green simulated snake-skin cloth with gilt spine and cover titles; 4to; 298pp; illustrated with color frontispiece plus 10 other monotone plates after paintings by T.J. Harter; limited to 950 numbered (#542) copies; lacking original glassine dust jacket and 2 -part box. Author's accounts of hunting various big and small game species in the American Southwest as well as Mexico; sheep, antelope, mountain lion, bear, elk and wild turkey. This copy in VG condition with the usual spine title fading; internally quite clean and bright, perhaps unread.
Seller: David Foley Sporting Books, Dallas, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$555.00 + shipping
Description: Of an edition of 950, this is No. 239. Octavo, cloth simulated to resemble snake skin, unopened, xx, 298 pp. Plates. Very Good; a trace of wear to head of spine, otherwise clean and tight. Hunting, American Southwest, Game, Sporting. nxsli
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.
O'Connor, Jack. Game in the Desert. Derrydale Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Harter, T.J. First Edition, No. 234 of 950 copies. With photographs, and color frontispiece and illustrations by T.J. Harter. xx, [ii], 298 pp. 1 vols. 4to. An account of hunting various game in the American Southwest and northern Mexico: deer, antelope, bighorn sheep, elk, desert pig, quail, bear, mountain lion, jaguar--and even wild turkey! In one of the more unusual Derrydale bindings. Siegel 146; Frazier O-1-a Original green simulated snakeskin cloth. Fine copy, without the box With photographs, and color frontispiece and illustrations by T.J. Harter. xx, [ii], 298 pp. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
O'Connor, Jack. Game in the Desert. The Derrydale Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, no. 639 of 950 copies. With photographs, and color frontispiece and illustrations by T.J. Harter. xx, [ii], 298 pp. 1 vols. 4to. An account of hunting various game in the American Southwest and northern Mexico: deer, antelope, bighorn sheep, elk, desert pig, quail, bear, mountain lion, jaguar--and even wild turkey! In one of the more unusual Derrydale bindings. Siegel 146; Frazier O-1-a Original green simulated snakeskin cloth. Touch of rubbing at spine, else a fine copy (without the publisher's box) With photographs, and color frontispiece and illustrations by T.J. Harter. xx, [ii], 298 pp. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Jack O'Connor. Game in the Desert. The Derrydale Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$895.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Copy number 25 of a limited edition of 950. Although not called for this copy is inscribed and signed by the author on a front endpaper "For Eben B. Knowlton/with the best of wishes/Jack O'Connor/June 1939". Very scarce signed in the first printing of this O'Connor classic. Green frabricoid snakeskin covers with gilt titles, color frontispiece with tissue guard and 10 plates in black and white plus 12 black and white photographs, green endpapers, bibliography, 298 pages. Heller 262, Siegel 146.
Seller: The Book Shelf, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Jack O'Connor. Game in the Desert. Derrydale Press, New York, 1939.
Price: US$895.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited edition of 950 copies, this is copy number 343, and includes the rare publisher's box with the paste on label. Green fabricoid binding with snakeskin pattern, gilt stamped titles, green endpapers. Illustrated by T.J. Harter including color frontis with tissue guard, and 10 plates in black and white, plus 12 black and white photographs, selected bibliography, 298 pages. Chapters on Mule Deer, Whitetail Deer, Bighorn Sheep. Pronhorn Antelope, Elk, Black and Grizzly Bear, Jaguar, Mountain Lion, Game Birds, Coyote, Wild Turkey, and Javelinas. Close to new copy, titles on spine a little dull, publisher's box has minor signs of wear, photos on request. Heller 262.
Seller: The Book Shelf, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 298p quarto illustrated. 1/975 copies this copy #579. A very fine exceptional copy in the original green snakeskin cloth in publisher's fine box with a small closed tear at one corner. Some pages uncut.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
O'Connor, Jack. Game in the Desert. Derrydale Press, NY, 1939.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 298 pp, ill. Jack O'Connor first really great book about hunting all the big game of the American southwest. Super sheep hunting and other game. One of the most sought after of all original Derrydale big game hunting books. The book is lovely, with only a small and neat non-authorial gift inscription to former owner. The box has been professionally repaired on one top side, otherwise is complete and very nice with fine top box cover label.
Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.