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Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No. 315 of a signed, limited edition of 1,000 copies. Full blue leather with gilt titles and decorations; all edges gilt; ribbon page marker. Fully illustrated in color and black & white. Housed in a blue board slipcase. Signed by author and by Jim Rikhoff, president, NSFL.
Seller: Plain Tales Books, Arlington Hts, IL, U.S.A.
Hennessey, Tom; Gene Hill; Robert Elman; Jim Rikhoff. Feathers 'N Fins. Amwell Press, 1989.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cl. Oth has some fading and light wear. In VG slipcase with light soiling at top and bottom. A collection of hunting and fishing tales written and illustrated by the Bangor Daily News outdoor writer. ; 9.5 X 8.3 X 1.8 inches
Seller: Books End Bookshop, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No. 315 of a signed, limited edition of 1,000 copies. Full brown textured leather with gilt titles and decorations; ribbon page marker. Photo illustrated. Housed in a brown board slipcase. Signed by the author and by Jim Rikhoff, president, NSFL.
Seller: Plain Tales Books, Arlington Hts, IL, U.S.A.
DICKEY, Charley; LIVINGSTON, Jonathan (illus.). Outdoors. The Amwell Press, Clinton, NJ, 1989.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: xiv, 140 p. 26 cm. B&w line drawings. Green leather with gilt impressing. In green paper covered slipcase. Foreword by Jim Rikhoff. 1000 copies published by Amwell Press for the National Sporting Fraternity Limited. This is no. 235, signed by Dickey, Rickhoff, and Livingston.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo; pp; xix (i), 335, (v), colphon, notes; Illustrated with the author's own specially commissioned art in color and black and white; decorated robin's egg blue bonded leather in a slipcase; Ovington's outdoor experiences hunting for upland game birds, waterfowl, deer, and fishing for trout, bass, salmon, and bear. Includes chapters on hunting dogs, American water spaniels, curly-coated, flat-coated and labrador retrievers. Amwell Press Books make wonderful gifts for the Sportsman! Near fine ina very good slipcase;
Seller: Austin's Antiquarian Books, Wilmington, VT, U.S.A.
Dickey, Charle; Livingston, Jonathan [Illustrator]. Outdoors [Signed]. Amwell Press, Clinton, 1989.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto; VG- Hardcover in G+ Slipcase; Green spine with Gilded text; Slipcase has some edgewear, some shelfwear, red stains on rear cover; Boards strong, slight edgewear, slight shelfwear, rubbing to corners; Textblock clean; 140 pp; Signed by author, Illustrator, and National Sporting Fraternity Limited president Jim Rikhoff; Limited Edition #44 of 1000. 1333930. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Dickey, Charley. Outdoors. The Amwell Press, Clinton, New Jersey, 1989.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: 26 x 21.5 cm. Royal octavo. 140pp. Hardcover copy in grey cloth slipcase. Limited to 1000 copies signed by the author, Charley Dickey, the author of the foreword, Jim Rikhoff, and the illustrator, Jonathan Livingston. This is copy 515. The slipcase seems a bit large for the book and may not have been the slipcase it was issued with.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Dickey, Charley. Outdoors. Amwell Press for the National Sporting Fraternity Limited, 1989.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by author, illustrator (Jonathan Livingston) and Jim Rikhoff (president of NSFL) on second page. Number 263 out of 1000 copies. Dark green leatherette covers with gilt design and border on front, gilt lettering and designs on spine, and gilt border on back. Covers are slightly bowed. Dark green bookmark ribbon is attached to headband. Side edges of pages are slightly wavy. Book is in good plus condition. Light green slipcase is in very good condition. Small 4to, 140 pages, 1.9 lb.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 140 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Inside the Covers, Lancaster, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$33.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: LEATHER. LIMITED. NUMBERED (#831 OF 1000). SIGNED. Beautiful edition: gilt decorations, full leather: beautiful shade of turquoise, slightly marbleized end papers, sewn-in ribbon. Has 6 Parts, each with several chapters: Upland Game Bird Shooting, Waterfowl Hunting, Deer Hunting, Trout and Bass Fishing, The Leapers (Salmon), For the Love of It (trout, bear, spinning). Ends with An Indian Prayer. Many illustrations, many full page including four in full color. Book and leather covers as new. The matching slipcase has a scratch, some rubbing and an inch that is loose that is easily glued. Scans available. Complementary USPS tracking number sent to your email address. (Ask for accurate international mailing cost.) No hassle, full refund if book returned in same condition within 30 days of purchase. Thanks for looking. Requests, comments, questions welcome and answered typically within hours.
Seller: Bilbofbaggins Books, Magdalena, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No. 315 of a signed, limited edition of 1,000 copies. Full brown leatherette with gilt titles and decorations. Illustrated. Housed in light brown board slipcase. Signed by the author and by Jim Rikhoff, president, NSFL.
Seller: Plain Tales Books, Arlington Hts, IL, U.S.A.
Ovington, Ray. A Sportsman-Artist's Game Bag: Boxed Edition. The Amwell Press, 1989.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DESCRIPTION: This edition with a silk ribbon bookmarker sewn in has 335 pages. The forward is by Jim Rikhoff and is divided into 6 parts. There are four full color plates of game which includes turkey, salmon, woodcock, and a ruffled grouse. Ray Ovington makes an interesting comparison for this hunting book. He says that trying to "condense sixty years of active and exciting outdoor life into a single book is like trying to contain the ocean in a whiskey flask". * CONDITION: There is a nick on one edge of the box.
Seller: The Book Shelf, Bismarck, ND, U.S.A.
Ovington, Ray. A Sportsman-Artist's Game Bag [Signed]. Amwell Press, Clinton, 1989.
Price: US$37.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo; VG- Hardcover in G+ Slipcase; Blue spine with Gilded text; Slipcase has some edgewear, some shelfwear, small faint white marks on both covers; Boards strong, slight edgewear, slight shelfwear; Textblock clean; 335 pp; Signed by Author and National Sporting Fraternity Limited president Jim Rikhoff; Limited Edition #43 of 1000. 1333928. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Dickey, Charles. Outdoors. Amwell Press, Clinton, NJ, 1989.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hunting and fishing stories. Limited edition, number 85 of 1000, signed by Dickey, illustrator Livingston, and President of National Sporting Fraternity Limited Jim Rikhoff on the limitation page. Dark green with gilt, fine, as new condition, in slipcase. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited/Numbered Edition # 276 of 1,000 copies sighed by Ray Ovington and Jim Rikhoff. Hardcovre in gilt-embossed, blue leatherette, is just about pristine, slipcase, unfortunately shows a little spot and a coffee-mark on back - otherwise it is perfect. Will be carefully packaged and shipped with tracking and insurance Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Dogtales, Copake, NY, U.S.A.
Ovington, Ray. A Sportsman-Artist's Game Bag. , 1989.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A SPORTSMAN ARTIST'S GAME BAG. Amwell Press, Clinton, NJ 1989, copy #524 of a limited edition of 1000 copies signed by the author and Jim Rikhoff, 4to, 336 pages, illustrated in color and B & W with the author's own specially commissioned original art, special preface by by Jim Rikhoff. Upland hunting adventures. Leatherbound in slipcase. Very Fine. $50.00
Seller: Theodore J. Holsten Jr., Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
SPARANO, VIN T.. TALES OF WOODS AND WATERS. AMWELL PRESS, USA, 1989.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Amwell Press, USA, 1989, hardcover, limited special signed edition #835 of 1,000 , SIGNED by author and Jim Rikhoff President USFL, leather binding with gold embossed lettering and design, satin ribbon, mint (as new/unread) in matching slipcover, not remaindered, bookclub or library, beautiful and collectible
Seller: MySEAbooks, Harlingen, TX, U.S.A.
Ovington, Ray. A Sportsman-Artist's Game Bag. Amwell Press, Clinton, NJ, 1989.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed by Author; LIMITED/NUMBERED EDITION. No. 753 of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by the author, and by Jim Rikhoff, President of The National Sporting Fraternity Limited. Illustreted by the author. FINE in leather binding with gold gilt-stamped cover and spine. In FINE slipcase. #2276; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: Book Gallery // Mike Riley, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$87.55 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Limited to 1,000 copies signed by Tony Henley and Jim Rikhoff. The present copy is number 434. Frontispiece, 187 pages with a foreword by Jim Rikhoff. A fine copy bound in full faux leather pictorially stamped in gilt depicting a Kudu? within a gilt frame, pictorial spine lettered in gilt, housed within the original slipcase.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Signed. Limited Edition #236 of 1000 copies. An African Hunting Heritage Book. With a foreward by Jim Rikhoff. Signed by A.M.H. Henley on the limitation page as well as by Jim Rikhoff, President of the National Sporting Fraternity Limited; Bound in black bonded leather with gilt lettering and decoration; housed in Near Fine slipcase; no markings of any kind. Fine binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Special publication for the National Sporting Fraternity Limited (NSFL). Limited to 1000 hand-numbered copies (this copy being "BB #31"), signed by both the author Branham and by James C. Rikhoff, President of the NSFL. This copy includes an additional prsentation inscription, signed by the author to Mason E. Kline, President of the Mzuri Safari Club. Laid in are two original typed letters, signed by the author to Kline, typed on "Bud and Mike Branham's Adventure Unlimited" stationery. Includes a foreword by Jim Rikhoff and Mike Branham. Illustrated with original black and white line drawings by Bob Kuhn in addition to two special photographic sections from the author's private collection. Designed by Monica Sullivan and printed by Haddon Craftsmen of Scranton, PA. Bound in textured brown (alligator) leatherette, decorated in gilt. A very fine copy in Publisher's slipcase. Very attractive!
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1/1000. Quarto. XIV, 187, [7]pp. Original textured black leather with gold antelope on front cover and gold African animals on spine. Book housed in a burgundy paper covered slipcase. Ribbon marker. Limitation page numbered and signed by both the author and the publisher. Frontispiece. This 25th book in the African Hunting Heritage Collection tells the extraordinary story of Tony Henley, a professional hunter for Donald Ker and Sidney Downey. Tony also served in the Kenya Game Department as an elephant control offer. Here is his life story as a hunter and game officer. Photos from the author's collection. One of 1000 copies, of which this is No. 512. Previous owner's book plate on inside of front cover, and signature on upper front free endpaper. Slipcase, binding and interior in near fine to fine condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
BATTEN John. Skyline Pursuits. Amwell Press, USA, 1989.
Price: US$147.30 + shipping
Description: 318 pages, All edges gilt, illustrated with a 40-page photographic section from the authors private collection, and line drawings by Gordon Allen and a colour frontis by Carl Rungius. Bound in light blue bonded leather with gilt decoration in the publisher's slipcase vg. Limited to 1000 copies signed by Batten, Allen, and Jim Rikhoff. With a personal note to Malcolm Lyell signed by Batten. Hunting Sheep in N America, Iran, Altai Mountains and elsewhere in Central Asia. Malcolm Lyell (1922-2011), a hunter, an adventurer and manager of Westley Richards London showrooms he had many connections and friendships with big game hunters of the day.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No. 315 of a signed, limited edition of 1,000 copies. Full black textured leather with gilt titles and decorations; ribbon page marker. Photo illustrated. Housed in a black board board slipcase. Signed by the author and by Jim Rikhoff, president, NSFL.
Seller: Plain Tales Books, Arlington Hts, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo, xiv, 187pp. Bound in full black leather, title in gilt on spine. Silk bookmark. Housed in publisher's cardboard slipcase. Book is in fine condition, free of any marks or notations. From a limited edition of 1000 copies signed by the author, this being number 80. National Sporting Fraternity Limited Edition.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Amwell Press, USA, 1989, hardcover, limited special signed edition #835 of 1,000 , SIGNED by author, and Jim Rikhoff, President of NSFL, leather binding with gold embossed lettering and design, satin ribbon, mint (as new/unread) in matching slipcover, not remaindered, bookclub or library, beautiful and collectible
Seller: MySEAbooks, Harlingen, TX, U.S.A.
Jim Rikhoff (ed.). Hunting the African Lion: An Anthology. Amwell Press, Clinton, New Jersey, 1989.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Patterned leatherbound covers are mostly clean, with gilt illustration. Boards show some edgewear. Corners are sharp. Spine has gilt text and is a bit rubbed at base, with firm ends. See photos. Binding is tight. Paper backed moiré end papers show a faint stain at front corner. See photos. Illustrations are bright and clear. Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block edges have All Edges Gilt. Slip case absent.** PS2024.0320** 557 pages. 6 x 9 inches** A handsome luxury volume, featuring color plates by American wildlife artist Guy Coheleach (b. 1933) and many accounts by big game hunters including Theodore Roosevelt. This book is an African Hunting Heritage Book, authorized and for the benefit of Game Conservation International.** James Cornwall Rikhoff (b.1931) is an American editor and publisher of sport hunting books. He is the founder of The National Sporting Fraternity and its publishing section, Amwell Press. He is a renowned conservationist and big-game hunter.** Limited edition of 1000 copies, of which this is #210. Signed by the editor on title page.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #009923"**
Seller: Panoply Books, Lambertville, NJ, U.S.A.
Rikhoff, Jim [Editor]. Hunting the African Lion [Signed]. Amwell Press, Clinton, 1989.
Price: US$262.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo; G+ Hardcover in G+ Slipcase; Brown spine with Gold text; Slipcase has some edgewear, some shelfwear, rubbing to corners, surface tear to head edge; Boards strong, slight edgewear, slight shelfwear, rubbing to corners, small open tear along head edge of spine; Textblock clean; 557 pp; Signed by Jim Rikhoff on Second page; Limited Edition for National Sporting Fraternity Limited #433 of 1000 NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #2. 1333964. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
William Negley. Archer in Africa. Amwell Press, New Jersey, 1989.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An African Hunting Heritage Book. Limited edition of 1000 copies, of which this is #400. Signed by Negley and Jim Rikhoff, president of The National Sporting Fraternity, Ltd, for which it was published. Foreword by Harry Tennison. Special photographic section from the author's private collection. In the book Negley recounts his adventures hunting elephants as well as Africa's Big Five with bow and arrow. Negley (b. 1914) was apparently the only person who ever successfully hunted all Big Five with only conventional bow and arrow and no rifle back-up. Many photographic illustrations including frontispiece of Negley with two huge tusks. Very handsome hardcover, bound in full animal-textured brown leather with gilt illustration of an elephant on the front and gilt rules. Gilt titles and small vignette illustration on the spine.235 pages, with attached brown silk ribbon bookmark. Fine condition in fine slipcase. An especially handsome volume.
Seller: Timbuktu Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Rikhoff, Jim. Hunting the African Lion. Amwell Press, Clinton, NJ, 1989.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 557 pp, ill. This is the 26th title in the African hunting heritage series and the third title in the big five series. Arguably one of the best anthologies compiled on hunting lions, the King of Beasts, throughout Africa. Selections from the best books written combined with new special articles commissioned from noted hunters for this book. Near fine in vg+ orig. slipcase. A good value.
Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.
Rikhoff, Jim. Hunting the African Lion. Amwell Press, Clinton, NJ, 1989.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 557 pp, ill. This is the 26th title in the African hunting heritage series and the third title in the big five series. Arguably one of the best anthologies compiled on hunting lions, the King of Beasts, throughout Africa. Selections from the best books written combined with new special articles comissioned from noted hunters for this book. Fine in orig fine slipcase.
Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.