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Edgar M. Queeny. Prairie Wings: Pen and Camera Flight Studies. Ducks Unlimited, Inc, New York, 1946.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Very good condition. No dust jacket. Has gift presentation written on the top right corner of the front page. Pages are in very good condition. Cover is in very good condition with mild wear.
Seller: Manitou Gallery Historic, Cheyenne, WY, U.S.A.
Price: US$43.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Leinen Originalleineneinband. Einband, Schnitt und Seiten sind sauber und gut mit allenfalls minimalen Gebrauchsspuren. Please note: the book(s) has/have more than 1 kg, therefore shipping cost outside Germany can be higher than indicated by Abebooks/ZVAB. Please ask for the exact cost before you order. Sprache / Language: en XIII(1) + 255(1) Seiten. ca. 31,2 x 23,7 cm
Seller: Versandantiquariat Hösl, Neuried, Germany
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST EDITION.ADRAMATIC PRESENTATION OF THE MECHANICS OF FLIGHT IN ALL ITS ASPECTS IN RELATION TO MIGRATORY DUCKS.PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 100 ACTION PHOTOS AND A SIMILAR NUMBER OF DRAWINGS TO EXPLAIN THE MYSTERY OF FLIGHT.BOOK IS NFDJ WHICH IS PLAIN IS ALSO NF EXCEPT FOR A DARKENED BUT STILL LEGIBLE SPINE.
Seller: Angus Books, SHEFFIELD, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$54.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Sm. Folio Illus by Richard E. Bishop. 1st Trade Ed. -Still one of the best waterfowl flight study books of all times. Wing beats of waterfowl captured on movie film, then transposed to explanatary sketches by Bishop. [Cat. 47-205 & 62-290.] Dampstained externally; As Is; Good.
Seller: ADAMS ANGLING BOOKS, BERKELEY, CA, U.S.A.
Queeny, Edgar M.. Prairie Wings. Ducks Unlimited, New York, 1946.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover book and dustjacket, Book is VG Plus, showing age toning, complete and intact, unmarked. DJ is Poorsunned, chipped and tears, now in an archival jacket. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: Bruce Irving, Haworth, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$68.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition in near fine condition with tan buckram, brown printing on cover and spine and gilt circle with raised bird image. Upper front corner is slightly bumped. Attractive owner bookplate on first glued down endpaper. Fully illustrated with black and white photos, photographs in series and diagrams. Study of the dynamics and techniques of bird flight. Essential for nature or bird lovers' library. xiii, 255 numbered pp. Nature, Birds, Flight, Ornithology.
Seller: Sea Chest Books, Tucumcari, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small Folio illus. Explanatory Sketches by Richard E. Bishop. 1st Ed.[Cat. 58-258.] Very Fine no DJ.
Seller: ADAMS ANGLING BOOKS, BERKELEY, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$252.00 + shipping
Description: With over 120 illusrations and photographs. Explanatory sketches facing the photographs and further elucidated by captions. Signature of former owner on front cover of first free endpaper. In publisher's original ivory cloth with title stamped in brown and the seal of Ducks Unlimited stamped in gilt.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$288.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in publisher's original cloth. Dust jacket chipped and worn at extremities. Dust jacket.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Queeny, Edgar M.. Prairie Wings: Pen and Camera Flight Studies. New York, New York, 1946.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Original cloth, with dust jacket. Jacket has abrasion at the bottom and one large chip out of the bottom of the front. Internally excellent. 256 pp. Illustrated with explanatory sketches by RIchard E. Bishop. Captures the beauty of migratory birds, amply illustrated with black and white photographs of ducks in flight. Published by Ducks Unlimited. Printed by the Beck Engraving Company.
Seller: High Ridge Books, Inc. - ABAA, South Deerfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First Trade edition. Color frontispiece by Bishop, profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. 1 vols. 4to. High-speed photographs of ducks in flight, with explanatory drawings, covering every conceivable aerodynamic movement. Heller 2:743 (for limited ed.) Color frontispiece by Bishop, profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
QUEENY, Edgar M.. Prairie Wings: Pen And Camera Flight Studies. Ducks Unlimited, Inc., 1946.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: QUEENY, Edgar M. Ducks Unlimited, Inc. 1946 12.25" x 9.5" [256] pp. Explanatory sketches by Richard E. Bishop This is the classic, beautiful study about the migratory birds in flight over the Arkansas Prairie. Originally published in 1946 by Ducks Unlimited, it now is loved by a new audience of bird enthusiasts. Through exciting photographs and line drawings, the elusive mechanics of flight are illustrated.
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Queeny, Edgar. Prairie Wings. Ducks Unlimited, 1946.
Price: US$695.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1 of 225 copies signed by author and artist. Bound in pigskin. Slight darkening to to top of spine. In a near fine slipcase with light wear.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Queeny, Edgar M.. PRAIRIE WINGS Pen And Camera Flight Studies. Ducks Unlimited: NY, 1946.
Price: US$1437.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Explanatory sketches by Richard E. Bishop, 12 x 9", full pigskin (brown) with matching slipcase, xiv, 256pp with index. Covers have light scratching and soiling, spine darkened else very good condition. Slipcase has light wear, soiling and is bumped on the upper top edge with slight fraying of the fabric. "THIS DE LUXE EDITION OF 'PRAIRIE WINGS' CONSISTS OF TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE COPIES, OF WHICH TWO HUNDRED ARE FOR SALE. THIS IS COPY NUMBER 26. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BOTH THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR: "TO MARGARET AND BILL LEVIS WITH THE BEST WISHES OF EDGAR M. QUEENY AND RICHARD E. BISHOP". THE FRONTISPIECE "THEY'RE OFF" IS AN ORIGINAL ETCHING BY RICHARD E. BISHOP AND SIGNED BY HIM. SCARCE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Queeny, Edgar M.. Prairie Wings. Pen and Camera Flight Studies. Ducks Unlimited, 1946.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Bishop, Richard E. First edition, 136 of 225 signed copies. Explanatory Sketches by Richard E. Bishop; frontispiece is an original Bishop etching, titled and signed by the artist. XIV, 256 pp. 1 vols. 4to. A Superb Copy of a Classic Book on the Ducks. About the funnel shaped Mississipi fyway which converges in Arkansas. This book written by Richard M. Queeny of Wingmead, Roe, Arkansas ( 1897 - 1968) was a US industrialist, chairman of the Monsanto corporation from 1928 until his retirement in 1960. Heller 2:743 Original full pigskin, spine with a little sunning, else fine in original cloth slipcase. An unusually nice copy Explanatory Sketches by Richard E. Bishop; frontispiece is an original Bishop etching, titled and signed by the artist. XIV, 256 pp. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Queeny, Edgar M.. Prairie Wings. Pen and Camera Flight Studies. Ducks Unlimited, New York, 1946.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Bishop, Richard E. First edition, Deluxe Issue, Number 22 of 225 copies, signed by Queeny and Bishop on the colophon page. Explanatory Sketches by Richard E. Bishop; frontispiece is an original Bishop etching, titled and signed by the artist. xiv, 256 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Heller 2:743 Original full pigskin, spine not sunned at all, thus an unusually fine copy in original cloth leather tipped oepn-face slipcase. Bookplate of Philip P. Pilling, IV, M.D Explanatory Sketches by Richard E. Bishop; frontispiece is an original Bishop etching, titled and signed by the artist. xiv, 256 pp. 1 vols. 4to First edition, Deluxe Issue, Number 22 of 225 copies, signed by Queeny and Bishop on the colophon page.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Queeny, Edgar M.. Prairie Wings. Pen and Camera Flight Studies. Ducks Unlimited, 1946.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Description: Bishop, Richard E. Number 160 of 225 copies, signed by the artist and the author, with an additional etching signed. Explanatory Sketches by Richard E. Bishop; frontispiece is an original Bishop etching, titled and signed by the artist. 1 vols. 4to. A Superb Copy of a Classic Book on the Ducks. Heller 2:743 Original full pigskin, spine a little sunned, else fine in original cloth slipcase. An unusually nice copy Explanatory Sketches by Richard E. Bishop; frontispiece is an original Bishop etching, titled and signed by the artist. 1 vols. 4to Number 160 of 225 copies, signed by the artist and the author, with an additional etching signed.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.