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Sanford, L.C. & Bishop, L.B. & Van Dyke, T.S.. THE WATER-FOWL FAMILY. The MacMillan Co, 1903.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The MacMillan Co., 1903, First Edition, 8vo, 598 pages, photos. Book bound in a decorated green cloth, top edge gilt, no dust jacket, else book very good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Cape Cod Booksellers, Yarmouth, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Macmillan American Sportsman' Library. 1903 First Edition. Hardcover book. Green cloth cover with gilt decoration and lettering on front and spine. Prev owner name inside cover else book is in fine condition clean tight and bright. Gilt top edge of pages clean and bright. Cover is strong, lettering is faded a bit on spine, lettering on front cover is bright. Cover lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners.
Seller: Calliopebooks, Potomac, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$34.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 598 pages. American Sportsman's Library edited by Casper Whitney. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *
Seller: Easton's Books, Inc., Mount Vernon, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 598 pp. Original green cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed; spine a bit sunned. Top edge gilt. Light natural toning to endpapers. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$89.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. Full green buckram blind stamped decorated in gilt with gilt lettering on both front board and spine. Very small spotting to botton of front board and the gilding on spine is a little muted else VERY GOOD PLUS condition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Ziern-Hanon Galleries, Frontenac, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Half olive green morocco and marbled boards with gilt spine titles & decorations, matching marbled end sheets; 8vo; 598pp; top edge gilt others untrimmed; illustrated with frontispiece, title page vignette plus 19 other full page plates with tissue guards; printed at Norwood Press, Norwood, Ma; limited to 100 mechanically numbered (#38) copies. A volume in the The American Sportsman's Library Series, edited by Caspar Whitney. With chapters on duck, goose, rail and other shore bird shooting; water-fowl of the Pacific coast plus diagnoses of families and genera. This copy in good condition with usual spine fading (to brown) plus wear & chipping to spine leather & edges. Internally quite clean & bright with all plates & tissue guards present. Most uncommon in this format.
Seller: David Foley Sporting Books, Dallas, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition: #28 of 100 large paper copies from The American Sportsman's Library, edited by Caspar Whitney. Three-quarters brown morrocco over marbled boards with 5 spine bands and gilt decoration & lettering. Matching marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt with deckle cut page edges. [xi, 598pp]. Photogravure frontispiece & 19 b/w illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Charles Livingston Bull and A. B. Frost, etc. All tissue-guards present. Text and hinges tight & intact. Leaves clean without foxing. Edges lightly rubbed. Spine top has a small worn, rubbed area. Early owner's bookplate "MASON W. ZIMMERMAN, PHILADELPHIA". Birds, Ornithology. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 598 pages
Seller: Nick Bikoff, IOBA, Fairfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: Handsome volume on the natural history and hunting of ducks, geese, swans, rail, and shore birds. This if copy #44 of just 100 in this large paper format. See HAND S45. Near fine. Some minor extremity rubs to exterior, small prior owner name stamped at top of half title and title pages. Leather spine and fore corners, marbled paper sides and endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine titled in gilt with 5 raised bands. Leather and marbled paper over boards. Tall Octavo. x, 598 pages Limited edition, #44 of 100 copies on large paper.
Seller: Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition (so stated). Thick 8vo. Frontispiece and 19 b/w halftone illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Charles Livingston Bull and A.B. Frost. Full gilt stamped contemporary dark green morocco by Stikeman, t.e.g., others uncut, the spine with gilt stamped horse head, fish and sporting dog devices (small scratches), else fine. Heraldic bookplate of M.C.D. Borden on the front pastedown. 598 pages. Number 20 of 100 copies on large paper. The American Sportsman Library. Printed by the Norwood Press, Norwood, Massachusetts. Includes chapters on: Snow geese; Canada geese; Willets; Bluebill; Shovellers; King Rail; Green-Winged Teal and others.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.