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WAGSTAFF, DAVID, ET AL.. UPLAND GAME BIRD SHOOTING IN AMERICA. The Derrydale Press, New York, 1930.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 850 copies. Five full-page color plates with tissue-guards and numerous plates in black and white. Edited by Eugene V. Connett. Spine extremities are frayed with some loss of cloth. Bottom of rear cover shows old water-staining. Please see photos. Frontispiece has small water-stain at bottom free corner. The plate and tissue-guard are foxed. Other plates are clean. Siegel 45. 249pp. Size: Large Quarto
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: xxv, [iii], 249 pages of text including an index. Original brown hardcover cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration on the spine and front cover with minimal shelfwear. Minor spotting to the rear cover. The top edge of the closed page edges is coated in gilt, with the other page edges deckled. Approximately one dozen pages have small spots of brown foxing to the page edges or margins. Previous owner's bookplate neatly affixed to the inside front cover. Contains illustrations by Lynn Bogue Hunt, Edgar Burke, William J. Schaldach, Bert Cobb, and others. Limited to 850 copies. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition.
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, 1/850 unnumbered copies. Large 4to. xxv, (2), 249 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, color plates, line drawings, illustrated endpapers. Contributors include David Wagstaff, Col. H.P. Sheldon, Capt. Paul A. Curtis, and Horace Lytle, among others. Siegel 45: "Some of America's most knowledgeable sportsmen were contributing authors to this excellent and timeless work." Original gilt-stamped decorated brown cloth, top edge gilt. Fine and bright.
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: xxv,[1],249pp., plus sixty-four plates (five colored). Quarto. Original brown publisher's cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Hinges starting, light edge and corner wear. Text somewhat tanned, with occasional foxing, plates fine. Overall, about very good. First edition, one of 850 copies. A series of instructional essays on hunting different types of game in the United States, illustrated with color plate reporductions of paintings Edmund Burke, A.B. Frost, Lynn Bogue Hunt, and others. "Some of America's most knowledgeable sportsmen were contributing authors to this excellent and timeless work" - Siegel. SIEGEL 45. FRAZIER C-11-a.
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated cloth. 850 copies. Oversize book. Illustrations with three colored plates. Some wear to spine top and bottom. Also authored by: Erastus T. Tefft, Henry L. Ferguson, Col. H. P. Sheldon, Capt. Paul A. Curtis, W. Averell Harriman, Law rence B. Smith, Horace Lytle, P.N.B. Galwey-Foley, William E. Baker, Jr., and Eugene V. Connett, Editor. Driven game, American sportsmen.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: CONNETT, Eugene V. III (1891-1969). Upland Game Bird Shooting in America. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. 4to., (12 4/8 x 9 4/8 inches). Half-title, title-page printed in bisque and black. With an etched frontispiece signed by William J. Schaldach, 5 colour plates and illustrated throughout in black and white from paintings and photographs by numerous artists including Lynn Bogue Hunt, Edgar Burke, M.D., Schaldach, and Bert Cobb. Original publisher's deluxe binding or brown morocco, gilt by Stikeman, top edges gilt, others uncut (front cover detached). Limited edition, number 10 of 75 deluxe copies of a total edition of 925. From the Preface: "The lack of an American book on shooting covering driven game, the problems of private preserves, the spaniels and retrievers, in addition to the more widely understood shooting of our wild upland game birds, has lead the editor to plan this volume". With contributions by David Wagstaff, Col. H.P. Sheldon, Arthur B. lapsley, Capt. Paul A. Curtis, W. Arnold Hanger, W. Averell Harriman, Clarence H. Mackay, Lawrence B. Smith, Erastus T. Tefft, Horace Lytle, Henry L. Ferguson, P.N.B. Galway-Foley, William E. Baker, Jr. and Connett. The Derrydale Press was established in 1927 by Connett III. An important publisher of outdoor books for a North American audience, the Derrydale Press is known for producing iconic books on the outdoors as well as hunting, fishing, horse sports, hiking, and sporting art. At the time Connett founded the press, it was the only publisher exclusively devoted to outdoor materials in the world.
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, the De Luxe issue, 1/75 copies. Large 4to. xxv, (2), 249 pp. Illustrated from photographs, old prints, and plans, plates, five in color, illustrated endpapers; the frontispiece is an original etching, signed by Schaldach. Contributors include David Wagstaff, Col. H.P. Sheldon, Arthur B. Lapsey, Capt. Paul A. Curtis, W. Arnold Hanger, W. Averell Harriman, Clarence H. Mackay, Lawrence B. Smith, Erastus T. Tefft, Horace Lytle, Henry L. Ferguson, P.N.B. Galwey-Foley, William E. Baker, Jr., and the editor. Siegel 45: "Some of America's most knowledgeable sportsmen were contributing authors to this excellent and timeless work." A little rubbing to corners and joints, but a fine copy. Publisher's brown morocco, gilt, gilt ornaments and title on spine, boards richly gilt with a wide border, gilt sporting ornaments at the corners. (#4374).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.