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Tenney, Horace Kent.. Vert & Venison.. Privately printed, Chicago, 1924.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Hardbound 8vo (8 inches tall) 155 pages. Description: The author's foreword declares: ''This volume is in large part made up of articles which I have written at different times during the past forty years, descriptive of some of my hunting an fishing trips. They are not in any sense published, but are printed as a convenient means of preservation.'' The following is from Heller's American Hunting and Fishing Books (number 639) ''With chapters on deer hunting and trout fishing in the Lake Superior region; hunting caribou, mountain goat, moose, and grizzly in British Columbia; and deer camouflaged in the woods.'' Printed by R R Donnelly at the Lakeside Press, Chicago. BINDING/CONDITION: green binding with darker green at the spine and corners; the binding material has suffered an unsightly mottling; especially affecting the front cover, otherwise in Very Good condition.
Seller: The Bookworm, Oroville, CA, U.S.A.
Horace Kent Tenney. Vert & Venison. Privately Printed by Lakeside Press, Chicago, 1924.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chicago: Privately Printed by the Lakeside Press, 1924, 155p. First Edition, not illustrated. A book of articles mainly about hunting with some fishing. Written to preserve the author's experiences over the last forty years. Green cloth spine and tips, green paper covered boards, gilt titles, top edge gilt, page edges untrimmed. A Very Good- copy with tips bumped, light edgewear at head & foot of spine and to tips, along bottom edge of covers, top front tip with very small worn spot, some rubbing to covers. Interior Clean and Tight. See Photos
Seller: John Liberati Books, Barkhamsted, CT, U.S.A.
Tenney, Horace Kent. Vert and Venison. Privately Printed at the Lakeside Press, Chicago, 1924.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dark green cloth-backed boards, titled in gilt; 12m0; 155pp; top edge gilt, others untrimmed; title page decoration o/w not illustrated. "Articles which I have written at different times during the past forty years, descriptive of some of my hunting and fishing trips." (foreword) "With chapters on deer hunting and trout fishing in the Lake Superior Region; hunting caribou, mountain goat, moose and grizzly bear in British Columbia." (Heller 639) This copy in VG condition with light overall wear, internally clean.
Seller: David Foley Sporting Books, Dallas, PA, U.S.A.
TENNEY, Horace Kent. Vert & Venison. [Chicago]. Privately Printed at the Lakeside Press. 1924, 1924.
Price: US$168.28 + shipping
Description: 12mo, 20cm, The First Edition, x,155p., original half dark green cloth backed green paper over boards, gilt spine and cover titles, t.e.g., a fine bright copy, scarce. (Spg). Articles of hunting and fishing trips over forty years in Vermont, Wisconsin, North & South Shores of Lake Superior, and British Columbia. "hunting caribou, mountain goat, moose and grizzly bear in British Columbia; and deer." (Heller). "One of the greatest testaments ever written on the deer hunting call. A classic. Rare and expensive" (Wegner). Includes an historical essay - "The Forest Laws of Old England" and the article "Caribou, Goats an Grizzlies". Written in very entertaining anecdotal style.
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green paper with green cloth and gilt imprint. Gilt top edge, uneven edges with a few chips. Interior clean. A letter press card with a poem by the author and Eleanor Favill Tenney with a photograph of a lake is laid in. A collection of poems and stories from the attorney author's forty years of hunting and fishing, with one more academic essay on The Forest Laws of New England. ; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; 155 pp
Seller: Back of Beyond Books, Moab, UT, U.S.A.
Tenney, Horace Kent. Vert & Venison. Privately printed (at the Lakeside Press), (Chicago, IL), 1924.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. ix, (2), 155 pp. Foreword: "Articles which I have written at different times during the past forty years, descriptive of some of my hunting and fishing trips." Heller 639: "Chapters on deer hunting and trout fishing in the Lake Superior region; hunting caribou, mountain goat, moose, and grizzly in British Columbia; and deer camouflaged in the woods." Bruns T-19: "Delightful series of sketches on the outdoors . Rare." Not in Phillips or Riling. Very good. Original dark green half-cloth and gilt-stamped boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. (#7800).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Tenney, Horace Kent. Vert & Venison. Privately Printed [Lakeside Press], Chicago, 1924.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [xii], 155, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Heller: "Chapters on deer hunting and trout fishing in the Lake Superior Region; hunting caribou, mountain goat, moose and grizzly bear in British Columbia." There is a long chapter on The Forest Laws of Old England. Horace Tenney (1859-1932), from Portage, Wis., was a famous lawyer on the faculty of the Univ. of Chicago Law School from 1903. He relates here about hunting in the 1880s in Wisconsin. "A delightful series of sketches on the outdoors. Rare" (Bruns). "One of the greatest testaments ever written on the deer hunting call. A classic. Rare and expensive" (Wegner). Bruns T19; Heller 1:639; Wegner Deer and Deer Hunting, p. 298 Cloth and boards. Fine. Signed, "Walter Heiberg 1876 Wyoming Ave. Washington, D.C. (Chicago June 2, 1937) gics." [xii], 155, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.