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.