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Price: US$42.00 + shipping
Description: Signed First Edition with minor bumps/wear at edges/corners. Pages are clean with aging present. Foxing along page-ends from prolonged shelving. Overall a good signed first edition!
Seller: Reclaimed Bookstore, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Ledyard Sands. The Bird, the Gun and the Dog. Carlyle House, New York, 1939.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Large format book, brick red cloth binding with titles on spine and front cover stamped in gilt, color frontispiece, foreword by Major Charles Askins, bibliography, index, 494 pages. Illustrated with photographs and the plates in color and duotone are reproductions from paintings by Courtenay Brandreth. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. The book is protected with a custom made clear acetate dust jacket. Clean inside and out, unmarked copy, solid binding. Some foxing to the preliminary pages, titles on spine a little dull otherwise fine.
Seller: The Book Shelf, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Sands, Ledyard. The Bird, the Gun and the Dog. Carlyle House, New York, 1939.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: La Paglia, Anthony. First edition, deluxe issue, no. 77 of 100 copies signed by the author, further inscribed by him on the limitation page. Illustrated with photographs and color reproductions of paintings by Courtenay Brandreth. With an original etching by Anthony La Paglia (no. 77/100 signed by the artist in pencil beneath the print). xxix, 494, [1, colophon] pp. 1 vols. Thick 4to. Chapters on dogs and guns and their relationship to grouse, quail, pheasant, woodcock, snipe and rail. Biscotti p. 385; Heller 2:749 Original brown morocco, t.e.g. Fine Illustrated with photographs and color reproductions of paintings by Courtenay Brandreth. With an original etching by Anthony La Paglia (no. 77/100 signed by the artist in pencil beneath the print). xxix, 494, [1, colophon] pp. 1 vols. Thick 4to First edition, deluxe issue, no. 77 of 100 copies signed by the author, further inscribed by him on the limitation page.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.