Tenney, Horace Kent. Vert & Venison. Privately Printed [Lakeside Press], Chicago, 1924.

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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.