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Klineburger, Bert
THIS IS THE GREATEST HUNTING ERA
"T30437" "" "This is the Greatest Hunting Era" "Big Game Hunting" ". Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, 1986, second printing, large 4to, 238 pages, profusely illustrated. Big game hunting adventures worldwide. INSCRIBED BY BERT KLINEBURGER. Dust jacket, As New. ID#: 2947
Category: Big Game Hunting
$95.00
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Housholder, Bob
HUNTING AND GUIDING FOR DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP
"RV28645" Wild Sheep & goat International, Mesilla, NM 1989, numbered copy of a limited first editon, first printing, of 500 copies, 147 pages, profusely illustrated with B & W photographs. The author, who pioneered sheep guiding in Arizona and guided for 18 years has assembled an exciting collection of storiers and advice based on his hunting and guiding experiences for wild sheep in the southwestern United States. No dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Very Fine. ID#: 3134
Category: Sheep & Sheep Hunting
/ Big Game Hunting
$250.00
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Swayne, Major H.G.C.
Through the Highlands of Siberia
[N25912] John Culler 1995 reprint of the classic 1904 work, 259 pages,with 60 illustrations and a map.This is copy #203 of a deluxe printing of only 500 copies and is part of Culler's Asian Series. A classic early work with much on hunting wild sheep and ibex. All edgers gilt, bound in full leather in slipcase. Very Fine. ID#: 1642
Category: Big Game Hunting
$225.00
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Czech, Kenneth P
AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ASIAN BIG GAME HUNTING BOOKS -1780 to 1980
,. Land's Edge Press, St. Cloud, MN 2003, numbered and signed copy of limited edition of 750 copies, 254 pages, illustrated with several pages of covers and dust jackets in full color. Includes note of works devoted to pig sticking and small game shooting. At long last a bibliography of Asian sporting books that includes detailed description of each book's contents. Dust Jacket, As New. ID#: 1966
Category: Bibliography
$65.00
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Cumberland, Major C.S.
SPORT ON THE PAMIRS AND TURKISTAN STEPPES
"W25685" William Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, facsimile reprint in the exact format of the 1895, first edition, 278 pages plus 34 pages of ads for books published by Blackwood, Frontis. photograph of the author, inserted folding map intact. Marco Polo sheep and other mountain game - ibex, markhor, burrel by one of the most famous sheep hunters of all time. A classic work.Very Fine. ID#: 1936
Category: Big Game Hunting
/ Sheep & Sheep Hunting
$125.00
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Haugen, Scott
HUNTING THE ALASKAN HIGH ARCTIC
"BT29823" Safari Press, Long Beach, CA 2000, Copy #721 of a deluxe first edition limited to 1000 copies signed by the author, 240 pages, profusely illustrated with B & W photographs. Big Game Hunting for Grizzly, Dall Sheep, Moose, Caribou, and Polar Bear in the Arctic Circle. Haugen and his wife spent three years in Point Lay and four years among the Inupiat Eskinos in the remote village of Anaktuvuk Pass, teaching the children of one of the world's last true hunting cultures. Invited to hunt with the Eskimos, he encountered caribou, bear and sheep that had never before seen a human, and came closer to death than he had ever experienced in a lifetime of world-wide hunting and adventure. Slipcase and book are As New. ID#: 3000
Category: Big Game Hunting
/ Alaska & Canada
$125.00
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Williams, Bryan T.
GAME TRAILS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA
(N485710) Scribner's, NY, first edition, 360 pages, B & W photos. One of the classics on hunting sheep, grizzly, moose and other mountain game. The covers show mild shelfwear.The gilt lettering on the spine is intact and bright. There are no marks or inscriptions. No dust jacket. Overall, a Very Good Plus copy. ID#: 1907
Category: Big Game Hunting
$200.00
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Barnett, Dave
THE UPPER YUKON
"W25614" Amwell Press 1983, numbered copy of limited edition of 1000 copies, signed by the author and publisher. 196 pages. Illustrated with two special sections featuring over 120 photographs from both the author's collection and archives. Forward by John Batten. Sheep, bear and other big game - the author's experiences against a historical background excerpted from authors who explored and hunted the Upper Yukon long ago. Fine in slipcase ID#: 3128
Category: Big Game Hunting
/ Sheep & Sheep Hunting
$150.00
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Medem, Ricardo Sanjuan
PERSIA, SAFARI ON THE SUMMITS
"BL25876" Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA 1987, numbered copy of the 1st English printing of 1000 copies signed by the publisher, 200 pages, large 4to, profusely illustrated with photos in color and B & W. Mountain hunting in Iran by a famous Spanish hunter. Fine in Fine dustjacket. ID#: 3137
Category: Sheep & Sheep Hunting
/ Big Game Hunting
$200.00
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Stebbing, E.P.
STALKS IN THE HIMALAYA
"T25136" John Lane, the Bodley Head, London 1912, 1st edition, 321 pages, TEG, ""Jottings by a Sportsman-Naturalist with Upwards of a Hundred Illustrations by the Author and Others."" One of the classics on Himalayan mountain game, stags, cats, bears, goats and sheep The decorated cover and spine and gilt spine lettering is bright and intact. The green cover is unfaded with slight bumping in one corner. Has a previous owner signature on the title page. Overall tight, clean and Very Good Plus. ID#: 2837
Category: Exploration & Travel
/ Big Game Hunting
$225.00
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Gray, Prentiss N.
FROM THE PEACE TO THE FRASER - [Limited Edition]
"T27346" Boone and Crockett Club 1994, unnumbered copy of a limited edition of 100 copies, 560 pages, 4to, all edges gilt, pictorial endpapers. ""Newly Discovered North American Hunting and Exploration Journals 1900 to 1930."" More than 160 illustrations from photos taken by Gray during his hunting and exploration travels across the American West, Canada and Alaska. Much on hunting mountain game - sheep, goats, elk and bear, and with a chapter devoted to Columbia blacktail deer. Never before published journals of the man who designed the first Boone and Crockett ""Records of North American Big Game"" in 1932. SIGNED BY SHERMAN GRAY, the author's son and by the president of Boone and Crockett and by the book's editors. Leather spine and decorastive boards in slipcase. Very Fine. ID#: 3123
Category: Big Game Hunting
$175.00
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Wong-Quincy, J.
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CHINESE HUNTER
"N25932" John Day, N.Y. n.d. (1939,) 383 pages, B & W photos. Big game hunting in China. Unique accounts by an early Chinese sportsman, Czech writes ""In 1916, he embarked on his first shikar in Southeastern Shansi province where he hunted wild boars and goral. Later, and accompanied by a party of Chinese hunters, he bagged wild boar and deer. Near Kweihuacheng in Inner Mongolia, he collected burhel and argali, with an additional chapter on hunting roe deer in Shansi."" No dust jacket. The book shows minor wear with slight soiling on the yellow cover. There is a previous owner signature and date on the corner of the front pastedown otherwise contents are tight and clean. Very Good Plus. ID#: 2679
Category: Big Game Hunting
$115.00
Currently 1 available in stock. |
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Batten, John
THE BEST OF SHEEP HUNTING
"W28738" Amwell Press, Clinton, NJ 1980, two volumes, set #746 of a limited signed edition of 1000 sets. The two volumes total 584 pages plus a 12 page section illustrating and describing representative rifles used for sheep hunting around the world since 1800 from the author's collection. The books are illustrated with original line drawings by Gordon Allen and with color frontispieces of paintings by Carl Rungius and Henry Adamson from the author's private collection.This set by one of the world's foremost sheep hunters is becoming increasingly scarce. The books and slipcase are Very Fine. ID#: 2706
Category: Sheep & Sheep Hunting
/ Big Game Hunting
$475.00
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Carruthers, Douglas
BEYOND THE CASPIAN
"BL25076" Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh 1949, 1st edition, 288 pages, illustrated in color and B & W, map of central Asia in color intact. ""A Naturalist in Central Asia."" Includes a great deal of attention to Asiatic wild sheep including appendices listing the many subspecies. From the Kara Kum to the Pamirs, the Karakorum, Mongolia, a valuable reference book for the Asiatic sheep hunter. No dust jacket. There is a bookplate on the front pastedown. Other than a small bump on one corner, the book is tight, clean and Very Good Plus. ID#: 2723
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$200.00
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Sheldon, Charles
THE WILDERNESS OF THE UPPER YUKON, THE WILDERNESS OF THE NORTH PACIIFC COAST ISLANDS, THE WILDERNESS OF DENALI, 3 volumes in slipcase
"W30396" Amwell Press 1983, limited edition set #343 of an edition of 1000 copies, each signed by William Sheldon, son of the author, and by Jim Rikhoff, publisher. This is a beautiful set of Charles Sheldon's three highly regarded books originally published in the early part of the last century. Each is bound in leather, all edges guilt. Condition is Very Fine. The set, ID#: 2852
Category: Big Game Hunting
/ Exploration & Travel
$500.00
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Clark, James L.
THE GREAT ARC OF THE WILD SHEEP
"LG30143" University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 1967, second printing, 247 pages, illustrated with B & W photographs, drawings and maps. Considered one of the cornerstone books on the wild sheep of the world. Dust jacket is not price-clipped, Jacket and book are Very Fine. An exceptionally outstanding copy. ID#: 2157
Category: Natural History & Conservation
/ Sheep & Sheep Hunting
$175.00
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Valdez, Dr. Raul
THE WILD SHEEP OF THE WORLD
"T30368" Wild Sheep & Goat International, Mesilla, New Mexico 1982, copy #43 of a deluxe edition limited to 250 copies, 186 pages, 4to, profusely illustrated with maps, drawings and B & W photographs, frontispiece in color by John P. Boone. Includes a chapter on sheep hunting by John H. Batten. The author, a noted authority, provides a detailed study of the wild sheep of the world. Deluxe binding of brown quarter leather and ivory buckram. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. There are no marks or inscriptions and other than a small bump on the front lower cover corner, the book and slipcase are Fine. Very hard to find in the limited edition. ID#: 2775
Category: Sheep & Sheep Hunting
/ Big Game Hunting
$350.00
Currently 1 available in stock. |
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Keith, Elmer
KEITH, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
"LG26269" Winchester Press, N.Y., Book Club edition, 1974, 381 pages, profusely illustrated in B & W with some interesting early photos. ""Memoirs of a bronc rider who became a world-famous big-game guide and the dean of American firearms authorities."" Some fascinating stories! Dust jacket, Very Fine. ID#: 2172
Category: Autobiography & Biography
$125.00
Currently 1 available in stock. |
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Roosevelt, Theodore
AFRICAN GAME TRAILS (2 Vol, Signed, Limited Ed)
"W27920" Scribner's, N.Y. 1910, the deluxe limited edition in two volumes, set number 363 of an edition of 500 sets SIGNED BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT, fully rebound to exactly match the original with 3/4 pigskin and the title blindstamped on the spine. The two volumes total 529 pages plus photographs and maps.The contents are clean with no other marks or inscriptions. Condition of the set is, in all regards,Very Fine. ID#: 3085
Category: Big Game Hunting
$6,000.00
Currently 1 available in stock. |
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Kolb, Ellsworth L.
THROUGH THE GRAND CANYON FROM WYOMING TO MEXICO
"T30470" Macmillan,, N.Y. 1914, first edition, TEG, 344 pages plus 4 pages of ads for other books by the publisher, profusely illustrated in B & W, frontis. in color. The author and his brother. Emery, made the trip by boat, often through perilous waters. The two brothers were prominent photographers and during the trip they made the first motion picture coverage of the Grand Canyon, a popular hil for more than fifty years.They had a photography studio on the edge of the Grand Canyon over many years into the 1970s. No dust jacket. Gilt lettering on cover and spine is intact. Color photograph in color affixed to the front cover is intact. Endpapers renewed. INSCRIBED BY EMERY C. KOLB IN 1917. A bright and Near Fine.copy. ID#: 3084
Category: Exploration & Travel
$150.00
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Churchill, Winston S.
IAN HAMILTON'S MARCH
"BL27080" Longman's Green, New York 1900, 1st U.S. edition 409 pages, 12mo, TEG, with portrait, map and plans. About the Boer War, this is one of Sir Winston's earliest works. Red cloth cover is unfaded with a small scratch on ther front. One interior page has been roughly opened. Gilt letttering on cover and spine is intact and bright. No dust jacket. Endpapers have been renewed. Contents are clean and tight. A Very Good Plus.copy. ID#: 3083
Category: History
/ General
$300.00
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Sanchez-Arino, Tony (Editor)
HUNTING IN ZIMBABWE
"W28842" Safari Press, Long Beach 1992. Numbered copy of a limited edition of 1000 copies signed by Sanchez-Arino and artist, David Norton, 4to, 387 pages. Writings on big game hunting adventures in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) by Finaughty, Selous, Brown, Millais, Bunham, Daly, Burger, Marsh, Taylor, Sutherland, many others. This title has become very scarce. Slipcase and book are Very Fine. ID#: 3036
Category: Big Game Hunting
$1,250.00
Currently 1 available in stock. |
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Sanchez-Arino, Tony (Editor)
HUNTING IN TANZANIA
"W26316" " "Hunting in Tanzania." "Big Game Hunting" ". Safari Press, Long Beach 1991, numbered copy of limited edition of 1000 copies, 4to, 367 pages, illustrated with many full page drawings in color and B & W by Alan James Robinson. Some of the great stories of big game hunting and exploration in Tanzania including writings by Willoughby, Sutherland, Millais, Blixen, Blunt, Rushby, Keith, O'Connor, many others. A magnificent book, signed by editor and artist. It has become very scarce. Slipcase and book are Very Fine. ID#: 3039
Category: Big Game Hunting
$1,000.00
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Talbott, Nelson S. "Bud"
THE CABIN
"T30491" Privately printed 1946, first and only edition, 4to, 124 pages, illustrated with B & W photographs.Heller writes ""Hunting, fishing and camping at Hudson Bay, Alaska, the Candian Rockies and numerous other places. With brief chapters on trout fishing on the Nipigon, caribou hunting at Lake Nipigon, salmon and other fishing in Alaska, moose hunting at Onaping and Moosenbek lakes. Duck and goose shooting in North Dakota. Duck shooting in Louisiana and Arkansas, etc. The initial chapter, the title story, describes the Canadian type cabin that was built inside the author's home of French design. It had all the internal features of a cabin such as a stone fireplace, a slate floor, a rough pine ceiling with handmade nails. log slabbed walls chinked with cement."" Bud fought in three wars and was a retired brigadier general. He went to Yale where he was given all-American honors in 1913 as a member of Walter Camp's first team. In 1914, he was named captain of the Yale team. Bud led Yale to victory over Notra Dame ending the Fighting Irish 27 -game undefeated streak.He later was head coach of the University of Dayton football team. Bud was a close friend of Croil Hunter, the second president of Northwest Airlines. The book is inscribed as follows; ""To Croil, a real shooting partner! With happy memories -and that includes 'Nig' (his hunting dog) - all good wishes to you and yours. Signed ""Bud, Xmas 1946"" The book is clean, tight and Near Fine. An extremely scarce item. ID#: 3046
Category: Hunting & Fishing
/ Alaska & Canada
$950.00
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Roosevelt, Theodore
HUNTING TRIPS OF A RANCHMAN
"W27793" "" "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman" "Big Game Hunting" ". Putnam's. N.Y 1886, first trade edition, 347 pages plus four pages of the publisher's adverts. Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains. Profusely illustrated. Tan cover has intact red lettering on the front and gilt lettering on the spine. There is slight wear on the head and tail of the spine and some slight cover soiling. The hinges are tight. The front endpapers have a small tear and a few minor marks. There is a spot or two (minor) foxing in a few places. There are no internal marks or inscriptions and overall this scarce title is Very Good. ID#: 3040
Category: Big Game Hunting
$350.00
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