Clinton NJ: Amwell Press 1981. First edition 1/1000 copies signed by the author illustrator and the publisher Jim Rikhoff. 8vo. xii 304 pp. Illustrated from line drawings plates color frontispiece. Contributors to this anthology of grizzly bear hunting include Annabel Frank Hibben Jack O'Connor Elmer Keith Hornaday and Saxton Pope. Very good. Gilt-stamped decorated red bonded leather publisher's slipcase. 7261. <br/><br/> Amwell Press hardcover
New York: Privately printed 1913. First edition #96 of 200 copies initialed and numbered on the half-title. With frontispiece 19 plates including 2 group portraits double map of Lake George around Bolton Landing at back. 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth titled in gilt on upper board. Bixby bookplate of Mohican Point house on front pastedown. Fine. First edition #96 of 200 copies initialed and numbered on the half-title. With frontispiece 19 plates including 2 group portraits double map of Lake George around Bolton Landing at back. 65 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed on flyleaf "Mr. & Mrs. A.B. Payne names partly effaced with sincere regards of Mr. & Mrs. W.K. Bixby St. L. 5/18/14" "Includes 12 pages of text on fishing for smallmouth bass lake trout and land-locked salmon. one of the few early books to contain as much material on fishing in Lake George" Heller. An important and rare book. Plum Adirondack Bibliography 568; Bruns S27; Heller 1:716 Privately printed unknown