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(LEAF BOOK - HUNTING AND FISHING). BISCOTTI, M LBiblio.com

AMERICAN SPORTING BOOK SERIES

1994rif. ST20505-09Madison Ohio: Sunrise Publishing Company 1994. FIRST EDITION. No. 176 OF 300 NUMBERED COPIES and 30 deluxe lettered copies. 287 x 212 mm. 11 1/4 x 8 1/2". xiv pp. 1 leaf blank 325 1 pp. 1 leaf. Publisher's green buckram cover and spine lettered in gilt. In original slightly creased and torn glassine and gold-speckled deep green slipcase with paper label. Section titles with illustrations by T. O. Duncan. WITH SIX LEAVES FROM SPORTING BOOKS. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the limitation page. De Hamel & Silver "Disbound and Dispersed" 205. Except for small problems with the glassine jacket as new. This thorough bibliography of sporting book series published by 24 different publishers in the United States from the mid-19th century to the 1990s contains original leaves from six included works. Our author is bookseller collector and bibliographer Matthew L. "Duke" Biscotti a noted sporting book enthusiast who has published six works on the topic. In 2010 he donated his extensive collection of sporting periodicals and ephemera to the National Sporting Library in Middleburg Virginia. The six leaves here are from the following works: 1 Roosevelt Theodore and George Bird Grinnell editors. "American Big Game Hunting" New York: Forest and Stream Publishing Company 1893. 2 Holder Charles. "The Big Game Fishes of the United States." New York: Macmillan Co 1903. 3 Cook Carroll Blaine. "Lake and Stream Game Fishing." Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company 1917. 4 Connett Eugene V. "Any Luck" New York: Windward House 1933. 5 Clark Roland. "Pot Luck." New York: A.S. Barnes and Company 1945. 6 Allen Durward L. "Pheasants in North America." Harrisburg Pennsylvania: Stackpole Co. Wildlife Management Institute 1956. This book is not rare but it is seldom found as here in its original glassine dust jacket. Sunrise Publishing Company unknown