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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. 533 pages. Lean to the spine, light wear; pages yellowed with age; a good sound binding. The dust jacket has some staining, wear and tear; unclipped. A 1939 review slip from the publisher laid in. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sport, Fishing, Hunting, Guns; Inventory No: 230871.

First edition. 8vo. xxii, (2), 533 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, line drawings, maps. Record book for the largest species of various North American big game animals. Contributors to the text include John C. Phillips, Henry Shoemaker. Grancel Fitz, James L. Clark, Jack O'Connor, Carl Rungius, Belmore Brown, and Kermit Roosevelt, among others. Ownership signature of Heyward Cutting on the front endpaper and with his pencil markings in the rear section, noting his three recorded trophies of American brown bears, taken in Alaska in 1917; Cutting (1890-1926), from a well-to-do New York family, earned an early reputation as an explorer and sportsman, but was killed in an automobile crash at 35. Very good copy with an excellent association. Original gilt-stamped decorated rust cloth. (6908).

First edition. 8vo. xxii, (2), 533 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, line drawings, maps. Record book for the largest species of various North American big game animals. Contributors to the text include John C. Phillips, Henry Shoemaker, Grancel Fitz, James L. Clark, Jack O'Connor, Carl Rungius, Belmore Brown, and Kermit Roosevelt, among others. Inscribed in the year of publication by Bob Bartlett who contributes the 6-page essay "Hunting the Polar Bear" and the 3-page essay "Hunting the Walrus"; Bartlett (1875-1946) was an award-winning artic explorer who commanded the SS Roosevelt on Robert Peary's attempts to reach the North Pole (cf. Wikipedia for a short biography). Very good copy with an excellent association. Original gilt-stamped decorated rust cloth, illustrated dust jacket. (11266).