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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. 1941 First US Edition. 371pp, foxing to endpapers, sunning to spine, owner's signature, Good Novel set in America, Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. First edition (stated) and with "Published October, 1938" only on copyright page. Hardcover in black cloth stamped and lettered in red and silver with a design of a fighting cock front cover. Top edge red. Title page printed in red and black. xi+ 263 pp. with glossary. Profusely illustrated with with numerous full page individual and double photographs . A tight, near fine example, the only appreciable fault being a very narrow strip of loss along the head edge of the spine. Lengthy gift inscription on the front free endpaper. A classic and highly sought after work on the blood sport of cockfighting in the modern era. The explorer Ferdinand Magellan was the first European to witness cockfighting in the Philippines in 1521. The book to describe it was the 1607 "The Commendation of Cocks and Cock Fighting' and the first use of the term describing it as a "game" or "sport" in English was in 1634. This book details cockfighting as it was in the 1930s though it is now illegal throughout the United States as of 2007. It is presented partly as a conversation between a gamecock breeder and the author and deals with a general description of the birds uses, the arena or "pits", the training of the birds taking advantage of a natural proclivity to fight based on their breeding, the ancient use of gamecocks by the Greeks, Persians, etc, 'cockmasters" who raise. train, or sponsor the birds, a chapter on "Roosters Around The World", "The Code of the Cockers", a chapter on opposition, both legal and otherwise such as state laws, fines, etc, terminology that made its way into the common vernacular (such as "cock of the walk", "cocksure", etc. , famous champion fighting cocks in history and prices paid for them, and "The Rules of the Cockpit". The many photographs illustrating the book include images of the application of "gaffs" (the metal spurs wired to the feet of a gaming cock), interiors and exteriors of notable American cockpits, a game hen and her brood of chicks, a handler exhibiting wing, leg and running exercises, fights in progress, etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. [10], 371, [3 pages. DJ is worn, torn, soiled and chipped and in a plastic sleeve. Some endpaper discoloration. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription is To Frank R. McNuich Esq for auld lang syne Tim Pridgen. Margaret Thomas reviewed this work for The New York Times when it was first published in 1941. Tory Oath is one of the most original and exciting historical novels to be published in the inter-war period. It has for its scene tidewater North Carolina, one of the bitterest battleground of the American Revolution, and for its characters the Scots who came to found a new Highland empire on Cape Fear. When the Revolution broke out, these proud Highlanders, torn between their sworn loyalty to the Crown and their fierce love of freedom, finally took their stand with the British. Tory oath is the story of one such Scot, young Duncan Stuart, who was loyal to his oath, though many good friends and even Mary McLeod, the girl he loved, were Whigs. The story follows the varying fortunes of Duncan and the Highland forces from their confident muster under the swaggering Scalpie Campbell to Moore's Creek, where they are routed by the Whigs in a wild battle. This work is believed to have been inscribed by the author to Frank Ramsay McNinch (April 27, 1873 April 2, 1950). He was a political figure who served as the mayor of Charlotte, as chairman of the Federal Power Commission, and as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. In the 1928 presidential election, McNinch, a Democrat, supported Republican Herbert Hoover for president. After he was elected, Hoover appointed McNinch to a seat on the Federal Power Commission, leading to a split in the North Carolina Democratic Party that damaged the political fortunes of new U.S. Sen. Cameron Morrison, a friend of McNinch. President Hoover, a Republican, was required by law to name one member of the opposite party to the Federal Power Commission and he chose McNinch. Appointed in 1930, the North Carolinian proved to be a very capable member and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, reappointed him. There were objections by leaders of the Democratic party in North Carolina to the initial appointment because of McNinch's failure to support the party in 1928. McNinch became chairman of the commission in 1933, however, and served until 1937. In that position he was a strong supporter of the president's program to provide cheap power to all the people. In 1935 he was the U.S. representative to the World Power Conference at The Hague, the Netherlands. As chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 1937 to 1939, he steadfastly opposed any form of censorship of radio. He also supported the granting of equal prime time for the airing of opposing points of view. In an address in Chapel Hill on 26 Jan. 1939, he said: "A broadcaster's duty is to see that his station is never used by persons or groups especially interested in some public question in such a way that his station's listeners are left without sufficient information to make their own independent judgments on questions they should help to decide." From 1939 until 1946, when he retired, he was special assistant to the attorney general. The controversial 1938 Orson Welles War of the Worlds radio broadcast occurred during his tenure as FCC head. McNinch resigned as FCC chairman on July 25, 1939, due to ill health. His home, the Frank Ramsay McNinch House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing.